MOST ANTICIPATED OF 2017
Following a year where seemingly everyone put out a project of some sort, 2017 looks to be much more...low-wattage in comparison. With almost everyone's "faves" out of the way, what does the coming year have in store for music listeners? Fret not, there's these ten.
I guess I'll be more enthusiastic about these records once I finally get them in my hands, stream them on Spotify or click-drag the i+ quality files from a folder onto my iTunes. Except for the album taking the, ahem, gold, of course.
Here are my ten most anticipated releases of 2017.
10
jessie ware
tba
News on Jessie Ware's third studio effort has been as scarce as flattering pictures of her tbh. Motherhood may have halted a projected release date for JW3 this year (and informed her writing to boot), but her next set of aural white chocolate bites should be in the pipeline.
9
shakira
tba
Beyoncé =
BEYONCÉ.
Shakira = ...well.
Here's hoping LIMONADA is a cute one. Not that her Dominican-cribbing, tired belly-dancing, dry crop tousled-tresses, and questionable pen game (hey! Maybe she and Bey do [redacted]) leave me at the edge of my asiento but REINA. SIIIIIIIIIIIII PERRA, etc.
8
café tacvba
tba
"Un Par de Lugares" was fine. I need some
Ré-level godliness, though.
7
young thug
Hy!ŁUN35
With "Best Friend," "Pick Up the Phone" and "Digits" all being veritable hits, hopefully Brian "Birdman" "Toni Braxton Meal Ticket" Williams finally lets this one out of the stable.
6
run the jewels
run the jewels 3
Rob & Big moonlighting as a rap duo is so quiche, lol. In the wake of, well...everything RTJ3 is already an early contender for Ao17.
5
haim
tba
By my count, there have been exactly 157 Sabbaths since the Kanker sisters dropped
Days Are Gone. Does Twizzlor have them shackled to stools and feeding her cats while they ghostwrite TS6? Is she baking cookies bearing an eerie resemblance to them in vintage German ovens to scare them? Enough is enough and I need my HAIM.
#bringbackmygirls
4
sam hunt
tba
"Take Your Time" = song title, not life mantra. Hurry it up zaddy.
3
fat joe & remy ma
plata o plomo
I think whether this sees the light of day or not hinges on if this "Money Showers" song takes off. Barring an actual street date, however, the billing is obviously for squeamish sexist rap heads. This'll likely be a Remy project through and through. I'm all the way...here for it.
2
the xx
i see you
xx? Yesyes.
1
romeo santos
golden
2017 is pretty much shaping to be a "Romeo Santos & Everyone Else" year. He will decimate. He will be inescapable. He'll erase and redraw the confines of being a Spanish-language recording star and the world will bend in his favor.
And he'll score a solo top forty hit and debut with over 100K pure sales. Lofty ambitions? Sure.
Good thing he'll rise to the occasion and then some.
Gustoso.