{"id":1808,"date":"2017-12-19T11:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T16:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2017-12-19T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T16:16:30","slug":"favorite-music-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/2017\/12\/19\/favorite-music-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"favorite music of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.protomartyrband.com\/\"><b>Protomartyr<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>Relatives In Descent<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Unsettling, noisy, bleak, wrathful, feverishly pored over by those who scrutinize the fine print\u2026 2017 was a hell of a year, am I right? Oh, we\u2019re talking about the Protomartyr record.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Protomartyr - A Private Understanding (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yWdLpIITqsQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nadineshah.co.uk\/\"><b>Nadine Shah<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>Holiday Destination<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Urgent reportage transmitted via globally sourced sounds and Nadine Shah\u2019s authoritative, ass-kicking rock.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination (Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrFdkPeb2a8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/elderofficial\"><b>Elder<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>Reflections Of A Floating World<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A master class in epic, air-guitar rock. It was hard to keep my hands on the wheel when this album plays.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elder - The Falling Veil\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j6yXdPhI3mQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theeohsees.com\/\"><b>Oh Sees<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>Orc<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This gleeful headbanger vindicates Thee Oh Sees\u2019 20-album career as garage-psych legends.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oh Sees - Nite Expo (Official)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8hf8HBeFSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hurrayfortheriffraff.com\/\"><b>Hurray For The Riff Raff<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>The Navigator<\/i><\/p>\n<p>2017 marked the musical arrival of Alynda Segarra with this hungry, stirring album \u2014 one of the year\u2019s most powerful.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hurray For The Riff Raff - Hungry Ghost (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6xRJ-MuN46E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sleepysun.co\/\"><b>Sleepy Sun<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>Private Tales<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you gotta alt-rock like no one\u2019s watching. The British group <a href=\"https:\/\/menacebeach.bandcamp.com\/\">Menace Beach<\/a> made this year\u2019s best new Breeders album with <i>Lemon Memory<\/i>, while this Bay Area group learned the musical secrets that no one knew the Catherine Wheel had kept hidden.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sleepy Sun - Seaquest (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hzlGiLg5Rn0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alicecoltrane.bandcamp.com\/track\/om-shanti\"><b>Alice Coltrane<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Reissue of the year: swooping, spacy spiritual blues that Alice Coltrane recorded with a Southern California vedic worship community in the 80s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda \u2013 Om Shanti (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vynRFzYOTS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Acetone-band-350448523842\/\"><b>Acetone<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>1992-2001<\/i> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/samsweet.info\/hadley-lee-lightcap\/\"><b>Sam Sweet<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>Hadley Lee Lightcap<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Combination reissue\/book of the year. Acetone were the enchanting, druggy trio that Los Angeles didn\u2019t realize it needed back in the day. Sam Sweet\u2019s valentine of biography restores their place as the proto-Highland Park band.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Louise\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2tZpsmfJXJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jadeimagineband\/\"><b>Jade Imagine<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>What The Fuck Was I Thinking?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Seems a lot of women from Melbourne, Australia, released auspicious albums this year: Courtney Barnett (with Kurt Vile), Gabriella Cohen\u2026 Jade McInally released my favorite of the bunch with this cynical slacker gem.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JADE IMAGINE Walkin&#039; Around\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J_bs8ovvyvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sunrotmusic\/\"><b>Sunrot<\/b><\/a> <i>\u2013\u00a0Sunnata<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So much metal in 2017! I kept returning to the debut of this adventurous, devastating band from New Jersey. Yes, I believe that\u2019s a sample of Dionne Warwick\u2019s \u201c(Theme From) The Valley of the Dolls\u201d buried inside.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aorta by Sunrot\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F336051006&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stellathemusic.com\/\"><b>\u2211tella<\/b><\/a> \u2013 <i>Works For You<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Greece had it going on in 2017, as I enjoyed the snarling death rock of <a href=\"https:\/\/innerear-avictimofsociety.bandcamp.com\/\">A Victim of Society<\/a> and the grade-A retro psychedelia of <a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzclub.bandcamp.com\/album\/lilac-days\">Acid Baby Jesus<\/a>. But hands down, Stella a.k.a. \u2211tella grabbed the ring with her cocktail of Mediterranean caf\u00e9-pop.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u03a3tella - Way To Go (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lVmMq6Ei5U4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefacerecords.com\/\"><b>Castle Face Records<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>so much excellent music came from the California label Castle Face this year: <a href=\"http:\/\/sounditout.com\/2017\/11\/oh-sees-ocs\/\"><i>two<\/i> records<\/a> from John Dwyer\u2019s Thee Oh Sees projects, another <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3_cGgBVTiVE\">Male Gaze<\/a> album, <a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzclub.bandcamp.com\/album\/lilac-days\">Kelly Stoltz<\/a>\u2019s no-frills rock. I\u2019m especially grateful they turned me on to French duo Magentix, whose <i>Live in San Francisco<\/i> kicked my ass over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/castle-face-1\/magnetix-living-in-a-box<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protomartyr \u2013 Relatives In Descent Unsettling, noisy, bleak, wrathful, feverishly pored over by those who scrutinize the fine print\u2026 2017 was a hell of a year, am I right? Oh, we\u2019re talking about the Protomartyr record. &nbsp; Nadine Shah \u2013 Holiday Destination Urgent reportage transmitted via globally sourced sounds and Nadine Shah\u2019s authoritative, ass-kicking rock. &nbsp; Elder \u2013 Reflections Of A Floating World A master class in epic, air-guitar rock. It was hard to keep my hands on the wheel when this album plays. &nbsp; Oh Sees \u2013 Orc This gleeful headbanger vindicates Thee Oh Sees\u2019 20-album career as garage-psych legends. &nbsp; Hurray For The Riff Raff \u2013 The Navigator 2017 marked the musical arrival of Alynda Segarra with this hungry, stirring album \u2014 one of the year\u2019s most powerful. &nbsp; Sleepy Sun \u2013 Private Tales Sometimes you gotta alt-rock like no one\u2019s watching. The British group Menace Beach made this year\u2019s best new Breeders album with Lemon Memory, while this Bay Area group learned the musical secrets that no one knew the Catherine Wheel had kept hidden. &nbsp; Alice Coltrane \u2013 World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda Reissue of the year: swooping, spacy spiritual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43659],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/musicalurbanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}