Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2017

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published: 23 / 12 / 2017

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Our writers and photographers list their favourite albums and also their favourite gig of the year

CARL BOOKSTEIN 1. National/Sleep Well Beast 2. Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile/Lotta Sea Lice 3. War on Drugs/A Deeper Understanding 4. Gregg Allman/Southern Blood 5. Robert Plant/Carry Fire" 6. St Vincent/Masseduction 7. Aimee Mann/Mental Illness 8. Iron and Wine/Beast Epic 9. Miranda Lee Richards/Existential Beast Gig of the Year: Paul McCartney, Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, 1/10/2017 KIMBERLY BRIGHT 1. Sharks/Killers of the Deep 2. Duke Tumatoe/How Much Crazy Can You Take? 3. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds/Who Built the Moon? 4. Various Artists/Big Bend Killing/The Traditional Appalachian Ballad 5. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit/The Nashville Sound Gig of the Year: Robyn Hitchcock, White Rabbit Cabaret, Indianapolis, 15/11/2017 MALCOLM CARTER 1. Granite Shore/Suspended Second JOHN CLARKSON 1. Vintage Calvinos/An Invitation to INfamy 2. Stephen McLaren/We Used to Go Raving 3. Roger Waters/Is This the Life We Really Want? 4. Benjamin Schoos/Profession Chanteur 5. Band of Holy Joy/Funambulist We Love You 6. Curse of Lono/Severed 7. Godfathers/A Big Bad Beautiful Noise 8. Bronski Beat/The Age of Reason 9. Dials/That was the Future 10.Tiny Magnetic Pets/Deluxe Debris Gig of the Year: Who, Hydro, Glasgow, 7/4/2017 DAVE GOODWIN (In no particular order) 1. Future Islands/The Far Field 2. Morrissey/Low in High School 3. Luxury Stranger/Darkness Falls Upon the light 4. Depeche Mode /Spirit 5. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds/Who Built the Moon? 6. Beth Ditto/Fake Sugar 7. Arcade Fire/Everything Now 8. When the Sun Hits/Immersed in Your Eyes 9. Servants of Science/A Swan Song 10.LCD Soundsystem/American Dream TOMMY GUNNARSSON 1. Magnetic Fields/50 Song Memoir 2. Sparks/Hippopotamus 3. Sodsastream/Little by Little Gig of the Year: Sparks, Skandia Stage, Cirkus, Stockholm, 10/8/2017 KEITH HOW (In no particular order) 1. Ryuichi Sakamoto/ASYNC 2. Alice Coltrane/Spiritual Songs 3. John Foxx/The Machine 4. Jim Ghedi/Hymn for Ancient Land 5. Loscil/Monument Builders 6. Vijay Iyer Quartet/Far From Ove 7. Anour Brahmen/Blue Maqams 8. Avashai Cohen/Cross My Palm with Silver 9. Toby Hay The Gathering 10.Nathan Hall/Effigies BEN HOWARTH 1. Jarrod Dickenson/Ready the Horses 2. Roddy Woomble/The Deluder 3. Laura Marling/Semper Femina 4. Josh Ritter/Gathering 5. Blue Rose Code/The Water Of Leith 6. Len Price 3/Kentish Longtails 7. Ani DiFranco/Binary 8. Dodson and Fogg/Follow the Path 9. Port Erin/Ocean Grey 10. Bella Gaffney/Heaven Knows Gig of the Year: Divine Comedy, Hammersmith Apollo, 30/11/2017 ADRIAN HUGGINS 1. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs/Feed the Rats' 2. LCD Soundsystem/American Dream 3. Idles/Brutalist 4. Blanck Mass/World Eater 5. Queens of the Stone Age/Villains 6. Death From Above/Holy Books 7. Iron Monkey/9-13 8. Fen/Winter 9. Picturebooks/Home is a Heartache 10.Amenra/Mass VI Gig of the Year: New Model Army, The Riverside, Newcastle, 5/4/2017 ADRIAN JANES 1. Queens of the Stone Age/Villains 2. Grizzly Bear/Painted Ruins 3. Autobahn/The Moral Crossing 4. Jane Weaver/Modern Kosmology 5. Black Angels/Death Song 6. Miniatures/Jessamines Gig of the Year: Fantastic Negrito, Nell’s Jazz and Blues, London, 28/7/2017 STEVE KINRADE 1. Nick Ellis/Adult Fiction 2. Siobhan Wilson/There Are No Saints 3. Ben Folke Thomas /Copenhagen Gig of the Year: Louis Berry, Sugarmill, stoke, 25/10/2017 ERICK MERTZ 1. Beaches/Second of Spring 2. Dirge/Alma|Baltica 3. Pale Honey/Devotion 4. Ibibio Sound Machine/Uyai 5. Yagow/Yagow 6. Little Star/Little Star 7. Green Meteor/Consumed by a Dying Star" 8. Tashaki Miyaka/The Dream 9. Xiu Xiu/Forget 10.King Woman/Created in the Image of Suffering MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. Kasaï All Stars/Félicité Remixes 2. Evil Usses/Amateur Pro Wrestling 3. Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley/The Blow Volume 3 4. Pea Sea/Lonnin Life 5. Kreidler/European Song 6. King Ayisoba/1,000 Can Die 7. Two Monkeyz/Whatt? 8. Der Plan/Unkapitulierbar 9. Ty Segall/Ty Segall 10 Odd Fellow's Casino /Oh, Sealand DOMINIC SIMPSON (In no particular order) 1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Luciferian Towers 2. James Holden & The Animal Spirits/The Animal Spirits 3. Slowdive/Slowdive 4. National/Sleep Well Beast Gig of the Year: This is Not THis Heat, Barbican, London, 4/3/2017 LISA TOREM 1. Alice Cooper/Paranormal 2. Robert Plant/Carry Fire 3. St Vincent/Masseduction 4. Weezer/Pacific Daydream 5. Evansecence/Synthesis 6. Morrissey/Low in High School 7. Paloma Faith/The Architect 8. Sia/Everyday is Christmas 9. U2/Songs of Experience 10.Bryan Adams/Ultimate Gig of the Year: Alice Cooper, Arena, Birmingham, 15/11/2017 PAUL WALLER 1. Mac Demarco/This Old Dog 2. Jessica Hoop /Memories are Now 3. Idles/Brutalism 4. Sleaford Mods/English Tapas 5. Zeal and Ardor/Devil is Fine 6. Night Demon/Darkness Remains 7. Igorrr/Savage Sinusoid 8. Brutus/Burst 9. Hark/Machinations 10. This is The Kit/Moonshine Freeze DENZIL WATSON 1. Sleaford Mods/English Tapas 2. Moonlandingz/ Interplanetary Class Classics 3. British Sea Power/Let the Dancers Inherit the Party 4. Paul Draper/Spooky Action 5. Cabbage/Young, Dumb and Full of... 6. Jesus and Mary Chain/Damage and Joy 7. Fall/ New Facts Emerge 8. Pete Fij and Terry Bickers/We are Millionaires 9. Baxter Dury/Prince of Tears 10.Wire/Silver Lead Gig of the Year: British Sea Power, Albert Hall, Manchester, 11/11/2017

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