WATMM Album of the Year 2017 Nominations

this is the stuff i listened to a lot this year:

united waters - the narrows (that's surely my no. 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khp6q1CKvug

beach house - b-sides and rarities

colleen - a flame my love, a frequency

six organs of admittance - burning the threshold

mogwai - every country's sun

laurel halo - dust

juana molina - halo

Personally a tie between

zvλd - Baklava

AFX - Field Day London [Extended, full version of course]

I'm not counting the old stuff from AFX Bleepstore added with the extras. Other honorable mentions go to

0F.digital - I C O N

Beathaven - Acid Flange

EDM i

Jacob Portam - Illegal Albatross

RX-101 - Transmission +EP3+EP4

Trepaneringsritualen - Kainskult

Vytear - Kingtrips EP1

ZONE EATER vs. SEA OF DOGS - Zone Eater Vs. Sea Of Dogs

Based on the samples I've heard would also say Hellboii - Darkest Hour Pt. 1&2 and Lycurgus-Panzer1020 but thanks to zero digital output can't say for sure. Yet, worth to check out.

  On 12/8/2017 at 5:44 PM, phling said:

impressed how u guys can make such huge lists I have a hard time even remembering a few releases ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

things I've listened to which I think possibly can be listened to without cringe two years on:

 

John Maus - Screen Memories

Roland Kayn - A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound

Actress - AZD

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana

Fret - Over Depth

Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata

Gabor Lazar - Crisis Of Representation

Jaap Vink - s/t

The Necks - Unfold

Patronen - C/D

 

in no particular order

adding:

Prurient - Rainbow Mirror

fkn enjoying it a lot

  On 12/8/2017 at 3:58 AM, Lada Laika said:

Will update soon probably... also on mobile so I can’t make those idm letters for Baklava or Qebrus

Still need to listen to that Qebrus boxes LP too, fuck

update:

1. Blanck Mass - World Eater

2. AFX - London 030617 [field day]

3. Qebrµs - ◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙◙

4. Blue Hawaii - Tenderness

5. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

6. RAMZi - Péze-Piton

7. Zen Mother - I Was Made to Be Like Her

8. Four Tet - New Energy

9. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun

10. Arcade Fire - Everything Now

11. Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I

12. Laurel Halo - Dust

13. Koen Holtkamp - Beast Vol. 1/Vol. 2

14. Fever Ray - Plunge

15. Nordra - Nordra

16. zvλd - Baklava

17. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens

18. Pharmakon - Contact

19. Mafgar - Mountain Songs

20. Rolando Simmons - World Building

21. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid

22. FIRE-TOOLZ - Drip Mental

23. Björk - Utopia

24. Nadia Struiwigh - Lenticular

25. Jlin - Black Origami

26. Lantern - Summer Knight

27. St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION

28. Austra - Future Politics

29. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Luciferian Towers

30. Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana

i'm still slacking on my metal releases this year, haven't listened to elder or bell witch yet. gonna be playing catchup till february

Still haven't listened to a lot of albums that I have meant to, but so far:

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic

Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure

UnicaZürn - Transpandorem

NHK yx Koyxen - Exit Entrance

Neil Scrivin - Twenty Years on Ben Nevis

Actress - AZD

Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata

  On 12/13/2017 at 6:12 PM, Lada Laika said:

 

 

 

i'm still slacking on my metal releases this year, haven't listened to elder or bell witch yet. gonna be playing catchup till february

 

same here - besides godflesh and the new Darkthrone and this randomly 

if you like black metal there's an Austin radio show doing a three part 'best of' review of albums

worrd black metal is my jam so I am in. Just listened to the new Couch Slut and I can’t believe I slept on this since June

Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent is my fav non electronic rec of the year

  On 12/13/2017 at 6:42 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

I'm only in love with the top 8 or so?  Still, a bit better than last year ...

 

Also I really need to start posting here again lol.

 

 

1. irisarri  - the shameless years

2. gas  - narkopop

3. fleet foxes  - crack-up

4. kelly lee owens  - s/t

5. esprit  - 200% electronica

6. slowdive  - s/t

7. various   - blade runner 2049 ost

8. ramin djawadi  - westworld ost

9. claro intelecto  - exhilarator

10. o9  - jagged plains

11. bibio  - phantom brickworks

12. beach house  - b-sides and rarities

13. leyland kirby  - we, so tired ...

14. beach fossils  - somersault

15. washed out  - mister mellow

16. king krule  - the ooz

17. rostam  - s/t

18. lcd soundsystem  - american dream

19. kendrick  - damn.

20. no joy   - creep 

21. bola  - d.e.g.

22. st. vincent  - masseduction

23. clark  - rellik

24. NKHyx  - exit entrance

25. billow observatory  - plains/patterns

 

 

 

standout tracks imo (roughly in order):

 

kvb  - white walls (invada extended mix)

irisarri  - indefinite fields

ramin djawadi  - this world 

boards of canada  - sometimes remix

gas  - narkopop 10

slowdive  - star roving

shields/eno  - only once away my son

king krule  - dum surfer

girl talk  - live at panorama 2017

washed out  - floating by

villalobos  - widodo

kelly lee owens  - arthur

burial  - rodent

no joy  - hellhole

 

woah pbn

  On 12/6/2017 at 10:04 PM, ARPA said:

zvλd ‎- Baklava

Norwell - Follow The Sea

Mrs Jynx - Jynx's Garden

Milieu - Fugue State Phases

Coppice Halifax - Pink Acre

Rolando Simmons - World Building

Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana

Call Super - Arpo

Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I

Ochre - Beyond The Outer Loop

Karen Lust - Vigilax

Karsten Pflum ‎- Love Canticles

Binary Digit - Acid Drop

Belief Defect - Decadent Yet Depraved

Franck Kartell - Alaska

Alessandro Cortini - AVANTI

Ryuichi Sakamoto ‎- Async

JASSS - Weightless

E-Saggila - Lux Campaign

Procedural Braindance - Pentachroma

Akrenaut - Dim Sokette

Bandhagens Musikförening - Protokoll A

Ariadne's Labyrinth - Twists & Turns

Bola - D.E.G.

Barry Lynn - '01 - '04 Tracks

Roel Funcken ‎- Balaklavskiy Prospex

Osamu Sato ‎- All Things Must Be Equal

Noumen - Apeiron

Nadia Struiwigh - Lenticular

Biogen - Halogen Continues

I need to add these Aleksi Perälä albums which grabbed my ears & heart at the brink of year's end:

Aleksi Perälä - Simulation

Aleksi Perälä - Paradox

In previous years, I’ve posted fairly long lists but I think I’ll keep it short this time. There were others but these in particular are great albums that kept me spooked or blissed out.

  On 12/15/2017 at 7:49 PM, fumi said:

 

Sky H1 - Motion

Konx-om-Pax - Caramel

2016?

btw, adding to my list the excellent  Three settlements four ways EP by Loft. Super fresh, weird club computer music.

We really need to start doing this after January 1st, I've literally added a half dozen releases to my list based entirely off stuff that either came out this week and/or I finally got around to listening to

Good lists all. Some stuff that I missed in this thread so far:

Yung Lean - Stranger

Avalon Emerson - Whities 013

James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits

X.Y.R. - Labyrinth

Rico Puestel - Caravel

Kettel - Alasca

Niels Broos - s/t

Dauwd - Theory Of Colours

Bola - D.E.G.

Also, it's not unnatural that I came to love the music that we as a label put out this year (most likely because we listened to it time and time again), but most notably

Noinonoinonoino - s/t

Karen Lust - Vigilax (pseudonym of Karsten Pflum)

really struck a chord and I'm happy to name them amongst my fav albums of the year

  On 12/15/2017 at 11:45 PM, ncrtx said:

 

Karen Lust - Vigilax (pseudonym of Karsten Pflum)

 

 

thx for posting this. Wouldn't have known about it otherwise!

Albums:

Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I

Osamu Sato - All Things Must Be Equal

Boris - Dear

Thundercat - Drunk

Code Orange - Forever

Clouds - HTID

Kiefer - Kickinit Alone

Karsten Pflum - Love Canticles

Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World

Aleksi Perala - Simulation

Karen Lust - Vigilax

Milo - Who Told You To Think?!??!!?!?!?!

EP's:

EOD- Swurlk

Coryayo - Wolves

Lone - Ambivert Tools Vol. 1 & 2

Brainwaltzera - Aescoba EP

zvλd - Baklava

wAgAwAgA - gLitcH Test EP

Rognvald - R.O.G.N.V.A.L.D.

Things I haven't listened to yet, but would probably add if I did:

Cleric - Retrocausal

Rognvald - Lord Rover

Aleksi Perala - Paradox

wAgAwAgA - totangled

wAgAwAgA - pHudupHud

Claro Intelecto - Exhilirator

Bola - D.E.G.

Jodey Kendrick - EDM i & ii

Ishq - Sen

Qebrus - [insert Symbols]

^ great list. Get on that Totangled tho, awesome album.

Ha I know, I fucking love wAgA and everything he does, just hard to keep up with sometimes

Oh yeah, I gotta add:

Thundercat - Drunk

My 2017 pick was

The Valley & The Mountain - Gentle Waters Keep Moving

Released:
12 Dec 2016


afx - London 03.06.17 [field day]
Aleksi Perälä - Paradox
Aleksi Perälä - Simulation
Aleksi Perälä - Simulation X
Alessandro Cortini - AVANTI
Aphex Twin - Gerald Remix / 24 TSIM 2
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Brainwaltzera - Aescoba EP
Brainwaltzera - Outdives EP
Brainwaltzera - Poly-ana
Cadans - 1 Bar FU
Ceephax Acid Crew - Acid Fourniture EP
Ceephax Acid Crew - Byron's Ballads EP
Chris Moss Acid - Ambient
Cucumb45 Slysó - EP4 Something Weirdcore
CUCUMB45 Slysó - EP5 Cyclops I Poka
Datassette - Mannequin on the Run EP
DB1 - Zwischenwelt
DMX Krew - Strange Directions
Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata
Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I
Earl Grey - Headwinds LP
EDM - EDM i
EOD - Swurlk EP
Erik Van Den Broek - Expressed
Heorge Garrison - Shortridge EP
J. Mono - Zzz
Jack Peoples - Laptop Cafe
Karen Lust - Vigilax
Karsten Pflum - Love Canticles
Kunst - Kunst
Lanark Artefax - Whities 011
Laner Fax - 97 Firebound / Dranzer Beatin
MEGGABLOCKX - "Blockx"
Microlith - Subtle Variance
Minor Science - Whities 012
MNLTH - TRAX EP
Morah - #006
Nu Era - GEOMETRICKS EP
Passarani - Analog Fingerprints, Vol.1
Rhys Celeste - Microlith
Rognvald - R.O.G.N.V.A.L.D
Rolando Simmons - World Building
Ruby My Dear - Basic
RX-101 - "EP 4"
Shinra - Meteor EP 4
Sprawl - Time Tunnel
Todd Osborn - Elastic
Various Artists - aux446
Various Artists - aux445
Various Artists - aux447
Various Artists - Cirque De La Musique
Various Artists - GALACTIC JACKSON'S BALLA COMPLEANNO
Various Artists - Voiceless Y
Various Artists - Voiceless Z
Volruptus - Hessdalen
Volruptus - Homeblast EP
zvλd - Baklava
36 - Black Soma
4rd - Remote Listening
 

  On 12/15/2017 at 8:48 PM, Nil said:

 

  On 12/15/2017 at 7:49 PM, fumi said:

 

Sky H1 - Motion

Konx-om-Pax - Caramel

2016?

 

btw, adding to my list the excellent Three settlements four ways EP by Loft. Super fresh, weird club computer music.

+1 top release

Dunno if I should be surprised that no-one has mentioned Elektrac.

Also, it seems that 0F.digital was actually released in 2016.

  On 12/16/2017 at 4:06 AM, NI64 said:

Ha I know, I fucking love wAgA and everything he does, just hard to keep up with sometimes

he needs a new name!! i refuse to listen until he changes his name

saturation 1 2 and 3

all 4 the king gizzard albums

machine girl - biyaaheysfasdfwnjoae

uuuh

kendrick lamar - daymn...

everything by aphex aka GOD lol am i right

tyler - flower boi

mount eerie - me wife dead

jay z - 4:444444