2017 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread

1. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
2. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
3. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
4. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
5. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
6. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
7. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
8. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
9. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
10. Emperor X - Oversleepers International

 

Cwhit you did it wrong.

 

1. After the Party - The Menzingers
2. The King of No Man - Captain, We're Sinking
3. Gone Now - Bleachers
4. Makes Me Sick - New Found Glory
5. Spin - Tigers Jaw
6. Last Young Renegade - All Time Low
7. Precious Art - Rozwell Kid
8. After Laughter - Paramore
9. Lovely Little Lonely - The Maine
10. You're Not As _____ As You Think - Sorority Noise
11. DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar
12. More Scared of You Than You Are of Me - The Smith Street Band
13. The Epilogue EP - Day At The Fair
14. Near to the Wild Heart of Life - Japandroids
15. Adornment - Grayscale
16. The Same View With A New Light - WATERMEDOWN
17. Vision - Pet Symmetry
18. Golden Fields - Poeta
19. Culture - Migos
20. Sound the Alarm EP - Less Than Jake
21. For Posterity - Dryjacket
22. Disposable EP - Super American
23. Sick Scenes - Los Campesinos!
24. Zombies on Broadway - Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
25. Fear of Missing Out - The Bombpops
26. FUTURE - Future
27. Prisoners - Ryan Adams
28. Life Without Sound - Cloud Nothings
29. Inviting Light - The Flatliners
30. Okay. - As It Is

 

1. Perfume Genius - No Shape
2. Arca - Arca
3. Jay Som - Everybody Works
4. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
5. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
6. Lil Yachty - Teenage Emotions
7. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
8. Sampha - Process
9. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angels
10. Drake - More Life

Unrankable: Jlin - Black Origami

HM: Girlpool, The xx, Kendrick Lamar, Mono No Aware compilation, Father John Misty, Future - HNDRXX

 

did i though?

 

I'm about 100 albums into this year. I like these...

Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound
Jonah Levine Collective - Attention Deficit
The Menzingers - After The Party
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Natalia Lafourcade - Musas
Natalie Hemby - Puxico
Paramore - After Laughter
P.O.S - Chill, dummy
Ryan Adams - Prisoner
Slowdive - Slowdive
Sorority Noise - You're Not As ____ As You Think
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister - Planetarium

 

1. The Mountain Goats - Goths
2. Code Orange - Forever
3. Jay Som - Everybody Works
4. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
5. Sampha - Progress

Off the top. There are others too.

 

Gonna wait a couple more weeks to do this. I still need to hear Lorde, Smidley, Ratboys, Sufjan's new project, and catch up on some things I've overlooked.

Current AOTY would probably be Paramore.

 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors

Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape
Forest Swords - Compassion
Sampha - Process
Converge - Jane Live
Mac Demarco - This Old Dog
Emperor X - Oversleeps International
The Menzingers - After The Party
Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms
The Afghan Whigs - In Spades

 

Midseason on my blog came at the end of April so the stuff in May/June etc isn't included.

All Media Reviews: 2016-2017 Midseason Albums List

1. Anakdota - Overloading
2. Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
3. 22 - You Are Creating: Limb 1
4. Mew - Visuals
5. The Reign of Kindo: Patreon Songs
6. Persefone - Aathma
7. Big Wreck - Grace Street
8. Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar
9. The Family Crest, - Prelude to War [EP]
10. Tuxedo - Tuxedo II
11. Blackfield - V
12. Moonloop - Devocean
13. Rachel Flowers - Listen
14. The Barnum Meserve - When All is Lost
15. Waaktaar and Zoe - World of Trouble
16. Umphrey's McGee - Zonkey
17. Black Map - In Droves
18. Radical Face - SunMoonnEclippse [EP]
19. Thundercat - Drunk
20. Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend

Singles:
1. Fjokra - Sick Kids
2. 1000Faces - Sleeping for Dreamers (ft. Jimmy Gnecco)
3. Bend Sinister - Get Along
4. Kimbra and Young Dreams - Oban (Rework/Remix)
5. Hotel of the Laughing Tree - Electric City Rivalry
6. For the Imperium - We Cannot Face It

YouTube

 

Off the top of my head, because I am not at home to check all my 2017 releases:

Adult Mom - Soft Spots
Cayetana - New Kind Of Normal
Julia Lucille - Chthonic
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Karima Walker - Hands In Our Names
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Planning For Burial - Below The House
Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
Wild Pink - Wild Pink

 

1. Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister - Planetarium
2. Perfume Genius - No Shape
3. Kendrick Lamar - Damn

 

So much good shit this year. My favorites in no particular order:

Nana Grizol - Ursa Minor
The Menzingers - After the Party
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
Future - FUTURE/HNDRXX
Web of Sunsets - Chaos Waltz
Midnight Reruns - Spectator Sports
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Kendrick Lamar - Damn
Jay Som - Everybody Works
(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
Vagabon - Infinite Words


The Migos and Yachty albums are okay but bloated. Need more listens to Gucci and Playboi Carti. Caught up on a bunch of releases within the past few days that will probably make my list. Liked a lot of other stuff, but I listened to the ones above the most.

 

Curious...do people exclude live albums from their lists as a rule? There have been a few really, really great ones this year (Sufjan Stevens, Sleater-Kinney, Converge) and Jane Live is most certainly a top 10 album of the year for me.

 

These are the big five for me right now:

After Laughter - Paramore
Two-Parts Viper - '68
DAMN. - Kendrick Lamar
Planetarium - Sufjan Stevens (and co.)
Visuals - Mew

 

I'm still making my albums listened spreadsheet for this year but I know Syd, Kendrick and both Future releases are gonna be on it.

 

Personally I wouldn't list one

 

I've got one album to listen to before I declare Perfume Genius my top album of the first half of the year.

 

Incendiary
Cloud Nothings
Power Trip

That's all I can think of.

 

I haven't gotten a chance to listen to Perfume Genius, Mountain Goats,or Bleachers yet

That being said no particular order
Feist
Michelle Branch
Nelly Furtado
Aimee Mann
Charli

 

Paramore and NFG is all that comes to mind at the moment.

 

I see All Time Low and New Found Glory mentioned a decent amount which almost makes me want to listen to them.

 

Paramore - After Laughter is no surprise my #1

everything else that's stuck with me in a big way:

The Mountain Goats - Goths
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Lil Yachty - Teenage Emotions
Future - Future/HNDRXX
Communions - Blue

Need to listen to Perfume Genius, Arca, and Alex G more than I have

Also honorable mention/special shoutout to the soundtrack to Dear Evan Hansen which is pretty strong throughout (if you like musicals) and has one of my picks for best song of the year in "Waving Through a Window"