Thanks for all your kind messages about my favourite albums of 2017 list. I’ve spent some of the last two or three days picking through some other interesting end-of-year charts and investigating what I’d missed. Especially useful have been Marc Masters’ thread on Twitter of neglected records
Here's a thread of some 2017 records that maybe deserved more attention, in no particular order. 1) @woodenwand "Clipper Ship" on @3lobed https://t.co/ZGgeO2HAc7
— Marc Masters (@Marcissist) December 6, 2017
and Stewart Smith’s Jazz list for The Quietus, which lead me to the superb Amir El Saffar/Rivers Of Sound and Nicole Mitchell records: please check them out.
A good crop of new 2018 things here, too, kicked off by what I think may be Ty Segall’s best ever LP. I never thought I’d have cause to recommend a Hot Chocolate, but here we are – it’s a killer. Also strongly recommended among this lot: the expanded Hiss Golden Messenger letting fly on the Seth Meyers show; Jerry David DeCicca’s Cohenish reverie; Pharrell and NERD bringing the Dead Kennedys; Kate Carr (from Marc’s fine list); and, at last, something from the terrific Tomaga record I’ve been playing a hell of a lot…
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1 Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin (Drag City)
2 Neil Young – Live At Coronation Hall, Omemee, Canada 1/12/17
3 The Hold Steady – Entitlement Crew/A Snake In The Shower (Bandcamp)
Entitlement Crew b/w A Snake In The Shower by The Hold Steady
4 Brigid Mae Power – The Two Worlds (Tompkins Square)
5 Robert Stillman – Portals (Orindal)
6 The Lightmen – Free As You Wanna Be (Now Again)
7 Bedouine – Louise (Spacebomb)
8 Imarhan – Temet (City Slang)
9 Jonathan Wilson – Rare Birds (Bella Union)
10 Desertion Trio – Midtown Tilt (Shhpuma/Clean Feed)
11 Bitchin Bajas – Bajas Fresh (Drag City)
12 Olden Yolk – Olden Yolk (Trouble In Mind)
13 Hiss Golden Messenger – Domino (Time Will Tell) (Late Night With Seth Meyers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkOrhGkka_Y
14 Hans Chew – Open Sea (At The Helm)
15 Gwenno – Le Kov (Heavenly)
16 Björk – Utopia (One Little Indian)
17 NERD & Future – 1000 (RCA)
18 Tyshawn Sorey – Verisimilitude (Pi)
Verisimilitude by Tyshawn Sorey
19 HC McEntire – Lionheart (Merge)
20 Amir El Saffar/Rivers Of Sound – Not Two (New Amsterdam)
Not Two by Amir ElSaffar / Rivers of Sound
21 Tomaga – Memory In Vivo Exposure (Hands In The Dark)
22 Kate Carr – The Story Surrounds Us (Helen Scarsdale)
The Story Surrounds Us by Kate Carr
23 Nicole Mitchell – Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds by Nicole Mitchell
24 Jerry David DeCicca – Time The Teacher (Impossible Ark)