Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2017 • Page 19

I still haven't gotten into Snail Mail, and I did see them once already

Gotta get tickets to that Ratboys/Lomelda show, stacked

 

Just going to post this before I change it again.

1. Kevin Morby - City Music
2. Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow
3. Wiki - No Mountains in Manhattan
4. Big Thief - Capacity
5. King Krule - The OOZ
6. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lighntess
7. The Weather Station - S/T
8. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
9. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
10. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism

11. Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
12. Tyler the Creator - Flower Boy
13. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
14. Bedouine - S/T
15. Aldous Harding - Party
16. Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things
17. Sam Baker - Land of Doubt
18. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
19. Peter Oren - Anthropocene
20. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

21. A. Savage - Thawing Dawn
22. Binker & Moses - Journey to the Mountain of Forever
23. Joan Shelley - S/T
24. Loyle Carner - Yesterday's Gone
25. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
26. Jake Xeres Fussell - What in the Natural World
27. Thundercat - Drunk
28. Twain - Rare Feeling
29. Alex Cameron - Forced Witness
30. Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett - Lotta Sea Lice

31. Marika Hackman - Im Not Your Man
32. Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
33. Danile Luppi - MILANO
34. Colter Wall - S/T
35. Hand Habits - Wildly Idle
36. Simon Joyner - Step into the Earthquake
37. The National - Sleep Well Beast
38. Destroyer - Ken
39. Johanna Glaze - Wind Sculptures
40. James Elkington - Wintress Woma

41. Gun Outfit - Out of Range
42. Endless Boogie - Vibe Killer
43. Milo - Who Told You To Think
44. White Reaper - The World's Best American Rock Band
45. Jamie Branch - Fly or Die
46. Sampa the Great - Birds and the Bee9
47. Michael Nau - Some Twist
48. Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound
49. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - The Centennial Trilogy
50. Trevor Sensor - Andy Warhol's Dream


And 20 more...
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Trummors - Headlands
Anna St. Louis - First Songs
Talib Kweli - Radio Silence
Fleet Foxes - Crack Up
Jay-Z - 4:44
H. Hawkline - I Romanticize
Wooden Wand - Clipper Ship
John Moreland - Big Bad Luv
Shannon Lay - Living Water
Will Johnson - Hatteras Night, A Good Luck Charm
Princess Nokia - 1992
Tyler Childers - Purgatory
Your Old Droog - PACKS
Jaye Bartell - In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation
Mapache - S/T
The Como Mamas - Move Upstairs
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Backlash
The Deep Dark Woods - Yarrow

 

next album will be one of the buzziest indie rock records of the year so get on early, hah

 

I wish I knew how buzz was created and how to control it, one of the most powerful forces in weird music coverage

 

Or just get on it bc they are the best band in the world

 

being a Good Band is definitely one thing

 

There's a ton of good bands no one hears tho, buzz is directly linked to good band exposure and success. There is also a finite level of buzz that can be maintained with a large amount of good bands missing out. There's a bunch of albums that are on most of these lists, who decides, how does it build, where does it go

 

that's all marketing and label push of course, sites post things less on merit and more on politics with promoters and stuff

but usually to actually get legitimate buzz you have to be good. snail mail got it through some great SXSW performances. at least in the general scene new bands don't get buzzy without a reason

 

My Top 10 Tracks of the year

1. Tony Anderson - Butterflies
2. Bleachers - Don't Take The Money
3. Anna of the North - Oslo
4. Axel Flovent - City Dream
5. Fickle Friends - Glue
6. Gryffin - Feel Good
7. Gabrielle Aplin - Waking Up Slow (Piano version)
8. Haim - Want You Back
9. DWNTWN - Bloodshot Eyes
10. London Grammar - Big Picture

 

My top twenty:

1. Bleachers - Gone Now
2. Caracara - Summer Megalith
3. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
4. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm
5. The Front Bottoms - Going Grey
6. Coma Cinema - Loss Memory
7. Nana Grizol - Ursa Minor
8. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
9. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
10. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
11. The Menzingers - After the Party
12. The World is a Beautiful Place - Always Foreign
13. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
14. Alex Lahey - I Love You Like a Brother
15. Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape
16. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
17. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
18. Katie Ellen - Cowgirl Blues
19. The National - Sleep Well Beast
20. Special Explosion - To Infinity

 

I think it involves bees

 

Beads?

 

I'm not saying there isn't a reason or buzzy bands are bad, I want like data on the intangibles. How does one performance make an impact, do writers have to be there and talk the band up after, what are the factors, how does this happen

 

I've been so out of the loop on buzz bands after it stopped being blog oriented, I think it still is to some extent but I feel like when I see a band on Pitchfork or Brooklyn Vegan it's like oh y'all have been listening to them for 3 years

 

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

 

Yo that Paranoid Void record is incredible. Have you listened to tricot? They're very similar but I like them even more.

 

This is surprisingly a good list: The 25 Best Rock Songs of 2017: Critics' Picks

 

where is less than???? or the way you used to do???

 

What you've all been waiting for:

1. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
   
   
2. Sampha - Process
   
   
3. Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
   
   
4. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding
   
   
5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
   
   
6. Converge - The Dusk in Us
   
   
7. Strange Ranger - Daymoon
   
   
8. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
   
   
9. The National - Sleep Well Beast
   
   
10. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
    
    
    
11. Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun
    
    
12. Four Tet - New Energy
    
    
13. Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes
    
    
14. Laurel Halo - Dust
    
    
15. Mutemath - Play Dead
    
    
16. Joey Badass - All-Amerikkkan Badass
    
    
17. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
    
    
18. Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
    
    
19. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
    
    
20. Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence
    
    
    
21. Baths - Romaplasm
    
    
22. Less Art - Strangled Light
    
    
23. Passion Pit - Tremendous Sea of Love
    
    
24. Liam Gallagher - As You Were
    
    
25. Bonobo - Migration
    
    
26. Caracara - Summer Megalith
    
    
27. Jay Z - 4:44
    
    
28. Kelela - Take Me Apart
    
    
29. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
    
    
30. Rostam - Half-Light
    
    
    
31. Lo Tom - Lo Tom
    
    
32. Bjork - Utopia
    
    
33. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy
    
    
34. Ride - Weather Diaries
    
    
35. Perfume Genius - No Shape
    
    
36. Clark - Death Peak
    
    
37. Future Islands - The Far Field
    
    
38. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
    
    
39. Alvvays - Antisocialites
    
    
40. Miguel - War & Leisure
    
    
    
41. SZA - Ctrl
    
    
42. Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
    
    
43. Forest Swords - Compassion
    
    
44. Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want?
    
    
45. Spoon - Hot Thoughts
    
    
46. Granddady - Last Place
    
    
47. Harry Styles - Harry Styles
    
    
48. Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
    
    
49. Los Campesinos - Sick Scenes
    
    
50. Randy Newman - Dark Matter
    

Honorable Mentions (alphabetical):

Actress - AZD
Big Thief - Capacity
Brian Eno - Reflection
Circa Survive - The Amulet
Cloakroom - Time Well
Conor Oberst - Salutations
Ex Eye - Ex Eye
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
Glassjaw - Material Control
Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
Land of Talk - Life After Youth
Life and Times - The Life and Times
Nightlands - I Can Feel the Night Around Me
Oneohtrix Point Never - Good Time OST
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
Quicksand - Interiors
Slowdive - Slowdive
St. Vincent - Masseduction
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Vietnam Was OST

 

“...Gob’s not onboard.”

 

1. The National – Sleep Well Beast
2. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
3. All Time Low – Last Young Renegade
4. Bleachers – Gone Now
5. Lorde – Melodrama
6. Stars – There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light
7. Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound
8. The Maine – Lovely Little Lonely
9. Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
10. Everything Everything – A Fever Dream

11. The Front Bottoms – Going Grey
12. Vagabon – Infinite Worlds
13. MUNA – About U
14. Manchester Orchestra – A Black Mile to the Surface
15. Paramore – After Laughter
16. The xx – I See You
17. Slaughter Beach, Dog – Birdie
18. Turnover – Good Nature
19. LANY – LANY
20. Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy

21. Cigarettes After Sex – Cigarettes After Sex
22. JAPANDROIDS – Near to the Wild Heart of Life
23. Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps
24. Hippo Campus – landmark
25. QTY - QTY
26. Sorority Noise – You’re Not As ______ As You Think
27. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Echo of Pleasure
28. Thunder Dreamer – Capture
29. The Killers – Wonderful Wonderful
30. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – Zombies on Broadway

Top EPs:
1. The Wonder Years – Burst & Decay
2. The Japanese House – Saw You in a Dream
3. Great Good Fine Ok – III
4. BC Unidos - Bicycle
5. Halfnoise – The Velvet Face
6. Flint Eastwood – Broke Royalty

* Additional shout-outs to the following artists for putting out some awesome albums that, while not realized in my Top 30, were fantastic nonetheless: The Menzingers, Jay Som, Julien Baker, Enter Shikari, Japanese Breakfast, Alvvays, Passion Pit, and WALK THE MOON.

 

Damn Pat, Noel got no love on your list. Was it that bad?

 

it’s pretty good. if i made a top 100, it’d probably be on the lower end of that. good, nothing great, though i appreciate him experimenting with something new

liam’s is great, which took me by surprise

 

finally hit my goal of listening to 200 new albums in 2017. this year has been..interesting..

1. RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network
2. The National - Sleep Well Beast
3. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket
4. Kesha - Rainbow
5. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
6. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
7. Iron Chic - You Can't Stay Here
8. Four Tet - New Energy
9. People Like You - Verse
10. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel / Pop 2

11. Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape
12. DJ Seinfeld - Time Spent Away from U
13. The Menzingers - After the Party
14. Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
15. 21 Savage - Issa Album
16. Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
17. Prawn - Run
18. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Birdie
19. Milo - who told you to think??!!?!?!?!
20. St. Vincent - Masseduction

21. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
22. Driveway - Nothing Important Happened Today
23. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
24. Lil Yachty - Teenage Emotions
25. Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
26. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
27. Florist - If Blue Could be Happiness
28. Code Orange - Forever
29. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
30. Wiley - Godfather

31. Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good at This
32. Dizzee Rascal - Raskit
33. Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
34. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
35. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
36. Kelela - Take Me Apart
37. Lil Peep - Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1
38. J Hus - Common Sense
39. Kitty - Miami Garden Club
40. Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy

41. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
42. SZA - CTRL
43. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
44. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
45. A$AP Ferg - Still Striving
46. Future - HNDRXX
47. Soccer Mommy - Collection
48. Real Life Buildings - Significant Weather
49. Charly Bliss - Guppy
50. football, etc. - Corner

 

I started compiling all the lists in this thread to see what the average top 20 was but it’s too much work lmao