24-12-2017, 18:56
AllMusic has fairly extensive and comprehensive lists of their favourites, which they categorise, plus they have a general ‘Best of 2017’ - https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/...st-of-2017.
I quite like the categorisation idea - I’ll put a couple of them up as I get to them, and rate my own favs from their lists as well (despite not having listened to everything on those lists - nowhere near!). First category of my choice then … https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/...songwriter
Singer/Songwriter picks
* Listened to/or tried to – not for me
** May listen to again
*** Listened to and liked a lot
+ Would like to hear sometime
My pick of the above: Neil Finn – Out of Silence - no question.
I quite like the categorisation idea - I’ll put a couple of them up as I get to them, and rate my own favs from their lists as well (despite not having listened to everything on those lists - nowhere near!). First category of my choice then … https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review/...songwriter
Singer/Songwriter picks
- Adrian Crowley – Dark Eyed Messenger
- Aimee Mann – Mental Illness
- Amber Coffman - City of No Reply
- Benjamin Clementine - I Tell a Fly **
- Big Thief – Capacity
- Bruce Cockburn - Bone on Bone ***
- Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
- Cindy Lee Berryhill - The Adventurist
- Cold Specks - Fool's Paradise
- Colorama - Some Things Just Take Time
- Dent May - Across the Multiverse
- Devon Sproule - The Gold String
- Elizabeth & the Catapult – Keepsake
- Feist – Pleasure +
- Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Navigator
- Iron & Wine - Beast Epic +
- Jake Bugg – Hearts That Strain
- Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
- Karen Elson - Double Roses
- Karl Blau - Out Her Space
- Kevin Morby - City Music
- King Krule - The Ooz
- Laura Marling - Semper Femina
- Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr. Ferryman **
- Michael Head / Michael Head & the Red Elastic Band - Adiós Señor Pussycat **
- Neil Finn - Out of Silence ***
- Nick Krgovich - In an Open Field *
- Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee
- Randy Newman - Dark Matter
- Ray Davies – Americana **
- Ron Sexsmith - The Last Rider
- Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble +
- Tift Merritt - Stitch of the World +
- Tori Amos - Native Invader ***
- Valerie June - The Order of Time
* Listened to/or tried to – not for me
** May listen to again
*** Listened to and liked a lot
+ Would like to hear sometime
My pick of the above: Neil Finn – Out of Silence - no question.
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