Albums of the Year 2017
oops – forgot to post this in December.
NEW ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
Ok – so here is my list of albums of the year. Not a vintage year by any stretch and I am not sure that any of the albums listed below represents the best work by the artist. I accept that there is very little urban music – mostly because, with the exception of Kenrick Lamar, none of it interests me. In the jazz section, I can only list what I have listened to – there are lots of well reviewed jazz albums that I haven’t gotten around to yet. Sorry, I didn’t like the St. Vincent album – but will try it again in a few months.
- Molly Burch – Please Be Mine
- Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now
- LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
- Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
- Beck – Colors
- Wolf Alice – Visions Of A Life
- The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
- Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
- Ron Sexsmith – The Last Rider
- Japandroids – Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
THE REST
- Angaleena Presley – Wrangled
- The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
- The Deslondes – Hurry Home
- Royal Blood – How Did We Get So Dark?
- Paul Weller – A Kind Revolution
- Margo Price – All American Made
- The Waterboys – Out of All this Blue
- The Weather Station – The Weather Station
- Morrissey – Low in High School
- Slowdive – Slowdive
- Liam Gallagher – As You Were
- Courtney Barnett And Kurt Vile – Lotta Sea Lice
- U2 – Songs of experience
- Foo Fighters – Concrete And Gold
- Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
- John Murry – A Short History Of Decay
- Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains
- Arcade Fire – Everything Now
- Kevin Morby – City Music
- Floating Points – Reflections – Mojave Desert
- Roger Waters – Is This The Life We Really Want?
- Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
- Richard Dawson – Peasant
- Alt-J – Relaxer
- Steve Earle & The Dukes – So You Wannabe An Outlaw
- Dan Auerbach – Waiting On A Song
- Evan Dando – Baby I’m Bored
- Mark Lanegan Band – Gargoyle
- Feist – Pleasure
- Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud
- Thundercat – Drunk
- Robyn Hitchcock – Robyn Hitchcock
- The Felice Brothers – Tonight At The Arizona
- Bob Dylan – Triplicate
- British Sea Power – Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
- Amee Mann – Mental Illness
- Spoon – Hot Thoughts
- Hurray For The Riff Raff – The Navigator
- Ron Gallo – Heavy Meta
- The Shins – Heartworms
- Alison Krauss – Windy City
- Temples – Volcano
- Grandaddy – Last Place
- Son Volt – Notes Of Blue
- The Dears – Times Infinity Volume One
- Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway
- Chuck Prophet – Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
- Ryan Adams – Prisoner
- Kendrick Lamar – Damn
- Duke Garwood – Garden Of Ashes
- The XX – I See You
- Elbow – Little Fictions
- Brian Eno – Reflection
- Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody
- Paul Heaton & Jaqui Abbott – Crooked Calypso
- Robert Plant – Carry Fire
- Sparks – Hippopotamus
- Steven Wilson – To The Bone
- The Horrors – V
- The National – Sleep Well Beast
- Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life
- Laura Marling – Sempa Femina
- Chris Stapleton – From a room vol 1
- Iron & Wine – Beast epic
NEW JAZZ
- Vijay Iver – Far from over
- Charles Lloyd New Quartet – Passin Thru
- Ahmad Jamal – Marseille
- Anouar Brahem – Blue Maqams
- Kamasi Washington – Harmony Of Difference
- Charles Lloyd – Wild Man Dance
- John Abercrombie Quartet – Up And Coming
- Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau – Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau
- Avishai Cohen- Cross My Palm With Silver
- Jan Garbarek – Places
- Dejohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Schofield – Hudson
- Chris Potter – The Dreamer is the Dream
REISSUES
- David Bowie – A New Career In A New Town [1977-1982]
- Radiohead – OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997 2017
- Dennis Wilson – Bambu (The Caribou Sessions)
- Lift To Experience – The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (vinyl)
- U2 – The Joshua Tree – 30th
- The Beatles – Sgt Pepper – 50th
- Interpol – Our Love to Admire
- Neil Young – Hitchhiker
- REM – Automatic For the People (box set)
- Brian Eno – ½ Speed Remasters (Abbey Road Viny)
- The Smiths – The Queen is Dead (boxset)
- Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks (reissue of reissue)
- Donald Fagen – XMas Box (vinyl)
JAZZ REISSUES
- ECM vinyl reissues:
- Circle – Paris – Concert
- Keith Jarrett – The Survivors’ Suite
- Gary Burton / Chick Corea – Crystal Silence
- David Holland Quartet – Conference Of The Birds
- Music Matters vinyl reissues (all extremely good)
- Analogue Production – Prestige Vinyl Reissues (particularly Eric Dolphy)
- The Bill Evans Trio – On A Monday Evening
- Thelonius Monk – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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