Sunday, December 17, 2017

Honorable Mentions 2017

(not in any particular order) 

Thunder Cat - Drunk

LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

Roger Waters - Is this the Life We Wanted 

Roc Marciano - Rosebudd's Revenge 
(this guy has some serious bars - instrumentally very in the style of jazzy 90s Wu-tang vibes) 

Danish String Quartet - Last Leaf 

Corbin - Mourn

Deerhoof - Mountain Moves 
(has some great tracks on it - "I Will Spite Survive" is one of my favorite tunes they've done in a while)

Chief Keef - Thot Breaker 

Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls 





Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

Priests - Nothing Feels Natural

Wadada Leo Smith - Reflections and Meditations on Monk




Laurel Halo - Dust 

Reflection - Brian Eno
(about what you’d expect from an ambient Brian Eno album at this point.  Not new territory - but trending in the same ambient water he’s been swimming in is totally alright by me.)  

Fever Ray - Plunge

Perfume Genius - No Shape
(the production on this record is dope) 

Laraarji - Bring on the Sun / Sun Gong 

Jamilia Woods - HEAVN

Destroyer - Ken

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lucifarian Towers 
(This is the worst Godspeed record they've released so far.  The opener on here has a droney harmonic progression that doesn’t really go anywhere and is totally unncessary as is "Fam / Famine" - they sound like B sides that can be discareded.  "Anthem for No State" is structurally unsound - with sections that have no relation to eachother (not in an interesting way), with one section that's a goofy waltz that sounds like a bad parody of some of their early work.  BUT, there's the piece "Bosses Hang" which is amazing and is worth checking out for sure.)   

The Staves & yMusic - The Way is Read

Crash Ensemble - Ghosts 


Ex Eye - Ex Eye 

Forest Swords - Compassion 

Wolves in the Throne Room 


Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time (sountrack) 

David Binney - Time Verses 

Crack Up - Fleet Foxes 



William Bassinski - A Shadow in Time

Future - HNDRXX 

DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski & Scofield - Hudson 

The National - Sleep Well Beast 

Mount Kimble - Love What Survives 

Drake - More Life 

Kurt Rosenwinkel - Caipi 

Tyler the Creator - Flower Boy 

Run the Jewels - RTJ3 

Show Me the Body - Corpus 1 

Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound 






King Krule - The Ooz

Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence

Wolves in the Throne Room - Thrice Woven

Pallbearer - Heartless

Jullien Baker - Turn Out the Lights 

Joey Bada$$ - All Amerikkkan Bada$$

BROKHAMPTON - Saturation 

Bonnie Prince Billie - Best Troubadour 

Blank Mass - World Eater 

Avey Tare - Eucalyptus 

Ambrose Akinmusire - A Rift in Decorum 

Alan Vega - It 

Actress - AZD

Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway 

Matt Wilson - Honey & Salt 

Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White


Wiley - Godfather 

They. - Nu Religion 

Steve Roach - Nostalgia for the Future 


Martyna Poznańska - A Mind of Water 

Migration - Bonobo 


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