#jeremy voigt

[batgirlics]

had the fleeting thought to make my dearest oc jeremy a new fursona and i literally. could not stop thinking about it and caved within 5 minutes. so here he is

[bridgertonroleplay]

Name/Alias: euphoria

Preferred Pronouns: she/her

Characters You RP: *takes a deep breath*

Canons

I rp:

Anthony Bridgerton

Benedict Bridgerton

[Queen] Charlotte

Phillip Crane

OCS

I rp

Bellamy Talbot

Ezra Huntington

Felix Baxter

James Vaughn

Jeremy Colborne

Matthias Voigt

Mirela Camden

Rueben Slade

Silas Blackmore

How long have you been rping: For 20 years now!

How did you get into rping: I was on a forum for Third Watch actually, and someone messaged me and asked if I wanted to "role play" a ship we both liked! Me, being the noob I was asked "What's role playing?" From then on, I was hooked! I will forever thank that friend of mine for introducing me into the world of role playing!

What are your other fandoms: [bbc] Merlin, Shadow and Bone, Wynonna Earp, The 100, Spartacus, Third Watch, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, Prison Break, Bates Motel, The Conjuring . . . I'm sure I missed a few but that's all I can remember for now!

5 interesting facts about you:

I'm a tea addict!

I was born and raised in Canada!

I have a side business where I do graphic design and sell merchandise, donating all profits to various charities!

I'm a teacher and have been teaching for almost 10 years!

My favourite animals are horses, giraffes, and sloths and arguably goats!

[sixtyfivehundredinvisiblebirds]

What I read in 2018

The Black Notebooks- Toi Derricotte The Winterlings- Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (tr. Samuel Rutter) As If- Anna Meister The Lonely City- Olivia Laing Graveyard Clay- Máirtín Ó Cadhain How to Write an Autobiographical Novel- Alexander Chee A Falling Knife Has No Handle- Emily O’Neill A Hunger- Lucie Brock-Broido Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration- David Wojnarowicz Prey- Jeanann Verlee Witch Wife- Kiki Petrosino Ordinary Beast- Nicole Sealey The Descent of Alette- Alice Notley Another Brooklyn- Jacqueline Woodson Of Love and Shadows- Isabel Allende The Narrow Door- Paul Lisicky Hijra- Hala Alyan Headwaters- Ellen Bryant Voigt American Sonnets- Gerald Stern Why Poetry- Matthew Zapruder Debridement- C. Bain There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce- Morgan Parker Gephyromania- TC Tolbert The Babies- Sabrina Orah Mark R E D- Chase Berggrun The Tennis Court Oath- John Ashbery The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- Muriel Spark Sepharad- Antionio Muñoz Molina (tr. Margaret Sayers Peden) Baricoon- Zora Neale Hurston Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination- Sarah Schulman Rocket Fantastic- Gabrielle Calvocolressi Priestdaddy- Patricia Lockwood Her Body and Other Parties- Carmen Maria Machado Calling a Wolf a Wolf- Kaveh Akbar Goodbye, Columbus- Philip Roth One! Hundred! Demons!- Lynda Barry How Her Spirit Got Out- Krysten Hill Blackacre- Monica Youn Lessons on Expulsion- Erika L. Sánchez Nature Poem- Tommy Pico Chronic- D.A. Powell Dream of a Common Language- Adrienne Rich The Book of Questions- Neruda (translated: William O’Daly) 300 Arguments- Sarah Manguso The Rest of Love- Carl Phillips Dear Sal- Jeremy Radin Howards End- E.M. Forester Wolf in White Van- John Darnielle Music for a Wedding- Lauren Clark H is for Hawk- Helen Macdonald Whereas- Layli Long Soldier Midwinter Day- Bernadette Mayer Tender- Sofia Samatar Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced- Catherine Barnett Electric Arches- Eve Ewing The Selected Larry Levis The Devil in the White City- Erik Larson The Art of Daring- Carl Phillips Harry Potter and the Cursed Child- JK Rowling The Game of Boxes- Catherine Barnett Selected Poems- Tomaž Šalamun Thunderbird- Dorothea Lasky Working (comic)- Harvey Pekar/Studs Terkel My Brilliant Friend- Elena Ferrante

[hittveu]

  ADAC Sachsen Enduro Jugend Cup 2018: Alle Titel vergeben!

Noch einmal gingen 62 Teilnehmer beim Finallauf des ADAC Sachsen Enduro Jugend Cup an Start. Da dieser Termin erst spät in den Kalender rückte und gab es zwangsläufig Überschneidungen mit anderen Rennserien. Dadurch waren auch drei, der vier bereits feststehenden Cup-Sieger nicht am Start. Felix Melnikoff startete beim ADAC MX-Bundesendlauf, Clemens Voigt und Jeremy Nimmrich bei der German-Cross-Country. Der MSC Dahlen e.V. im ADAC, der bereits den zweiten Laufes erfolgreich ausrichtete, hatte sich größte Mühe gegeben, auf der vereinseigenen Motocross- Strecke und den angrenzenden Flurflächen erneut eine anspruchsvolle Runde mit einer flüssig zu fahrenden Sonderprüfung zu präparieren. Bei strahlendem Sonnenschein und angenehmen Temperaturen eröffneten die Kids der Klassen 50 ccm und 65 ccm den EJC-Finallauf. Bei den Jüngsten blieb Cup-Sieger Lenny Reimer vom Off-Road Club Hilmersdorf e.V im ADAC auch beim sechsten Saisonrennen ungeschlagen, während Oskar Müller bei den 65igern die Gunst der Stunde nutzte. Der Fahrer vom SHC Meltewitz e.V. im ADAC fuhr eine durchweg starke Saison, welche er mit seinem ersten EJC-Sieg und Platz zwei in der Cup-Wertung krönen konnte. Am Nachmittag waren alle Blicke auf das Duell in der Klasse 125 ccm gerichtet. Hier hatten Niclas-Leon Kallmeyer und Stefan Pelzer, beide vom Off-Road Club Hilmersdorf e.V. im ADAC, die Chance auf den Cup-Sieg. Der Tagessieg ging an Gaststarter Finn Wendisch. Niclas-Leon Kallmeyer wurde Dritter und platzierte sich damit vor seinem Vereinskollegen und direkten Titelrivalen, womit er die Saison als Gesamterster abschloss. Auch in der Klasse 85 ccm B lag am Ende mit Justin Weirauch ein Gaststarter ganz vorn, während in der Kategorie 85 ccm A Emil Arnhold seinen ersten Saisonsieg einfuhr und damit ungefährdet Zweiter in der Cup- Endwertung wurde. Den Tagessieg in der Ortsclub-Wertung holten die Nachwuchs-Enduristen des SHC Meltewitz e.V. im ADAC, welche damit erstmals in diesem Jahr den alten und neuen ADAC-Ortsclub-Cup-Sieger Off-Road Club Hilmersdorf e.V. im ADAC auf den zweiten Platz verwies.

Quelle: ADAC Sachsen

ADAC Sachsen Enduro Jugend Cup 2018: Alle Titel vergeben! ADAC Sachsen Enduro Jugend Cup 2018: Alle Titel vergeben! Noch einmal gingen 62 Teilnehmer beim Finallauf des ADAC Sachsen Enduro Jugend Cup an Start.

[zanimljivaekonomija]

NBA PROSLAVLJA JUBILARNU 75. SEZONU GLASANJEM ZA NAJVEĆE EVROPSKE IGRAČE LIGE SVIH VREMENA

– “NBA 75 Euro Vote “odrediće prvi i drugi najbolji evropski tim svih vremena, najbolji evropski NBA trenutak svih vremena, najbolji  NBA dres i najbolju NBA dinastiju svih vremena na osnovu glasanja prestižnog  panela sastavljenog od predstavnika medija, influensera, slavnih ličnosti i fanova širom Evrope–

LONDON, 23. novembra 2021. – Nacionalna košarkaška asocijacija (NBA) objavila je pokretanje „NBA 75 Euro Vote“, kampanje za proslavu jubilarne 75. sezone lige sa navijačima u Evropi i odavanje počasti doprinosu evropskih igrača tokom 75-ogodišnje istorije lige.

NBA 75 Euro Vote odaće počast sadašnjim i bivšim evropskim igračima koji su inspirisali generacije ljubitelja košarke širom Starog kontinenta. Tokom sezone 2021-22, prestižni panel sastavljen od predstavnika evropskih medija, influensera i poznatih ličnosti pridružiće se navijačima iz Evrope u glasanju za 10 najboljih evropskih igrača svih vremena koji će činiti prvi i drugi All-Time NBA evropski tim. Panelisti i navijači će glasati za kandidate sa spiska igrača rođenih ili odraslih u Evropi, od ranih pionira do aktuelnih superzvezda lige. Dodatne kategorije će uključivati najbolji evropski NBA momenat svih vremena, NBA dres svih vremena i najbolje  NBA dinastije svih vremena iz selekcije najvećih timova u NBA istoriji.

Od juče navijači širom Evrope mogu da učestvuju tako što će glasati za prvu otvorenu kategoriju, All-Time NBA Dynasty, na NBA.com/Eurovote, a rezultati će biti objavljeni u ponedeljak, 30. novembra. Dodatno glasanje će se održati za najbolji NBA dres svih vremena (14-20. decembar 2021.), All-Time evropski NBA trenutak (28. februar - 7. mart 2022.) i prvi i drugi All-Time evropski NBA tim (28. mart - 10. april 2022.). U svim kategorijama, glasovi navijača odediće 50 procenata konačnih rezultata, dok će panel izglasati ostalih 50 %.

“Evropski igrači iz prošlosti i sadašnjosti deo su tkiva NBA, od najranijih pionira do sadašnjeg rostera All-Star i MVP igrača koji su među najboljima u ovoj igri“, rekao je rukovodilac NBA odseka za angažovanje i saradnju sa fanovima za Evropu i Bliski istok, Džordž Ajvazoglu. „Uz slavljenje evropskih igrača i njihovog generacijskog doprinosa ligi, srećni smo što pokrećemo definitivno glasanje za najbolje evropske igrače svih vremena, kao i niz aktivnosti i sadržaja za angažovanje fanova širom regiona kroz obeležavanje naš jubilarne 75. sezone.”

U nastavku možete pogledati spisak medija, uticajnih i poznatih ličnosti koje učestvuju u NBA 75 Euro glasanju 

Name    Affiliation     Country

Thibaut Courtois Footballer  Belgium

Drazen Brajdić General Media Croatia

Ivan Rakitić   Footballer  Croatia

Tomas Bilde  Broadcaster  Denmark

Amaury Perdiau General Media France

Jeremy Patrelle General Media    France

First Team   Content creator   France

TrashTalk  Content creator    France

Mary Patrux   Broadcaster    France

Jacques Monclar   Broadcaster   France

Matthias Marburg  General Media   Germany

Andre Voigt    General media   Germany

C-Bas  Content creator    Germany

MaxxSports  Content creator    Germany

Freddy Harder  Broadcaster Germany

Christos Tsaltas  General Media  Greece

Harris Stavrou  General Media   Greece

Shake N' Bake   Content Creator  Greece

Vasilis Skountis   Broadcaster   Greece  

Anastasia Kostaki   Broadcaster  Greece

Gabriel Haydu  Broadcaster    Israel

Davide Chinellato  General Media  Italy

La Giornata Tipo  Content creator   Italy

Flavio Tranquillo  Broadcaster  Italy

Kaspars Dvinskis  Broadcaster   Latvia

Rita Stankeviciute   General Media  Lithuania

Wojciech Michałowicz  Broadcaster  Poland

Miguel Candeias  General Media   Portugal

Igor Znamensky    Broadcaster   Russia

Nina Kolundžija   General Media  Serbia

Aleksandar Kovačević   General Media   Serbia

Darko Perić    Actor    Serbia

Edin Avdić   Broadcaster   Serbia

Eduard Brozovič   General Media   Slovenia

Primož Salmič   General Media  Slovenia

Gorazd Jukovič  General Media  Slovenia

Pilar Casado  General Media   Spain

Robert Álvarez  General Media    Spain

Gonzalo Vázquez   General Media  Spain

Outconsumer   Content creator   Spain

Antoni Daimiel   Broadcaster  Spain

Barberos Tapan  General Media   Turkey

Deniz Aksoy   Broadcaster    Turkey

Ian Whittell   General Media   United Kingdom

Mo Mooncey  Broadcaster   United Kingdom

Jaydee Dyer    Broadcaster   United Kingdom

[finishinglinepress]

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Jessie Ehman graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor’s Degree in English. Her poems have appeared in Hanging Loose Magazine, Saxifrage, Pif Magazine, and KYSO Flash. She currently lives in Puyallup, Washington. The One In Which Bambi Tells Me To Get A Life is her first poetry collection.

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The poems in Jessie Ehman’s debut sift through sorrows such as lost love and existential isolation, but refuse to take themselves too seriously. Like the verbal eyeroll in the title, each poem asks for personal attention, but demands a lens on the larger world. With poetic influences as wide as W B Yeats and Dean Young, and commentary on social movements, such as #metoo, here is a voice interested in all human fictions, cold hard reality, and various relationships between people. These are poems of despair, “not even the mercy of a loveless kiss,” and poems full of the healthy search for meaning in our modern world as the “Jackson Pollack of bears…means so much to me.” This inventive, intelligent voice offers sardonic wit with a side of mirthful hope.

–Jeremy Voigt

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[savetopnow]

2018-03-21 01 MUSIC now

MUSIC

Brooklyn Vegan

Cat Power playing 'Moon Pix' 20th anniversary show at fest with Mazzy Star, Solange, more

Viral subway busker Mike Yung raises $65k for debut LP, signs to big booking agency

Culture Club touring w/ B-52s & Thompson Twins' Tom Bailey

Kississippi announce new album 'Sunset Blush,' share "Easier to Love"

pics: Charli XCX @ Elsewhere w/ AG Cook, CupcakKe, Caroline Polachek, Brooke Candy & more

Consquence of Sound

Twitch to stream Mister Rogers Neighborhood marathon in honor of Fred Rogers’ 90th birthday

Moby performs “This Wild Darkness” on Colbert: Watch

Sicario: Day of the Soldado trailer reveals new title and plot details: Watch

Jeremy Renner is untouchable in first trailer for Tag: Watch

Okkervil River share new song “Pulled up the Ribbon” and video: Watch

Fact Magazine

Singles Club: Burial and The Bug start a dirty dub fire as Flame 1

Blawan announces debut album, Wet Will Always Dry

London’s Southbank Centre launches new club night, Concrete Lates

FACT mix 644: Susanna

Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas project returns with new album, Rausch

Fluxblog

Very Nice Very Nice

To Be Lucky Once

The Sun In Your Cold World

Took Me For A Ride

At My Leisure

Idolator

Coming Soon: Shawn Mendes Teams Up With Spotify To Tease New Music

These Are The Absolute Best Songs Ever Made For Movies

Fifth Harmony Announces Plans For An Indefinite Hiatus To Pursue Solo Careers

She’s Coming! Tinashe Announces ‘Joyride’ Release Date, Unveils Cover

PRETTYMUCH Have A Massive Pop Moment With “Healthy”

Listen to This

And Summer Club -- Hyper Boredom [Indie Rock/Surf?] (2017)

Madrepaz -- Bonanza [Psychedelic Rock] (2018)

Staatseinde - Ruimtevaart Vooruit! [electronic/acid] (2011)

The Urinals - I Hate [Punk] 1997

Bird Blobs - Nothin At All [Garage Rock / Post Punk] (2004)

Popjustice

Saluting the artwork for PRETTYMUCH’s Healthy

Louisa Johnson interview: “We went, ‘oh, fuck it, let’s just get drunk’”

Popjustice’s Spring Statement: Key Points

New Music Friday: Vera Blue’s Lady Powers are still strong

New Music Friday: When it’s time to put Andrew WK at the top of the playlist it’s time to put Andrew WK at the top of the playlist hard

Reddit Music

Ringo Starr receives knighthood

Don McLean - American Pie [Folkrock]

New Arctic Monkeys album set to be released in May

Elliott Smith - Happiness [indie/rock]

The Cure - In Between Days [Pop Rock]

Rolling Stone

'The Voice': See Intense Taylor Swift, Harry Styles Covers in Battle Round

Watch Kimbra Perform Intimate Rendition of 'Human' for 'Rolling Stone'

See Kelly Clarkson's Confident New 'I Don't Think About You' Video

How Today's Blockbuster Soundtracks Are Launching New Artists to Stardom

Boy George, B-52s Announce Summer Tour

Slipped Disc

Piano museum springs back to life

Vienna Philharmonic musicians go clubbing

Covent Garden can afford five new productions

Welcome to the 21st century: The Vatican agrees to live streaming

Death of a leading dancer, 58

Spotify Blog

Spotify Launches Self-Serve Advertising Platform in the UK and Canada

Spotify Announces Launch of Line-In

John Hancock and Spotify Give Runners Everywhere Access to Custom Playlists and Tips from Some of the World’s Fastest Marathoners

Spotify Kicks off Women’s History Month with the Launch of ‘Amplify,’ a New Hub Spotlighting Causes & Community Voices

Spotify’s Electrifying Concert Series “RapCaviar Live” Returns with a New Tour Lineup featuring Migos, 2 Chainz, Tory Lanez, DJ Mustard, Lil Pump, and more

We Are the Music Makers

Free Mastering Available

Which websites have Terms that provide someone the sole right to the music they have created and posted on those websites? And what's the best way to clearly understand those Terms around the content you create?

Okay, so I followed all advice, branded my social media, made it look professional, increased production quality a lot, upload kind of regularly and promote in groups on reddit and facebook.. Every upload gets me about two followers on soundcloud. Am I doing something wrong?

How to Handle Criticism of Your Music (4 different kinds of criticism and how to deal with each of them)

Here's a nice print of an original Synthesizer patent 💡🔥

[raymondhelkio]

REVIEW: You Love That I’m Not Your Wife

“Black box theater in New York is an amazing experience but very so often productions are not fully committed to their best results for many different reasons, scarce profits, small audiences etc etc. There was never a second in this production in which I doubted or even worse forgot the importance of the job that we are all responsible for.” -Silvia Morigi who plays Giulia an Actress/Healer

You…

[batgirlics]

icon practice with jeremy weee >_<

[josephstevensca]

RocketPG Jeremy Voigt https://t.co/l5cDvR6epy

RocketPG Jeremy Voigt https://t.co/l5cDvR6epy

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[jimmieforrestla]

October 31, 2017 at 04:18PM

RocketPG Jeremy Voigt https://t.co/l5cDvR6epy

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Vier von fünf Klassen bereits vorzeitig entschieden!

Die Hitzewelle, welche ganz Deutschland lange Zeit im Griff hatte, ging auch an Meltewitz im Großraum Leipzig nicht spurlos vorbei. Somit bestimmten beim fünften und damit vorletzten Saisonlauf des ADAC Sachsen Enduro Jugend Cup Staub und Trockenheit das Bild. Doch der ausrichtende SHC Meltewitz e.V. im ADAC, der vor ein paar Wochen mit einem großen Fest sein 10-jähriges Bestehen feierte, hatte die Lage jederzeit im Griff. Mehr noch, auf ihrem Trainings- und Streckenareal präsentierten die Organisatoren eine äußerst anspruchsvolle Geländerunde, welche entsprechend der verschiedenen Klassen optimal variiert und angepasst werden konnte. Insgesamt 75 Teilnehmer aus sieben Bundesländern waren vertreten. Davon gingen 31 Fahrer im ersten Lauf der Schülerklassen 50 ccm und 65 ccm über sechs bzw. sieben Runden an den Start. Auch dieses Mal drückten die Favoriten dem Rennen ihren Stempel auf. Lenny Reimer vom Off-Road Club Hilmersdorf e.V. im ADAC bei den Jüngsten sowie Felix Melnikoff vom MSC Hänchen e.V. im ADAC in der 65 ccm-Kategorie behielten erneut überlegen die Oberhand und sicherten sich jeweils damit nicht nur Saisonsieg Nummer fünf, sondern bereits vorzeitig auch den Cup-Gesamtsieg in ihrer Klasse! Beim zweiten Lauf am Nachmittag trat eine Neuerung in Kraft. Erstmals wurde bereits nach nur einer kurzen Geländeschleife die Sonderprüfung gefahren. Danach folgten zwei Runden auf der Etappe sowie die anschließende Zeitkontrolle. Der Plan hinter diesem geänderten Modus, dass es vor der Sonderprüfung nicht zu Wartezeiten kommt und alle Fahrer freie Fahrt haben, ging hervorragend auf. Die Starter der Jugendklasse 85 ccm B mussten vier Blöcke und eine zusätzliche Prüfung am Ende absolvieren, die Fahrer der Kategorien 85 ccm A und 125 ccm jeweils noch einen Durchgang mehr. Jeremy Nimmrich (Off-Road Club Hilmersdorf e.V. im ADAC / Klasse 85 ccm A) und Clemens Voigt (Endurofreunde Petersberg e.V. / Klasse 85 ccm B) setzten sich erneut souverän durch. Beide blieben über das Jahr ungeschlagen, was folglich den vorzeitigen Titelgewinn bedeutet! In der Klasse 125 ccm holte Stefan Pelzer vom Off-Road Club Hilmersdorf e.V. im ADAC einen ganz wichtigen Sieg und vertagte so die Cup- Entscheidung auf das Finale. Tabellenführer und Vereinskollege Niclas- Leon Kallmeyer belegte Rang zwei und behauptet damit noch knapp die Spitze. Hier wird es beim Saison-Ausklang am 30.09. in Dahlen noch einmal extrem spannend! In der Ortsclubwertung ist ebenfalls noch keine Entscheidung gefallen, auch wenn der Off-Road Club Hilmersdorf e.V. im ADAC, nach einem erneuten Sieg, auf dem besten Weg zur erfolgreichen Titelverteidigung ist.

Quelle: ADAC Sachsen

ADAC Sachsen Enduro Jugend Cup 2018 – 5. Lauf Vier von fünf Klassen bereits vorzeitig entschieden! Die Hitzewelle, welche ganz Deutschland lange Zeit im Griff hatte, ging auch an Meltewitz im Großraum Leipzig nicht spurlos vorbei.

[johndoeringca]

RocketPG Jeremy Voigt https://t.co/l5cDvR6epy

RocketPG Jeremy Voigt https://t.co/l5cDvR6epy

— Mvng Cmpny Studio CA (@mvgstudiocityca) October 31, 2017

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October 31, 2017 at 04:18PM

RocketPG Jeremy Voigt https://t.co/l5cDvR6epy

— Mvng Cmpny Studio CA (@mvgstudiocityca) October 31, 2017

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June 28, 2017

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 99, #2, 2017 Ethics, Vol. 127, #4, 2017 Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 14, #2, 2017 Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Vol. 48, #2, 2017 Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 143, #2, 2017 Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 14, #3, 2017 Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 113, #11, 2016 Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 48, #2, 2017 Nursing Philosophy, Vol. 18, #3, 2017 Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 43, #6, 2017 Philosophy of Science, Vol. 84, #3, 2017 Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 16, #2, 2017 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Modern Physics Synthese, Vol. 194, #6, 2017

Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Vol. 99, #2, 2017 Articles David Ebrey. The Asceticism of the Phaedo: Pleasure, Purification, and the Soul’s Proper Activity. Agnes Callard. Enkratēs Phronimos. Jean-Luc Solère. Bayle and Panpsychism. Matias Slavov. Hume’s Fork and Mixed Mathematics. Book Reviews Christian Vassallo. Pierre Destrée / Penelope Murray (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics. Bernd Goebel. Katherin A. Rogers, Freedom and Self-Creation: Anselmian Libertarianism. Back to top

Ethics, Vol. 127, #4, 2017 Articles Robert Cowan. Rossian Conceptual Intuitionism. Benjamin Bagley. Properly Proleptic Blame. Discussions Matthew Salett Andler. Gender Identity and Exclusion: A Reply to Jenkins. Jacob M. Nebel. Priority, Not Equality, for Possible People. Review Essay David Estlund. The Ideal, the Neighborhood, and the Status Quo: Gaus on the Uses of Justice. Book Reviews Fred Feldman, Distributive Justice: Getting What We Deserve from Our Country is reviewed by Joseph Mendola. Christopher Kutz, On War and Democracy is reviewed by Jonathan Parry. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Luck Egalitarianism is reviewed by Kristin Voigt. Tim Mulgan, Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism is reviewed by Thaddeus Metz. Michael A. Neblo, Deliberative Democracy between Theory and Practice is reviewed by Kai Spiekermann. Carolyn Price, Emotion is reviewed by Christine Tappolet. Scott Sehon, Free Will and Action Explanation: A Non-causal, Compatibilist Account is reviewed by Maria Alvarez. William R. Shaw, Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War is reviewed by Ryan Jenkins. Toby Svoboda, Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic is reviewed by Emily Brady. Allen W. Wood, Fichte’s Ethical Thought is reviewed by Nedim Nome. Notes on Contributors // Manuscript Reviewers for 2016 Back to top Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 14, #2, 2017 Research Articles John Capps. A Pragmatic Argument for a Pragmatic Theory of Truth. Kenji Juzuu. Philosophical Exorcism and Pragmatic Sharing of the Unsharable: A Return from Rorty to Dewey through John Cassavetes and David Lynch. Joseph W. Long. When to Believe Upon Insufficient Evidence: Three Criteria. Rodrigo Laera. Dogmatic Evidence of "The Given." Stéphane Madelrieux. Pragmatism: The Task before Us. Alexander Livingston. Pragmatism, Practice and the Politics of Critique. Brad Elliott Stone. A Prophetic Pragmatist Response to Koopman’s Transitional Pragmatism. Colin Koopman. Being Pragmatist about Pragmatism: Replies to Stéphane Madelrieux, Alexander Livingston, and Brad Stone. Book Reviews Alva Nöe. Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, review by Brian E. Butler Pentti Määthttänen. Mind in Action: Experience and Embodied Cognition in Pragmatism, review by Joel Richeimer. Michael Slater. Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion, review by Nate Jackson. Beth L. Eddy. Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics, review by Justin Bell. Back to top

Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Vol. 48, #2, 2017 Obituary Margareta Hallberg. Revolutions and Reconstructions in the Philosophy of Science: Mary Hesse (1924–2016). Articles Jan Baedke, Tobias Schöttler. Visual Metaphors in the Sciences: The Case of Epigenetic Landscape Images. Jacques Bair, Piotr Błaszczyk, Robert Ely. Interpreting the Infinitesimal Mathematics of Leibniz and Euler. Jean-Michel Delhôtel. Retaining Structure: A Relativistic Perspective. Boris Kožnjak. Kuhn Meets Maslow: The Psychology Behind Scientific Revolutions. Reports Alexander Christian. The Second International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP.2016), 8–11 March 2016. Nicole J. Saam. What is a Computer Simulation? A Review of a Passionate Debate. Book review Stephan Kornmesser and Gerhard Schurz (eds): Die multiparadigmatische Struktur der Wissenschaften. Stefan Heidl. Back to top

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 143, #2, 2017 Thematic Symposium: Ethics, Technology and Organizational Innovation (articles 1-7); Issue Editors: Antonino Vaccaro, Stefano Brusoni Editorial Notes Stefano Brusoni, Antonino Vaccaro. Ethics, Technology and Organizational Innovation. Original Papers Christian Voegtlin, Andreas Georg Scherer. Responsible Innovation and the Innovation of Responsibility: Governing Sustainable Development in a Globalized World. Arnaldo Camuffo, Federica De Stefano, Chiara Paolino. Safety Reloaded: Lean Operations and High Involvement Work Practices for Sustainable Workplaces. Aoife Brophy Haney. Threat Interpretation and Innovation in the Context of Climate Change: An Ethical Perspective. Bari L. Bendell. I don't Want to be Green: Prosocial Motivation Effects on Firm Environmental Innovation Rejection Decisions. Edwin Rühli, Sybille Sachs, Ruth Schmitt, Thomas Schneider. Innovation in Multistakeholder Settings: The Case of a Wicked Issue in Health Care. Tommaso Ramus, Antonino Vaccaro. Stakeholders Matter: How Social Enterprises Address Mission Drift. Chanhoo Song, Seung Hun Han. Stock Market Reaction to Corporate Crime: Evidence from South Korea. Xingqiang Du, Jianying Weng, Quan Zeng, Hongmei Pei. Culture, Marketization, and Owner-Manager Agency Costs: A Case of Merchant Guild Culture in China. Andre A. Pekerti, Denni Arli. Do Cultural and Generational Cohorts Matter to Ideologies and Consumer Ethics? A Comparative Study of Australians, Indonesians, and Indonesian Migrants in Australia. François Maon, Valérie Swaen, Adam Lindgreen. One Vision, Different Paths: An Investigation of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives in Europe. Back to top

Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 14, #3, 2017 Research Articles David Miller. Fair Trade: What Does It Mean and Why Does It Matter? Aaron James. Fortune and Fairness in Global Economic Life. Jessica Flanigan. Seat Belt Mandates and Paternalism. Stephen J. White. Responsibility and the Demands of Morality. Book Reviews Thom Brooks. Unlocking Morality from Criminal Law. Benjamin De Mesel. Lecture on Ethics, edited by Edoardo Zamuner, Ermelinda Valentina Di Lascio, and D.K. Levy. Eric Reitan. Terrorism: A Philosophical Investigation, written by Igor Primoratz Diane Williamson. Kant on Emotion and Value, edited by Alix Cohen. Jonathan Spelman. Ignorance and Moral Obligation, written by Michael J. Zimmerman. Lawrence J. Jost. Rethinking Virtue Ethics, written by Michael Winter. Back to top

Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 113, #11, 2016 http://proxy.lib.umich.edu/login?url= Articles Carolina Sartorio. PAP-Style Cases. Duncan Pritchard. Epistemic Risk. Lei Zhong. Physicalism, Psychism, and Phenomenalism. New Books: Translations Back to top  

Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 48, #2, 2017 Original Articles Sarah Sorial. The Expression of Anger in the Public Sphere. Jeremy Fischer. Self-Assessment and Social Practices. James Stacey Taylor. How Not to Argue for Markets (or, Why the Argument from Mutually Beneficail Exchange Fails). Jeffry L. Ramsey and Olivia O'Connor. Hume and Same-Sex Marriage. Vittorio Bufacchi. Colonialism, Injustice, and Arbitrariness. Nicole Dular. Moral Testimony under Oppression. Corrigendum Back to top Nursing Philosophy, Vol. 18, #3, 2017 Editorial Derek Sellman. Nursing, recycling and the environment. Original Articles Renzo Zanotti and Daniele Chiffi. Nursing knowledge: hints from the placebo effect. Carole Rushton and David Edvardsson. Reconciling concepts of space and person-centred care of the older person with cognitive impairment in the acute care setting. Alastair Morgan. Against compassion: in defence of a “hybrid” concept of empathy. Marc Roberts. A critical analysis of the failure of nurses to raise concerns about poor patient care. Sylvia Määttä, Kim Lützén and Stina Öresland. Contract theories and partnership in health care. A philosophical inquiry to the philosophy of John Rawls and Seyla Benhabib. Roger Alan Newham. The emotion of compassion and the likelihood of its expression in nursing practice. Dialogue Contribution Sherry Dahlke and Sarah Stahlke Wall. Does the emphasis on caring within nursing contribute to nurses' silence about practice issues? Philosophers for Nursing Peter Allmark. Aristotle for nursing. Book Review Martin Lipscomb. Will nurse researchers and educationalists rise to the challenge thrown out by John Paley? Back to top

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 43, #6, 2017 Articles Jon Mahoney. The politics of religious freedom: Liberalism and toleration in Muslim-majority states. Kathy Kiloh. Towards an ethical politics: T.W. Adorno and aesthetic self-relinquishment. Ben Holland. The Perpetual Peace Puzzle: Kant on persons and states. Joshua Preiss. Libertarian personal responsibility: On the ethics, practice and American politics of personal responsibility. Armin Khameh. Political toleration, exclusionary reasoning and the extraordinary politics.  Back to top

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 84, #3, 2017 Articles William Roche, Elliott Sober. Explanation = Unification? A New Criticism of Friedman’s Theory and a Reply to an Old One. Jacob Stegenga, Tarun Menon. Robustness and Independent Evidence. Christian Loew. The Asymmetry of Counterfactual Dependence. Gerhard Schurz. Interactive Causes: Revising the Markov Condition. Nina Emery. A Naturalist’s Guide to Objective Chance. Richard Bradley, Casey Helgeson, Brian Hill. Climate Change Assessments: Confidence, Probability, and Decision. Justin Garson. A Generalized Selected Effects Theory of Function. Paolo Galeazzi, Michael Franke. Smart Representations: Rationality and Evolution in a Richer Environment. Discussion Note Marcel Weber. Which Kind of Causal Specificity Matters Biologically? Essay Reviews Nora Mills Boyd. Franklin’s Field Guide to Scientific Experiments. Samuel C. Fletcher. Against the Topologists: Essay Review of New Foundations for Physical Geometry. Oron Shagrir. Review of Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account by Gualtiero Piccinini. Back to top

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Vol. 16, #2, 2017 Introduction Andrew Williams. Symposium on justice, the family and public policy. Articles Ingvild Almås, Alexander W Cappelen, Kjell G Salvanes, Erik Ø Sørensen, Bertil Tungodden. Fairness and family background. Elizabeth Brake. Fair care: Elder care and distributive justice. Serena Olsaretti. Children as negative externalities? Gina Schouten. Citizenship, reciprocity, and the gendered division of labor: A stability argument for gender egalitarian political interventions. Brian Kogelmann. Aggregating out of indeterminacy: Social choice theory to the rescue. Back to top

 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Modern Physics Editorial board and publication information Articles Jan Potters, Bert Leuridan. Studying scientific thought experiments in their context: Albert Einstein and electromagnetic induction. Barbara Drossel. Ten reasons why a thermalized system cannot be described by a many-particle wave function. Alexei Grinbaum. How device-independent approaches change the meaning of physical theory. Jeffrey A. Barrett. Typical worlds. O.J.E. Maroney. Measurements, disturbances and the quantum three box paradox. Katie Robertson. Can the two-time interpretation of quantum mechanics solve the measurement problem? Daniel Jon Mitchell. Making sense of absolute measurement: James Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and the invention of the dimensional formula. Back to top

Synthese, Vol. 194, #6, 2017 Original Papers María Manzano, Enrique Alonso. A note on Visions of Henkin. Lenny Clapp. On denying presuppositions. Jie Gao. Rational action without knowledge (and vice versa). Matthew W. McKeon. Statements of inference and begging the question. Christian Loew Pages 1945-1965. Causation, physics, and fit. Charles H. Pence. Is genetic drift a force? Boris Hennig. The man without properties. Markos Valaris. What reasoning might be. Paul D. Thorn. On the preference for more specific reference classes. Matthew Tugby. The problem of retention. John D. Greenwood. Solitary social belief. Benjamin Lennertz. Probabilistic consistency norms and quantificational credences. Yongfeng Yuan. Rational metabolic revision based on core beliefs. Fernando Broncano-Berrocal. A robust enough virtue epistemology. J. Adam Carter, Martin Peterson. The modal account of luck revisited. Benjamin Rohrs. Supervaluational propositional content. Luc Lauwers. Infinite lotteries, large and small sets. Christopher Clarke. How to define levels of explanation and evaluate their indispensability. Stefan Buijsman. Accessibility of reformulated mathematical content.  Back to top

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Exclaim!'s Top 29 Albums of 2017 So Far

As originally seen on Exclaim.ca.At this point last year, we’d already experienced massive album drops from the likes of Beyoncé, Kanye West, Radiohead, David Bowie and Drake; by the end of the year, we were left wondering just what was left to come out in 2017.

The answer is a swathe of albums by artists whose names might not adorn stadium marquees, but whose work shone brightly as beacons for another good year in music. Between long-awaited debut full-lengths, worldly, philosophical album statements and surprising genre crossovers, 2017 has seen a wealth of riches.

As the year’s halfway mark approaches, we’ve separated the great from the merely good in order to present the best albums released so far this year.

Click next to read through the albums one by one, or use the list below to skip ahead to your favourites.

Exclaim!’s Top 29 Albums of 2017 So Far:

1. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN. 2. Sampha – Process 3. Feist – Pleasure 4. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy 5. Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked at Me 6. Drake – More Life 7. Jay Som – Everybody Works 8. Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog 9. Joey Bada$$ – All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ 10. Slowdive – Slowdive 11. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic 12. The xx – I See You 13. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3 14. Thundercat – Drunk 15. Oddisee – The Iceberg 16. Code Orange – Forever 17. Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens 18. Full of Hell – Trumpeting Ecstasy 19. Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound 20. Stormzy – Gang Signs & Prayer 21. Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Illusions 22. Incendiary – Thousand Mile Stare 23. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana 24. (Sandy) Alex G – Rocket 25. Future Islands – The Far Field 26. Timber Timbre – Sincerely, Future Pollution 27. GAS – Narkopop 28. Paramore – After Laughter 29. Ryuichi Sakamoto – async

29. Ryuichi Sakamoto async (Milan)

A good deal has been made of the possibly autobiographical nature of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s triumphant return, async. The disc landed a little less than three years after his throat cancer diagnosis, and is replete with mournful synth lines, scratchy noise (if ever there was a track that made you want to clear your throat, it’s “andata") and spoken word segments about mortality.

There’s much more than nostalgia at work here, though. The 65-year-old, who calls both Tokyo and New York City home, delivered us a complex, at times difficult listen. Yet async remains wholly accessible. It’s beautiful without being pretty, engaging and, at the same time, comforting.

Is the disc’s title short for asynchronous, which refers to events "not occurring at the same time"? Maybe reading his illness and subsequent recovery into that is a stretch, but Sakamoto’s pre-release materials describe his interest in "the blurred lines of life and artificiality/noise and music." The line between good and poor health is often similarly tough to distinguish, but its exploration would fit perfectly amidst the tender thoughtfulness evident here. Kevin Press

28. Paramore After Laughter (Fueled By Ramen)

Paramore have gone through their share of professional and personal turmoil and lineup changes since their chart-topping self-titled LP. Bassist Jeremy Davis left, drummer Zac Farro returned seven years after an acrimonious split and singer Hayley Williams admitted in pre-release interviews that she often doubted they would ever record another album. The trio address this adversity head-on on the startling, emotionally complex After Laughter, a tuneful, effervescent full-length on which Paramore mostly trade what was left of their punk and emo roots for New Wave synths, sinewy Afrobeat-influenced guitar riffs and percussive Technicolor pop that evokes Talking Heads, Paul Simon and Tango in the Night-era Fleetwood Mac.

In contrast with the soaring, ebullient melodies, the lyrics reflect the band’s tumultuous recent past, most prominently on the LP’s first single, the cathartic "Hard Times." Hitting rock bottom has rarely sounded better than on After Laughter, one of the year’s finest pop albums. Thierry Côté

27. GAS Narkopop (Kompakt)

Wolfgang Voigt has kept busy over the last 17 years through his various projects, but he’s been neglecting the one that earns him the most attention. Capitalizing on last year’s elaborate GAS box set, the 56-year-old returned with his fifth album under the moniker like no time had passed.

His new 75-minute opus, Narkopop, surveys different moods and pulses, filling in the vast space with a range of textures and styles: drone, ambient, neo-classical and minimal techno. The results can be mesmeric and beautiful, though he’s not averse to stirring up discomfiting moments to throw the listener’s meditation off, either.

Although it follows the GAS template in its design and structure, Narkopop, like its predecessors, is very much its own entity and an exciting next phase in the oeuvre of electronic music’s most intriguing characters. Cam Lindsay

26. Timber Timbre Sincerely, Future Pollution (Arts & Crafts)

The sinister synths that flood Timber Timbre’s sixth LP leave little doubt that the Canadian band’s latest record, Sincerely, Future Pollution, isn’t entirely optimistic about humanity’s course. The free-floating folk-noir ensemble, led by the haunting vocals of Taylor Kirk, reach new vibrancy on this record by harkening back to ’80s-era Bowie, drum machines and dystopian narratives to create an album that, like Pink Floyd’s The Wall, comprises a cinematic whole yet is approachable enough to enjoy in individual parts.

Evidenced by the cascading melodies of "Moment," the wide-swath guitar strums of "Sewer Blues" and the clavinet-bumping "Grifting," Sincerely, Future Pollution is much more concerned with world-building than 2014’s sensuous Hot Dreams in both theme and vision. As they have each release since 2006’s Cedar Shakes, Timber Timbre somehow manage to enhance their ever-evolving sound once again here; this time, they do so by borrowing from the past to craft an album as fresh as it is timeless. Mackenzie Herd

25. Future Islands The Far Field (4AD)

Less immediate than 2014’s Singles but ultimately more rewarding, the hooks on Future Islands’ The Far Field are subtler, the sound a little wearier. Anchored by the soulful, strange vocal stylings of Samuel T. Herring, the band still know how to write songs that will sound great at the outdoor festivals they’ve graduated to since the smash success of "Seasons (Waiting on You)" — and there are several of those here — but the real revelation is the bold steps they’re taking in the face of their success.

The woozy, weird "Candles" and the call-and-response Debbie Harry duet "Shadows" are proof that the band aren’t content to play it safe. By resisting the urge to go bigger, Future Islands have instead gone deeper, to devastating effect. Dave Mix

24. (Sandy) Alex G Rocket (Domino)

Eight albums in, the restless Alex Giannascoli — aka (Sandy) Alex G — refuses to be labeled simply as "indie rock." On Rocket, he tackles it all — bittersweet alt-country ("Bobby"), industrial pseudo-rap ("Brick"), auto-tuned R&B ("Sportstar"), weirdo psych-pop ("Witch"), ramshackle experimental noise ("Horse"), and the list could go on — yet it all still feels oddly cohesive, shrouded in a mysterious lo-fi intimacy narrated by Giannascoli’s melodic and dazed vocal style.

Hints of self-doubt, anger, sarcasm and bliss blend together effortlessly thanks to a strange and freaky concoction of plucky acoustic guitar, screeching synthesizers, dazzling violin, piano, saxophone and even random dogs barking. Rocket readily mutates around unsettling emotions using inventive fictional personas; it’s a curious approach, but it grounds the record to a quietly relatable content, and incites new feelings with each listen. Chris Gee

23. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana (ATO)

Like most of their previous efforts, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s latest project was tied to a concept from the outset — this time around, microtonality.

Flying Microtonal Banana might be the band’s most ambitious concept album so far, using a collection of microtonal instruments to weave unique melodies and Eastern-flavoured harmonies into the band’s usual frenetic grooves. That experimentation shines on tracks like "Open Water," with riffs that sound like an electrified snake-charmer, and "Billabong Valley," on which lead guitarist and singer Stu Mackenzie’s vocal lines mirror the eerie and hypnotic guitar melodies.

Rather than allowing themselves to be boxed in on Banana, though, the band run wild with the concept, transcending the chromatic scale to pull together one of the best psych-rock experiences of the year. Brandon Choghri

22. Incendiary Thousand Mile Stare (Closed Casket Activities)

Incendiary’s Thousand Mile Stare is a blistering return for the Long Island hardcore outfit. In the four years since their last record, Cost of Living, the music industry has seen some dramatic changes, particularly in relation to the current political climate. With these ten tracks, Incendiary prove that not only are they still relevant, but they’re on the forefront of their scene, leaders in an increasingly anxiety-ridden landscape.

The album’s eye-opening lyrics and gut-busting riffs are perfectly exemplified in "Front Toward Enemy," as frontman Brendan Garrone yells about "Fearing revolution": "They got their trigger fingers moving / The threat of oncoming war." Thousand Mile Stare’s unforgiving interpretation of a genre the band helped build, coupled with the passionate message they continue to spew, help make it one of hardcore’s most important release of 2017 thus far. Griffin Elliot

21. Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions (Constellation)

Do Make Say Think have never made a weak album, but nobody expected the legendary Torontonian instrumental octet to come back with such vital urgency after the longest recording gap in their lifespan. Perhaps it should’ve been clear though — they declare literal "War on Torpor" on Stubborn Persistent Illusions’ opening track. And to back the claim, this music is anything but lethargic or mentally lazy.

Everything we love about the band is present — the brash energy of punk rock, the rhythmic complexity of jazz and Afrobeat, the patient, bold dynamics of classical, and those epic, richly interwoven tapestries of guitar melodies and horn harmonies — but while these pieces share obvious genetic material with the band’s best work, none of it feels like an exercise in cloning. It’s like new sonic lifeforms are evolving from the band’s collective primordial soup to populate heretofore unexplored corners of their distinct sound world.

Beautifully realized with the utmost of love and respect for the act of co-creation and a work that may well be the new high water mark in post-rock, Stubborn Persistent Illusions is an absolute gift to fans of the ineffable magic of musical collaboration. Scott Gray

20. Stormzy Gang Signs & Prayer (#Merky)

For a decade-and-a-half, future-minded hip-hop heads and Anglophiles alike wondered how to get grime over to North American audiences. In the last two years, it’s finally happened, thanks in no small part to Skepta. But while he may have been the one to open the door, absurdly tall South London MC Stormzy has burst through it with enough force to remove hinge from frame.

On Gang Signs & Prayer, Stormzy serves up a perfect blend of crisp, rapid-fire delivery, aggro battle rap, heartbreaking introspection and surprising R&B sensibility. Stormzy is a perfect poster child for the new wave of clever, pop-savvy grime MCs. Chris Dart

19. Cloud Nothings Life Without Sound (Carpark)

Almost every year, an album is released that immediately stands out from the punk-leaning, guitar-slinging pack. It was Beach Slang a couple years ago, and now it’s Cloud Nothings’ turn with Life Without Sound, a record that sheds any of the extraneous influence of the past and find the band at their most cohesive and emotionally resonant yet.

The shift in sound from previous LP Here and Nowhere Else is noticeable. The guitars are a little less ragged, the hooks maybe not as prominent, but while the intensity has been dialled back, it ends up refocusing the group’s vision, and elevates Cloud Nothings’ sound to the next level. Marked by themes of self-evaluation, isolation and desperation, Dylan Baldi’s lyrics feel relatable, without being cliché. Those moments where Baldi’s emotionally driven lyrics hit hardest seem perfectly balanced against the band’s momentous riffs, which burst from every angle out of the speakers feeling alive and purposeful. Anthony Augustine

18. Full of Hell Trumpeting Ecstasy (Profound Lore)

Following a pair of collaborative albums with experimental noise artists the Body and Merzbow, Full of Hell stripped away a lot of the chaotic noise elements found on those releases for a more focused and cohesive record. In just a little over 20 minutes, Trumpeting Ecstasy finds the grindcore powerhouses launching a savage assault of blast beats and ear-piercing shrieks with just enough variation to let each song stand on its own.

Throughout, the band manage to infuse their abrasive tracks and organized havoc with thoughtfulness and care, as evident on songs like "The Cosmic Vein" and the blisteringly fast onslaught of "Branches of Yew." And though they’ve dialled back the experimental noise here, the band still manage to fit those sounds into the delicate yet aggressive title track. Trumpeting Ecstasy is a slab of viciously hostile grindcore not meant for the faint of heart. Joe Smith-Engelhardt

17. Kelly Lee Owens Kelly Lee Owens (Smalltown Supersound)

Within its few seconds, Kelly Lee Owens’s self-titled debut evokes the familiarity of an old favourite. Her spacious, pop-inflected techno is both vivid and economical, wringing nuanced emotions from simple elements. "S.O" and "Lucid" show the patience of a seasoned pro, enchanting listeners with cozy ambience before introducing a beat, while "C.B.M." and "8" go straight for the throat, showcasing thumping bass and mind-bending drone, respectively.

Owens’ concise, focused lyrics feel naturally expressive, as soothing as a well-worn mantra. Yet she refuses to coddle her listeners, and both "Anxi." and "Throwing Lines" hint at internal discord without breaking the record’s placid surface. Kelly Lee Owens is as invigorating as it is inviting, and it only gets more welcoming with each repeated rotation. Matthew Blenkarn

16. Code Orange Forever (Roadrunner)

Leading up to the release of Forever, Code Orange’s third full-length album, many questions orbited the band and their future: Would the shift from Deathwish Inc. to Roadrunner Records dilute their unrelenting sound? Would Code Orange’s loyalty to producer Kurt Ballou begin to yield stagnant and predictable results? Having demonstrated much promise in the past, but never fully delivering on their potential, Forever had to be the band’s best effort yet.

Code Orange answered by punishing all scepticism with nauseatingly visceral riffs, behemoth breakdowns, jarring passages and concussion-inducing percussion. Forever is the band’s heaviest and most menacing album to date, while offering the most diversity, too. Having been released only two weeks into the year, the record will face much competition in the battle for 2017’s best heavy record, but it’s inarguably in the conversation; this shit is thoroughly, aggressively good. Lukas Wojcicki

15. Oddisee The Iceberg (Mello Music Group)

It’s an understatement to say that many of 2017’s headlines have inspired cultural malaise. But, as usual, tense political climates have led to some seriously reflective music. And Oddisee’s latest project, The Iceberg, recently joined the highest echelon of socially conscious rap albums.

The 12-track LP delivers a healthy dose of social commentary, discussing police brutality, immigration, gender inequality and, of course, Donald Trump’s presidency. In such an unpredictable era, an album like The Iceberg helps listeners make sense of the world while also disseminating an important message: You’re not alone.

But storytelling is only part of the battle when putting together a masterful rap project, and like only a handful of other hip-hop artists, Oddisee produces his own beats. Throughout The Iceberg, the 32-year-old pushes the boundaries of the genre by layering unorthodox instrumentation with dense synths and prominent percussion. Imagine a hip-hop track guided by an organ; Oddisee did, and he made it sound dope. Anya Zoledziowski

14. Thundercat Drunk (Brainfeeder)

Like a wild night out featuring several shots of tequila, Drunk is zany and random, an immensely entertaining journey through Thundercat’s colourful mind.

A blend of angelic vocals, quirky lyrics ("I think I left my wallet at the club," he croons) and dizzying bass lines that defy human logic, Drunk has anthems for every variation of inebriation. There’s the fun and fidgety "Tokyo" for the restless drunk, "Drink Dat" for the flirty lush among you and "Lava Lamp" for the more sombre imbiber. "Friend Zone" plays like the gratifying tipsy text you’ll later regret sending, while "Jethro" feels communal and deeply spiritual, like a heart-to-heart between two buzzed strangers at the bar. Featuring clever, full-bodied production from collaborators like Flying Lotus and Soundwave, Drunk is great at first and gets even richer over time, a merry indulgence without the hangover. A. Harmony

13. Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 3 (Independent)

The political ire of nonconformists El-P and Killer Mike has long been at the forefront of their music, and the same can be said of their latest, Run the Jewels 3, a finely executed confrontation of the ruling class and a perfect closer for their album trilogy.

On top of its gorgeous, hard-hitting production, RTJ3 features help from an impressive list of collaborators including Danny Brown, BOOTS, Trina and Kamasi Washington. Run the Jewels have crafted a sound and style that stands alone, and here, it’s sharpened enough to go for the throat. The duo’s ingenuity is recognizable almost immediately, and impossible to duplicate. If their first two records laid the groundwork for battle, RTJ3 finds the rap iconoclasts in the thick of it. Ashley Hampson

12. The xx I See You (Young Turks)

It seems almost contradictory to say that the xx expanding their sound could make their material more intimate — especially given the way they already wore their emotions on their sleeves — but that’s exactly the case with their third album, I See You.

On their first two records, the band matched lovelorn confessions with spare, reverb-heavy guitars, distant drums and the hushed vocal deliveries of Oliver Sim and Romy Madley Croft. This time around, producer Jamie Smith, fresh off his excellent solo record In Colour, infused the record with his signature sample-driven production style, adding a whole new level of character to the band’s signature sound without distracting from the emotional heft of the songs. The record is easily the band’s most ambitious, but also their most rewarding, featuring gems like Madley Croft’s heartbreaking vocals on "Performance" and the danceable "I Dare You."

Their sound palette has expanded considerably, but so has their conviction as a group, a fact that’s clear from I See You’s beginning to its end. Matt Yuyitung

11. Power Trip Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord)

The "crossover" in crossover thrash is on the continuum of metal to punk, but for Power Trip, there’s a whole other crossover happening — from hardcore underground to metal mainstream. With over 10,000 copies sold, Nightmare Logic is quickly becoming a phenomenon, and with good reason — it’s phenomenal.

While artists worry about a sophomore slump, Power Trip have delivered a sophomore slam dunk, outshining their previous material that is, itself, far from lacklustre. There’s new confidence here: Riley Gale’s powerful snarl is now less reverb-soaked; "Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)" and the title track manage to turn straight-ahead chugs into memorable, headbangable riffs; and the opening groove of "Soul Sacrifice" and the blaring thrash with which "Firing Squad" comes out of the gates are incredible. And that’s just the first half of the album.

Not since Municipal Waste blew "rethrash" open a decade ago with their penchant for partying has a band had a better shot at bringing thrash back to its one-time glory as one of the world’s biggest heavy genres. Bradley Zorgdrager

10. Slowdive Slowdive (Dead Oceans)

Releasing a record is a tricky proposition for any reunited band, let alone one as monumentally adored as Slowdive. Come back half-cocked and you’ll risk disappointing fans; refrain from making anything new, and you’ll leave listeners (and band members alike) wondering what could have been.

The British shoegazers deftly avoid both possibilities with their latest LP (and first in 22 years), a self-titled album filled with woozy atmospherics, ethereal vocals and reverb-drenched guitars that pack the same wallop as crumbling ice shelves.

Slowdive aren’t exactly reinventing themselves here, but with their core songwriters having spent the last two decades in the understated Mojave 3, and the whole band having toured together since 2014, Slowdive is a lean and impressive set of songs that improves upon what they do best. Hell, it might even be the best album of their career; it’s certainly the most fully realized. Matthew Ritchie

9. Joey Bada$$ All-Amerikkkan Bada$$ (Cinematic Music Group/Pro Era)

Joey Bada$$’s second studio LP, All-Amerikkkan Bada$$, was released early this year, debuting at #5 on the Billboard Hot 200. It marked a departure from his debut album; where that record served more as a showcase of his wordplay and an homage to the golden era of hip-hop, this time around, Joey packed his 12-song project with scorching political commentary that aimed to draw awareness from the younger generation of listeners that have come to hold the 22-year-old rapper in high regard.

Alongside releasing political-minded singles "Devastated" and "Land of the Free," Joey claimed that "I was put here on this Earth not only to inspire but to wake people up" in the lead-up to AAB’s release. Having heard its entirety, that makes sense; the album is a defiant assertion of his status as a leader of millennials and a timely collection of (almost) entirely self-produced, anti-establishment anthems Riley Wallace

8. Mac DeMarco This Old Dog (Royal Mountain)

Mac DeMarco, a hero for the kids with his onstage antics and an inspiration to "keep it light" while wearing a pair of seen-better-days red Vans and an equally beatup baseball cap, has become synonymous with goofiness and good times. So when This Old Dog, his third studio album, was announced, it was easy to assume that he’d continue to bring the "jizz jazz" signature sound that he popularized — but he didn’t.

Instead, DeMarco proved to critics and fans alike (likely shocking both a tad) that not only can he pen a great tune, he’s equally capable of bringing the party and pulling at your heartstrings. He’s teased at this sort of softness before, with tracks like "Still Together" from 2 or Salad Days’ "Let My Baby Stay," but This Old Dog’s focuses on sweetly strummed guitars, melodies that provoke nostalgia and lyrics that address love and his estranged father, with a few surprises thrown in (the slinky "On The Level" and bouncy "Baby You’re Out"). It’s a wonderful surprise, and a sweet one, too. Cosette Schulz

7. Jay Som Everybody Works (Polyvinyl)

Melina Duterte has said that her debut album as Jay Som was inspired by Carly Rae Jepsen’s E•MO•TION, a talking point that has reverberated throughout all of her press. True, songs like "Remain" and "One More Time, Please" bear at least some similarity to Jepsen’s more slow-danceable heartbreak anthems, but reducing Everybody Works to this comparison ignores the album’s character and breadth.

"The Bus Song" is an absolutely timeless indie rock sing-along that makes a solid argument for the return of gang vocals, "1 Billion Dogs" is a fuzzed out alterna-banger and "(BedHead)" is ingenious slowcore. The Jepsen comparison is most on-point in that Everybody Works is so perfect that it sounds like it was laboured over by a team of songwriters and hip producers. But it wasn’t — it was recorded by Duterte, alone in her bedroom. Josiah Hughes

6. Drake More Life (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic)

If VIEWS was the angry rebuttable to Drake’s authenticity being challenged, More Life is the realization that introspective and peace-seeking is his most authentic artistic self. While its swollen "playlist" designation allows for a few unnecessary inclusions, the majority of Drake’s tenth full-length project finds him at his absolute finest.

The underlying theme is celebratory, including the sewn-in appraisal for an increasingly varied selection of global influences. For a brief moment a year ago, it looked as if Drake’s unchecked dominance may be coming to an end, a notion that seems ridiculous in retrospect. Emerging as a humble victor suits Drake best, and allows us all to reap the real spoils. Michael J. Warren

5. Mount Eerie A Crow Looked at Me (P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.)

"Death is real."

In the past two decades that Phil Elverum has been singing about mortality, nothing he’s said before has been as hard-hitting, direct and heavy as these three words. Recorded during the months following the death of his wife, Geneviève Castrée, A Crow Looked at Me is a document of Elverum’s thoughts, fears and reality.

But what makes his eighth Mount Eerie LP so compelling is how it stands as an example of peerless art. Elverum couldn’t have been thinking of his fan base, record label or any musical scene while recording these songs; he was creating music out of pure necessity, as the 11 songs featured on this LP are bereft of choruses, bridges or even a proper rhyming structure. A Crow Looked at Me is an album Elverum almost certainly wishes he never had to make, but alas, death is real, and therefore it exists. This resulting meditation on grief is both stark and stunning. Daniel Sylvester

4. Father John Misty Pure Comedy (Sub Pop)

Father John Misty’s all-encompassing Pure Comedy finds Josh Tillman addressing the absurdity of human life, the effect of technology on the way we connect with others and the inherent meaninglessness of being here, but he does it all with shocking affection, in an Elton John-esque guise.

Far from a cynical polemic, Pure Comedy is a monster of a record that is never as hopeless as it may appear. It tries to shine a light on the possibility of a brighter, happier future by pointing out trivialities like the ridiculous weight we ascribe to our online presence ("Ballad of the Dying Man"), or by holding up a mirror to our strange human existence/experiment on its title track.

In its final moments, during "In Twenty Years or So," Tillman drives home just what we can learn from and do with meaninglessness: Find our own meaning. And as he sings, "I look at you as our second drinks arrive / the piano player’s playing ‘This Must Be The Place,’ and it’s a miracle to be alive," it’s clear that beauty and meaning and love are not so hard to find — even in a world that might suggest otherwise. Matt Williams

3. Feist Pleasure (Universal)

Leslie Feist’s first record in over half-a-decade might just be her best. Somewhere between the delicate sophistication of 2007’s The Reminder and the rougher bombast of 2011’s Metals, Pleasure finds Feist at her most dynamic, weaving timbres as seemingly contrary as woodwinds and gain-y blues guitar into songs that swing dramatically from placid to stormy in seconds — and that’s just in the first five minutes of it.

Even at their loudest, these songs are minimal: "I Wish I Didn’t Miss You" climaxes with Feist’s voice wailing through a watery delay effect over just her acoustic guitar; "Any Party" sounds like one when the gang vocals join her and her guitar for the chorus; and the propulsive "Century" is lent almost all of its urgency by a crackling layer of handclaps. They’re simple ingredients, but in Feist’s deft hands, they sound like pure Pleasure. Stephen Carlick

2. Sampha Process (Young Turks)

Though many listeners may have first become acquainted with Sampha through his guest features with Drake or SBTRKT, the UK native has firmly established himself as a solo artist with Process. It isn’t just his buttery tenor that makes his long-awaited debut LP a standout of this year so far, but his talent as both a writer and producer, too.

Drawing on the process of overcoming his mother’s passing and his own personal hurdles in music-making, emotional strength is a thematic constant across the record’s ten tracks, from the percussive drive of piano and drums on "Blood on Me" to the hushed keys and enveloping pads of closer "What Shouldn’t I Be?"

The most powerful moment of Sampha’s Process comes when he strips the electronic wizardry away, though; the breathtaking ballad "(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano" finds him seated at the ivories to lay bare his love for both his mother and music. Calum Slingerland

1. Kendrick Lamar DAMN. (Interscope/Top Dawg Entertainment)

Given music’s subjectivity, and Exclaim!’s long-standing policy of allowing writers to freely express their opinions, our original review of Kendrick Lamar’s latest caused some expected consternation. It’s an album that was praised by some, and fell short for others. After polling the Exclaim! writer’s pool, the overwhelming consensus was that DAMN. is the most beloved album released in 2017 so far.

Over sonically skeletal production, Lamar bares his truths and insecurities, fleshing out the songs with new layers and textures as he dramatizes the various characters he uses to speak on his behalf. He balances societal heartache and ferocious resilience, serving as a mouthpiece to tell the stories of his generation, as well as those before him and after us — and unapologetically, at that. The war chants of "DNA." and the introspective depth of "DUCKWORTH." offer jolting insights into the lives of young black Americans, while the animated "HUMBLE." and daunting "PRIDE." explore the waves of fear and acceptance that come with that day-to-day existence.

Whether you love DAMN. or not, for all that it stands for thematically, you have to admire Lamar for laying it all out on the table. Erin Lowers

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