Sniffuary 17 (jams)
Ranking based on a super intricate system of obscureness vs. quality. Will add the albums missing from the database when the site stops being fucky. 2017 stuff only! |
1 | | Information Flash Ego Murda Sound
4.0/5 borderline 3.5 [outsider house] it combines IDM, jungle, breakbeat, and acid techno to create a melting pot of beautifully expressed outsider house // RoundOnEndHiInMiddle |
2 | | Manu Delago Metromonk
4.0/5 more like a 3.5 actually but fuck it. I’ve had a few beers and I feel generous [downtempo, jazz hang drum, electronic, potscore] he has cut back on the vocal features that made Silver Cobalt such a gripping, moving and special album. But production- and songwriting-wise this is just as good. Only a little harder to hang up all those pretty sounds on something when vocals are so sparsely used. |
3 | | Max Richter Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
4.0/5 [classical] MUCH WOW |
4 | | Set and Setting Reflectionless
3.5/5 [post metal, black metal, post rock] I once went to a show where Deafheaven opened for Russian Circles. This is like if they had made music together instead of only touring and left the vocalist somewhere along the road. |
5 | | M/R Untitled
3.5/5 [House, techno] officially the first cool house record of 2017 that deserves your attention. |
6 | | Kid Koala Music To Draw To: Satellite
3.5/5 [ambient, maybe some jazz roots somewhere in this] makes for a nice long listen. Tend to drag a bit though which is a shame because I really like the sound if this. |
7 | | OAK (SWE-HC) Your Mess as Much as Mine
3.5/5 [Hardcore, metalcore, math core] just like every other dissonant metalcore album. Vox are kind of a deal breaker but they as well as this EP gets better towards the end of the record. |
8 | | Fox Capture Plan Fragile
3.5/5 [nu-jazz] many of the passages on this wouldn’t have sounded out of place on a Jizue record, that’s a good thing. Some bangers and but a few cheesy moment merits a straight 3.5. |
9 | | Tipper Flunked
3.5/5 [IDM, ambient] Not as good as Fathom of 2015 but short, focused and to the point. |
10 | | Dayluta Means Kindness When You're Young You're Invincible
3.5/5 [post rock] nothing you haven’t heard before but this is well executed. The production is a bit raw which gives this an extra exiting edge. |
11 | | Fred Thomas Changer
3.5/5 [straight up indie] Listen for the lyrics, storytelling. |
12 | | Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much
3.5/5 [loud, kraut] under layers of obnoxious loudness serious beauty is to be found. |
13 | | Beheaded Beast Incarnate
3.5/5 [death metal] varied and with crisp production. This has all the qualities that a 2017 death metal album should have. The ending of The Black Death is especially amazing. |
14 | | William Basinski A Shadow in Time
3.5/5 [drone, ambient] this is a beauty. Almost a 4. |
15 | | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Feed the Rats
3.5/5 [stoner, sludge] nothing you haven’t heard before. A bit of Black Sabbath worship with thick fuzz. |
16 | | The Necks Unfold
3.5/5 [drone, jazz] new Necks. Get on it. |
17 | | Shackleton and Vengeance Tenfold Sferic Ghost Transmits
3.5/5 [“spoken word” and soundscapes] not what you hear every day. Good spacy outing. Dive into the Grave is a sweet track. |
18 | | The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
3.5/5 [black metal] More straightforward approach than previous efforts, suits me just right. |
19 | | Boliden Surfaces
3.5/5 [ambient with a splash of techno, a tiny splash] Kind off busy for an ambient record. I dig |
20 | | Bonobo Migration
3.5/5 [microhouse (maybe), downtempo, the first bite of a fresh guava in dappled tropical sunlight // Doofus] when it’s good it’s real good, when it display almost house-esque passages. Other times, like most of the vocal features, are a chore to get through. Recommended listen! |
21 | | Lizzard Wizzard Total War Power Bastard
3.5/5 [Stoner, fun] a surprisingly fun listen. Recommended if you dig stoner and sludge. |
22 | | Mouse On The Keys Out of Body
3.5/5 [math rock, post rock] LITE light but just as good as LITE at their finest, almost. |
23 | | Xiu Xiu Forget
3.5/5 [art pop] FFO: Early leaks and dark “pop” music |
24 | | The Drip The Haunting Fear of Inevitability
3.5/5 [grind] check if you dig grind of the modern production kind |
25 | | Pharmakon Contact
3.0/5 [pitchfork friendly noise] not as engaging as her previous effort. |
26 | | Abiogenesis Biosynthesis
3.0/5 ["psychill trance"] FFO: Kalpatru Tree, Future Sound of London and so on. For my dub man Calc... |
27 | | JapaneseButGoodies Cold Spot
3.0/5 [post rock] musically this is decent but vocals and lyrics as well as the band name are uhm, special to say the least. |
28 | | Arms and Sleepers LIFE IS EVERYWHERE
3.0/5 possible 3.5 [trip hop, hip hop] a bit too long for its own good. Rap features are cool and tbh there’s nothing wrong with the overall production. |
29 | | Richard Pinhas Reverse
3.0/5 [drone/jam] gripping at times. Dragging at other times. Features a lot of cool artist tho. |
30 | | Wharfer Scenes of the Tourist
3.0/5 borderline 3.5 [folk-ish, sowingcore] something y’all lovers of Tallest Man on Earth can come together over. Last track is phenomenal. |
32 | | Shaarimoth Temple of the Adversarial Fire
3.0/5 [Death metal, “ambience”] doesn’t earn its length. Gets pretty boring tbh. |
33 | | Naaahhh Themes
3.0/5 [dark ambient, electronic] off to a slow start but picks up pace and with that my interest towards the latter parts of the album |
34 | | Botany Raw Light ll
3.0/5 [trip hop, electronic] has its fair share of ups and downs. The ups are cool at least. But way to inconsistent. Fans of latest Bonobo might dig. |
35 | | Dzo-nga Upon the Shimmered Bough
3.0/5 [ambient bm] Sevengill is onto something here. |
36 | | Sleaford Mods English Tapas
3.0/5 [post PUNK or something] quite enjoyable. Up there with their best work. Can be find out there on the interwebs. |
37 | | Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk Passage
3.0/5 [post rock, electronic] ranges from Hammock-esque to Thunder Tillman like. |
38 | | Pregnant Whale Pain Blank
3.0/5 [Modern prog] is it called prog because bands can’t for the life of them progress songs in a natural way? |
39 | | All them Witches Sleeping Through The War
3.0/5 [psych rock, stoner rock] blues-esque approach to stoner rock. If you dig their 2014 release, this is a bit different but check nonetheless. |
40 | | Bing and Ruth No Home of the Mind
3.0/5 [ambient, post rock, classical] doesn’t quite reach the heights of 2014s Tomorrow was the Golden Age but a perfectly good example of well executed ambient post rock stuff |
41 | | Anal Trump To All the Broads I've Nailed Before
3.0/5 [grindcore] how could this sell out so fast? Let's treat this as a real record. uhmokay? |
42 | | Jan Lundgren Potsdamer Platz
3.0/5 [jazz] decent offering but it feels kinda lifeless from time to time. |
43 | | Live or Leave Spiritual Violence
3.0/5 [post black metal or whatever you’d call it] Decent, nothing too exciting. |
44 | | Brian Eno Reflection
3.0/5 [ambient] Decent, nothing too exciting. Does the job. |
45 | | Eets Souls
3.0/5 [lo-fi electronic, dubstep smelling] deserves a spin if you dig that kind of stuff. |
46 | | Gidge LNLNN
3.0/5 [ambient, dubstep] might grow on me big time this. Has me nodding the head quite heavily. Check if you dig slow burning dubtracks and badass electronic music. |
47 | | The Vomiting Dinosaurs Exoplanet
3.0/5 [grind, death metal] fun but it didn’t leave any lasting impressions |
48 | | Theory In Practice Crescendo Dezign
3.0/5 [tech death, soulless wank] this happened 2017… |
49 | | Dj Okawari Compass
3.0/5 [trip hop, downtempo] pretty but undeniably nothing to keep listeners interested. Best songs are the ones without vocals |
50 | | Mors Principium Est Embers of a Dying World
2.5/5 [melodic death metal] what every melodeath band needs to hear. 1. Programed strings, you can’t pull them off. 2. Face it. At the Gates peaked in the 90’s for a reason. Also oh my god. Death is the Beginning is the worst song ever. |
51 | | Ed Dowie The Uncle Sold
2.5/5 [britpop done weird] |
52 | | Priests Nothing Feels Natural
2.5/5 [post punk] music made for pitchfork people. Seriously that tom/snare beat that every post punk/punk band in the history of ever utilizes sounds so retarded and is annoying af. Last track is cool. |
53 | | The xx I See You
2.5/5 [snore pop] |
54 | | Yutaka Aoki Lost in Forest
2.5/5 [experimental, dark ambient of sorts] a member of Downy releases solo material. This is a weird sometimes microtonal and improvised dark journey. The sound of nightmares. |
55 | | Stoker Stoker
2.5/5 [straight forward rock, stoner rock] nothing you haven’t heard before, decent enough. |
56 | | Mechina As Embers Turn To Dust
2.5/5 [symphonic metal-ish] I’ll be damned if I give a symphonic metal album a rating higher than 2.5. This is pretty sweet though. Despite the admittedly flawed genre. |
57 | | Tracey Chattaway Secret Garden
2.5/5 [post rock] pretty and happy but boring run to the mill post rock that you’ve heard a million times before. |
58 | | Sundara Karma Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect
2.5/5 [hipster pop] boring but decently performed at least |
59 | | Gone is Gone Echolocation
2.5/5 [lifeless rock] brought a bit of atmosphere from time to time. Salvages the rating from a total disaster. |
60 | | Pain of Salvation In the Passing Light of Day
2.5/5 [prog whatever] prog is never sexy. Never. |
61 | | The Flaming Lips Oczy Mlody
2.5/5 [psych pop-ish] Lifeless |
62 | | Sepultura Machine Messiah
2.5/5 [thrash, hard rock] better than expected. |
63 | | Emptiness Not For Music
2.5/5 [industrial black metal bs] has nothing of what made Nothing But The Whole a cool record. This has strange production too. FFO: tough guy-whispering and cookie cutter “this isn’t Rammstein, this is real industrial”-ambience. Last track is decent enough. |
64 | | Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound
2.0/5 [some kind of indie apparently] for anyone who likes to be bored to tears. |
65 | | Code Orange Forever
2.0/5 [attitude with nothing backing it hardcore, dullness] dullest hardcore.o.t.y dropped early this year. |
66 | | Count to Altek A Seraphia Entwined
2.0/5 [sput] nah |
67 | | Different Sleep Forget It
2.0/5 [EDM, dubstep] not all bad. Some tracks have a tiny bit of good vibes at least. |
68 | | Wiley Godfather
2.5/5 [UK grime] Not big on the genre, this is cool tho |
69 | | Firewind Immortals
1.5/5 [power metal] it does riff tho |
70 | | Dropkick Murphys 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory
1.5/5 [dad punk] what’s with all the reviews for this? Kinda dug the idea of these guys trying to become the AC/DC of punk so I gave this a shot. Regret investing time in this mess. |
71 | | Chief Keef Two Zero One Seven
1.5/5 [“hip-hop” “cloud rap”] … |
72 | | Neil Cicierega Mouth Moods
1.5/5 [meme] +0.5 for being stupid enough to go through making this piece of crap |
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