EOY 2017 - Rockdelux (Spain)

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Published in RDL 368 (January 2018)

The best albums of 2017 according to Rockdelux were:
1. KENDRICK LAMAR “DAMN.”
2. ARCA “Arca”
3. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM “American Dream”
4. LORDE “Melodrama”
5. RUN THE JEWELS “Run the Jewels 3”
6. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS “50 Song Memoir”
7. BJÖRK “Utopia”
8. KING KRULE “The Ooz”
9. MOUNT EERIE “A Crow Looked at Me”
10. VINCE STAPLES “Big Fish Theory”
11. THE xx “I See You”
12. RICHARD DAWSON “Peasant”
13. SZA “Ctrl”
14. JLIN “Black Origami”
15. FATHER JOHN MISTY “Pure Comedy”
16. TYLER, THE CREATOR “Scum Fuck Flower Boy”
17. ST. VINCENT “Masseduction”
18. ALDOUS HARDING “Party”
19. MOSES SUMNEY “Aromanticism”
20. FEVER RAY “Plunge”
21. SAMPHA “Process”
22. THE NATIONAL “Sleep Well Beast”
23. SHABAZZ PALACES “Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star” “Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines”
24. DESTROYER “ken”
25. KELELA “Take Me Apart”
26. SLOWDIVE “Slowdive”
27. CONVERGE “The Dusk in Us”
28. CIRCUIT DES YEUX “Reaching for Indigo”
29. THE WAR ON DRUGS “A Deeper Understanding”
30. KELLY LEE OWENS “Kelly Lee Owens”
31. GAS “Narkopop”
32. PERFUME GENIUS “No Shape”
33. MORITZ VON OSWALD & ORDO SAKHNA “Moritz von Oswald & Ordo Sakhna”
34. LAUREL HALO “Dust”
35. CHILDREN OF ALICE “Children of Alice”
36. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO “async”
37. JESU / SUN KIL MOON “30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth”
38. JOHNNY JEWEL “Windswept”
39. PROTOMARTYR “Relatives in Descent”
40. GRIZZLY BEAR “Painted Ruins”
41. PETER HAMMILL “From the Trees”
42. JULIE BYRNE “Not Even Happiness”
43. THE CLIENTELE “Music for the Age of Miracles”
44. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER “Good Time”
45. JOHN MAUS “Screen Memories”
46. KAITLYN AURELIA SMITH “The Kid”
47. BIG THIEF “Capacity”
48. CIGARETTES AFTER SEX “Cigarettes After Sex”
49. ARIEL PINK “Dedicated to Bobby Jameson”
50. THUNDERCAT “Drunk”

Best songs of 2017:
1. LORDE “Green Light”
2. KENDRICK LAMAR “DNA.”
3. LUIS FONSI FEAT. DADDY YANKEE “Despacito”
4. MALUMA “Felices los 4”
5. ST. VINCENT “New York”
6. CHARLI XCX “Boys”
7. CARDI B “Bodak Yellow”
8. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM “Tonite”
9. ARCADE FIRE “Everything Now”
10. ARCA “Desafío”
11. DRAKE “Passionfruit”
12. FATHER JOHN MISTY “Ballad of the Dying Man”
13. FEVER RAY “To the Moon and Back”
14. KELELA “Frontline”
15. SZA FEAT. TRAVIS SCOTT “Love Galore”
16. THE xx “Say Something Loving”
17. RUN THE JEWELS “Legend Has It”
18. CIGARETTES AFTER SEX “K.”
19. KEHLANI “Undercover”
20. LANA DEL REY “Love”
21. MORRISSEY “Spent the Day in Bed”
22. MOSES SUMNEY “Doomed”
23. SAINT ETIENNE “Dive”
24. THE WAR ON DRUGS “Holding On”
25. COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE “Fear Is Like a Forest”
26. JENS LEKMAN “How We Met, The Long Version”
27. MAC DeMARCO “Still Beating”
28. ALVVAYS “Dreams Tonite”
29. ARIEL PINK “Another Weekend”
30. SLOWDIVE “Sugar for the Pill”
31. DIRTY PROJECTORS “Little Bubble”
32. FOXYGEN “Follow the Leader”
33. IRON & WINE “About a Bruise”
34. KELLY LEE OWENS “Anxi”
35. PETER PERRETT “How the West Was Won”
36. REAL STATE “Darling”
37. CALVIN HARRIS FEAT. FRANK OCEAN & MIGOS “Slide”
38. SINKANE “U'Huh”
39. BEDOUINE “Solitary Daughter”
40. BIG THIEF “Shark Smile”
41. DON BRYANT “How Do I Get There?”
42. FLO MORRISSEY & MATTHEW E. WHITE “Look at What the Light Did Now”
43. LOYLE CARNER “The Isle of Arran”
44. MARIKA HACKMAN “Boyfriend”
45. MOUNT KIMBIE FEAT. MICACHU “Marilyn”
46. NIGHTMARES ON WAX FEAT. MOZEZ & ALLAN KINGDOM “Citizen Kane”
47. PHOEBE BRIDGERS “Motion Sickness”
48. THE AFGHAN WHIGS “Demon in Profile”
49. TIMBER TIMBRE “Velvet Gloves & Spit”
50. THE BIG MOON “Sucker”
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Best Spanish albums of 2017
1. ROSALÍA “Los Ángeles”
2. MARIA ARNAL I MARCEL BAGÉS “45 cerebros y 1 corazón”
3. LOS PLANETAS “Zona Temporalmente Autónoma”
4. FERMIN MUGURUZA ETA THE SUICIDE OF WESTERN CULTURE “B-Map 1917 + 100”
5. ROCÍO MÁRQUEZ “Firmamento”
6. EXQUIRLA “Para quienes aún viven”
7. JOAN MIQUEL OLIVER “Atlantis”
8. BIZNAGA “Sentido del espectáculo”
9. LA BIEN QUERIDA “Fuego”
10. RAÚL RODRÍGUEZ “La raíz eléctrica”
11. GAMBARDELLA “Benicarló”
12. SÍLVIA PÉREZ CRUZ “Vestida de nit”
13. PABLO UND DESTRUKTION “Predación”
14. CARMEN LINARES “Verso a Verso. Canta a Miguel Hernández”
15. LOS PUNSETES “¡Viva!”
16. SIERRA “A ninguna parte”
17. MISHIMA “Ara i res”
18. TIGRES LEONES “El Año de la Victoria”
19. LOS SANTOS “Pxxrificación”
20. DELOREAN “Mikel Laboa”
21. MARIONA AUPÍ “Le monde”
22. JOE CREPÚSCULO “Disco duro”
23. C. TANGANA “Ídolo”
24. ANNTONA “Internacional”
25. KIKI MORENTE “Albayzín”
26. LAGARTIJA NICK “Crimen, sabotaje y creación”
27. RENALDO & CLARA “Els afores”
28. BEJO “Hipi Hapa Vacilanduki”
29. FLAMARADAS “Flamaradas”
30. BFLECHA “Kwalia”
31. ANÍMIC “Skin”
32. CALA VENTO “Fruto panorama”
33. LCC “Bastet”
34. DUOT & ANDY MOOR “Food”
35. JULIO BUSTAMANTE “La misión del copiloto”
36. FUTURO TERROR “Precipicio”
37. POR QUÉ JEANETTE “Por qué no te vas”
38. ZULU ZULU “Defensa zebra”
39. BALA “Lume”
40. CRUDO PIMENTO “Teleiste mouska”
41. AINARA LeGARDON “Ainara LeGardon”
42. JÚLIA “Pròxima B”
43. JAVIER DÍAZ ENA “Theremonial”
44. JOSELE SANTIAGO “Transilvania”
45. AUDIENCE “Isla”

Best Spanish songs of 2017:
1. LOS PLANETAS “Islamabad”
2. MARIA ARNAL I MARCEL BAGÉS “Tú que vienes a rondarme”
3. BAD GYAL “Jacaranda”
4. C. TANGANA “Mala mujer”
5. LOS PUNSETES “Tu puto grupo”
6. LA BIEN QUERIDA “7 días juntos”
7. JOAN MIQUEL OLIVER “Rumba del temps”
8. JOSELE SANTIAGO “Un guardia civil”
9. PABLO UND DESTRUKTION “El enemigo está dentro”
10. MISHIMA “Posa'm més gin, David!”
11. LAS ODIO “Indiespañol”
12. BIZNAGA “Una ciudad cualquiera”
13. MUJERES “Siempre eterno”
14. RENALDO & CLARA “Els afores”
15. BFLECHA “Rutas circulares”
16. WILD HONEY “Mujeres de zonas desiertas”
17. ANÍMIC “Glass”
18. DELLAFUENTE “Con otro andas ahora”
19. SIERRA “La noche criminal”
20. YUNG BEEF “Rosas azules”
21. IBON ERRAZKIN “Foto aérea”
22. PAPAYA “¡Ay, mujer!”
23. JORRA I GOMORRA “Window Earle”
24. TIGRES LEONES “Miliciano”
25. MURCIANO TOTAL “Cencia 1 (No sabes nada sobre mí)”

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Now the highlights of the rest of the Rockdelux lists, I'll only type the selections that included a review on the special "Best of 2017" on the RDL 268:

Top30 best compilations, the top 5 was:
1. HÜSKER DÜ “Savage Young Dü”
2. BOB DYLAN “Trouble No More. The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981”
3. ALICE COLTRANE TURIYASANGITANANDA “The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda”
4. VARIOUS “American Epic”
5. SURFIN’ BICHOS “El mundo por los pies: Surfin’ Bichos 1988-1994”

Top 30 best reissues, the top 5 was:
1. THE SMITHS “The Queen Is Dead” (1986)
2. THE BEATLES “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (1967)
3. MIDORI TAKADA “Through the Looking Glass” (1983)
4. PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION “Purple Rain” (1984)
5. ELLIOTT SMITH “Either/Or” (1997)

Top 10 best international singles (EPs), the top 3 was:
1. KAMASI WASHINGTON “Harmony of Difference”
2. ANOHNI “Paradise”
3. FATIMA AL QUADIRI “Shaneera”

Top 50 best international live acts performing in Spain, the Top 10 was:
1. RUBÉN BLADES
2. SOLANGE
3. SWANS
4. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
5. ELZA SOARES
6. PJ HARVEY
7. THE xx
8. GRACE JONES
9. ALDOUS HARDING
10. ARCA

Top 10 best international DJs, the #1 was DJ HARVEY

Top 15 best international clips, the Top 5 was:
1. LENINGRAD “Tattoo Artist” (Ilya Naishuller)
2. THE BLAZE “Territory” (The Blaze)
3. YOUNG THUG “Wyclef Jean” (Ryan Staake & Young Thug)
4. KENDRICK LAMAR “HUMBLE.” (Dave Meyers & The Little Homies)
5. ZHU & NERO “Dreams” (Elliott Sellers & Erik Ferguson)

Top 10 best Spanish singles (EPs), the Top 3 was:
1. DESERT “Sense Likes”
2. MWËSLEE “Vel Satis”
3. FLAMARADAS “Flamaradas al Prat”

Top 10 best Spanish clips, the Top 3 was:
1. ROSALÍA “De plata” (Manson)
2. C. TANGANA “Caballo ganador” (Diana Kunst)
3. NOIA “Itaca tropical” (Joan Galo)

Top 20 Spanish live acts, the Top 5 was:
1. ROSALÍA & RAÜL REFREE
2. EXQUIRLA
3. MARIA ARNAL I MARCEL BAGÉS
4. LOQUILLO
5. LOS PLANETAS

Top 10 best Spanish DJs, the #1 was MR. PENDEJO

Top 20 TV series, the Top 5 was:
1. “TWIN PEAKS” David Lynch & Mark Frost
2. “MASTER OF NONE” Aziz Ansari & Alan Yang
3. “MINDHUNTER” Joe Penhall
4. “THE DEUCE” George Pelecanos & David Simon
5. “GIRLS” Lena Dunham

Top 15 music DVDs, the #1 was NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS “One More Time with Feeling”

Top 20 comics (with Spanish translation published during 2017), the Top 3 was:
1. OLIVIER SCHRAUWEN “Arsène Schrauwen. Edición integral” (original Flemish “Arsène Schrauwen” 2014).
2. YOSHINARU TSUGE “La mujer de al lado” (original Japanese “Tonari no Onna” 1981-1985)
3. DAVID SÁNCHEZ “Un millón de años”

Top 20 books (with Spanish translation published during 2017), the #1 was PAUL AUSTER “4, 3, 2, 1”

Top 30 Pop books, the Top 5 was:
1. ROBBIE ROBERTSON “Testimony”
2. VIV ALBERTINE “Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys”
3. SIMON REYNOLDS “Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century”
4. GABRIELLE DRAKE / CALLY CALLOMON “Nick Drake: Remembered for a While”
5. VICTORIA BROACKES and GEOFFREY MARSH (ed.) “David Bowie Is”

Top 25 films (premiered in Spain during 2017), the Top 5 was:
1. “TOIVON TUOLLA PUOLEN (THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE)” Aki Kaurismäki
2. “MA VIE DE COURGETTE (MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI)” Claude Barras
3. “SIERANEVADA” Cristi Puiu
4. “DUNKERQUE” Christopher Nolan
5. “ESTIU 1993 (SUMMER 1993)” Carla Simón

And now, according to Rockdelux, the best Spanish clip of 2017 (Rosalía’s “De plata”) from the best Spanish album of 2017, Rosalía’s “Los Ángeles.” Strongly recommended. Let’s hope for some inclusion on the Women in Music lists...
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