Best Albums of 2017 So Far
 

1. King Gizzard and the lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
2. Horseneck - Heavy Trip
3. Lizzard Wizzard - Total War Power Bastard
4. All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War
5. Mothership - High Strangeness
6. Hey Satan - Hey Satan
7. Colin Stetson - All this I do for Glory
8. Telekinetic Yeti - Abominable
9. Emptiness - Not for Music
10. Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works

This will probably change before the year is over but my top 10 currently.

I feel like it's been a really weak year so far. Plenty of strong releases though.

Some I've been enjoying
1. Billy Woods - Known Unknowns (his best in a while)
2. Ex Eye - Ex Eye
3. The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
4. Richard Dawson - Peasant
5. Angles 9 - Disappeared Behind the Sun
6. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
7. The Necks - Unfold
8. The Caretaker - Everywhere At the End of Time Series
9. Immolation - Atonement
10. Yowie - Synchromysticism

Good timing for this thread. I still have a lot of listening to do on my trip home. I saved a lot of 2017 albums for that reason but here are a few that really caught my eye this year...

SZA
CTRL

Sampha
Process

Tonstartssbandht
Sorcerer

Blanck Mass
World Eater

Pile
A Hairshirt of Purpose

Tinariwen
Elwan

Chaz Bundick Meets The Mattson 2
Star Stuff

Ulrika Spacek
Modern English Decoration

Future Islands
The Far Field

Still A LOT of stuff to listen to.

Ok Here We go. I have some catching up to do, but this is a rough draft of my end of year list.

10: Mastodon - Emperor of Sands
9: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
8: Novembers Doom - Hamartia
7: Royal Thunder - Wick
6: Pallbearer - Heartless
5: Nightlands - I Can Feel the Night Around Me
4: Phoenix - Ti Amo
3: Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
2: The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia
1: Portugal, The Man - Woodstock

Honorable Mentions

Mothership - High Strangeness
Havok - Conformacide
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
John Frum - A Stirring in the Noos

I dunno if I can do a top 10 so far because I haven't really been listening to as much music this year, but here's what I have been enjoying

In no particular order

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - The Dukes of Alhazred

Been 10 years since their last album and it was worth the wait. A very fun 40 minute punk rock romp through Lovecraft Country and funny natural disasters

Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Probably the best Ulver album since Perdition City. Their take on '80's synth pop is perfect.

Sadistik - Altars

I enjoyed this more than Flowers For My Father and Ultraviolet. It's dark and atmospheric.

Gorillaz - Humanz

At first I didn't care for this album, it felt like it was a various artists album that features the Gorillaz, but after a few more listens I've really grown to like a lot of the songs.


Demonic Death Judge - Seaweed

Honestly this is just on here to round out the list. It's not a bad album, but it's kind of more of the same. Consider it more of a placeholder for the time being.

Wiley - Godfather

Agreed. I've only been impressed by a couple of albums. No real replay value from most of the stuff I've listened to.

Thanks for the reminder. I forgot that I still need to listen to this album.

definitely the best banger ting this year

Dumal - The Lesser God is maddeningly excellent, as are the new Emptyset and Wolf Eyes albums.

Good album. The album Race Against Time should have been if he didn't ruin it with the singles.