Best of Q1 (2017)

Q1 of the music year has come and gone already. Share some of your favorites

Temples
Sampha
Jay Som
Smino
Electric Guest
Eisley
Thundercat

 

Jay Som - Everybody Works
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
Drake - More Life
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
The xx - I See You
Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Sampha - Process
Future - FUTURE HNDRXX
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Thundercat - Drunk
Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage

 

Full lengths:
Code Orange
Sampha
Power Trip
Real Estate
Future
The Menzingers
Drake
Cloud Nothings

EPs:
Folamour
Roland Tings

Going to cop Jay Som and Gatecreeper today. Feeling behind for sure. Stuff I'm missing no doubt

 

Jake Xerxes Fussell - What in the Natural World
Will Johnson - Hatteras Night, A Good Luck Charm
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
Gold Star - Big Blue
Strand of Oaks - Hard Love
Hand Habits - Wildly Idle
Dead Man Winter - Furnace
Granddaddy - Last Place
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Backlash
Sinkane - Life and Livin it
Hurray For the Riff Raff - The Navigator
Laura Marling - Super Femina
Shinyribs - I Got Your Medicine

 

The Menzingers - After the Party
Leif Vollebekk - Twin Solitude
Desperate Journalist - Grow Up
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good at This
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
Valerie June - The Order of Time
Jay Som - Everybody Works
Ali Barter - A Suitable Girl
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in this Town
Ryan Adams - Prisoner
Los Campesinos - Sick Scenes
Peter Silberman - Impermanence
Real Estate - In Mind

 

Dryjacket - For Posterity
Heat - Overnight
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies on Broadway
The Menzingers - After the Party
Sampha - Process
MUNA - About U
Future- Future
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
Jay Som - Everybody Works
No Thank You - Jump Ship
Sorority Noise - You're Not As _____ As You Think
Spirit of the Beehive - Spirt of the Beehive

In order of release date, not my favorites. This year is a more difficult year for me distinguishing my top favorites over the rest of the albums I loved. At this moment in time, it's probably something like Sorority Noise, the Menzingers, No Thank You, Vagabon, and King Woman. MUNA are just missing the cut, but I haven't listened to it much lately. I'm sure that will change once summer comes.

 

nothing i'm totally smitten by yet

cloud nothings
jay som
allison crutchfield
los campesinos
future - hndrxx
grandaddy
heat
japandroids
jens lekman
kelly lee owens
mothpuppy
obsessives
oso oso
wild pink
the xx

it's ok emperor x is out next quarter

 

Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White - Gentlewoman,Ruby Man
Austra- Future Politics
Aimee Mann- Mental Illness
Nelly Furtado - The Ride

edit forgot Charli XCX- Number 1 Angel

 

I was just thinking about this the other day!

The Menzingers
Oso Oso
Sampha
Jay Som
Julia Byrne
Cloud Nothings
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
Los Campesinos!
Vagabon
Sorority Noise

Also Julien Baker's Funeral Pyre/Distant Solar Systems, which isn't an album but deserves a mention.

 

Allison Crutchfield - Tourist In This Town
Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
The Courtneys - II
Dirty Projectors - S/T
Drake - More Life
Future - HNDRXX
Geotic - Abysma
Heat - Overnight
Homeshake - Fresh Air
Jacques Greene - Feel Infinite
Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart
Jay Som - Everybody Works
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Los Campesinos - Sick Scenes
Migos - Culture
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Nathan Fake - Providence
Oliver Houston - Whatever Works
Passion Pit - Tremendous Sea of Love
Pile - A Hairshirt of Purpose
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
Real Estate - In Mind
Roland Tings - Each Moment A Diamond
Sevendeaths - Remote Sympathy
Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
Thundercat - Drunk
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
Wild Pink - S/T
Wiley - Godfather
Xiu Xiu - Forget

 

Some combo of:

Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
Sampha - Process
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies on Broadway
Ryan Adams - Prisoner
Dia - Bruises
Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator
Aimee Mann- Mental Illness
Craig Finn - We All Want the Same Things
Pallbearer - Heartless
Betty Who - The Valley

 

Cloud Nothings
Power Trip

 

Sampha - Process
Syd - Fin
Deaf Havana - All These Countless Nights
Future - FUTURE
Future - HNDRXX
Conor Oberst - Salutations
Migos - Culture
Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
The xx - I See You
Drake - More Life
You Me At Six - Night People
Kehlani - SweetSexySavage
Brian Eno - Reflection
Peter Silberman - Impermanence

 

I haven't listened to a new album yet.

 

Japandroids
Pallbearer
Mastodon
Power Trip
Ryan Adams

I've liked what I've heard from Strand of Oaks and Craig Finn but haven't spun the full records yet. Strong quarter for metal. Most anticipated Q2 are Fleet Foxes and Jason Isbell: two artists following up two of my three favorite records of the decade, and both new records come out on my 25th birthday. Let's do this!

 

Near to the Wild Heart of Life by Japandroids
Furnace by Dead Man Winter
Graveyard Whistling by Old 97’s
Salutations by Conor Oberst
Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins by Chuck Prophet
Won’t Let You Down by Bridget Kearney
Swear I’m Good at This by Diet Cig
Anything Can Happen by Bash & Pop

Also liked Cloud Nothings, Black Joe Lewis and Hurray for the Riff Raff but haven't listened enough times yet.

 

Artist - Album

 

I've heard the "single" from that Old 97s record a few times on public radio and it sounds like a bit of a new direction for them. First time I heard it I thought for sure it was from the new Oberst record, which I also have not listened to.

 

Is this an instruction?

 

yes

 

Are the lists being collected and counted for something or is that just pedantry?

 

this thread makes me sad

once upon a time i used to seek out new music

 

The Menzingers - After the Party
Midnight Reruns - Spectator Sports
Jay Som - Everybody Works
Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
Future - FUTURE/HNDRXX
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
Different Sleep - Forget It
bedwetter - volume 1: flick your tongue against your teeth and describe the present.
Sampha - Process
Khalid - American Teen
Roc Marciano - Rosebudd's Revenge
Day at the Fair - The Epilogue
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - Drool
Your Old Droog - Packs
The Shins - Heartworms
Rick Ross - Rather You Than Me
Starlito & Don Trip - Step Brothers THREE
Smino - blkswn
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me

 

oso oso - the yunahon mixtape
los campesinos! - sick scenes
future - hndrxx
vagabond - infinite worlds
jay som - everybody works
fred thomas - changer

 

A few albums that particularly grabbed me so far this year:

Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
The Menzingers - After The Party
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Spoon - Hot Thoughts