I've been really enjoying this. I saw these guys last weekend and they put on a killer show. Highly recommended.

Priests are okay, bit of a shtick I feel. But I liked their earlier stuff, like this jam from their second cassette. But I keep forgetting to check out their latest, so I guess that says something about my current level of interest.


Here are some things from this year I've enjoyed.


Mordecai ABSTRACT RECIPE (Richie Records)


The Courtneys II (Flying Nun)


T-Tops S/T (self released)


Thigh Master BBC (12XU)


Bardo Pond UNDER THE PINES (Fire Records)


Out SWIM BUDDIES (comedy minus one)
This record is fan fucking tastics.

Oh can we change the name of the thread? I mean 2017 isn't shaping up to a fucking banner year for anything so far.

I had heard the "Out" record before. Great, great stuff.

If you like Out, and you haven't already def check out Minutes. They're both on CMO.

New Lorde album is getting announced tomorrow. That's exciting to me.

I'll never be able to divorce this artist from the South Park depiction.

I don't know the reference. Never cared for South Park.

Semper Femina by Laura Marling dropped today.

Three tracks in and I'm really enjoying it.

My copy will be showing up by way of Amazon along with the new 3CD Dylan album at the end of the month. She's a treasure.

I'm seeing her in May.

Nice! Is she playing by herself or with a band, do you know?

No idea. It's just billed as Laura Marling. It's at the Paradise too which is fastastic.

I assume it's with a band as she's touring for her new album, which clearly includes a band.

Soothing on my Senns is just

It's nice so far. I seem to warm to her albums late. I've really only just warmed to Short Movie.

Short Movie was fucking brilliant. I've listened to Semper Femina three times now and it's better each time.

I see bush just released an album in 2017

This Julie Byrne album has been tickling me. I'm a bit smitten. I think Ruddo may like this. And guestT.

Converge and Failure just released live albums of Jane Doe and Fantastic Planet.

Those are pretty great, but I already saw both of them live before this.

Bunch of new stuff on the horizon that I'm looking forward to.

The Byre is an album of guitar-duo improvisations by Noberto Lobo and Eric Chenaux, coming out on March 24 on three:four records. First sample is "The Gambrel":


On April 28, Colin Stetson releases his first album of fully solo compositions since 2013's New History Warfare Vol. 3, titled All This I Do For Glory. Back to the same methods of no overdubs or loops, but with even more advanced miking and production approaches, with compositional ideas dipping into '90s electronic styles. Here's "Spindrift":


Then Constellation continues its streak of doing excellent things for their 20th anniversary (even if they've yet to acknowledge it). On May 5, there's two new releases: Pools of Light by Jessiaca Moss, her second solo release and first for a label, and Selfless by Joni Void, the new pseudonym of producer Jean Cousin, formerly known on Bandcamp and Soundcloud as johnny_ripper, also first on a label.

The Moss album is three long pieces of drone/looped violin/effect/vocals, split into eight tracks, and happens to confirm in Constellation's press release that Moss's band, Thee Silver Mt. Zion, have been on hiatus since 2014. Anyway, here's a preview ("Glaciers I, Pt.I"):


The Joni Void album is constructed entirely of library samples, field recordings, and found audio sources, an approach Cousin has been using lately to avoid playing anything himself. This first sample is "Disassociation (Kyla's Song)":


Finally, on May 19, after almost eight years, the seventh Do Make Say Think album arrives, Stubborn Persistent Illusions. I've got high hopes for this one, and this preview, "Bound and Boundless" (divided into two tracks on digital formats) seems pretty promising: