2017 Music General Hub

Talk about 2017 music here.
New releases, earlier releases, upcoming releases, mainstream, indie, YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, whatever.
Any genre, any artist, as long as it's not Bemani (we have respective threads for that).
Let's get a discussion going.

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tfw you dont listen to anything other than bemani artists anymore

uhhh Paramore had an album that I heard was pretty decent

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imo, it really wasn't
people kinda just lap up anything vaguely nostalgic at this point
if you're looking for some good nostalgia vibes, the new Bleachers and Jamiroquai albums are p. good stuff

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Let's see...favorite songs so far this year...

well first off, some songs from the tail end of 2016 that only got big/I listened to this year...

The Fighter / Keith Urban

Goosebumps / Travis Scott

Perm / Bruno Mars

Secrets / The Weeknd

Derby Racers (HYPERDRiVE Mix) / Foozogz

and as for the rest...

Despacito (Original Ver.) / Luis Fonsi

Drowning (Water) / A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie

HUMBLE. / Kendrick Lamar

Nancy Mulligan / Ed Sheeran

Midnight Frenzy / Spiral Harmonies feat. PK Emi

thank you for almost crashing my laptop with the youtube embed bomb, most appreciated

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every thing is shit in 2017
thread done

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thanks for your input, most appreciated

i've been finding myself listening to Connect The Dots / MisterWives more and more as of late, honestly a great album from start to finish. indie pop never sounded so sweeter.

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The embed bomb has been cordoned away, able to give some fresh onions now?

Here's some of my favorite tracks from 2017 so far:

Goldfrapp - Systematic

Lady Gaga - The Cure

Gorillaz - Andromeda

Lorde - Green Light

Allie X - Paper Love

Gryffin & Illenium - Feel Good (feat. Daya)

Dua Lipa - New Rules

Gorillaz - Out Of Body (ft. Kilo Kish, Zebra Katz & Imani Vonshà)

Zuzu - What You Want

Sofi de la Torre - $

HAIM - Want You Back

...Among many others. I also have a 2017 Spotify Playlist of everything I've been grabbing so far this year.

Thinking I'm gonna post some recommendations later on today. Maybe even in video form. I've heard a lot of great albums so far, still hungry for more.

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Jax Jones - Instruction (feat. Demi Lovato & Stefflon Don)
Lido - Not Enough (feat. THEY.)
Danny L Harle - 1UL
ionnalee - NOT HUMAN
Katy Perry - Swish Swish (feat. Nicki Minaj)

Obsessed with these songs lately.

It's New Music Friday, here's some new songs I think are worth checking out this week:

Chlöe Howl - Magnetic
Ralph - Young Hearts Run Free
Foster the People - Loyal Like Sid & Nancy
Anna of the North - Someone
LANY - Super Far
St. Vincent - New York

Here's some songs I liked also.

Calvin Harris - Prayers Up (feat. Travis Scott & A-Trak)
J Balvin & Willy William - Mi Gente
Mura Masa - Second 2 None (feat. Christine and the Queens
R3hab - Truth or Dare (feat. Little Daylight)
Desiigner - Liife (feat. Gucci Mane)
Future - PIE (feat. Chris Brown)
Bruno Mars vs. David Guetta - Versace on the Floor
Towkio - Drift
Stanaj - The Way I Love Her
Nick Jonas - Remember I Told You (feat. Anne-Marie & Mike Posner) (Frank Walker Remix)

Most worthy of promotion

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My favorite artists haven't released their albums yet... but there are songs that certainly DID catch my interest.

Tankard - Syrian Nightmare
(Finally a metal band decides to write a song about the ongoing civil war. Though I didn't expect Tankard would do it, since they normally like to make songs about beer.)

Nano - Hold On
(This one has become a huge favorite of mine, as it kinda symbolizes my long struggles to make my ends meet, to where I'm standing now. It also participated in Melodifestivalen 2017, where it only became a runner-up despite winning the televotes... damn you international jury, damn you to hell!)

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Current Listen: Flying Microtonal Banana / King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
What the heck is microtonal music? Well, in the Western world, we use a simple 12 note scale. Covers everything from C to, well, C. The white keys and the black key on a piano, standard stuff. Microtonal music focuses on the notes between those notes. The notes between the C and the C#, for example. Opens up a whole new world of musical possibilities.

This album consists entirely of microtonal compositions, using instruments set in 24-TET (Arab tone) tuning. Helps give the tracks a nice exotic flavor, but still sounds conventional enough to not be outsider.

This video does a better job of explaining microtonality than I ever could.

tl;dr: a bunch of dudes added extra frets to their guitar and made some kick ass exotic sounding garage rock, put it on the next time you drive through the desert

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