Long time no talk friends!
Here are all my favorite music and television favorites for 2017:
Full Lengths
1.
Feature – Banishing Ritual (Upset! The Rhythm) members of Sauna Youth & Slowcoaches
2.
Meat Wave – The Incessant (SideOneDummy)
Frobergian post hardcore
3.
Nev Cotee – Broken Flowers (Wonderfulsound) RIYL
Lee Hazlewood, Leonard Cohen
4.
Crescent – Resin Pockets (Geographic Music) UK
lo-fi sadness
5.
Mr. Lif, Akrobatik, Syne – Resolution (Mello
Music Group) / Mr. Lif & Brass Menazeri – Resilient (Waxsimile) Indie
hip-hop
6.
Aathens – Virtue Signal (Blank Editions)
Sonic indie Rock
7.
Idles – Brutalism (Baliey) Angry and angular
8.
Richard Dawson – Peasant (Domino) Other
worldly singer/songwriter
9.
H
Grimace – Self Architect (Opposite Number) Pretenders covering Nick Cave
10.
El Michaels Affair – Return to the 37th
Chamber (Big Crown Records) Psych funk
hop soul
11.
Michael
Beach – Gravity/Repulsion (Spectacular Commodity) Aussie rock
12.
Dalham – Waves (Public House Recordings)–
Electronic
13.
Kid
Koala w/ Emiliana Torrini – Music to Draw To: Satellite (Arts & Crafts)
Indie-tronica
14.
Bed
Wettin’ Bad Boys – S/T (Whats Your Rupture?) *also most awful band name of the year* Aussie rock
15.
The World – First World Record (Upset! The
Rhythm) Saxamaphone Post punk
16.
ISS – Pussyfooting (Erste Theke
Tontrager) - Electro-punk-new wave mashup*
17.
Modern
English – Take Me To The Trees (Inkind Music ) Post punk
18.
Venn
– Runes (Full Time Hobby) Later day Wire
19.
Juniore – Ouh la la (Le Phonographe) – French
garage psychrock
20.
Botany
– Raw Light II (Western Vinyl) Electronic ALA Four Tet with cosmic overtones
Reissues/Retrospectives
1.
KG – Come Closer, We’re Cool (Manufactured
Recordings) Swirling French indie rock
2.
Helium – Ends with And – indie rock (Matador)
Indie rock
3.
Look Blue Go Purple – Still Bewitched (Flying
Nun / Captured Tracks) NZ indie rock
4.
Geraldo Pino & the Heartbeats – Let’s Have a
Party (PMG) Afro-funk
5.
VA- Funky Chimes : Belgian Grooves from the ‘70s
(SdBan) Jazz-funk
6.
The 6ths – Wasps’ Nest indie rock (Captured
Tracks) Indie synth pop
7.
VA- Le Beat Bespoke #7 (Detour) Garage
rock/freakbeat/psych
8.
Claude Lombard – Chante (Sommor) – 60s French
Psych Rock / must own for Broadcast fans*
9.
Jacqueline Taieb – S/T (Merlins Nose) 60s French
Pop
10.
VA – Come to the Sunshine: Soft pop Nuggets
(Rhino)*
11.
The Orchids – Who Needs Tomorrow (Cherry Red)
Jangle pop
12.
Jackie Shane – Any Other Way (Numero) Soul
13.
Hayes McMullan – Everyday Seem Like Murder Here
(Light In the Attic)
14.
Nahid Akhter – I Am Black Beauty (Sounds of Wonder) Lollywood
15.
Solid Space - Space Museum (Dark Entries)
Minimal electro Pop
16.
Mary Lattimore – Collected Pieces (Plancha/Ghostly)
Ambient harp
17.
The
Gotobeds – Fucking in the Future (Comedy Minus One) For a rocking good time,
call
18.
Yamasuki – Le Monde (The Great Thunder)
Psych-jazz-funk
19.
Biosphere – Shenzhou (Biophon Records) Ambient loops
20.
VA – Scared to Get Happy (Cherry Red) Indie
pop/C86
Singles/EPs:
1.
Mick Trouble EP (Emotional Resonse) Indie Pop
2.
Genpop – On Screen (Lumpy Records) Punk*
3.
Exploded View – Summer Came Early EP (Sacred
Bones) Psych Rock
4.
Big Brave – Ardor (Southern Lord) Doom
5.
Slowcoaches – Complex (Leisure & District)
Punk
6.
Dame – Glitch/ Lines/Hush (Charm School Records)
Goth/Post punk*
7.
The Belles – Melvin (Numero) Garage reissue
8.
Stereoscope Jerk Explosion – Indian Tonik
(Bengali Corp) Lounge
9.
Parsnips – Health (Anti fade) Aussie indie rock
10.
Hooded Fang – Dynasty House EP (Daps Record)
Sinister angles
11.
Kagoule – Monsieur Automation (Ra-Ra Rock) Heavy
indie Rock
12.
Weeping Icon – Eyeball Under (FireTalk/Kanine)
Punk
13.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – The French
Press (Sub Pop) Aussie indie rock
14.
Robert Forster w/ Jherek Bischoff & String
Quartet – People Say (Noise Records) Go-Betweens alert*
15.
Stroppies
– S/T (Tough Love)- Aussie Indie-Pop
16.
Corridor & Halo Maud – Deux Coeurs (Self
released?) Montreal art Rock
17.
The Spook School – Someone to Spend Christmas
With (Slumberland) Jangle Pop
18.
Cayetana
– Tired Eyes (Asian Man) Indie Rock
19.
Modern
Cosmology – Summer Long EP (Elephant) Stereolab fans take note
20.
Fieldhead-
Meet Me Somewhere EP (Home Assembly) Carpenter-esque bleak synths
Runners Up
1.
Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology (Fire Records) A
must listen to for Stereolab/Ladytron fans
2.
Jamila Woods – HEAVN (Jagjaguwar) Soul
3.
Street Stains – S/T – (self-released tape) Chris
from Q & Not U + Sean from Pissed Jeans*
4.
Jesca Hoop – Memories are Now (Sub Pop) Kate
Bush on steroids
5.
Sacred
Paws– Strike a Match (Rock Action) Post-punk, now with horns
6.
Jacaszek
– KWIATY (Ghostly) Imagine the tears of Sylvia Plath vaporizing into electronic
music
7.
Prepared
– Trust Me (BART Records) 90s post hardcore throwback perfection
8.
Dion
Lunadon – S/T (Agitated) Garage rock
9.
Rays
– S/T (Trouble In Mind) Art punk
10.
Stevens
– Good (Chapter Music) Aussie indie Pop
11.
Operator
Music Band – Puzzlephonics I & II (New Professor Music) Technical
Kraut-punk
12.
Small
World Experience - Soft Knocks (Tenth Court) Cuddle-core
13.
Pardoner
– Uncontrollable Salvation (Father/Daughter Records) Post-hardcore circa 1991
14.
Die!
Die! Die! – Charm. Offensive (Romantic Rights) NZ indie rock
15.
Fabiano
Do Nascimento – Tempo Dos Mestres (Now –Again) Brazilian Folk
16.
Caddywhompus
– Odd Hours (Inflated) Indie-Rock
17.
B
Boys – Dada (Captured Tracks) Post-punk
18.
Novella – Change of State (Sinderlyn) Garage
jangle pop for early Stereolab/Lush fans
19.
Electro Group – Ranger (Research Sound) Dream-pop
20.
Breakfast
Muff – Eurgh! Glaswegian DIY boy/grrrl punk
Songs
1.
Kane Strang
“Oh So You’re Off I See” – Two Hearst and No Brain (Dead Oceans) NZ
indie rock
2.
Mick Trouble
“Second Offense” - EP (Emotional Resonse) Indie pop ALA Television
Personalities
3.
Lost Horizons “The Places We’ve Been” - Ojala
(Bella Union) Innocence Mission / Sundays fans take note
4.
Shitkid
“Sugar Town” – Fish (PNKSLM) Earworm garage
5.
Otoboke Beaver “Love is Short!!” EP (Damnably) –
crazy Japanese blast beat punk
6.
Petit
Fantome “Easy Come Easy Go” Un Mouvement Pour le Vent (Edge of Town Music)
French dream Pop
7.
Nadia
Reid “Preservation” – Preservation (Self
Released) – NZ singer songwriter
8.
Weed
Hounds “Oxalis” – Double Life(Don
Giovanni) Chainsaw Pop
9.
L’orange,
Dell the Funky Homosapian “ Blame the Author” – Ordinary Man (Mello Music
Group)
10.
Curtis
Harding “ Need Your Love” – Face Your Fear ( Anti)
11.
Cloud
Nothings “Darkened Rings” – Life Without
Sound” (Carpark) I like Hazel and Nirvana
12.
Idles-
“1049 Gotho” Brutalism (Baliey) Angry and angular
13.
The
Bug vs. Earth “Snakes Vs Rats” – Concrete Desert (Ninja Tune) – Doom dub
14.
Taffy “ComeHomeBaby” – Nyctophilia (Club AC30)
Japanese shoegaze
15.
Mark
Wynn “I’m Mint Man Me Man Yeah Yeah” – More Singles… (Harbinger Sound) Too
smart for its own good
16.
The
Rubs “Wrong Right Girl” - Impossible Dream (Hozac) Power Pop
17.
James
Holden ”Each Moment Like the First” – The Animal Spirits (Border Community
Recordings LTD)
18.
Seamus
Fogarty “Carlow Town” – Curious Hand (Domino) Electro-folk
19.
Les
Amazones D’afrique “Mansa Soyari” – Double Life (Real World) All female
supergroup from Mali
20.
Big
Thief “Mythological Beauty” - Capcity (Saddle Creek) Indie folk
Best Lives Shows
1.
Helium – R+R Hotel
2.
King Woman /
Thou – Strange Matter
3.
Pet Symmetry/Beach Slang tour
4.
Big Baby/Big Quiet/Big Bliss/Serqet – Sound of
Music Studio
5.
The Van Pelt/Washers – DC9
6.
Catriona Sturton / Grace Vonderkuhn/ Pretty
Greens– WaR3house3!
7.
Street Stains / Protomartyr - R+R Hotel
Television
1.
The Good Place
2.
Ozark
3.
Glow
4.
People Just Do Nothing
5.
BoJack Horseman
6.
The Keepers
7.
Schitt’s Creek
8.
Great News
9.
Chewing Gum
10.
The Crown
Wishing all of you a happy new year.
PS: #resist
