I'm do my best to keep up with this this year. I lost my lil place to keep track of these things when lastfm myspace'd itself.
8. Great Good Fine OK - III (2017) 9. Broods - Evergreen (2014) 10. The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic (1995) 11. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Going to try this again this year. I think last year I made it about until the switchover from AP to Chorus – January Allison Crutchfield – Tourist In This Town + AFI – AFI (The Blood Album) * Care - Luv In the Ruins + Cherry Glazerr – Apocalipstick + Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound + Code Orange – Forever ++ Dryjacket – For Posterity + The Early November – Fifteen Years ++ The Flats – Auburn In the Everlast + Gone Is Gone – Echolocation + Japandroids – Near To the Wild Heart of Life ++ Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness ++ Open City – Open City ++ Oso Oso – The Yunahon Mixtape + Priests – Nothing Feels Natural + Retirement Party – Strictly Speaking + Ryan Adams – Prisoner * Sinai Vessel – Brokenlegged + Souvenirs – Posture of Apology + Staircase Spirits – Ghost Stories * The xx – I See You * February Dave Hause – Bury Me In Philly + Iron Reagan – Crossover Ministry + Less Than Jake – Sound the Alarm + The Menzingers – After the Party ++ Coming Soon Heat – Overnight Kehlani – SweetSexySavage Migos – Culture P.O.S – Chill, Dummy SOHN – Rennen WATERMEDOWN – The Same View With a New Light
12. The xx - I See You (2017) 13. SOHN - Rennen (2017) 14. Fleetwood Mac - Time (1995) 15. Mr. Tophat - Trust Me (2017) 16. Tennis - Ritual In Repeat (2014) 17. of Montreal - Rune Husk (2017)
Only listened once, via Bandcamp stream, and enjoyed it. It reminded me of something (maybe early Allison Weiss?) but I will definitely return to it and give it some time to grow and unfold.
+++ = Immediate 'EOTY' Worthy ++ = Love + = Like * = Indifferent # = Dislike January Run The Jewels - RTJ3 ++ Ryan Adams - Prisoner + Dryjacket - For Posterity ++ Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound +++ The xx - I See You * John Mayer - The Search for Everything - Wave One (EP) + Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life +++ oso oso - The Yunahon Mixtape + Oliver Houston - Whatever Works ++ Colony House - Only the Lonely * Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged ++ Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick + Heat - Overnight * Migos - Culture + Allison Crutchfield - Tourist In This Town ++ February The Menzingers - After The Party +++ Andrew McMahon - Zombies On Broadway + MUNA - About U +++ Sampha - Process * Syd - Fin + Satchmode - Love Hz + Vagabon - Infinite Worlds +++ Hippo Campus - Landmark ++ Dams of the West - Youngish American + Wild Pink - Wild Pink ++ Acceptance - Colliding By Design + Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes +++ March Ed Sheeran - ÷ + David Bazan - Care +++ Khalid - American Teen ++ Del Paxton - All Day, Every Day, All Night + Minus The Bear - Voids * Nnmandi Ogbonnaya - Drool * Jay Som - Everybody Works ++ The Obsessives - The Obsessives + Spoon - Hot Thoughts + Sorority Noise - You’re Not As ______ As You Think * April Joey Bada$$ - ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ ++ Vasudeva - No Clearance ++ Diet Cig - Swear I’m Good At This ++ Michelle Branch - Hopeless Romantic + Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. +++ Charly Bliss - Guppy +++ The Smith Street Band - More Scared of You Than You Are of Me ++ Real Life Buildings - Significant Weather ++ Fialta - Hell Niño EP ++ New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick ++ The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely + Passion Pit - Tremendous Sea of Love + Overcoats - Young + Sylvan Esso - What Now + Incubus - 8 + San Fermin - Belong * Have Mercy - Make The Best Of It * Gorillaz - Humanz * May Paramore - After Laughter +++ At the Drive-In - in ter a li a ++ Emperor X - Oversleepers International ++ Cayetana - New Kind of Normal ++ Russ - There’s Really A Wolf ++ Misterwives - Connect the Dots ++ Harry Styles - Harry Styles ++ Tigers Jaw - Spin ++ Land of Talk - Life After Youth ++ Football, etc. - Corner + Wavves - You’re Welcome + Gucci Mane - droptopwop + Hoops - Routines * Linkin Park - One More Light * (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket * June Bleachers - Gone Now +++ Smidley - Smidley +++ Portugal. The Man - Woodstock +++ Two Inch Astronaut - Can You Please Not Help ++ 2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music ++ Big Thief - Capacity ++ Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound ++ Lorde - Melodrama ++ Alt-J - Relaxer + Allie X - CollXition II + Big Boi - Boomiverse + Phoenix - Ti Amo + Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa + Captain We’re Sinking - The King of No Man + Com Truise - Iteration + Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark? + All Time Low - Last Young Renegades *
January 1. Chief Keef - Two Zero One Seven + 2. The xx - I See You + 3. Code Orange - Forever ++ 4. AFI - The Blood Album * 5. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound ++ 6. The Menzingers - After The Party ++ 7. Migos - C U L T U R E + 8. Sampha - Process ++ 9. Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart of Life +
+++ = Immediate 'EOTY' Worthy ++ = Love + = Like * = Indifferent # = Dislike ---------- ALBUMS January Sundara Karma - Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect * The xx - I See You ++ Bonobo - Migration + Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life + Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in this Town * Dryjacket - For Posterity + Migos - Culture + Code Orange - Forever +++ February The Menzingers - After the Party * Big Sean - I Decided. ++ Eisley - I'm Only Dreaming ++ HEALTH - DISCO3 +++ Jidenna - The Chief + March Sorority Noise - You're Not As _____ As You Think ++ Drake - More Life ++ The Obsessives - Self-Titled ++ Betty Who - The Valley * A Will Away - Here Again * Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora * Creeper - Eternity, In Your Arms ++ April Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. ++ Arca - Self-Titled +++ Feist - Pleasure * Sylvan Esso - What Now + May Harry Styles - Self-Titled ++ Paramore - After Laughter ++ (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket ++ Logic - Everybody + Free Throw - Bear Your Mind + Tigers Jaw - spin + June Halsey - Hopeless Fountain Kingdom ++ Alt-J - Relaxer + All Time Low - Last Young Renegade + Smidley - Self-Titled + Bleachers - Gone Now * HEALTH - DISCO3+ + Lorde - Melodrama ++ Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound * Rozwell Kid - Precious Art ++ SZA - Ctrl ++ July Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory ++ Tyler, the Creator - Flower Boy + Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface + August Brand New - Science Fiction +++ Turnover - Good Nature + Lil Peep - Come Over When You're Sober Pt. I + September The National - Sleep Well Beast ++ Mutemath - Play Dead + Circa Survive - The Amulet + TWIABP&IANLATD - Always Foreign ++ October Citizen - As You Please + The Front Bottoms - Going Grey + Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights ++ Slaughter Beach, Dog - Birdie + nothing, nowhere. - Reaper + December coward. - coward. ++ Francis and the Lights - Just for Us + Special Explosion - To Infinity + ---------- SINGLES January Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre ++ February Half Waif - Frost Burn + Half Waif - Severed Logic ++ All Time Low - Dirty Laundry + Calvin Harris & Frank Ocean - Slide ++ March Lorde - Green Light * Alt-J - 3WW + Frank Ocean - Chanel ++ Julien Baker - Distant Solar Systems + Kendrick Lamar - Humble ++ Julien Baker - Distant Solar Systems + April Harry Styles - Sign of the Times * Harry Styles - Ever Since New York ++ Halsey - Now Or Never + May Niall Horan - Slow Hands + The National - The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness ++ June Manchester Orchestra - The Gold ++ Manchester Orchestra - The Alien + The National - Guilty Party ++ ---------- EPs January Foxing - Two + February Half Waif - Form/a +++ April Balance and Composure - Slow Heart +++
^ - Album of the year list candidate (Artist - Album Title) January Ryan Adams - Prisoner Run the Jewels - RTJ3 Gone Is Gone - Echolocation AFI - AFI (The Blood Album) Blue Rising - Ghosts and Monsters Devin Shelton - Sensation Dropkick Murphys - 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory Sail On! Sail On! - You Are Not You Pink Guy - Pink Season The xx - I See You Code Orange - Forever Dryjacket - For Posterity Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound ONE OK ROCK - Ambitions Nanoseconds - Thirty Years In Seven Movies About Animals - Two Decades and Change Lights & Motion - Dear Avalanche Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life The Early November - Fifteen Years Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Modern Ruin As It Is - Okay Delicate Steve - This Is Steve Heat - Overnight Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged^ Ty Segall - Ty Segall Deaf Havana - All These Countless Nights^ JT Woodruff - Lonesome February The Menzingers - After the Party T.S.O.L. - The Trigger Complex Dave Hause - Bury Me In Philly^ Galactic Empire - Galactic Empire Less Than Jake - Sound The Alarm Watermedown - The Same View with a New Light^ Lower Than Atlantis - Safe In Sound Nominee - Drag You Out Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies On Broadway Minus the Bear - Voids Eisley - I'm Only Dreaming^ Matt Pryor - Memento Mori Soft Sleep - Endless Circles March Culprit - Sonder^ Heart Attack Man - The Manson Family Backwards Dancer - Backwards Dancer Day at the Fair - The Epilogue Del Paxton - All Day, Every Night, All Night A Will Away - Here Again Ed Sheeran - Divide Acceptance - Colliding By Design^ Bush - Black and White Rainbows Can't Swim - Fail You Again Conor Oberst - Salutations Stolas - Stolas^ Sorority Noise - You're Not As___As You Think^ Non-2017 releases (I will only list releases I am hearing for the first time) The Fullblast - Short Controlled Bursts (2004) +++
I can't kick it off quite properly, so hvae only listened to a few, have xx, SOHN, and Bonobo saved for one longer sitting. Dryjacket - For Posterity +++ - I'd been seriously hyped for that, really liked it upon first listens too. smaller releases I wouldn't like to miss and are great: Foxing - Two Julien Baker - Funeral Pyre
January 1. The XX - I See You 2. Code Orange - Forever 3. SOHN - Rennen 4. Dryjacket - For Posterity 5. Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick 6. John Mayer - The Search for Everything (Wave One) 7. Souvenirs - Posture of Apology 8. Heat - Overnight 9. Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in This Town 10. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound 11. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life 12. Sinai Vessel - Brokenlegged 13. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural 14. Julia Byrne - Not Even Happiness 15. Migos - Culture 16. Kehlani - SweetSexySavage February 1. The Menzingers - After the Party 2. Andrew McMahon... - Zombies on Broadway 3. Sampha - Process 4. Eisley - I'm Only Dreaming 5. Ryan Adams - Prisoner 6. Acceptance - Colliding by Design 7. Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes 8. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds 9. Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now 10. MUNA - About U March 1. Backwards Dancer - S/T 2. Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape 3. Jay Som - Everybody Works
+++ = Immediate 'EOTY' Worthy (If it was released in 2017) ++ = Love + = Like * = Indifferent # = Dislike Rubs hands together. Gonna actually track anything and everything this year. January 1. Slice the Cake - Odyssey To The West ++ 2. Science Of Sleep - Hellmouth ++ 3. A Night In The Abyss - Necropolis + 4. For The Likes Of You - Withered + 5. Jared Dines - The Light EP ++ 6. Immolation - Dawn Of Possession ++ 7. Negura Bunget - Virstele Pamintului + 8. Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil + 9. Iniquitous Deeds - Iniquitous Deeds EP + 10. Xenomorphic Contamination - Chasm Of No Return EP + 11. Murder Made God - Enslaved ++ 12. Cognitive - Deformity ++ 13. Walking Dead On Broadway - Slaves + 14. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage + Update.
Update. Apple Music is really starting to pick up on the fact that I adore symphonic metal and J-pop.
1. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 + 2. Natalie Hemby - Puxico ++ 3. Dryjacket - For Posterity * 4. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound + 5. North End - Alpha State * 6. Deadstar - Baby Teeth *
Got through a few albums at work with some surprises Oso Oso - The Yunahon Mixtape ++ Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound ++ Run The Jewels - RTJ3 * - maybe I'll try again some other time Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness ++
Haha, what can I say. I'm something of an odd one out around these parts, music-taste-wise. Heard the latter's and didn't much care for it - heard good things about the former but never got around to it. +++ = Immediate 'EOTY' Worthy (If it was released in 2017) ++ = Love + = Like * = Indifferent # = Dislike Rubs hands together. Gonna actually track anything and everything this year. January 1. Slice the Cake - Odyssey To The West ++ 2. Science Of Sleep - Hellmouth ++ 3. A Night In The Abyss - Necropolis + 4. For The Likes Of You - Withered + 5. Jared Dines - The Light EP ++ 6. Immolation - Dawn Of Possession ++ 7. Negura Bunget - Virstele Pamintului + 8. Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil + 9. Iniquitous Deeds - Iniquitous Deeds EP + 10. Xenomorphic Contamination - Chasm Of No Return EP + 11. Murder Made God - Enslaved ++ 12. Cognitive - Deformity ++ 13. Walking Dead On Broadway - Slaves + 14. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage + 15. Emerging From the Cocoon - Lucifugous Moth + 16. Bolt Thrower - Honor Valour Pride ++ 17. Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory ++ 18. Obituary - Cause Of Death * (hardly counts, as I listened to two tracks and was completely unengaged and dropped it for something else, but I still tried it) 19. Incantation - Mortal Throne Of Nazarene * Update.
I had wanted to sit through all of those at once yesterday, didn't get any energy left for the xx though, but: SOHN - Rennen ++ Bonobo - Migration ++
January 1. Run the Jewels RTJ 3 [2017] * 2. Daughter - Not To Dissapear [2016] + 3. Colony House - Only The Lonely [2017] - 4. Dryjacket - For Posterity [2017] + 5. The xx - I see you [2017] - 6. SOHN - Rennen [2017] - 7. Code Orange - Forever [2017] - 8. AFI - The Blood Album [2017] - 9. John Mayer - The Search for Everything [2017] - 10.As it is - Okay [2017] + 11.Lights and Motion - Dear Avalanche [2017] - 12.Heat - Overnight [2017] -- 13.Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound [2017] + 14.Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life [2017]- February 15.The Menzingers - After The Party [2017]+ 16.Dave Hause - Bury Me In Philly [2017]* 17.Less Than Jake - Sound The Alarm [2017]+ 18.Great Good Fine Ok - 3 [2017]+ 19.MUNA - About U [2017]++ 20.Watermedown - The Same View With a New Light [2017] - 21.Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies On Broadway [2017] - 22.Ryan Adams - Prisoner [2017] - 23.Relient K - Truly Madly Deeply [2017] + 24.Future - Future [2017] - 25.Eisley - I'm only dreaming [2017] + 26.Acceptance - Colliding By Design [2017] - 27.John Mayer - The Search For Everythin Vol 2 [2017] - March 28. Minus The Bear - Voids [2017] - 29. Tove Lo - True Disaster [2017] - 30. The Fullblast - Attack.Sustain.Decay [2017]+ 31. Sorority Noise - You're Not As ___ AsYou Think [2017]- 32. Zara Larsson - So Good [2017] + 33. Betty Who - The Valley [2017] -- 34. Aaron Sprinkle - Real Life [2017] - April 35. Prozzak - Forever 1999 [2017] - 36. The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely [2017] ++ 37. The Flatliners - Inviting Light [2017] -- 38. Chainsmokers - Memories do not open [2017]- 39. Diet Cig - Swear I'm Good At This [2017]-- 40. Joey Bada$$ - ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$ [2017]- 41. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. [2017] + 42. Have Mercy - Make The Best Of It [2017] - 43. COIN - How Will You Know If You Never Try [2017] - 44. New Found Glory - Makes Me Sick [2017] + 45. Sylvan Esso - What Now [2017] + 46. Feist - Pleasure [2017] - 47. Gorillaz - Humanz [2017] - 48. Mew - Visuals [2017] * 49. The Classic Crime - How to be human [2017] * 50. Daisyhead - In Case You Missed It [2017] - 51. Super American - Disposable [2017] * May 52. Emperor X - Oversleepers International [2017] - 53. Day Wave - The Days We Had [2017] + 54. Cayetana - New Kind of Normal [2017] - 55. Mac Demarco - This Old Dog [2017] - 56. Mobina Galore - Feeling Disconnected [2017] - 57. Paramore - After Laughter [2017] ++ 58. Balance and Composure - Slowheart [2017] + 59. Goo Goo Dolls - You Should Be Happy [2017] + 60. Dreamcar - Dreamcar [2017] - 61. HalfNoise - The Velvet Face [2017] + 62. Blink 182 - California Deluxe [2017] --- 63. Tigers Jaw - spin [2017] * 64. Pet Symmetry - Vision [2017] * 65. Linkin Park - One More Light [2017] - June 66. Bleachers - Gone Now [2017] * 67. All Time Low - Last Young Renegade [2017] + 68. Halsey - hopeless fountain kingdom [2017] - 69. 68' - Two Parts Viper [2017] - 70. Allie X - CollXtion 11 [2017] * 71. Rancid - Trouble Maker [2017] - 72. Rise Against - Wolves [2017] - 73. Katy Perry - Witness [2017] - 74. Phoenix - Ti Amo [2017] - 75. London Grammar - Truth Is a Beautiful Thing [2017] - 76. Russ - There's Really A Wolf [2017] - 77. Snoop Dogg - Neva Left [2017] - 78. Denzel Curry - Imperial [2016] + 79. Flatbush Zombies - 3001: A Laced Odyssey [2016] + 80. Caterpillars - The Wicked and Wonderfull [2016] * 81. Sza - CTRL [2017] - 82. Lorde - Melodrama [2017] + 83. Chon - Homey [2017] + 84. Portugal. The Man - Woodstock [2017] - 85. Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up [2017] - 86. Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark? [2017] - 87. Captain We're Sinking - The King of No Man [2017] - 88. DJ Khaled - Grateful [2017] - 89. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory[2017]- 90. A Will Away - Here Again[2017] + 91. The Chain Gang Of 1974 - Felt [2017] + 92. LANY - LANY [2017] + 93. The Japanese House - Saw You in a Dream [2017] ++ July 94.Haim - Something To Tell [2017] + 95.Sleep In. - Tension & Release [2017] - 96.Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy [2017] + 97.Goldfinger - The Knife [2017] - 98.Foster The People - Sacred Hearts Club [2017]+ 99.Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface [2017] - 100. Arcade Fire - Everything Now [2017] - 101. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life [2017] - August 102. flor - come out, you're hiding [2017] + 103. Brand New - Science Fiction [2017] - 104. Turnover - Good Nature [2017] + 105. Pvris - AWKOHAWNOH [2017] + 106. Timeflies - Too Much [2017]+ 107. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding [2017] - 108. Third Eye Blind - Out of Vein [2003] ++ September 109. Mutemath - Play Dead [2017] + 110. Comeback Kid - Outsider [2017] + 111. The National - Sleep Well Beast [2017] * 112. Four Year Strong - Some of you will like this [2017] - 113. Alvvays - Antisocialties [2017] - 114. Odezsa - A Moment Apart [2017] + 115. Hot Water Music - Light it Up [2017] - 116. Seaway - Vacation [2017] + 117. Fickle Friends - Flue [2017] + 118. Counterparts - You're Not You Anymore [2017] + 119. Noah Gundersen - WHITE NOISE [2017] * 120. The Wonder Years - Burst & Decay [2017] + 121. Prawn - Run [2017] - 122. Lights - Skin & Earth [2017] - 123. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps [2017] + 124. Propagandhi - Victory Lap [2017] + 125. Echosmith - Inside a Dream [2017] + 126. Miley Cyrus - Younger Now [2017]* 127. Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life [2017] - 128. Shainia Twain - Now [2017] * 129. TWIABP - Always Foreign [2017] - October 130.Iron Chic - You Can't Stay Here [2017] + 131.Knucklepuck - Shapeshifter - [2017] - 132. Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights - [2017] - November 133. I The Mighty - Where the Mind Wants to Go/Where You Let it Go [2017] * 134. Anti-Flag - American Fall [2017] + 135. Kelsea Ballerini - Unapologetically [2017] + 136. People Like You - Verse [2017] - 137. Jay Som - Everybody Works [2017] - 138. Tove Lo - Blue Lips [2017] * 139. LEON - For You EP [2017] + 140. LEON - Surround Me EP [2017] + December 141. Glassjaw - Material Control [2017] - 142. Taylor Swift - Reputation [2017] * 143. Story Of The Year - Wolves [2017] + 144. Charli XCX - Pop 2 [2017] + 145. SZA - Ctrl [2017] +
20. Sampha - Process (2017) 21. Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being (2016) 22. Denzel Curry - Imperial (2016)