The Big 2017 DIS forum user poll

Music
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  1. Mount eerie - a crow looks at me
  2. Shilpa ray - door girl
  3. Lorde - melodrama
  4. Sun Kil Moon/Jesu - 30 seconds til…
  5. Phoebe Bridgers - stranger in the alps
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9

5 is too few…would have liked to have given points to Slowdive, Snapped Ankles, Mogwai, Catholic Action, Kevin Morby and Yorkston / Thorne / Khan.

  1. Ibibio Sound Machine - Uyai
  2. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
  3. Sacred Paws - Strike a Match
  4. Moon Duo - Occult Architecture 1 & 2
  5. Sinkane - Life and Livin’ It
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10
  1. John Maus - ‘Screen Memories’
  2. Godspeed You Black Emperor - ‘Luciferian Towers’
  3. Feist - ‘Pleasure’
  4. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - ‘The Nashville Sound’
  5. The Surfing Magazines - ‘The Surfing Magazines’
11
  1. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
  2. Big|Brave - Ardor
  3. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
  4. Ex Eye - S/T
  5. Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
12

Absolutely brilliant year… there’s very little between 1st & 20th on my long list so I’m weighing in favour of what I’ve played most frequently.

  1. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
  2. The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding
  3. Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
  4. Four Tet – New Energy
  5. Protomartyr – Relatives In Descent
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13

Excellent year, at least 20 stand-out records for me to choose from (and there’s still plenty I haven’t heard yet) that all easily could have got into the top 5, not often one gets such luxury.

  1. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
  2. Thundercat - Drunk
  3. Converge - The Dusk in Us
  4. Priests - Nothing Feels Natural
  5. Big Thief - Capacity
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14

Great year for albums :+1:

  1. EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring
  2. Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
  3. Blanck Mass - World Eater
  4. Forest Swords - Compassion
  5. Soulwax - From Dee Wee

Special mentions to Child Of Alice, Slowdive, Laurel Halo, Lana del Rey, R. Missing, LCD, Dead Cross, Black Angels, Fever Ray, probably loads of others that I’ve not had the chance to listen to…

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15

Really tough to pick 5 this year, but here goes:

  1. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
  2. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness
  3. Kelly Lee Owens - s/t
  4. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
  5. Big Thief - Capacity

Thanks for doing this!

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16

Look forward to gushing about all my favourites when the discussion thread goes up, but I think I’m pretty concrete on the Top 5 so for now I’m going with…

  1. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface
  2. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In The Alps
  3. Jonwayne - Rap Album Two
  4. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
  5. Four Tet - New Energy

Thanks @Prob500, you’re some human!

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17
  1. Phoenix - Ti Amo
  2. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
  3. Blanck Mass - World Eater
  4. Sacred Paws - Strike A Match
  5. John Maus - Screen Memories
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  1. Converge - The Dusk In Us
  2. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
  3. Susanne Sundfør - Music For People In Trouble
  4. Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  5. Christian Fitness - Slap Bass Hunks

Could easily make an alternative top 5 with Protomartyr, Jesca Hoop, Perfume Genius, Big Thief, Wear Your Wounds and Priests all fighting it out for spots

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19

It is up!

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20

These 5 could be in any order, but what they hey. I’ve enjoyed a lot of albums this year, more than the average, but I think it is perhaps circumstance and the situations that these have soundtracked that have led them to making my top 5.

  1. The National - Sleep Well Beast
  2. Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life
  3. Post War Glamour Girls - Swan Songs
  4. Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
  5. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
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  1. Big Thief - Capacity

Can’t think of any others.

22
  1. Lorde - Melodrama
  2. Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
  3. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
  4. Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
  5. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
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  1. LCD Soundsystem- American Dream
  2. Kendrick Lamar - Damn
  3. Arca - Arca
  4. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me
  5. St Vincent - Masseduction

Great year, sorry to have to miss out Baxter Dury, Protomartyr, Sparks, Kelly Lee Owens, The Clientele, Colin Stetson and Richard Dawson amongst many others.

The Bjork album may well end up being one of my favourites but it’s an album that’s going to take time to fully unfold itself.

At least 20 very fine records this year.

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24
  1. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
  2. Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent
  3. Meat Wave - The Incessant
  4. The Horrors - V
  5. Run The Jewels - RTJ3
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25
  1. IDLES - Brutalism
  2. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
  3. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
  4. Forest Swords - Compassion
  5. Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
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26
  1. ORB - Naturality
  2. St Vincent - Massedution
  3. Methyl Ethel - Everything is Forgotten
  4. Elder - Reflections on a Floating World
  5. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland
27
  1. Paramore - After Laughter
  2. Slowdive - Slowdive
  3. Marnie - Strange Words and Weird Wars
  4. Ariel Pink - Dedicated to Bobby Jameson
  5. Lorde - Melodrama

PS: Debut album of the year: Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens.

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