tried a couple of songs and, idk, wasn't for me. pretty generic and boring. sounded like a poor-man's we were promised jetbacks, who themselves are a poor-man's frightened rabbit.
"Honeysuckle" or "If My Name Was Whiskey" for me. Or maybe "I Need a Ride Home." But those two are great too. The "I ain't your old guitar/That you leave out in the back of your car" part of "Doin' It Right" is one of my favorite parts of the album.
I was a big fan of "Honeysuckle" at first but by the middle of the song I was like "STOP SAYING HONEYSUCKLE SO MANY TIMES!!!"
Saaaaaaaame. I saw it creep up on a couple other lists. The gospel is spreading. Out of curiosity where are Ryn and Charly on your list?
I would add that Rented World is almost as good as OTIP (on some days I think it's better)... but yeah, as a huge fan of both of those records, After the Party and Chamberlain Waits do almost nothing for me.
Very cool to see Gang Of Youths get bigger at home and overseas. Pretty sure 4 out of 5 members are POC and it means a lot to mixed race kids in Australia watching them blow up! Not posting my list yet - trying to dwindle it down to 50 while also hearing whatever I missed
So Ryn is actually not a 2017 album, but Charly is somewhere between 15-20. Ryn was around the same the year it came out.
1. Julien Baker - Turn Out the Lights 2. St. Vincent - Masseduction 3. The National - Sleep Well Beast 4. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness 5. Perfume Genius - No Shape 6. Cayetana - New Kind of Normal 7. Lorde – Melodrama 8. Syd – Fin 9. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps 10. Emperor X - Oversleepers International 11. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface 12. Ruby Ibarra - Circa91 13. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me 14. The Menzingers - After the Party 15. Lil Uzi Vert - Luv is Rage 2 16. Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet 17. Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy 18. Margo Price – All American Made 19. Paramore - After Laughter 20. Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls 21. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding 22. Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett - Lotta Sea Lice 23. Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory 24. Kendrick Lamar – Damn 25. Waxahatchee - Out in the Storm 26. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds 27. Great Grandpa - Plastic Cough 28. Slowdive – Slowdive 29. Alex Lahey - I Love You Like a Brother 30. Loyle Carner - Yesterday's Gone 31. Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound 32. Valerie June - The Order of Time 33. Jay Som - Everybody Works 34. Future – HNDRXX 35. People Like You - Verse 36. Aimee Mann - Mental Illness 37. Fiver - Audible Songs From Rockwood 38. Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound 39. The Smith Street Band - More Scared of You Than You Are of Me 40. Ratboys – GN 41. Florist - If Blue Could Be Happiness 42. Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life 43. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering 44. Kweku Collins - Grey 45. Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now 46. Allison Crutchfield - Tourist in this Town 47. Richard Edwards - Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset 48. Bleachers - Gone Now 49. Sampha – Process 50. (Sandy) Alex G - Rocket RIP Topster
Love seeing Julien so high on so many people's lists. It'll be no surprise where she ends up on my own.
My list largely brought to you by @Craig Manning and @Shit. Also, I forget who recommended Gang of Youths and Ibara but thanks for that too.
You're breaking my heart, Chris. But if there's a prize for "artist who repeated the titles of their songs the most times" this year, Haim definitely win that one. I gotta go back to that Valerie June record.
Shit. I forgot to add SZA, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and Kelela. They're all very good. Listen to them.
I'm the original Ibarra evangelist, though it suddenly caught on in the hip hop thread so who knows whern you saw it, haha.
She's so underground that's it's pretty special how much attention she's been getting on this forum conpared to the rest of music internet. The album deserves it.