Tussenstand: februari

1. Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum
2. The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
3. Emptiness - Not for Music
4. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
5. Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination

Releases waar ik benieuwd naar ben in maart: Light of the Morning Star, Blanck Mass, Persefone, Laura Marling, Pillorian, Dodecahedron, Venenum, Fen, Lantern, Pallbearer, Desperate Journalist, Earth & The Bug, Mastodon, OHHMS, Pharmakon, Body Count, Mantar

Februari is ten einde, tijd voor een update:

01. [XX] Tim Bowness - Lost in the Ghost Light
02. [XX] Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being Black
03. [xx] Mercy John - This Ain't New York
04. [01] Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn
05. [xx] Horisont - About Time
06. [03] Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
07. [xx] Soen - Lykaia
08. [xx] This Winter Machine - The Man Who Never Was
09. [02] Michael Chapman - 50
10. [xx] Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins

1. (-) Cairobi - Cairobi
2. (1) All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War
3. (-) Grandaddy - Last Place
4. (-) Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1
4. (-) Elbow - Little Fictions
5. (2) The Molochs - America's Velvet Glory
6. (-) Ty Segall - Ty Segall
7. (3) The XX - I See You
8. (4) Foxygen - Hang
9. (5) Piano Magic - Closure
10 (6) Blackfield - Blackfield V

11. (-) Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick
12. (-) Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr. Ferryman
13. (7) Colony House - Only The Lonely
14. (8) Sundara Karma - Youth Is Only ever Fun In retrospect
15. (9) Ryan Adams - Prisoner

Een top vijf na februari:

1. The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy 4,5*
2. Foxygen - Hang

3. Sepultura - Machine Messiah 4*
4. Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum

5. Joshua Radin - The Fall 3,5*

De beste tot nu toe:

1. Sampha - Process
2. Jo Goes Hunting - Come, Future
3. The xx - I See You
4. Lowly - Heba
5. Elbow - Little Fictions
6. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana

02 - 2017

01. [01] Ralph de Jongh - Dancing on a Volcano
02. [==] Boris Kovač / New Ritual Group - The Path
03. [02] Ninet Tayeb - Paper Parachute
04. [==] King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
05. [==] Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
06. [03] Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr. Ferryman
07. [==] Thundercat - Drunk
08. [04] Tinariwen - Elwan
09. [==] Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being Black
10. [==] Grandaddy - Last Place

11. [05] The xx - I See You
12. [==] Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Got Soul
13. [==] Ryan Adams - Prisoner
14. [06] John Mayall - Talk About That
15. [==] Piano Magic - Closure
16. [==] This Winter Machine - The Man Who Never Was
17. [08] Foxygen - Hang
18. [==] Daniel Gadd - As If in a Dream I Drifted at Sea
19. [==] Tim Bowness - Lost in the Ghost Light
20. [07] Blackfield - V

Eindelijk 11 albums uit 2017 op het luisterlijstje, re-issues uitgezonderd:

01. Grandaddy - Last Place
02. Stef Kamil Carlens - Stuck in the Status Quo
03. Moss - Strike
04. Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
05. Peter Silberman - Impermanence
06. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
07. Cameron Avery - Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams
08. The Molochs - America's Velvet Glory
09. Methyl Ethel - Everything Is Forgotten
10. Iguana Death Cult - The First Stirrings of Hideous Insect Life
11. Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White - Gentlewoman, Ruby Man

Het voorlopige uitkijken is naar DE KAT, Father John Misty, Timber Timbre, Orchestra Baobab, Daniel Romano, Bonnie `Prince`Billy en Sean Rowe.

1.Thundercat - Drunk
2.Xiu Xiu - Forget
3.Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
4.Sampha - Process
5.Wiley - Godfather
6.Migos - Culture
7.Shackleton - Sferic Ghost Transmits
8.Emptiness - Not For Music
9.Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
10.Future - FUTURE

11.Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
12.Drake - More Life
13.Nathan Fake - Providence
14.Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
15.Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
16.The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody
17.David Bowie - No Plan
18.Mr. Tophat & Robyn - Trust Me
19.Future - HNDRXX
20.The Shins - Heartworms

1. Kreator - Gods of Violence
2. Obituary - Obituary
3. Pride of Lions - Fearless
4. House of Lords - Saint of the Lost Souls
5. Les Amazones d'Afrique - République Amazone
6. Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
7. Grandaddy - Last Place
8. Horisont - About Time
9. Immolation - Atonement
10. Lancer - Mastery
11. The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody
12. The Mute Gods - Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth

Achja. Het is bijna april, dus tijd voor een eerste top-10 voor dit jaar. Jammer dat Run the Jewels nog op het randje van 2016 een plaat uitbracht, want zij zouden lijstaanvoerder zijn in mijn lijstje.

1. Tinariwen - Elwan 4,5*
2. The xx - I See You 4*
3. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
4. SOHN - Rennen
5. Iguana Death Cult - The First Stirrings of Hideous Insect Life
6. Blanck Mass - World Eater 3,5*
7. The Mysterons - Meandering
8. Bonobo - Migration
9. Sampha - Process
10. Elbow - Little Fictions

1. (-) Stef Kamil Carlens – Stuck in the Status Quo
2. (-) Depeche Mode – Spirit
3. (1) The xx – I See You
4. (-) Thomas Dybdahl – The Great Plains
5. (-) The Jesus and Mary Chain – Damage and Joy
6. (2) The Bullfight - Shame, Guilt, Deception – Individuals Chapter I
7. (5) SOHN – Rennen
8. (-) Adna – Closure
9. (3) Novella – Change of State
10. (4) Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now

11. (-) Soulwax – From Deewee
12. (6) Elbow – Little Fictions
13. (7) MICH – MICH
14. (-) Cameron Avery – Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams
15. (8) Blackfield – V
16. (10) Božo Vrećo – Pandora
17. (-) Otis Taylor – Fantasizing about Being Black
18. (-) Blaudzun – Jupiter (Part II)
19. (-) My Baby – Prehistoric Rhythm
20. (11) All Them Witches – Sleeping Through the War

01. Brian Eno - Reflection
02. The Feelies - In Between
03. Son Volt - Notes of Blue
04. Tinariwen - Elwan
05. Nadia Reid - Preservation
06. Grandaddy - Last Place
07. Valerie June - The Order of Time
08. Real Estate - In Mind
09. Rodney Crowell - Close Ties
10. Moss - Strike

Ben benieuwd wat er allemaal nog voor moois uitkomt. Met de bovenstaande albums ben ik echter al heel gelukkig.

Eindelijk dan mijn eerste Top 10 van dit jaar...

01 - Grandaddy - Last Place (2017) 4,5*
02 - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana (2017) 4*
03 - Foxygen - Hang (2017) 3,5*
04 - The Feelies - In Between (2017) 3,5*
05 - Ryan Adams - Prisoner (2017) 3,5*
06 - The xx - I See You (2017) 3,5*
07 - Talaboman - The Night Land (2017) 3,5*
08 - Spoon - Hot Thoughts (2017) 3,5*
09 - Elbow - Little Fictions (2017) 3*
10 - Bonobo - Migration (2017) 2,5*

Tot nu toe:
1. Spoon - Hot Thoughts
2. Thundercat - Drunk
3. Sampha - Process
4. Migos - Culture
5. The xx - I See You
6. Elbow - Little Fictions
7. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me

Het eerste kwartaal zit erop, dus leek het me tijd om een voorlopig lijstje te maken. Het is nog wachten op de echte knallers, maar deze platen staan al op 4*:

1. Laura Marling – Semper Femina
2. Sampha – Process
3. Dollkraut – Holy Ghost People
4. Moss – Strike
5. Jennie Abrahamson – Reverseries
6. Half Japanese – Hear the Lions Roar

01. (----) Blanck Mass - World Eater
02. (01) Thundercat - Drunk
03. (02) Grandaddy - Last Place
04. (----) Talaboman - The Night Land
05. (03) Sampha - Process
06. (----) Laura Marling - Semper Femina
07. (06) Elbow - Little Fictions
08. (04) Tinariwen - Elwan
09. (----) Bedwetter - Volume 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present.
10. (----) Jamiroquai - Automaton

Tussenstand: maart

1. Dodecahedron - Kwintessens
2. The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
3. Laster - Ons Vrije Fatum
4. Venenum - Trance of Death
5. Emptiness - Not for Music
6. Heretoir - The Circle
7. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
8. Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
9. Pallbearer - Heartless
10. Thundercat - Drunk

Inderdaad. het eerste kwartaal zit erop, 90 dagen en 120 albums beluisterd uit 2017. Grote verrassing tot nu toe van voor mij eerder onbekende acts: Jay Som, Julie Byrne en Hurray for the Riff Raff.

1. (x) Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Navigator 4,5*
2. (2) The Mysterons – Meandering 4,5*
3. (4) Tristesse Contemporaine - Stop and Start 4*

4. (1) Vitalic – Voyager 4*
5. (8) Amy Macdonald – Under Stars 4*
6. (5) Poni Hoax - Tropical Suite 4*
7. (3) Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness 4*
8. (x) Jay Som - Everybody Works 4,5*
9. (6) MUNA - About U U 4*
10. (16) Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway 4*

Kandidaten in de wachtkamer, 3,5* - 4*
11. (7) Porcelain Raft - Microclimate
12. (x) Nelly Furtado - The Ride
13. (9) David Bowie – No Plan EP
14. (10) Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now
15. (x) Depeche Mode – Spirit
16. (11) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist
17. (12) Elbow – Little Fictions
18. (13) Ani Cordero - Querido Mundo
19. (14) The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody
20. (x) Blanck Mass - World Eater
21. (15) Austra – Future Politics
22. (x) Blonde Redhead - 3 O'Clock EP 4,5*
23. (x) My Baby – Prehistoric Rhythm
24. (x) Timber Timbre - Sincerely, Future Pollution
25. (x) ADULT. - Detroit House Guests
26. (x) Valerie June – The Order of Time
27. (x) Dool - Here Now, There Then
28. (x) Nadia Reid – Preservation
29. (x) Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy
30. (x) Spoon – Hot Thoughts

1. (1) Cairobi - Cairobi
2. (2) All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War
3. (3) Grandaddy - Last Place
4. (4) Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1
5. )-) Strand Of Oaks - Hard Love
6. (5) Elbow - Little Fictions
7. (6) The Molochs - America's Velvet Glory
8. (7) Ty Segall - Ty Segall
9. (-) Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel - When The Morning Greets You
10. (-) Navarone - Oscillation

11. (-) Tim Bowness - Lost In The Ghost Light
12, (-) Moss - Strike
13. (8) The XX - I See You
14. (-) Amber Run - For A Moment, I Was Lost
15. (9) Foxygen - Hang
16. (10) Piano Magic - Closure
17. (11) Blackfield - Blackfield V
18. (-) The Underground Youth - What Kind Of Dystopian Hellhole Is This
19. (-) Ron Gallo - Heavy Meta
20. (12) Cherry Glazerr - Apocalipstick

03 - 2017

01. [01] Ralph de Jongh - Dancing on a Volcano
02. [02] Boris Kovač / New Ritual Group - The Path
03. [07] Thundercat - Drunk
04. [==] Spoon – Hot Thoughts
05. [05] Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
06. [==] Me and That Man – Songs of Love and Death
07. [==] Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Navigator
08. [04] King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
09. [==] Tamikrest – Kidal
10. [==] Cameron Avery – Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams

11. [06] Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr. Ferryman
12. [12] Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Got Soul
13. [==] Steve Hackett – The Night Siren
14. [10] Grandaddy - Last Place
15. [==] Findlay – Forgotten Pleasures
16. [08] Tinariwen - Elwan
17. [11] The xx - I See You
18. [==] Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker – Room 29
19. [==] Noordpool Orkest & Janne Schra – Vasalis
20. [09] Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being Black

21. [==] Real Estate – In Mind
22. [15] Piano Magic - Closure
23. [16] This Winter Machine - The Man Who Never Was
24. [==] Sallie Ford – Soul Kick
25. [==] Strand of Oaks – Hard Love
26. [17] Foxygen - Hang
27. [13] Ryan Adams - Prisoner
28. [19] Tim Bowness - Lost in the Ghost Light
29. [14] John Mayall - Talk About That
30. [==] Bruut! – Superjazz

Maart is ten einde, tijd voor een update:

01. [XX] Ralph de Jongh - Dancing on a Volcano
02. [XX] Barock Project - Detachment
03. [XX] Steve Hackett - The Night Siren
04. [03] Mercy John - This Ain't New York
05. [XX] The Feelies - In Between
06. [XX] Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination
07. [XX] Nadia Reid - Preservation
08. [01] Tim Bowness - Lost in the Ghost Light
09. [02] Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being Black
10. [10] Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins

11. [XX] Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator
12. [04] Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn
13. [XX] House of Lords - Saint of the Lost Souls
14. [XX] Jim Lauderdale - London Southern
15. [07] Soen - Lykaia
16. [06] Pain of Salvation - In the Passing Light of Day
17. [XX] Dool - Here Now, There Then
18. [XX] Fink - Sunday Night Blues Club Volume 1
19. [XX] Taproban - Per Aspera Ad Astra
20. [XX] Laura Marling - Semper Femina

Ik kom tot een top 3 voorlopig:

1. The Feelies - In Between
2. Nadia Reid - Preservation
3. Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular

1. Kreator - Gods of Violence
2. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
3. Obituary - Obituary
4. Pride of Lions - Fearless
5. House of Lords - Saint of the Lost Souls
6. Firewind - Immortals
7. Les Amazones d'Afrique - République Amazone
8. The Doomsday Kingdom - The Doomsday Kingdom
9. Deep Purple - Infinite
10. Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
11. Grandaddy - Last Place
12. Stef Kamil Carlens - Stuck in the Status Quo
13. Horisont - About Time
14. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
15. Place Vendome - Close to the Sun
16. Immolation - Atonement
17. Night Ranger - Don't Let Up
18. Lancer - Mastery
19. The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody
20. The Mute Gods - Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth

Eerste poging dit jaar:

1. Bonobo - Migration (4,5*)
2. William Basinski - A Shadow in Time
3. Talaboman - The Night Land (4*)
4. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
5. Ochre - Beyond the Outer Loop
6. The Shins - Heartworms
7. Grandaddy - Last Place
8. Joey Bada$$ - All-AmeriKKKan Bada$$
9. Dettmann | Klock - Phantom Studies
10. Raekwon - The Wild (3,5*)

1. While She Sleeps - You Are We
2. Code Orange - Forever
3. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
4. Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes - Modern Ruin
5. No Turning Back - No Time to Waste
6. Sampha - Process
7. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
8. The xx - I See You
9. Joey Bada$$ - All-AmeriKKKan Bada$$
10. Sleaford Mods - English Tapas

1.Xiu Xiu - Forget
2.Thundercat - Drunk
3.Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
4.Sampha - Process
5.Arca - Arca
6.Actress - AZD
7.Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
8.Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
9.Shackleton - Sferic Ghost Transmits
10.Migos - Culture

11.Wiley - Godfather
12.Emptiness - Not For Music
13.Future - FUTURE
14.Drake - More Life
15.Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life
16.Nathan Fake - Providence
17.Superpitcher - The Golden Rave Days
18.Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
19.Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
20.The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody

21.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand
22.David Bowie - No Plan
23.Mr. Tophat & Robyn - Trust Me
24.Future - HNDRXX
25.The Shins - Heartworms

1. (-) Spinvis – Trein Vuur Dageraad
2. (1) Stef Kamil Carlens – Stuck in the Status Quo
3. (2) Depeche Mode – Spirit
4. (4) Thomas Dybdahl – The Great Plains
5. (3) The xx – I See You
6. (5) The Jesus and Mary Chain – Damage and Joy
7. (6) The Bullfight - Shame, Guilt, Deception – Individuals Chapter I
8. (-) Tom Hickox – Monsters in the Deep
9. (-) Slowdive - Slowdive
10. (7) SOHN – Rennen

11. (8) Adna – Closure
12. (9) Novella – Change of State
13. (10) Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
14. (11) Soulwax – From Deewee
15. (12) Elbow – Little Fictions
16. (13) MICH – MICH
17. (-) Mark Lanegan Band - Gargoyle
18. (-) Soup - Remedies
19. (14) Cameron Avery – Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams
20. (15) Blackfield – V

1. (-) Depeche Mode - Spirit
2. (-) Spoon - Hot Thoughts
3. (-) The Feelies - In Between
4. (3) Grandaddy - Last Place
5. (-) Craig Finn - We All Want The Same Things
6. (1) Cairobi - Cairobi
7. (2) All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War
8. (-) Stef Kamil Carlens - Stuck InThe Status Quo
9. (4) Moon Duo - Occult Architecture Vol. 1
10. (-) Strand Of Oaks - Hard Love

11. (-) The Orwells - Terrible Human Beings
12. (5) Elbow - Little Fictions
13. (7) The Molochs - America's Velvet Glory
14. (8) Ty Segall - Ty Segall
15. (9) Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel - When The Morning Greets You
16. (10) Navarone - Oscillation
17. (11) Tim Bowness - Lost In The Ghost Light
18. (12) Moss - Strike
19. (-) Sophi Zelmani - My Song
20. (-) Secret Company - The World Lit Up And Filled With Colour

Eerste poging:

1. Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory
2. Ellen Arkbro - For Organ and Brass
3. Skullflower - The Black Iron That Fell from the Sky, to Dwell Within (Bear It or Be It)
4. Xiu Xiu - Forget
5. Nathan Fake - Providence
6. Bedwetter - Volume 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present.
7. Feist - Pleasure
8. Joose Keskitalo - Julius Caesarin Anatomia
9. Davy Kehoe - Short Passing Game
10. Oto Hiax - Oto Hiax

Weer een maand verder: 120e dag van het jaar, 176 albums uit 2017 beluisterd, 128 reguliere albums, de rest EP's/scores/verzamelaars/live. Een prima muziekjaar tot nu toe.

Twee albums die mijn Top 10 zijn binnengedrongen: Garland Jeffreys en The New Pornographers, verdere verrassing: Nelly Furtado's nieuwe houdt wonderbaarlijk stand.

Erg leuk in mijn Top 25: Charly Bliss

1. (1) Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Navigator 4,5*
2. (2) The Mysterons – Meandering
3. (xx) The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions 4*
4. (4) Vitalic – Voyager
5. (5) Amy Macdonald – Under Stars

6. (12) Nelly Furtado – The Ride
7. (3) Tristesse Contemporaine – Stop and Start
8. (xx) Garland Jeffreys – 14 Steps to Harlem
9. (9) MUNA – About U
10. (7) Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness

11. (8) Jay Som – Everybody Works
12. (6) Poni Hoax – Tropical Suite
13. (xx) Charly Bliss – Guppy
14. (xx) Fischer-Z – Building Bridges
15. (15) Depeche Mode – Spirit
16. (xx) Spinvis – Trein Vuur Dageraad
17. (20) Blanck Mass – World Eater
18. (24) Timber Timbre – Sincerely, Future Pollution
19. (26) Valerie June – The Order of Time
20. (25) Adult. - Detroit House Guests
21. (10) Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway
22. (16) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – The Tourist
23. (xx) Sevdaliza – ISON
24. (11) Porcelain Raft – Microclimate
25. (23) My Baby – Prehistoric Rhythm

26. (17) Elbow – Little Fictions
27. (xx) Goldfrapp – Silver Eye
28. (14) Jesca Hoop – Memories Are Now
29. (xx) Ray Davies – Americana
30. (13) David Bowie – No Plan EP
31. (xx) The Moonlandingz – Interplanetary Class Classics
32. (18) Ani Cordero – Querido Mundo
33. (22) Blonde Redhead – 3 O'Clock
34. (xx) Noveller – A Pink Sunset For No One 3,5*
35. (xx) Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
36. (19) The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody
37. (28) Nadia Reid – Preservation
38. (xx) Spoon – Hot Thoughts
39. (21) Austra – Future Politics