Alt Corner’s big 2017 round up – Albums of the year

2017 is coming to a close which of course means it’s time to start reflecting on the year that was. In a somewhat turbulent year for the alt music scene there have been some real triumphs. We got thinking about all our favourites from 2017 and tried to pick 10(ish) of the best. Here’s Alt […]

2017 is coming to a close which of course means it’s time to start reflecting on the year that was. In a somewhat turbulent year for the alt music scene there have been some real triumphs. We got thinking about all our favourites from 2017 and tried to pick 10(ish) of the best.

Here’s Alt Corner’s big 2017 round up. First up – best albums/eps of 2017.

Lizi – Head of Reviews

1 – Youth In RevoltThe Broken

2 – Motionless In WhiteGraveyard Shift

3 – MakeoutThe Good Life

4 – BlindwishGood Excuses

5 – Our Last NightSelective Hearing

6 – EnergyUnder The Mask

7 – FozzyJudas

8 – Restless StreetsTogether

9 – CreeperEternity In Your Arms

10 – Renegade TwelveRenegade Twelve

11. – Bullet HeightNo Atonement

12. NorthlaneMesmer

Laura Brown  – Head of Features

1 – BrutusBurst

2 – Frank Carter & The RattlesnakesModern Ruin

3 – The MenzingersAfter The Party

4 – The Gospel YouthAlways Lose

5 – And So I Watch You From AfarThe Endless Shimmering

6 –  Can’t SwimFail You Again

7 –  JP CooperRaised Under Grey Skies

8 –  Wolf AliceVisions Of A Life

9 – Nordic GiantsAmplify Human Vibrations

10 – ParamoreAfter Laughter

Jordan Reeves – Contributor

1 – Neck DeepThe Peace and the Panic
2 – Knuckle PuckShapeshifter
3 – Seaway Vacation
4 – PerspectivesStay for Those Who Care
5 – MovementsFeel Something
6 – Like Moths to FlamesDark Divine
7 – Stray from the PathOnly Death Is Real
8 – Wage WarDeadweight
9 – Vesta CollideNew Obsession
10 – Blood YouthBeyond Repair
11 – Being As An OceanWaiting for Morning to Come
12 – HundredthRare
13 – While she sleepsYou Are We
14 – CounterpartsYou’re Not You Anymore
15 – NorthlaneMesmer

Brad Thorne – Contributor

1 – While She Sleeps – You Are We

I’ve barely stopped listening to this record all year long. It’s heavy, it’s melodic and packs one hell of a wallop. Bands take note, this is how you bring British metal to the mainstream.

2 – Creeper – Eternity, In Your Arms

If we’re going by the play count alone this would top my list by about a thousand places, this is an assured debut from one of rock’s most exciting young bands. Best of all? This is only the beginning for the Creeper cult.

3 – Mastodon – Emperor of Sand

Multi-layered metal doesn’t come any better than the seventh record from these Atlanta titans. This doom-laden reflection on mortality has barely left me since its release way back in March.

 4 – Code Orange – Forever

A pioneering collection of songs, this is the sound of the future paying its respects to the past.

5 – Citizen – As You Please

This is an emo band refusing to be grown out of, it’s ambitious, it’s moody, it’s heavy, it’s wonderful. It appeals to so many sides of my musical pallet that it could never land outside my top ten.

6 – Employed To Serve – The Warmth of a Dying Sun

The past twelve months have been great for pioneering and exciting heavy bands, but for me this Woking mob are leagues ahead. If you think this record’s good you should see what happens when they play it live.

7 – Milk Teeth – Be Nice and Go Away

Few bands on this list have the potential to go supernova in the same way as Milk Teeth. Across these two EP’s (which I am absolutely classing as an album) they surpass the impressive heights of their debut album and hint at just what they’re capable of.

8 – Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.

The term ‘genius’ is banded around an awful lot in music journalism these days, but nowhere is it more applicable than in the music of this Compton megastar. On this, his fourth album, he remains strides ahead of the hip-hop scene and leaves his peers in the dust.

9 – Stray From The Path – Only Death Is Real

I’ve spent years begging for a Rage Against The Machine reunion and this year one record finally shut me up… and it certainly wasn’t Prophets of Rage. This Long Island mob are forged from the same fire that made RATM such an abrasively captivating force, this is 2017’s most pissed off record by a longshot.

10 – Jamie Lenman – Devolver

The perfect encapsulation of a musical chameleon is as forward thinking a piece of British rock as you could hope to find this year. There’s someone for everyone, whether you’re into pop, rock, punk or metal.

Honourable mention absolutely must go to Bad Sign, Enter Shikari, The Smith Street Band, Turnover and Loyle Carner for their awesome albums.

Amos Hayes – Contributor

1 – The MenzingersAfter The Party
2 – Code OrangeForever
3 – Run The JewelsRTJ3
4 – Grave PleasuresMotherblood
5 – CreeperEternity In Your Arms
6 – ConvergeDusk In Us
7 – Jamie LenmanDevolver
8 – Stray From The PathOnly Death Is Real
9 – Frank CarterModern Ruin
10 – Employed To ServeWarmth of a Dying sun

Tom Butterworth – Contributor

1. Employed To ServeWarmth Of A Dying Sun
2. MastodonEmperor of Sand
3. Jamie LenmanDevolver

4. While She SleepsYou Are We
5.  CreeperEternity In Your Arms
6. The MenzingersAfter The Party
7.  TriviumThe Sin And The Sentence
8. Milk TeethBe Nice/Go Away
9. Power TripNightmare Logic
10. ConvergeThe Dusk In Us
11 Enter ShikariThe Spark
12. Darkest HourGodless Prophets And The Migrant Flora
13. Prophets Of RageProphets of Rage
14. SatyriconDeep Calleth Upon Deep
15. Code OrangeForever

Jamie MacMillan – Contributor 

1. IDLES Brutalism
2. Manchester OrchestraA Black Mile To The Surface
3. ProtomartyrRelatives In Descent
4. Wolf AliceA Vision Of Cool
5. The NationalSleep Well Beast
6. Prophets of RageProphets of Rage
7. CreeperEternity, In Your Arms
8. Enter ShikariThe Spark
9. Foo FightersConcrete and Gold
10. QOTSAVillains

Laura Brown

December 8, 2017

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