Best of 2017... PERIOD

[Trane]

Lovely! I'll be getting that.

un prêté pour un rendu

in anglais: you're welcome (thx for the Hidden Orchestra rec)

[Socrates]

un prêté pour un rendu

in anglais: you're welcome (thx for the Hidden Orchestra rec)

No! In American: You're welcome. In English: My pleasure!
(Two countries separated by a common language)

[MJBrady]

Here are a bunch that are for consideration:
Nova Collective - The Further Side
Bubblemath - Edit Peptide
Dean Watson - Sum Of Parts
MediaBanda - Bombas en el Aire
Zombie Frogs - Multiply
Utopianisti - Brutopianisti
Kinky Wizzards - Quirky Musings
Accordo dei Contrari - Violato Intatto
Shob - Karma Obscur

[Sputnik]

Here are a bunch that are for consideration:
Nova Collective - The Further Side

Holy crap, how could I have forgotten that one in my list? Superb album, will definitely be among my top albums for 2017. Need to dig it out for some fresh spins.

Utopianisti - Brutopianisti

Surprised to read these guys have a new album out so soon. I absolutely loved Third Frontier from last year. Doing a little digging I found the new album on Youtube and a review on Prog Archives. Uh oh. Apparently this is a 31 minute experiment in musical brutality. I've listened to the first 13 minutes and I'm about ready to stick a pencil in my ear. Obviously stuff like this will appeal to some, but not me, and I'm especially not spending a lot on a 31 minute album... this is getting ridiculous. Listen for yourself here, if you dare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_1AvkZ0jk

Shob - Karma Obscur

Heard a bit from these guys that sounded promising. Need to hear more, and I haven't seen the album listed anywhere for sale.

Bill

[at least 100 dead]

5 that I really like: Accordo dei Contrari - Violato Intatto / Elder - Reflections of A Floating World / Cheer-Accident - Putting off Death / Earthling Society - Zen Bastard / Oxbow - Thin White Duke.

Only have & heard the ones from Oxbow and Cheer Accident (both great, though completely different from each other). Will have to check out the other three albums you mentioned.

[Kavus Torabi]

Putting off a favourite until I hear the new Cheer Accident. Nonetheless, I am particularly loving Oxbow's Thin Black Duke and Prescott's Thing Or Two.

[chalkpie]

Cloud becomes your Hand "Rest in Fleas"

So far, this album is the one for me.

https://cloudbecomesyourhand.bandcam.../rest-in-fleas

[NogbadTheBad]

Schnauser - Irritant is going to be up there for me this year, I have the Prescott but haven't listened to it enough yet.

[walt]

After two or three listens, this one is head and shoulders above the crowd.Kurt Rosenwinkel-Caipi.

http://sunnysidezone.com/album/caipi

[NogbadTheBad]

Cloud becomes your Hand "Rest in Fleas"

So far, this album is the one for me.

https://cloudbecomesyourhand.bandcam.../rest-in-fleas

That'll probably be in my next order.

[MJBrady]

Nova Collective

[Zappathustra]

Only have & heard the ones from Oxbow and Cheer Accident (both great, though completely different from each other). Will have to check out the other three albums you mentioned.

Hmm, they're not at all anywhere near the style of the ones you've heard. But to me great stuff.

[neuroticdog]

Cloud becomes your Hand "Rest in Fleas"

So far, this album is the one for me.

https://cloudbecomesyourhand.bandcam.../rest-in-fleas

To be honest when I first saw the rec from, I think Udi I gave it a 30 second listen and my initial feeling was this was really pretentiously quirky for sake of being quirky. (Not a good thing) But, since I respect the opinions of many around here I downloaded it anyway thinking I would give it a fair shot when I can actively listen to it but frankly, wasn't in a hurry to hear it. I thought to myself this sort of shit has been done to death and all hipsters can choke on their own snot for all I care.

Anyway, fast forward about a week. I just gave this a good listen and I'm willing to say the following:

"strip me bare of all misgivings and forgive me father for I have uttered blasphemous words of unfounded deceit and negativity...for Rest in Fleas is bloody amazin!!! It's actually a retro record for me...it reminds me of them good ole days of listening to bands like Better Than Death, The Blitzoids, very early Doc Nerve...shit like that, when this stuff was fresh, new and vibrant...intead of the stale rank hipster caca that it is now"

best
Michael

[walt]

Jazz.

Chip Wickham-La Sombra.Nothing fancy, just "in the tradition" modern jazz, well played and well crafted.A winner,imo.

https://chipwickham.bandcamp.com/album/la-sombra

[nosebone]

^^^^ Yeah Walt!^^^^

[Teddy Vengeance]

After two or three listens, this one is head and shoulders above the crowd.Kurt Rosenwinkel-Caipi.

http://sunnysidezone.com/album/caipi

Really enjoyed that sample tune. Thanks.
Kind of like early Picchio Dal Pozzo after bathing in bossanova suds.

[walt]

[QUOTE=Teddy Vengeance;
Kind of like early Picchio Dal Pozzo after bathing in bossanova suds.[/QUOTE]

[sergio]

Yes to SHOB ! But then we say YES to Cosmosquad-Morbid Tango

Here are a bunch that are for consideration:
Nova Collective - The Further Side
Bubblemath - Edit Peptide
Dean Watson - Sum Of Parts
MediaBanda - Bombas en el Aire
Zombie Frogs - Multiply
Utopianisti - Brutopianisti
Kinky Wizzards - Quirky Musings
Accordo dei Contrari - Violato Intatto
Shob - Karma Obscur

[sergio]

Vicious Head Society- Abject Tomorrow
Retrospective-Research

[NogbadTheBad]

Getting a fair bit of new stuff this year, more than most I think.
I really like:
Yolk - Solar (is it prog, is it post-rock? whatever it is, it is good)
Reflections in Cosmo (Norwegian super group - best of rock and jazz)
Led Bib - Umbrella Weather
Prescott - Thing or Two

That Yolk is blowing me away, superb stuff. Spacey, Zeuhly, Post Rock that grooves.

[Echoes]

The Best of Echoes 2017, So Far is here. See the Top 25 Albums for the first half of the year. http://wp.me/p4ZE0X-cbT

[Echoes]

In the Echoes Podcast today we take a deeper dive into 8 albums that made the the Best of Echoes 2017, So Far Top 25 including Cigarettes After Sex, Nym, Quaschning & Schnauss, George Winston, Bluetech, Yaima, Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren, London Grammar. http://wp.me/p4ZE0X-ceq

[NogbadTheBad]

Updated list

1) Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope
2) Mike Oldfield - Return To Ommadawn
3) Yolk - Solar
4) Prescott - Thing Or Two
5) Aquaserge - laisse ca etre
6) Cheer-Accident - Putting Off Death
7) Miriodor - Signal 9
8) Schnauser - Irritant
9) Markus Reuter & Sonar - Falling Ascension
10) Bubblemath - Edit Peptide*
11) Bent Knee - Land Animal
12) Ex Eye - Ex Eye
13) AKKU Quintet - Aeon*
14) Hidden Orchestra - Dawn Chorus
15) Accordo dei Contrari - Violato Intatto
16) Nick Prol & The Proletarians - Loon Attic
17) Ephemeral Sun - Lord Of Hounds
18) Phlox - Keri
19) Led Bib - Umbrella Weather
20) Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin A Rainbow
21) Yowie - Synchromysticism
22) The Great Harry Hillman - Tilt*
23) Theo Bleckmann - Elegy
24) Suburban Savages - Kore Wa!
25) The Fierce And The Dead - Field Recordings (live)*
26) Steve Roach - Fade To Gray
27) Aranis - Smells like Aranis
28) Colouratura - s/t

[act]

they have nothing in common but 2 albums are by far my favs so far this year.

barock Project - detachment
kepler ten - delta v

cheers

[nosebone]

Just got the new John Zorn, Midsummer Moon and its excellent!

Here's a description from Discogs:

For millennia the moon has been a subject of deep fascination— a symbol of love, lust, madness and dreams. More than a passive observer, it is a powerful force whose brilliant luminosity exerts an intoxicating effect upon the winds, the tides, our emotions and more. This dark and moody CD of music inspired by Shakespearian Lunar imagery features ten lyrical compositions evoking the magic of Sister Moon. Stunningly performedby two of the most fabulous new guitarists working today—Julian Lage and Gyan Riley, this is a beautiful and heartfelt program of music for late night contemplation on a romantic midsummer evening.