PR043 - Best of 2017

You may or may not have already seen my Top Five of 2017. This show is based on the same idea, what albums got played the most on my show, but it's slightly more subjective. It's less ranked, and more loosely organized.

I started the show with my favorite song of the year, "let gO Of my egO" by Nnamdi Ogbonnaya. He's a super-talented dude out of Chicago, and he has played instruments in a lot of different bands before releasing DROOL on Father/Daughter Records. I first heard this song on Nick's show, Today's Active Lifestyles (which is now on hiatus), and I had to drop everything to figure out how I could hear it again.

Of the bands that I got to see this year, Kate Tempest put on one of the best shows. She did all of the songs from her album Let Them Eat Chaos front to back. Her song Perfect Coffee is about gentrification in London, but it could just as easily be about the Bay Area, or anywhere.

Shabazz Palaces put out two albums this year, Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star AND Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines. Their lead single "Shine A Light" is probably the easiest way in to the spaced-out hip-hop from Ishmael Butler & Tendai "Baba" Maraire. Their Tiny Desk Concert at NPR was pretty great, too.

Playlist

  1. DJ Wiki Ben Theme by Marty Finkel on DJ Wiki Ben Theme (Self-Released)
  2. let gO Of my egO by Nnamdi Ogbonnaya on DROOL (Father/Daughter)
  3. Ketamine For Breakfast by Kate Tempest on Let Them Eat Chaos... (Lex Records)
  4. Shine a Light (feat. Quazarz & Thaddillac) by Shabazz Palaces on Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star (Sub Pop)
  5. Black Licorice by Cold Beat on Chaos By Invitation (Crime on the Moon)
  6. No Fixed Destination by Cut Copy on Haiku From Zero (Astralwerks)
  7. A Part Of Us by Fever Ray on Plunge (Mute)
  8. North East South West by Japandroids on Near To The Wild Heart Of Life (Polyvinyl)
  9. 1 Billion Dogs by Jay Som on Everybody Works (Polyvinyl)
  10. Not My Baby by Alvvays on Antisocialites (Polyvinyl)
  11. Pills by St. Vincent on MASSEDUCTION (Loma Vista)
  12. Don't Bring Me Coffee by All Them Witches on Sleeping Through The War (New West)
  13. Don't Delete The Kisses by Wolf Alice on Visions Of A Life (RCA)
  14. Incantation by Wolf Parade on Cry Cry Cry (Sub Pop)
  15. Wear Black by The Mountain Goats on Goths (Merge)
  16. Pretty Cool by Lo Tom on Lo Tom (Barsuk)
  17. Road Trip by Diet Cig on Swear I'm Good At This (Frenchkiss)
  18. Trash People by Cherry Glazerr on Apocalipstick (Secretly Canadian)
  19. Forest Mattress by Rainer Maria on Rainer Maria (Polyvinyl)
  20. Tour by The Courtneys on The Courtneys II (Flying Nun)
  21. Whiteout Conditions by The New Pornographers on Whiteout Conditions (Collected Works)
  22. Hot Thoughts by Spoon on Hot Thoughts (Matador)
  23. Julie's Place by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever on The French Press EP (Sub Pop)
  24. Cold Fear by Moon Duo on Occult Architecture Vol. 1 (Sacred Bones)
  25. Up The Tower by Protomartyr on Relatives In Descent (Domino)
  26. Die Young by Sylvan Esso on What Now (Loma Vista)
  27. Hair Slick Back by Sneaks on It's A Myth (Merge)
  28. oh baby by LCD Soundsystem on american dream (DFA/Columbia)
  29. All I Want by Ride on Weather Diaries (Wichita)
  30. Star Roving by Slowdive on Slowdive (Dead Oceans)
  31. A Report To The Shareholders : Kill Your Masters by Run The Jewels on RTJ3 (Mass Appeal)