2017 roundup: Top 50 albums
Bant Mag. team sits down on a round table every year for the heated debates on which albums to highlight. We have also put our heads together with a number of musicians, writers, DJs and promoters for this year’s evaluation. With a number of beauties inevitably left out, here’s 2017’s top album picks!
Evaulated by Bant Mag. team, Mersenne / Undomondo, Haluk Damar, Berk Çakmakçı, Zülal Kalkandelen, Tayfun Polat, Kaan Akay, Yiğit Atılgan, Deniz Cuylan, Işıl Kılkış
50 Leyla McCalla – A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey
(Jazz Village)
“Little Sparrow”
49 Pessimist – Pessimist
(Blackest Ever Black)
“Grit”
48 Drab Majesty – The Demonstration
(Dais Records)
“Cold Souls”47 Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked At Me
(P.W. Elvrum & Sun, Ltd.)
“Emptiness, Pt. 2”
46 Ex-Eye – Ex-Eye
(Relapse Records)
“Xenolith; The Anvil”
45 Ariel Pink – Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
(Mexican Summer)
“Another Weekend”
44 Zombie Zombie – Livity
(Versatile Records)
“Livity”
43 Morrissey – Low in High School
(BMG / Etienne)
“Spent The Day In The Bed”
42 Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
(Smalltown Supersound)
“Lucid”
41 Tamikrest – Kidal
(Glitterbeat)
“War Tila Eridaran”
40 Liima – 1982
(City Slang)
“1982”
39 Mario Batkovic – Mario Batkovic
(Invada Records)
“Semper”
38 Jlin – Black Origami
(Planet Mu)
“Holy Child”
36 Actress – AZD
(Ninja Tune)
“DANCING IN THE SMOKE”
35 Fever Ray – Plunge
(Rabid Records)
“An Itch”
34 Tinariwen – Elwan
(Anti-)
“Sastanàqqàm”
33 Talamanca System – Talamanca System
(International Feel Recordings)
“Ocean Grill”
32 Thundercat – Drunk
(Brainfeeder)
“Tokyo”
31 Algiers – The Underside of Power
(Matador Records)
“Walk Like A Panther”
30 Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star
(Sub Pop)
“When Cats Claw”
29 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Sketches of Brunswick East
(ATO Records)
“Rolling Stoned”
28 Bing & Ruth – No Home Of The Mind
(4AD)
“The How of it Sped”
27 Forest Swords – Compassion
(Ninja Tune)
“Vandalism”
26 Bibio – Phantom Brickworks
(Warp)
“CAPEL CELYN”
25 Eric Copeland – Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect
(L.I.E.S.)
“Qualified”
24 Godflesh – Post Self
(Avalanche Recordings)
“Mortality Sorrow”
23 Bicep – Bicep
(Ninja Tune)
“Glue”
22 Slowdive – Slowdive
(Dead Oceans)
“Falling Ashes”
21 Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins
(RCA)
“Mourning Sounds”
20 Moon Duo – Occult Architecture Vol. 2
(Sacred Bones)
“Sevens”
19 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – The Kid
(Western Vinyl Records)
“An Intention”
18 The Bug vs Earth – Snakes vs Rats
(Ninja Tune)
“Don’t Walk These Streets”
17 Gnod – Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
(Rocket Recordings)
“Bodies for Money”
16 Amadou & Mariam – La Confusion
(Because Music)
”Bofou Safou”
15 Liars – TFCF
(Mute)
“Staring At Zero”
14 Arca – s/t
(XL Recordings)
“Piel”
13 Björk – Utopia
(One Little Indian)
“The Gate”
12 Protomartyr – Relatives in Descent
(Domino)
“Don’t Go To Anacita”
11 Colin Stetson – All I Do Is For Glory
(52 Hz)
“Spindrift”
10 Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology
(Fire Records)
“Did You See Butterflies?”
9 LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
(DFA / Columbia)
“Call The Police”
8 Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
(Top Dawg Entertainment)
”DNA.”
7 King Krule – The Ooz
(True Panther Sounds)
“Dum Surfer”
6 Kelela – Take Me Apart
(Warp)
“LMK”
5 Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives
(Warp)
“Four Years and One Day”
4 Juana Molina – Halo
(Crammed Discs)
“Paraguaya”
Illustration by Gizem Tatar
3 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana
(ATO Records / Heavenly)
“Rattlesnake”
Illustration by Ethem Onur Bilgiç
2 Les Amazones d’Afrique – République Amazone
(Real World Records)
“I Play the Kora”
Illustration by Naz Tansel
1 James Holden and The Animal Spirits – The Animal Spirits
(Border Community)
”Each Moment Like The First”
