Top 5 albums of 2017

Beck's "Colors" is the only album on your list I've heard and I own it. While good, I find it trendy, pop-oriented, and less exploratory or creative than I'd have expected from Beck. Beyond that Robert Plant's "Carry Fire" and Neil Young's "The Hitchhiker" (recorded 40-years-ago) are the only other two albums from 2017 I've found worthy of buying. Sorry, I can't come up with five, but a good reminder I need to grab the Sgt Pepper re-issue on vinyl (recorded 50-years-ago).

My top five albums of 2017 are:

1. Aldous Harding - Party

2. Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest Life 

3. Cara Dillon - Wanderer

4. Nadia Reid - Preservation 

5. Martha Tilston - Nomad 

There were other good albums from artists that didn’t quite make the list they include:

Robert Plant, Iron & Wine, Chris Stapleton, Margo Price, Joan Shelley, St Vincent, Jesca Hoop, Samantha Crain, London Grammar and Wolf Alice. I think 2017 as been a pretty good year for new music.

joerand posted:

Beck's "Colors" is the only album on your list I've heard and I own it. While good, I find it trendy, pop-oriented, and less exploratory or creative than I'd have expected from Beck. Beyond that Robert Plant's "Carry Fire" and Neil Young's "The Hitchhiker" (recorded 40-years-ago) are the only other two albums from 2017 I've found worthy of buying. Sorry, I can't come up with five, but a good reminder I need to grab the Sgt Pepper re-issue on vinyl (recorded 50-years-ago).

I agree about Colors but find myself listening to it a lot. Very addictive. This year I found myself listening to say more stuff out of my comfort zone. Kind of funny to me. 

Latest albums from the following would be in ‘ somewhere near my top 5

St Vincent

The National

Nadia Reid

Kamasi Washington

Dan Michaelson

My selection:

   Perfume Genius - No Shape

   Delta Moon - Cabbagetown

   Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here?

   The xx - I see You

   The Church - Man Woman Life Death Infinity

Three for sure

Sparks - Hippopotamus

Gregg Allman -Southern Blood

Robert Finley - Goin' Platinum

and two I haven't quite made my mind up about

Jo Harman - People We Become

Samantha Fish - Chills & Fever

Some older, new (for me) discoveries trump these last two

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

Don Henley - Cass County

My top 5 is as it follows:

1) The Church - Man Woman Life Death Infinity.
2) The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here?
3) Solstafir - Berdreyminn
4) Cafe' Bertrand - Qu4tre
5) The New Year - Snow

Van Morrison - Roll with the punches

Barnett/Vile - Lotta Sea Rice

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest.

Rolling Stones - Blue and Lonesome - although this was released in December 2016.

This is the Kit - Moonshine Freeze.

1. Pure Comedy - Father John Misty

2. Semper Femina - Laura Marling

3. Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex

4. American Dream - LCD Soundsystem

5. Party - Aldous Harding

......at the moment but could change on a different day and the mood was right while listening to another album.

Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World

Kandace Springs - Soul Eyes

Jan Balke - Siwan - Nahnou Hou

Bill Frisell - Small Town

Sean Rowe - New Lore

Others that crossed my mind: Chris Stapleton From A Room, Robert Plant - Carry Fire, Imelda May - Life Love Flesh Blood, Lizz Wight - Grace, Avishai Cohen - Cross My Palm With Silver, Django Bates - The Study of Touch, Lee Ann Womack - The Lonely, The Lonesome, and The Gone, Van Morrison - Roll With The Punches, Ferenc Snetberger - Titok, Van Morrison - Roll With The Punches, Anouar Brahem - Blue Maqams, Stephan Micus - Inland Sea, and David Crosby - Sky Trails

For me the 2 favourites were

The National - Sleep Well Beast and 

The War on Drugs  - A Deeper Understanding 

with very honourable mentions to

Robert Plant  - Carry Fire 

Gregg Allman  - Southern Blood and 

Steven Wilson - To the Bone ( the title track of which is co-written by Andy Partridge of XTC)

i tried to like Father John Misty's Pure Comedy but didn't think it was as strong as his previous effort "I love you honey-bear".  I think I've been reading too many music magazines !

cheers

j.

my top 5 in no particular order

1. The National - Sleep well Beast
2. Beck - Colors
3. The XX - I see you
4. Roger Waters - is this the life we really want
5. Steve Wilson - To the Bone