Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2017 • Page 11

I’ve never heard of Tei Shi, what kind of music is it? (Weird question I know)

What kind of mood is ideal for a first listen?

 

1. Lorde-Melodrama
2. Pvris-AWKOH AWNOH
3. Lights-Skin and Earth
4. Eisley-I'm Only Dreaming
5. K. Flay-Everywhere is Somewhere
6. Feist-Pleasure
7. Tegan and Sara-The Con X: Covers
8. Julien Baker-Turn Out The Lights
9. Lana Del Rey-Lust For Life

Going to mimic @mattfreaksmeout and include an album not of this year but that I discovered & loved this year:

-Uh Huh Her-Nocturnes

(PS-Paramore is my favorite band and it kills me not to put them on here, but After Laughter just sounds like an album of b-sides to me)

 

nope, they are weezer but better than weezer

 

So yeah, I've read @cwhit talk about Emperor X like a bazillion times but realized yesterday I never listened to them. I'm usually not real big on a lot of the stuff you recommend (just different tastes) but I feel bad for sleeping on this one.

 

i truly think he's genuine music genius. and this record is the first of his to actually be accessible enough to allow more than a niche group of people to realize that

 

Oh yeah I forgot that amazing Head North album came out this year

 

She's kinda like chill synthpop or indiepop. She did guest vocals for Glass Animals if ur a fan of them. I like really mellow driving music so I usually listen to her when I have a drive to make!

 

It’s mind-boggling to me that you’d think that of After Laughter but have AWKOHAWNOH as number 2 haha. Bummer you didn’t like it much!

 

Finally went through the year this morning and put this together.

1. Emperor X - Oversleepers International
2. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
3. The Smith Street Band - More Scared of You Than You Are of Me
4. The Front Bottoms - Going Grey
5. Kendrick Lamar - Damn.
6. Nervous Dater - Don’t Be A Stranger
7. The World is... - Always Foreign
8. Rozwell Kid - Precious Art
9. Iron Chic - You Can’t Stay Here
10. Katie Ellen - Cowgirl Blues
11. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
12. Nana Grizol - Ursa Minor
13. The Menzingers - After the Party
14. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
15. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
16. Beck - Colors
17. Hard Girls - Floating Now
18. Great Grandpa - Plastic Cough
19. Gorillaz - Humanz
20. Slaughter Beach, Dog - Birdie

 

Well I WAS gonna put QOTSA pretty high on my list, but not anymore. Same with SF it’s tainted.

 

What happened with QOTSA?

 

Josh Homme Kicks Female Photographer in the Head at KROQ Acoustic Christmas (EXCLUSIVE)

 

Some ppl may disagree with this choice but this year I decided to make a list with only women/acts with women on it. There weren't that many men on my original list anyway, and I feel like the men that were on it have gotten enough attention elsewhere anyway. There's no order.

Lana del Rey - Lust For Life
Kesha - Rainbow
Tei Shi - Crawl Space
Diana Gameros - Arullo
Ibeyi - Ash
Rina Sawayama - RINA
Calma Carmona - 100 Vidas
Camila Luna - Flora y Fauna
Kelly Clarkson - Meaning of Life
Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights

Artists who didnt release an album this year but recently came on my radar and I'm keeping an eye on:

(They're supposed to release an album in 2017 but if they have, I can't find it)

 

That Hard Girls album was a grower but damn is it good.

 

Absolutely. Field ‘99 into Puddle of Blood is probably my favorite opening 1-2 punch of the year.

 

Personally I love Neurons on the Fritz into Herd.

 

Why?

 

After Laughter is pretty universally praised as some of the band's best work, whereas a lot of people were left disappointed with the new PVRIS (I really dig it however).

 

Comparing the two albums, I’d say AL has absolutely stellar songs whereas I was pretty underwhelmed with AWKOH. But obviously to each there own!

 

Well if we go by fan reactions alone (not critics), I've heard the exact opposite haha

 

Different circles I guess, because I'm also going off fan reactions. Both on this site and in irl haha. I actually like both albums pretty equally. I'd probably give the edge to Paramore but What's Wrong is better than anything on either album.

 

I’ve seen almost universal praise for After Laughter, and everyone went OFF for the new songs when I saw them.

 

HELL YEAH

 

Man, I just went through all 11 pages and I don’t believe I saw any of my top 3 even on anyone else’s lists at all which baffles me, especially my #1 which I just found to be a super enjoyable record. For those that are intrigued but don’t want to go way back to page 3 to see my list: 1. Awaken I Am - Blind Love, 2. Carousel Kong’s - Charm City, 3. Picturesque - Back To Beautiful

Other than that - thank you all for posting. I’ve listened to so many new artists and albums in the last week because of all of your posts. This is my favorite time of year for music bc these lists bring me a ton of new stuff to listen to.

 

arranging my list into tiers with no discrete organizing within them because trying to decide between #3 and #4 is dumb. top 25.

Tier 1
Steven Wilson - To The Bone
Tigers Jaw - Spin
Charly Bliss - Guppy
Code Orange - Forever
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

Tier 2
The Maine - Lovely Little Lonely
Sorority Noise - You're Not As ____ As You Think
Head North - The Last Living Man Alive Ever in the History of the World
I the Mighty - Where The Mind Wants To Go / Where You Let It Go
Circa Survive - The Amulet
Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights
Rozwell Kid - Precious Art
Vattnet - Vattnet
Remo Drive - Greatest Hits
Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day

Tier 3
Free Throw - Bear Your Mind
Dryjacket - For Posterity
Knuckle Puck - Shapeshifter
Weezer - Pacific Daydream
Impure Wilhelmina – Radiation
Enslaved - E
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Partner - In Search of Lost Time
Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
Makthaverskan - III