Skip to main content

Albums of the Year 2017 // New Releases

//40
Migos
Culture
(300 Entertainment)
//39
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things 2: A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack
(Lakeshore)
//38
Unsane
Sterilize
(Southern Lord)
//37
Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch
Blade Runner 2049: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Epic/ASG)
//36
Ricardo Villalobos
Empirical House
([a:rpi:r])
//35
Brockhampton
Saturation II
(Question Everything Inc./Empire)
//34
Fire-Toolz
Drip Mental
(Hausu Mountain)
//33
Clams Casino
Instrumental Mixtape 4
(no label)
//32
Yves Tumor
Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
(no label)
//31
Lil Yachty
Teenage Emotions
(Virgin/EMI)
//30
Thriftworks
The Feather and the Sword
(no label)
//29
Paul White & Danny Brown
Accelerator
(R&S)
//28
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go?
(Black Truffle)
//27
Nazoranai
Beginning to Fall in Line Before Me, So Decorously, the Nature of All That Must Be Transformed
(W.25th)
//26
Crys Cole & Oren Ambarchi
Hotel Record
(Black Truffle)
//25
Wolf Eyes
No Hate
(no label)
//24
Konstrukt & Keiji Haino
A Philosophy Warping, Little by Little That Way Lies a Quagmire
(Karlrecords)
//23
The War on Drugs
A Deeper Understanding
(Atlantic)
//22
Protomartyr
Relatives in Descent
(Domino)
//21
Dasher
Sodium
(Jagjaguwar)
//20
Kendrick Lamar
DAMN.
(Insomniac/Interscope)
//19
David Greenberger, Glenn Jones & Chris Corsano
An Idea in Everything
(Okraina)
//18
Tzusing
東方不敗
(L.I.E.S.)
//17
Laurel Halo
Dust
(Hyperdub)
//18
Lil B
Black Ken
(BasedWorld)
//15
Swans
Deliquescence
(Young God)
//16
Aaron Dilloway
Switches
(Cejero)
//13
Oneohtrix Point Never
Good Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Warp)
//12
Trouble
Snake Eyes b/w Mother's Gone
(Sacred Bones)
//11
Lil Uzi Vert
Luv is Rage 2
(Generation Now/Atlantic)
//10
Bell Witch
Mirror Reaper
(Profound Lore)
//09
King Krule
The Ooz
(True Panther/XL)
//08
Circle
Terminal
(Southern Lord)
//07
Do Make Say Think
Stubborn Persistent Illusions
(Constellation)
//06
Vince Staples
Big Fish Theory
(ARTium/Blacksmith/Def Jam)
//05
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Async.
(Milan)
//04
Oxbow
Thin Black Duke
(Hydra Head)
//03
Tyler, the Creator
Scum Fuck Flower Boy
(Columbia)
//02
The Bug vs. Earth
Concrete Desert
(Ninja Tune)
//01
Slowdive
Slowdive
(Dead Oceans)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Corrupted - Felicific Algorithim (Cold Spring, 2018)

For whatever it means, this is the beginning of Corrupted's "Hollow" series. Maybe the clue is in the music? Unlike Corrupted's traditional ultra-slowed down, Spanish-sung, Japanese doom metal this is instrumental harsh noise. Still filthy and angry and depressive but sans vox and also more or less sans metal. Both untitled sides are meant to be played at either speed. The result? Meh. I miss Corrupted's brand of doom, this relatively anonymous harsh noise is fine and all but if I'm listening to Corrupted...well I know what I want. Skippable.
Post a Comment
Read more

Abstracter - Cinerous Incarnate (I, Voidhanger, 2018)

I was not aware of these guys, who formed in 2010 as a noise duo, and slowly evolved and added more members and turned into a kind of death/blackened doom metal project. They've got ties to other noise acts I don't know (Sutekh Hexen) and other industrial acts I don't know (Only Now). Quite a stew and the band pulls of something that sounds truly different. It's got a tentacle in each of the aforementioned genres but blends them really well. It's quite hard to pin them down in fact. Big, heavy riffs with a production level along the lines of a sludge/black metal record but sharp instrumentation and just a dirty atmosphere...ambient noise passages separate a couple tracks as a nice diversion...very cool
Post a Comment
Read more

Grouper - Grid of Points (Kranky, 2018)

I've never really liked Grouper much, lots of other wogs go ga-ga over anything she puts out but it all leaves me cold. I wrote her off for a while, heard some hype for this new one, and I'm back to writing her off again. It's the same ghostly vocal samples/quasi religious/hymnal vibes..haunting and ethereal and...nothing that gets me all wound up. Pass.
Post a Comment
Read more