Best of 2017. Albums 11-20

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20. Nudozurdo "Voyeur Amateur" (p)Mushroom Pillow

After beautiful but too calm "Rojo Es Peligro" the metropolitan trio returns with the album full of  emotions and bursts of guitar noise where Leo Mateos and his pals are swimming like fish in the pond.

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19. Les Sueques "Moviment" (p)El Genio Equivocado

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18. Cala Vento "Fruto Panorama" (p)BCore Disc

The last year's eponimous album of Catalan duo sounded more like the step onto Nueva Vulcano territory, the new one is the major step forward in terms of finding their own way. Sonically and melodically it is more refined record, the sound is thicker and the songs are catchier.

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17. Karabash "D'Humans I Essers" (p)self-released

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16. Clara Plath "Yes I'm Special" (p)Flor Y Nata

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15. Niños Mutantes "Diez" (p)Ernie Producciones

The recordings of the jubilee album (produced by Leon Benavente's Cesar Verdu) almost killed the band but resulted in the band's best effort to date.

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14. Exquirla "Para Quienes Aun Viven" (p)Superball Music

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13. Ran Ran Ran "L'Hereu" (p)Bankrobber

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12. Los Planetas "Zona Temporalmente Autonoma" (p)El Volcan/El Ejercito Rojo    

I should admit I've never got into "Una Opera Egipcia". So for me the waiting period was even longer than for those who embraced Los Planetas' 2010 LP. And now I declare it was worth it to wait for it: the long brooding record that can easily take you away from wherever you are now.

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11. Arista Fiera "Arista Fiera" (p)Elefant

Welcome to my convoluted world where the 7 song long debut album by a young dreampop band may stand atop the brilliant long-awaited double LP by the Spanish indie rock definitive band.

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Exquirla "Para Quienes Aun Viven"

Exquirla "Para Quienes Aun Viven" (p)2017Superball Music

Niño de Elche (Francisco Contreras) is the man of a kind. If you’d observe him from the ‘classic’ flamenco point of view, chances are you'd consider him a young freak who mostly abandoned his roots and now is being allocated to the genre by mistake. But if you would look at him from the point of view of a certain person who’s not both legs into flamenco, he could be the scene’s only singer whom you may listen to. Toundra, on its turn, is by all means the #1 post rock band of Spain. The cooperation of renowned instrumental combo and the flamenco outlaw may sound strange on paper, but in fact it is absolutely enormous. 

With the Niño de Elche's chants over Toundra's groundshaking instrumentations, the strongest feature of "Para Quienes Aun Viven" is the equality of its parts involved. There’s no question what’s more important in this amalgam of two worlds so distant that you hardly might expect their junction before it really appeared – both parts matter equally. There are moments on this record when Toundra members are switching off their walls of sound leaving present only the tiny drops and easy strokes, and all the nerve grows on from the voice of Francisco. There are moments when the singer stays silent, and the emphasis shifts to the galactic-scale crescendos Toundra is known for – but there’s always the clear vision of what they are doing together. Despite the obvious differences in participators’ habitual modi operandi, the album never tends to fall to pieces being torn down by the internal contradictions.

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