So, 2017 then; another year full of horror. Even the people who got what they voted for seemed pissed off for the entire twelve months.
But let's not dwell on all that, eh?
A few personal highlights before we get on to records and stuff: hanging out with Pidge and Caro for the first time in too long, Jess and Mark's wedding in Cambridge/Grantchester, a fantastic week on Ile Aux Moines with Vic and Matt, managing to see the majority of my old work team from time to time, my new work team, winning a lot of pub quizzes and having Boxing Day off work for the first time in aeons.
But let's not dwell on all that, eh?
A few personal highlights before we get on to records and stuff: hanging out with Pidge and Caro for the first time in too long, Jess and Mark's wedding in Cambridge/Grantchester, a fantastic week on Ile Aux Moines with Vic and Matt, managing to see the majority of my old work team from time to time, my new work team, winning a lot of pub quizzes and having Boxing Day off work for the first time in aeons.
Choosing this year's albums was a daunting task; I honestly can't remember a year when so many good records lodged in my lugholes, and consequently there are loads I had to leave out (after briefly considering doing a Top 25, or 30, or 50... I could have probably done 100!). These, then, were the ones that made the cut. Bring The Noize!
ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
20. Lower Slaughter - What Big Eyes
19. Forest Swords - Compassion
18. Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcx4DAiqiCA
17. Circle - Terminal
16. Hey Colossus - The Guillotine
15. Alvvays - Antisocialites
14. Slowdive - Slowdive
13. Myrkur - Mareridt
11. At The Drive-In - In•ter A•li•a
10. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
9. Boris - Dear
8. Beachheads - Beachheads
7. Code Orange - Forever
6. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
5. Barrabus - Barrabus
4. Pallbearer - Heartless
3. Horseflies - These Halls Are Haunted Now
2. Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
1. Part Chimp - IV
SONGS OF THE YEAR
10. Forest Swords - The Highest Flood
9. Circle - Terminal
8. Tau Cross - Killing The King
7. Power Trip - Executioner's Tax (Swing Of The Axe)
6. Wiley - Speakerbox
5. Part Chimp - A Lil Bit O' Justice
4. Four Tet - Two Thousand And Seventeen
3. Forest Swords - Exalter
2. Pissed Jeans - The Bar Is Low
1. Alvvays - In Undertow
GIGS OF THE YEAR
Baby's Blood/Suicide Generation/P.E.O.P.L.E @ The Pipeline
Beach Slang @ The Haunt & Sticky Mike's
Big Business @ The Haunt
Broker @ The Cowley (twice!)
Brutus @ The Green Door Store
Casual Sect @ The Green Door Store
The Cosmic Dead/Snapped Ankles @ The Green Door Store
Employed To Serve @ The Hope & Ruin
Ghold/Chalk Hands/Yuxa/Aerosol Jesus @ Sticky Mike's
Ghost @ The Dome
Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ The Dome
Hey Colossus @ The Albert
Holy Fuck @ Patterns
Honey Joy/Megaflora @ Sticky Mike's
Horseflies @ Sticky Mike's
Human Leather @ Sticky Mike's, The Haunt & The Cowley
Il Sogno Del Marinaio @ The Hope & Ruin
Iron Chic @ The Joker
King Goat @ Riffmass 2017
Le Snags @ The TST All-Dayer
Th'Legendary Shack Shakers/Pine Hill Haints @ The Albert
Lower Slaughter @ The TST All-Dayer
LVL Up/Colour Me Wednesday @ The Green Door Store
Melt-Banana @ Patterns
Mugstar/Casual Nun @ The Green Door Store
Muncie Girls/Crushing @ The Hope & Ruin
Nordic Giants/PGLost/VLMV @ The Concorde
Oxbow @ Bleach
Part Chimp @ The Green Door Store
Pascagoula @ The Cowley (twice!)
Perch/Van Coeur @ The Cowley
Piano Wire/Black Bunny/T.House @ The Albert
Rattle @ The TST All-Dayer
Rocket From The Crypt @ Patterns
The Schizophonics @ The Pipeline
Sex Swing @ The TST All-Dayer
Shellac @ The Concorde
Sievehead/State Funeral/Neurotic Fiction @ The Hope & Ruin
Slabdragger @ The Hope & Ruin & Riffmass 2017
Sly & The Family Drone/The Mysterious Monopole/Nolan Dialta @ The Albert
Structure @ The Hope & Ruin & The TST All-Dayer
Subhumans @ The Albert
Touche Amore @ The Haunt
Waxahatchee @ The Komedia
Witchsorrow @ Riffmass 2017
Wytch Pycnick @ Sticky Mike's (twice!)
Yards/Bruxa Maria @ The Cowley
You're Smiling Now...But We'll All Turn Into Demons @ The Green Door Store & Sticky Mike's
And finally...
I ACTUALLY SAW FIVE NEW FILMS THIS YEAR
Get Out
The Other Side Of Hope
My Life As A Courgette
Prevenge
Personal Shopper
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