Top Hip-Hop Album >Arms and Sleepers - Life Is Everywhere
Top Rap album >Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
Top Metal Album >Boris - Dear
Top Electronic Dance Album >Danger - 太鼓
Top Experimental Electronic/Noise Album >Nathan Fake - Providence
Top Ambient Album >Brian Eno - Reflection
Top Indie Rock Album >Arcade Fire - Everything Now
Top Jam Band/Funk Album >Nils Lindgren Funk Unit w/ Ray Parker Jr. - Unbreakable
Best Jazz album >Colin Stetson - All This I Do For Glory
Just FYI folks, I'm not posting this so you'll debate over it, this is the definitive list. If you have any complaints please email me do not post in the thread. And certainly do not post your own versions of this list with your own albums replacing the greentexted portion.
Nicholas White
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William Harris
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Jonathan Cruz
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Ethan Davis
You can't, it's the definitive list.
Brandon Mitchell
>Colin Stetson >jazz
Nathan Jenkins
That's what his albums are always classified as. Many of them sound definitively jazz.
If not that, then BBNG's IV
Jose Cox
To clarify, we are talking jazz chord progressions, and jazz rhythm on some tracks with riffing from Stetson
I will agree that some tracks off of his album aren't Jazz, but to tell me that the entire album isn't jazz is ridiculous.
Hunter Gray
Even if we both agree to call Stetson and BBNG jazz, it's laughable to suggest that either of those is the best jazz release of the year.
What other jazz releases have you heard?
Noah Fisher
>top indie rock album >everything now
Opinion discarded. This is the correct Top Indie Rock Album
Jace Ortiz
A Cool Breeze by The SWR Big Band
It's big band jazz, really cool release.
No it is not laughable to consider BBNG's release as an exceptional jazz album.
Colin Stetson's genre being jazz was ok to call me out on, though not completely correct. BBNG however is so solidly jazz, you even questioning it as being such tells me you've never listened to them. It's good, but no Everything Now
Ian Peterson
So you listened to three jazz albums from this year and feel confident in naming one of them the best jazz album to come out this year?
Carter Perez
No I've listened to many more Jazz albums, just only those this year.
Depending if you count Funk as Jazz, then that separate category also applies, in addition to Thundercat's album released earlier this year.
Jordan Morris
Please be trolling
Charles Butler
You're damn right it's no Everything Now, because, as you said, it's /good/. Everything Now is not good.
Jordan Clark
How is this trolling?
If you're debating the authenticity of THE LIST please post what you consider to be 'good' jazz. I'll try not to laugh.
Post one jazz fusion, one traditional jazz, and one big band jazz album from this year for me to work with.
Please support your claims with some credentials.
Caleb Martin
Everything Now is good. How is it not? It's danceable Arcade Fire, what is better than danceable Arcade Fire???
Joshua Peterson
substance? something that's not a rip off of abba/the bee gees (or rather Yvonne Elliman)
Jeremiah Lee
Wow you have absolutely no taste in music.
You didn't even mention The Dirty Projectors' new release either.
Noah Cox
Was I supposed to?
Michael Cox
Michael Attias- Nerve Dance Craig Taborn- Daylight Ghosts Miguel Zenon- Tipico
No big band releases from this year worth mentioning in the same breath as those as far as I know.
Jaxon Bennett
Yes it is pretty good.
Btw you guys runner up for electronic Dance would be The Burning Spider by Parov Stelar or Shake the Shudder by !!!
Juan Gomez
Might want to check out the album I mentioned, then.
