Your favourite album from 2000-2017?

[Crabwalk]

Every Neon Indian album was a contender to me - Era Extrana just happened to fall short because it came in a strong year.

'Era Extrana' was fighting it out with Gruff Rhys' 'Hotel Shampoo' for second place behind Destroyer. Great albums but 'Kaputt' is a masterpiece.

[Shay Chaise]

2000: Low-Things We Lost In The Fire
2001: Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein / Aesop Rock Labour Days
2002: Mr Lif- Emergency Rations
2003: Animal Collective- Here Comes The Indian
2004: Animal Collective- Sung Tongs / Telefon Tel Aviv- Map Of What Is Effortless
2005: Animal Collective- Feels
2006: The Knife- Silent Shout
2007: Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
2008: Animal Collective- Water Curses
2009: Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion / Telefon Tel Aviv- Immolate Yourself
2010: Avey Tare- Down There
2011: Panda Bear- Tomboy
2012: Animal Collective- Centipede Hz
2013: The Knife- Shaking The Habitual
2014: Ariel Pink- Pom Pom
2015: Cant think of anything
2016: Animal Collective- Painting With
2017: Avey Tare- Eucalyptus

Mah bouyyyyyyyy

[Sebastian Cobb]

I'd like to partake in this thread but I've barely any idea what year most of my favourite lp's came out. So I'm going to have to fire up foobar and sort my cd collection by date for most stuff.

Doing it blind:
2000 - Bent - Programmed to Love
2001 - plaid - Double Figure
2002 - Sharon Jones - Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

Actual coincidence those are consecutive.

[Key]

2000 Radiohead - Kid A
2001 The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe
2002 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
2003 Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
2004 Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Stand With The Stillness of This Day
2005 BoC - The Campfire Headphase
2006 Joanna Newsom - Ys
2007 The Tuss - Rushup Edge
2008 Deerhunter - Microcastle
2009 Grass Widow - s/t
2010 Flying Lotus - Cosmograma
2011 Panda Bear - Tomboy
2012 Grouper - AIA
2013 My Bloody Valentine - m b v
2014 Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect
2015 Oneohtrix Point Never - Garden of Delete
2016 Rashad Becker - Traditional Music For Notional Species Volume 2
2017 GAS - Narkopop

[studpuppet]

That's cheating, studpuppet!

Yeah - but it avoided sitting there thinking about it for a week and a half.

And if you've got nothing for 2017, may I suggest following me and rue the pollywhirl into the joyous world of Fitness Forever's 'Tonight'...

I won't find an album I like from 2017 until around five years' time.

[bgmnts]

The early years of the 2000s were great, looking back. A few years later (post-2005), it all seemed to have gone to shit.

Demon Days was the last great album.

[BlodwynPig]

Yeah - but it avoided sitting there thinking about it for a week and a half.

I won't find an album I like from 2017 until around five years' time.

Try these:

Yota - Knight in Shining Armour
Vermont - II
Sula Bassana - The Ape Regards His Tail
Nite Jewel - Real High
Submerse - Are You Anywhere
She Sir - Rival Island (https://www.deezer.com/en/track/386130541)

[itsfredtitmus]

2000: Volapuk - Polyglot, Swag - Catch-All
2001: Half-handed Cloud ‎- Learning About Your Scale, Chewy Marble - Bowl of Surreal, oM - Poppies
2002: The Negro Problem - Welcome Black
2003: Taylor Deupree - January
2004: Oren - Grapes from the Estate
2005: Julien Neto - Le Fumeur de Ciel
2006: Danielson - Ships
2007: Oren - In the Pendulum's Embrace, Kemialliset Ystävät - Kemialliset Ystävät
2008: The Junipers - Cut Your Key, Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
2009: Orla Wren - The One Two Bird And The Half Horse
2010: Sam Prekop - Old Punch Card
2011: Maria Minerva - Tallinn at Dawn
2012: Laurel Halo - Quarantine
2013: Machinedrum - Vapor City
2014: Heterotic - Weird Drift
2015: bvdub - Tech from Times Past
2016: Berk - Bright Line
2017: Zadig the Jasp - ♱慈悲深い♱

[BlodwynPig]

2000: Volapuk - Polyglot, Swag - Catch-All
2001: Half-handed Cloud ‎- Learning About Your Scale, Chewy Marble - Bowl of Surreal, oM - Poppies
2002: The Negro Problem - Welcome Black
2003: Taylor Deupree - January
2004: Oren - Grapes from the Estate
2005: Julien Neto - Le Fumeur de Ciel
2006: Danielson - Ships
2007: Oren - In the Pendulum's Embrace, Kemialliset Ystävät - Kemialliset Ystävät
2008: The Junipers - Cut Your Key, Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
2009: Orla Wren - The One Two Bird And The Half Horse
2010: Sam Prekop - Old Punch Card
2011: Maria Minerva - Tallinn at Dawn
2012: Laurel Halo - Quarantine
2013: Machinedrum - Vapor City
2014: Heterotic - Weird Drift
2015: bvdub - Tech from Times Past
2016: Berk - Bright Line
2017: Zadig the Jasp - ♱慈悲深い♱

Wind up merchant. I swapped Zadig the Jasp for Nite Jewel

[itsfredtitmus]

YOU WOULD

[Sebastian Cobb]

2000 - JAMC Darklands
2001 - JAMC Darklands
2002 - JAMC Darklands
2003 - JAMC Darklands
2004 - JAMC Darklands
2005 - JAMC Darklands
2006 - JAMC Darklands
2007 - JAMC Darklands
2008 - JAMC Darklands
2009 - JAMC Darklands
2010 - JAMC Darklands
2011 - JAMC Darklands
2012 - JAMC Darklands
2013 - JAMC Darklands
2014 - JAMC Darklands
2015 - JAMC Darklands
2016 - JAMC Darklands
2017 - JAMC Darklands

I could go on...

[Crabwalk]

^ all mouth and no trousers

[Bazooka]

Demon Days was the last great album.

What the only great album  post 2005?

[Bazooka]

Mah bouyyyyyyyy

Love the reference, I assume you have seen it but this new Panda Bear live performance is ridiculous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GGimxSvmoE

[Norton Canes]

Couple of updates on those vague early years...

2000: Er
2001: Um
2002: Hang on Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where
2003: Ellen Allien - Berlinette
2004: Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender Junior Boys - Last Exit
2005: British Sea Power - Open Season
2006: Hot Chip - The Warning (Shit, is that really the only album I've got from 2006? It's certainly not the best)
2007: Justice - Cross
2008: Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
2009: Music Go Music - Expressions
2010: New Young Pony Club - The Optimist
2011: Le Corps Mince de Francoise - Love and Nature
2012: Grimes - Visions
2013: Young Galaxy - Ultramarine
2014: Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso
2015: Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
2016: TEEN - Love Yes
2017: Austra - Future Politics

[VelourSpirit]

2001 Crush - Astrobrite

Actually it's Vespertine what was I thinking

[Hundhoon]

I thought the worst years were between 2004-2007, 2004 being the worst year.. however it did not feel as bad at the time.
But looking back it was shit.

I think things improved massively around 2009, i think the dawn of Youtube and alternative media may have had something to do with it. I think 2010-2013 were the best years for music since the mid 90s.

[Straight Faced Customer]

I thought the worst years were between 2004-2007, 2004 being the worst year.. however it did not feel as bad at the time.
But looking back it was shit.

I think things improved massively around 2009, i think the dawn of Youtube and alternative media may have had something to do with it.

Spot on.

Those 2000 years always give me what I can only describe as the feeling of having an empty stomach whilst being drowned in Maccabees promo CDs, very bland Bloc Party albums and Pete Doherty front covers.

[purlieu]

I suppose if you got all your music from the NME it was probably a pretty grim time.

[holyzombiejesus]

I suppose if you got all your music from the NME it was probably a pretty grim time.

Says the man who thinks Idlewild made the best album of the year twice during that period.

[Straight Faced Customer]

I suppose if you got all your music from the NME it was probably a pretty grim time.

I didn't luckily, but that was the era i 'grew up' in during uni. But, to be honest, even underground stuff didnt get me that excited in that mid/late 2000s era until 2010. Gang Gang Dance blew my mind, and that was it for a while. There was too much folktronica about, too. Anyway, im saying nothing new here.

[sevendaughters]

12: honestly can't think of anything that really stands out for me

found my list on a forum of my top 10 of this year and at #1 i had

Sun Araw, & M. Geddes Gengras Meet The Congos - Icon Give Thank

and I still like this a lot and forgot about it. so this.

[purlieu]

Says the man who thinks Idlewild made the best album of the year twice during that period.

They're my second favourite group, I'm likely to have their albums among my favourites. I certainly didn't get into them because of the NME.
Anyway, 'twas only a response to somebody naming the Maccabees, Bloc Party and Pete Doherty, which seems like a very NME-focused list of artists is all.

I didn't luckily, but that was the era i 'grew up' in during uni. But, to be honest, even underground stuff didnt get me that excited in that mid/late 2000s era until 2010. Gang Gang Dance blew my mind, and that was it for a while. There was too much folktronica about, too. Anyway, im saying nothing new here.

Fair enough. My uni experience from a similar time was mostly tainted by 'electro-indie'/'nu-rave' and other similar stuff, which was similarly bleak for the most part, but I dunno if it ruined the whole era for me. Looking at my collection it seems that around 2005 is the point where in terms of guitar-centric music I started focusing more on back catalogue stuff rather than new music, but there's a lot of electronic stuff from the second half of the '00s that I love.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to anything that could be described as folktronica.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I didn't luckily, but that was the era i 'grew up' in during uni. But, to be honest, even underground stuff didnt get me that excited in that mid/late 2000s era until 2010. Gang Gang Dance blew my mind, and that was it for a while. There was too much folktronica about, too. Anyway, im saying nothing new here.

Aroung the time of Gang Gang Dance there was also Mux Mool, Lorn and Bibio, all amazing. Type had a good few releases with Altar Eagle. School of Seven Bells were on the go. Oh and Solar Bears.

Around 2006/7 was when DnB got really boring though

[holyzombiejesus]

Anyway, 'twas only a response to somebody naming the Maccabees, Bloc Party and Pete Doherty, which seems like a very NME-focused list of artists is all.

Whereas Manic Street Preachers, Coldplay and some bloke from Mansun aren't?

[purlieu]

Whereas Manic Street Preachers, Coldplay and some bloke from Mansun aren't?

I'm sure they've all been hyped up by the NME in their own time, but I also included a lot of artists who they haven't been, whereas the list I made my little half-serious response to was all NME-approved landfill indie.

I'm not trying to suggest I have some deeper knowledge of music, because I don't, I've not heard or even heard of almost all the music in this thread so far. The list I remarked on just seemed very limited in scope, that's all.

[DukeDeMondo]

2000: Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music
2001: Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
2002: Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
2003: Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2004: Bjork - Medulla
2005: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Horses In The Sky
2006: Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
2007: White Williams - Smoke
2008: Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
2009: Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
2010: Chelsea Wolfe - The Grime And The Glow
2011: Richard Dawson - The Magic Bridge
2012: The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
2013: Kanye West - Yeezus
2014: Taylor Swift - 1989
2015: Grimes - Art Angels
2016:  Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
2017: Richard Dawson - Peasant

I think that's about right.

[Z]

2000: Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music
2001: Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
2002: Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
2003: Cursive - The Ugly Organ
2004: Bjork - Medulla
2005: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - Horses In The Sky
2006: Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
2007: White Williams - Smoke
2008: Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
2009: Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
2010: Chelsea Wolfe - The Grime And The Glow
2011: Richard Dawson - The Magic Bridge
2012: The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
2013: Kanye West - Yeezus
2014: Taylor Swift - 1989
2015: Grimes - Art Angels
2016:  Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
2017: Richard Dawson - Peasant

I think that's about right.

You must really rate that Chelsea Wolfe album, I take it?

[DukeDeMondo]

You must really rate that Chelsea Wolfe album, I take it?

Ha! It just took me by surprise, that album, really. I was properly obsessed for a while. I mean if you asked me now to name my favourite record that came out in 2010, and to name the 2010 record I listen to most these days, the obvious answer would be the correct answer, but at the time I was more taken with The Grime And The Glow, for whatever reason.

[DrGreggles]

Is there a strong consensus between us on any particular year?