2017 albums!

New Steve Hackett on the way. I am skeptical, but somehow it ended up in the cart anyway.

Mastodon - Emperor of Sand (their best since Crack the Skye)
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon (they call it "indie", but it's got 80s Crimson/Talking Heads written all over it!)
Fen - Winter (really good prog/atmoblack metal
Soen - Lykaia (A Perfect Circle covering Katatonia; more 2003' Opeth than Tool, btw)
Elbow - Little Fictions (another "indie", but very Talk Talk(ish)/2002' Peter Gabriel to me)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana (math-surf microtonal insanity!)

2017 has been interesting so far. It has seen both King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Blanck Mass produce their finest work to date. The former sound more adventurous yet still clinging onto that charming psychy garage style of theirs, whilst Blanck Mass' World Eater retains a black 80s dystopian power comparable to that of a few Joy Divisions yet all of this is handed over to the listener in brightly coloured electronics and swooping melody lines. Modern electronic at it's very best.

I also rather dig the new Richard Pinhas album Dronne. Perhaps not all that surprisingly the music takes on these droning qualities - eliptical reverberating guitar experiments yet somehow the music doesn't come off particularly one-sided. There's all kinds of colours, shimmers and twinkles oozing up from various usage of pedals and erfects and the surrounding hypno drums and see sawing electronics transform Pinhas guitar lines into something verging on melody and additionally wraps the whole experience in a psychedelic veil that suits pretty damn good imho.

One of my fave discoveries this year has been Thundercats' Drunk. Damn what a saucy throwback to those bouncy Funkadelic years during the 70s...but on this particular record they seem spliced together with the neopsychedelic antics of a black Ariel Pink. Sound weird? It isn't. It's like slipping into a hot bath.

New Temples album Volcano is still too new for me to have formed an opinion. It does however sound like they've followed in the footsteps of Tame Impala and Pond incorporating synth hooks and a good whiff of the 80s into the mix.

Grails are still at the top with Chalice Hymnal. That album is just gorgeous. Like micing up a river in the mountains.

To be continued..

Been enjoying the latest Junius album "Eternal Rituals For The Accretion Of Light". Nicely done post-metal with some of that Alcest heavy shoegaze style mixed in (albeit with a little more "manliness" to the vocals). 

Guldbamsen wrote: 2017 has been interesting so far.

^that one is somewhere in the untrackable mail ether but should arrive this week. Definitely looking forward to it.

New Pond album on the way. The Weather releases early in May Can't wait for that!
Another one to look forward to is Homunculus Res. These guys are working on their third album and if they continue down the Canterbury road, I'll be a happy bunny.

I would like to hear some new stuff from:
Scott Walker
Todd Terje (Come on Todd!!! It's Album Time is already 3 years old)
Setna
Boards Of Canada
FSOL
Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden
Burial (a full album thank you!!! So tired of dishing out dough for tiny eps)
Viet Cong
Dead Can Dance

Second album from Prescott dropping in May:

Thing Or Two

Autobuy for me. One of those rare bands that really does have a unique approach.

Aborym - Shifting.negative is an TERRIFIC album from this year, these guys freed themselves from extreme metal conventions and made an awesome album that is on par of the Pryapisme - Diabolicus Felinae Pandemonium in terms of quality and inovation, recommend to everyone really!!