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http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4151 ... ms-of-2017

1) Wolf Alice - Visions of a Life
2) Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
3) EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
4) St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
5) Noveller - A Pink Sunset For No One
6) Austra - Future Politics
7) Feist - Pleasure
8) Jane Weaver - Modern Cosmology
9) Laura Marling - Semper Femina
10) Juana Molina - Halo
11) Soulwax - From Deewee
12) Thundercat - Drunk
13) Paramore - After Laughter
14) Jean Michel-Blais & CFCF - Cascades
15) Bjork - Utopia
16) Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun
17) Zola Jesus - Okovi
18) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
19) Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
20) Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
21) Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiotopia
22) Slowdive - Slowdive
23) Loyle Carner - Yesterday’s Gone
24) Eyre Llew - Atelo
25) Perfume Genius - No Shape
26) Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
27) LCD Soundsystem - american dream
28) Lorde - Melodrama
29) Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator
30) The Big Moon - Love In the 4th Dimension
31) Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
32) Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
33) The Horrors - V
34) Queens of the Stone Age - Villains
35) RIDE - Weather Diaries
36) Sylvan Esso - What Now
37) IDLES - Brutalism
38) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Before The Flood
39) Cigarettes After Sex - Cigarettes After Sex
40) Girl Ray - Earl Grey
41) The Mynabirds - Be Here Now
42) SZA - Ctrl
43) Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - Fatal Gift
44) Johnny Jewel - Windswept
45) Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
46) Katy Perry - Witness
47) Clark - Death Peak
48) Grandaddy - Last Place
49) Tired Lion - Dumb Days
50) William Basinski - A Shadow in Time
51) Four Tet - New Energy
52) Sløtface - Try Not to Freak Out
53) Beck - Colors
54) Bicep - Bicep
55) Alvvays - Antisocialites
56) Juanita Stein - America
57) Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps
58) Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder
59) Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
60) Liars - TFCF
61) Kamasi Washington - Harmony of Difference
62) Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet
63) Ghostpoet - Dark Days + Canapes
64) Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest
65) The National - Sleep Well Beast
66) Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher
67) Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Delusions
68) Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
69) Lana Del Rey - Lust for Life
70) Wiley - Godfather
71) Father John Misty - Pure Comedy
72) Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music from Wolf Works
73) Molly Burch - Please Be Mine
74) Rose Elinor Dougall - Stellular
75) Big Thief - Capacity
76) Casey Dienel - Imitation of a Women To Love
77) The Shins - Heartworms
78) Destroyer - Ken
79) Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
80) Cherry Glazerr - Apocolipstick
81) Mura Masa - Mura Masa
82) Fever Ray - Plunge
83) Ryan Adams - Prisoner
84) Depeche Mode - Spirit
85) Laurel Halo - Dust
86) Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Whole Lotta Sea Lice
87) King Krule - The Ooz
88) Kelela - Take Me Apart
89) This Is The Kit - Moonshine Kingdom
90) Sampha - Process
91) Lapalux - Ruinism
92) Afghan Whigs - In Spades
93) Cloud Nothings - Life Without Sound
94) Circuit des Yeux - Reaching For Indigo
95) Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom
96) The War on Drugs - Deeper Understanding
97) Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley
98) Future Islands - Far Field
99) Blanck Mass - World Eater
100) Arcade Fire - Everything Now
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Seems like while he 'did consult' other contributors, does appear, as in some other years, strongly influenced (if not more) by Sean Adams the editor.
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Though he does say here Comment 98 (c10:40 23/11) https://community.drownedinsound.com/t/ ... e/20537/98

'Wolf Alice is also Dom Gourlay’s album of the year and Derek our featured editor loves it too. So this isn’t just my list or else Paramore would probably be number 1.'

& with Paramore being no. 13 there must be a fair degree of other views taken into account.
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On reflection of the DiS forum discussion rather than the article there appears little difference to other years when (rightly or wrongly) deemed eligible

2014 http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4148 ... ms-of-2014

which has link to methodology that year at least (summarised above) https://medium.com/@seaninsound/this-is ... ab48d0ae75

In summary other contributors vote/consulted but not a straight totting up of votes (senior contributors more weighting, specialist genres considered etc.) and/or Forums views considered list drafted then consulted ...

2015 http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4149 ... -year-2015

'This poll has been done democratically, to a point. Various genre specialists' choices and senior staff picks were taken into consideration, even if no other staff member voted for them or they weren't picking up votes on the boards. In weighting the list like this - as we have done every year for the past 5 or so - it hopefully makes for a reflection of the music we've been passionate about this year, rather than an approximation of what was most agreeable to our team.'

2016 http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4150 ... ms-of-2016

'The positioning is a little bit arbitrary, ...However, we have also shared all of our teams’ top 3s ...These lists weren’t totted up, but were more of an advisement to create a representation of what ‘we’, the team behind DiS, love but also that ‘we’ includes the thoughts and feelings of many of you posting on our forums throughout the year.'
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2017 https://twitter.com/DrownedinSound/stat ... 8201947136

' “Our” albums of the year list was compiled by taking into consideration:
High-scoring reviews
Conversations + monthly polls on our forums
Opinions of our editorial team
Then human filtered by our editor (so it isn’t his list, it’s a refraction of the above)'

and original article said the list could change (somewhere, I think FB thread, they said posted earlier this year as people sick of lists by mid Dec) and they appear to have made a 'FIRST revision' https://twitter.com/DrownedinSound/stat ... 8055450625

"Based on your celebrations of your favourites, here's the first revision of our top 20: @sza and Julie Byrne join the list"

https://t.co/AOIUsFnKSs

"Based on the first 14 hours of feedback from our team and the community on here and on social media, here’s the new top 20… this isn’t like Trump’s u-turn on Elephant hunting, but it will keep changing until the dust settles…"

1. Wolf Alice - Visions of Life
2. Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
3. EMA - Exile in the Outer Ring
4. St Vincent - MASSEDUCTION
5. Noveller - A Pink Sunset For No One
6. Austra - Future Politics
7. Feist - Pleasure
8. Jane Weaver - Modern Cosmology
9. Laura Marling - Semper Femina
10. Juana Molina - Halo
11. Soulwax - From Deewee
12. Thundercat - Drunk
13. Paramore - After Laughter
14. SZA - Ctrl NEW (previously 42)
15. Bjork - Utopia
16. Mogwai - Every Country’s Sun
17. Zola Jesus - Okovi
18. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
19. Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent
20. Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness NEW (not previously in top 100)
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Not sure what happened to the previous no. 14

Jean Michel-Blais & CFCF - Cascades
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JohnnyBGoode wrote:Not sure what happened to the previous no. 14

Jean Michel-Blais & CFCF - Cascades
Now outside top 20 but not sure where

https://twitter.com/seaninsound/status/ ... 0064798721

so can't revise top 100/101, but subject to more revisions anyway ...
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Oh, F this S. I spent an hour adding that top 100 list to the spreadsheet last night. Can someone update this if and when the "official" posted list actually has a finalized form?
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Harold wrote:Oh, F this S. I spent an hour adding that top 100 list to the spreadsheet last night. Can someone update this if and when the "official" posted list actually has a finalized form?
They've now posted a straight totting up of staff votes. Only top 3s submitted so lots of ties, but irrespective of what happens with the more edited list, this one probably meets criteria for here better.

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4151 ... -2017-list

1) Lorde - Melodrama (19)
2) The War On Drugs - Deeper Understanding (13)
3) Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. (10)
4) LCD Soundsystem - american dream (8)
= IDLES - Brutalism (8)
= Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness (8)
7) St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION (7)
8) Laurel Halo - Dust (6)
9) EMA - Exile In The Outer Ring (4)
= Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination (4)
= Gas - Narkopop (4)
12) Wolf Alice - Visions Of A Life (3)
= Juana Molina - Halo (3)
= Protomartyr - Relatives In Descent (3)
= Slowdive - Slowdive (3)
= Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory (3)
= Girl Ray - Earl Grey (3)
= William Basinski - A Shadow in Time (3)
= Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives (3)
= Circuit des Yeux - Reaching For Indigo (3)
= Charly Bliss - Guppy (3)
= Sophia Kennedy - Sophia Kennedy (3)
= Chastity Belt - I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone (3)
= Jay Som - Everybody Works (3)
25) Mhysa - fantasii (3)
= Timothy Fife - Black Carbon (3)
= Leif Vollebekk - Twin Solitude (3)
= Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up (3)
= Hajk - Hajk (3)
= The Used - The Canyon (3)
= Kikagaku Moyo - Stone Garden (3)
= Lucy Rose - Something's Changing (3)
= Oak House - Hot Or Mood (3)
= Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now (3)
= Helpless - Debt (3)
37 ) Thundercat - Drunk (2)
= Weezer - Pacific Daydream (2)
= Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology (2)
= Hurray For The Riff Raff - The Navigator (2)
= Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe (2)
= The Horrors - V (2)
= SZA - Ctrl (2)
= Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds From Another Planet (2)
= Jen Cloher - Jen Cloher (2)
= Destroyer - ken (2)
= Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory (2)
= Lauren Bird - The Inbetween (2)
= Priests - Nothing Feels Natural (2)
= JAY-Z - 4:44 (2)
= Richard Dawson - Peasant (2)
= Moses Sumney - Aromanticism (2)
= Meat Wave - The Incessant (2)
= Charlie Cunningham - Lines = Amber Run - For A Moment I Was Lost (2)
= The Menzingers ​ - After The Party (2)
= Army Of Bones - ​Army Of Bones (2)
= Algiers - The Underside Of Power (2)
= Royal Blood - How Did We Get So Dark? (2)
= Nadia Reid - Preservation (2)
= Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me (2)
= Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 (2)
= Binker and Moses - Journey To The Mountain Of Forever (2)
62) Noveller - A Pink Sunset For No One (1)
= Laura Marling - Semper Femina (1)
= Soulwax - From Deewee (1)
= Perfume Genius - No Shape (1)
= Queens Of The Stone Age - Villains (1)
= Four Tet - New Energy (1)
= Alvvays - Antisocialites (1)
= Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (1)
= Ryan Adams - Prisoner (1)
= Kelela - Take Me Apart (1)
= Afghan Whigs - In Spades (1)
= Public Service Broadcasting - Every Valley (1)
= Blanck Mass - World Eater (1)
= Brix & The Extricated - Part 2 (1)
= King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana (1)
= Shamir - Revelations (1)
= The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir (1)
= Melkbelly - Nothing Valley (1)
= Arca - Arca (1)
= Bing & Ruth - No Home Of The Mind (1)
= Converge - The Dusk In Us (1)
= James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits (1)
= Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel - I Can Spin A Rainbow (1)
= Old Wives - Three (1)
= Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors (1)
= H.E.R. - H.E.R. (1)
= Bullet Height - ​No Atonement (1)
= Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run (1)
= Conor Oberst - Saluations (1)
= The Hundredth Anniversary - Sea State Pictures (1)
= Happyness - Write In (1)
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As much as I've been a big reader and fan of the site for well over a decade, Sean seems chronically incapable of doing EOY in a non-terrible way.

Do an editor's list, ask the contributers to contribute more than 3 albums each and let the forum take care of their own list.

Not difficult.
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Mitchellstirling wrote:As much as I've been a big reader and fan of the site for well over a decade, Sean seems chronically incapable of doing EOY in a non-terrible way.

Do an editor's list, ask the contributers to contribute more than 3 albums each and let the forum take care of their own list.

Not difficult.
& list contributors and/or editors own list, then compare contract away and even produce some sort of cumulative/collaborative list using all of above...

though in his defence (as I really like him & the site) while it's not good for those who like to stick to rules, or compare like with like (which seems to be a large no.) it certainly is an attempt to bring a fresh approach/open up debate...

Discuss (25 marks) :whistle:
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Honestly don't know how to handle this for the spreadsheet. The "editor's list" is way too arbitrary in its methodology to be included, but I can't see including the entirety of this staff list either. Maybe cut it off at 3 points, or even just the top 11? Henrik, your thoughts?
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Harold wrote:Honestly don't know how to handle this for the spreadsheet. The "editor's list" is way too arbitrary in its methodology to be included, but I can't see including the entirety of this staff list either. Maybe cut it off at 3 points, or even just the top 11? Henrik, your thoughts?
I'd say at least the top 36 could be included, but it's your call.
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Henrik wrote:
Harold wrote:Honestly don't know how to handle this for the spreadsheet. The "editor's list" is way too arbitrary in its methodology to be included, but I can't see including the entirety of this staff list either. Maybe cut it off at 3 points, or even just the top 11? Henrik, your thoughts?
I'd say at least the top 36 could be included, but it's your call.
looking at it again I think those that are listed 25= should actually be 12=, i.e. all on 3 points. I've also amended Jay Som to Everybody Works
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JohnnyBGoode wrote:
Henrik wrote:
Harold wrote:Honestly don't know how to handle this for the spreadsheet. The "editor's list" is way too arbitrary in its methodology to be included, but I can't see including the entirety of this staff list either. Maybe cut it off at 3 points, or even just the top 11? Henrik, your thoughts?
I'd say at least the top 36 could be included, but it's your call.
looking at it again I think those that are listed 25= should actually be 12=, i.e. all on 3 points. I've also amended Jay Som to Everybody Works
I'll include the top 36. Thanks!
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More corrections (the website's fault, not Johnny B. Goode's):

*Mount Kimbie's album is listed twice.
*The Hajk and Weezer albums got combined into a single line.
*Lucy Rose's album is titled Something's Changing (it got ascribed with the same title as the album listed above it).

Christ, what a shitshow this is ...
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I've now amended the list. From a quick check actually put Weezer on 2 points as it appeared to only get 1 2nd place (behind Hajk)

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I take no responsibility for any other errors (probably should have just posted the original top 100 then walked away :greetings-waveyellow: )
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Charlie Cunningham and Amber Run share line also...
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Doesn't appear to matter as Harold only took top 36. Again looks like they are in same list (& only once) with Charlie Cunningham 2 points & Amber Run 1 point.
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