Best Albums of 2017

[MartinStoichkov]

Hello guys! 

A quarter of the way through 2017 already (I know!) - and already 2017 has some outstanding albums under its belt. I'd love to hear what your picks are!

Here's a template for sharing!

• Album name 
• Artist name
• Release date (optional)
• Some words for the release (optional)
• Album link
• Your pick for the best song 

Album name: Locations: USA 

Artist: The Jazz Jousters

Release date: 23 February 2017 

This is the 5th session of The Jazz Jousters Locations series. 

In this session, they decided to pick up music from jazz musicians from USA and to make instrumentals in their own style. The unique thing in the album is that they used jazz sounds from the 60's. The main focus is on the piano sounds, blended with chillhop like sounds. The result is awesome! 

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My best pick is:

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[konstantinwagne]

Album name: I See You

Artist: The xx

Release date: 13 January 2017

I See You, the third album by the xx, attempts to incorporate everyone’s talents into a new version of their sound, one true to their roots but richer and more varied.

Album name: Migration

Artist: Bonobo

Release date: 13 January 2017

Migration is easily the most listenable record of Bonobo’s fifteen-plus year career. It’s a record with equal appeal for electronic music fans and general listeners, something you could put on anywhere. Essentially, it recasts downtempo as a genre with more potential than party music on the Bosphorus.

Album name: Mono No Aware (PAN 77)

Artist: Various Artists

Release date: 17 March 2017

“Mono no aware”, ‘the pathos of things’, also translates as “an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera”. A term for the awareness of impermanence, or the transience of things. A meditation on mortality and life's transience, ephemerality heightens the appreciation of beauty and sensitivity to their passing. In investigating the passing of time, the boundaries between memory and hallucination become blurred; between fiction and reality. The movement of time transforms into an eternal present.

[crematedman]

@rossi1911 yes! that's the one ^_^

[DavidBiga]

David Biga's newest EP titled "Dream Biga"

https://open.spotify.com/album/3l4Cp2YaofKJULPU4LdgfF

[PeeJay_]

I was waiting for this for quite some time...the new Brother Ali album:
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[Ava_Parisi33]

Album name: Night People
Artists name: You me at six
Best song: plus one

[barockandroll]

Album name : DETACHMENT

• Barock Project
• March 2017
• The candidate for best prog rock album of 2017 as universally affirmed by media and music lovers. Italian band Barock Project really made it special this 5th album is a 75 minute journey through colors and notes.
• Barock Project: Detachment (2017) 
• MY BEST PICK IS:

[crematedman]

Album name: Brutalism

• IDLES
• March 2017
• Ruthless punk and scathing lyrics make for an exhausting and wonderful listen.

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[crematedman]

@MartinStoichkov The new Waxahatchee album is brilliant!

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[crowdiegal]

My favourite albums of 2017 so far.

Album: The Nashville Sound

Artist: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Best song: Anxiety

Best alternative country album bar none this year in my opinion. 

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Album: Melodrama

Artist: Lorde

Best song: Supercut

Basically Lorde's chronicling a night at a party in one album. It definitely rings true to a certain extent for me (minus the drugs)

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Album: Killer

Artist: Dan Sultan

Best Song: Too hard to decide here!. Hold it Together  or Drover

Had to slide one of the best recently released Australian albums this year. This is a fantastic album for those who love neo soul/gospel music.

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[rossi1911]

Album: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Artist: Passenger
Best songs: Simple Song, And I Love Her, and The Boy Who Cried Wolf

https://open.spotify.com/album/2sGDQ4EeMBzUf7r21JyrNV

[BenitoKCM]

@crowdiegal I agree! Melodrama is an excellent album!!

And thanks for Dan Sultan, I didn't know him, I'm listening to his album right now and it's great!!!

[jpjordan]

This is my favourite album so far...

• Album name: Skyline 
• Artist name: Izo FitzRoy
• Release date: 24th February

British singer-songwriter with powerful vocals. Her music is a combination of soul, blues and gospel.

My favourite track is Skyline (live at Sofar London)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPQ7cX9t0qU

https://open.spotify.com/artist/50gPQYV9WREGkWM53dNb9r

https://open.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:user:1119756041&size=detail&theme=light 

[crematedman]

@rossi1911 @MartinStoichkov @jpjordan great choices

this album definitely reminds me of pheonix back in the day!

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[Whitty314]

https://open.spotify.com/artist/64CSJGmTgf3Zr4bBXDmcZq Aria Faction! Run album! Check it out, different yet great quality!

[jwpsiemens]

My favorite album of 2017 is:

The Space Between 

by Fyfe 

Release date: 9.June 

Album link:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2cGglm9PcjMP8NJi5OdOmC

Best song: Belong (feat. Kimbra)

[LionScale]

Album Name: TLC

Artist Name: TLC

Release Date: Jun 30th, 2017

Fifteen years after the release of their fourth album, TLC rleased their fifth and final album which I believe to be some of their best work. Nobody does harmonizing better in my opinion and this album was quintessential TLC and 90s hip hop in general. 

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Favorite song has to be "Way Back" it really captures all the nostalgia of the album. They really do, as the lyrics say, take the audience down memory lane. 

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[crematedman]

@MartinStoichkov a clear contender!

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[user-removed]

Album name: Your Name (Deluxe Edition, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Artist name: Radwimps

Release date: 27th January 2017

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Best song(s):

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[Gidyin]

Album name: The Garden Of England

Artist: Benaddict

Best Song: Does Anybody Care

Some Words: Came across a review of this on Twitter over the weekend and have had it on heavy rotation ever since. The sampling is spectacular and the rhyming is sublime. Benaddict is going places, you heard it here first!!

[rossi1911]

Album: Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect
Artist: Sundara Karma
Best Song: She Said

https://open.spotify.com/album/3Hua29YXoJu25qVEhmssFb