Top 25 Music Albums of 2017
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2017 Tracks of the Year:
1. Slomo - Slowdive
2. Sugar For The Pill - Slowdive
3. Cali - Ride
4. No Longer Making Time - Slowdive
5.’77 Life Ain’t All Bad - Magnetic Fields
6. Wreath - Perfume Genius
7. Against Breaking Heart of a Breaking Heart Beauty - Trupa Trupa
8. Everyone Knows - Slowdive
9. Alan - Perfume Genius
10.’00 Ghosts Of The Marathon Dancers - Magnetic Fields
11.’05 Never Again - Magnetic Fields
12. ‘14 Wish I Had Pictures - Magnetic Fields
13. ‘66 Wonder Where I’m From - Magnetic Fields
14. ‘98 Lovers Lies - Magnetic Fields
15. ‘07 In The Snow White Cottages - Magnetic Fields
16. ‘11 Stupid Tears - Magnetic Fields
17. Falling Ashes - Slowdive
18. Sides - Perfume Genius
19. ‘09 Til You Come Back To Me - Magnetic Fields
20. To Me - Trupa Trupa
21. ‘70 They’re Killing Children Over There - Magnetic Fields
22. ‘91 The Day I Finally - Magnetic Fields
23. Faith Torn Apart - Xiu Xiu
24. K - Cigarettes After Sex
25. Soucouyant - Anjou
26. The Killing Of America - Uniform
- Chart updated: 04/28/2025 21:45
- (Created: 01/07/2017 21:17).
- Chart size: 25 albums.
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After all these years, Slowdive still sound like a miracle occurring. They've lost nothing and have instead turned out an album that like before, shows no sign of them compromising their vision. The material, is perhaps more deep-set and knottier than before, especially so on the second half where it sounds like something approaching a frown is crossing Neil Halsteads' mighty countenance.
There are even some echoes of the past, with Go Get It featuring the burnt out coda of Souvlaki Space Station and Falling Ashes' simple piano motif being oddly reminiscent of Sigur Ros, one of their many admirers. The experimentation of Pygmalion also features in most of the material, particularly the use of repetition not unlike the use of loops on that album.
What more is there to say? As a comeback album it's a resounding success and easily their best since Souvlaki.
'Tis beautiful. [First added to this chart: 04/02/2017]
There are even some echoes of the past, with Go Get It featuring the burnt out coda of Souvlaki Space Station and Falling Ashes' simple piano motif being oddly reminiscent of Sigur Ros, one of their many admirers. The experimentation of Pygmalion also features in most of the material, particularly the use of repetition not unlike the use of loops on that album.
What more is there to say? As a comeback album it's a resounding success and easily their best since Souvlaki.
'Tis beautiful. [First added to this chart: 04/02/2017]
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It's true, it's Merritt's best since '69 Love Songs' with some monster, killer songs on offer that easily rank as his best - even if it includes some of his oddest arrangements to date. There is one big difference though, where '69 Love Songs' favoured a more spartan instrumentation 'Memoir' is a hell of a lot more colourful, even at times psychedelic befitting his familial background. Even so, he still finds room for the kind of piano-led compositions last seen on '69' or 'i'. Whatever, he's on top form here and this is gonna be glued to my stereo for a long, long time.
[First added to this chart: 01/15/2017]
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Well, thankfully it's not a return to the follys of Carnival Of Light or Tarantula. They're still the same band that made those records, but more importantly they're still the same band that made Nowhere or Going Blank Again. To be specific, this is the direction Ride should have taken in 1993, with one eye on the classic records of the past and a foot in the sounds of tomorrow.
Their hippy past still lingers, for instance, if Weather Diaries were an item of clothing it'd be a brown corduroy pair of bell-bottoms but it's a fine album and it's damn good to have one of the best bands of the 90s back. [First added to this chart: 04/02/2017]
Their hippy past still lingers, for instance, if Weather Diaries were an item of clothing it'd be a brown corduroy pair of bell-bottoms but it's a fine album and it's damn good to have one of the best bands of the 90s back. [First added to this chart: 04/02/2017]
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Do we really need another bunch of rich pop stars lecturing us about the worlds ills? Probably not and the critics are going to have a field day with this latest sermon from the pulpit on how the world is going to hell in a go-kart. But hey, they do it really well and it's their best since Playing The Angel.
[First added to this chart: 03/08/2017]
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Recorded following another bout of depression, Forget is a softer, more sadder follow-up to Angel Guts: Red Classroom. Jamie Stewart is still an adept hand at writing his idiosyncratic brand of neurotic pop songs, although this time a pervasive feeling of melancholy dominates proceedings. Forget remembers, even though it often wishes it can't.
[First added to this chart: 01/15/2017]
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Purveyors of black humour, Trupa Trupa come on like Mogwai on pep pills with Syd Barrett supplying vocals - presumably lost in some Polish forest...somewhere.
If you miss the ability of modern music to disturb and unnerve, you need to listen to this album. For a bunch of Beatles/VU fans, this is the most original work I've heard all year. [First added to this chart: 10/24/2017]
If you miss the ability of modern music to disturb and unnerve, you need to listen to this album. For a bunch of Beatles/VU fans, this is the most original work I've heard all year. [First added to this chart: 10/24/2017]
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Pete Fijalkowski hasn't sounded this good since Adorable's heyday and Terry Bickers is as brilliant and vital as ever, his velvet guitar licks illuminating every nook and cranny in this, largely acoustic album. If immaculate songwriting that swings from low-rent Bond themes to Lee Hazelwood ditties with subtle and consummate grace is your bag, you won't go wrong here.
[First added to this chart: 06/30/2017]
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“Cigarettes After Sex are a one trick pony, but the trick is addictive. Each song makes like Slowdive covering The Velvet Underground’s ‘Candy Says’. It shouldn’t work but it does, and before long their paens to love and lust will have dragged you under in their undertow” August 2018
[First added to this chart: 03/31/2025]
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Change has been afoot in camp Perfume Genius. Something more electronic, more theatrical, more odyshape. It's fair to say, he's created something original here, that to these ears sounds uniquely innovative, something that has clear antecedents with Prince and Kate Bush. Now, if only the rest of our pop-stars were so forward-looking, eh?
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Top 25 Music Albums of 2017 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Various Artists | 3 | 12% | |
| Blancmange | 1 | 4% | |
| Bing & Ruth | 1 | 4% | |
| Rostam | 1 | 4% | |
| Max Richter | 1 | 4% | |
| Slowdive | 1 | 4% | |
| Wire | 1 | 4% | |
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Top 25 Music Albums of 2017 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 2 from 18th to 16thRotations by Golden Retriever |
| Up 1 from 21st to 20thBorders by Emptyset |
| Up 1 from 15th to 14thWake In Fright by Uniform |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 16th to 18thAfternooners by Patrick Cowley |
| Down 1 from 14th to 15thEpithymia by Anjou |
| Down 1 from 20th to 21stNo Home Of The Mind by Bing & Ruth |
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