Best albums of 2017 ...so far

Fuengi

Here's a few of this year's albums that are not mainstream but are well worth a listen. 

Please add your recommendations.

Slowdive by Slowdive

Full Flower by Us and Us Only

A Short History of Decay by John Murry

The Meeting of The Waters by Fionn Regan

City Music by Kevin Morby

A Face Like Mine by Peter Bradley Adams

stickyfiddle

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound

Fuengi

Agree, great album by Jason Isbell. I didn't include because he's on Andrew Marr this morning, which is perhaps the definition of mainstream! 

horse

Afghan Whigs - In Spades

BloodEagle

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

Code Orange - Forever

Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstacy

MagicPigDetective

Japanese Breakfast- Soft Sounds from another Planet
Beach Fossils- Somersault 
Alvvays- Antisocialites
Mark Lanegan- Gargoyle
Four Tet- New Energy 

Deadman

MagicPigDetective said:

Japanese Breakfast- Soft Sounds from another Planet
Beach Fossils- Somersault 
Alvvays- Antisocialites
Mark Lanegan- Gargoyle
Four Tet- New Energy 

Another vote for Beach Fossils here.

Also Real Estate - In mind
and
Liam Gallagher - As you were

Winny_Pooh

Hiss Golden Messenger - Hallelujah Anyhow

shaunm

I’m a little upset that nobody has voted for mine yet.

ICBM

Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine

Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?

Philly_Q

It's at times like these that I realise how few new albums I actually buy or hear so I might as well just list them all.  Some are not even particularly good...

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Youngblood Supercult - The Great American Death Rattle
Ruby the Hatchet - Planetary Space Child
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Alunah - Solennial
The Obsessed - Sacred
Siena Root - A Dream of Lasting Peace

bigjon

Boo Hewerdine - Swimming In Mercury

TheBigDipper

bigjon said:

Boo Hewerdine - Swimming In Mercury

Saw Boo in Winchester last night. Excellent. Played his final number without any amplification right next to me at the foot of the steps to the dressing room. That Atkins OM sounds just as good in the room naked as it did over the PA.

Steven Wilson - To The Bone
Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Thumpermonkey - Electricity EP

guitarfishbay

Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets and the Migrant Flora

koneguitarist

In the country indies it's worth checking out.
Jason Eady self titled album.
Dori Freeman Letters never read, produced by Teddy Thompson
and the new Turnpike Troubadors album which is superb. 

Moss

I have a spreadsheet because I'm a special type of sad music nerd

Here's the top 25 at the moment:

AlexC

Christine MacVie & Lindsey Buckingham
Lorde - Melodrama
Imelda May - Life Love Flesh Blood
Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life
Andy Summers - Triboluminescence

Grunfeld

The War on Drugs -- "A Deeper Understanding"
Absolutely the best.

Stuckfast

Richard Dawson -- Peasant. Absolutely amazing and bonkers in equal proportion.

I agree that the Boo Hewerdine album is his best for absolutely ages, too.

earwighoney

BloodEagle said:

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

I've been listening to the Power Trip a lot this week and I'm finding it's an album which my appreciation grows with each additional listen; there's a lot of depth, complexity to their material.  

It's a superb album. 

darcym

The Harry Styles and Nial Horan from one direction are actually good albums, some very good songs on there.

The winner is clearly John Mayer search for everything with a close second from Aimee Mann with Mental Illness