Complex's list http://ca.complex.com/music/2016/12/best-albums-of-2016/
I haven't gotten around to hearing either record yet but seeing Lil Yachty three spots above Bowie makes me smile because it has the potential to piss off so many people
― pumped up kicks and levels on repeat all night (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 03:08 (seven years ago) link
Like me, because Lil Yachty sucks.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
Annie Mac's 12 albums of the year has a few ilxor faves on:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1z0ybyqmmvhgG1PW9Gk8pDb/the-12-best-albums-of-2016-as-picked-by-annie-mac
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 08:58 (seven years ago) link
From the album artwork, featuring a watercolor illustration of a damp, cloudy autumn day, you know James Blake’s The Colour in Anything is strapping you in for a ride to Feelzville
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 10:03 (seven years ago) link
The Quietus
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 10:34 (seven years ago) link
For easy reference:
The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2016
1. Årabrot - The Gospel2. Solange - A Seat At The Table3. Innercity Ensemble - III4. Jessy Lanza - Oh No No No5. Shirley Collins - Lodestar6. Fat White Family - Songs For Our Mothers7. David Bowie - Blackstar8. Ian William Craig - Centres9. D∆WN - Redemption10. Jenny Hval - blood bitch11. Frank Ocean - Blonde12. Laura Cannell - Simultaneous Flight Movement13. Matmos - Ultimate Care II14. Klara Lewis - Too15. Skepta - Konnichiwa16. The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time17. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä18. Shackleton - Devotional Songs19. Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body20. Marissa Nadler - Strangers 21. Sote - Hardcore Sounds From Tehran22. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree23. Katie Gately - Color24. Sex Swing - Sex Swing25. Brian Eno - The Ship26. King - We Are King27. GNOD - Mirror28. Wolfgang Buttress & Bees - Be One29. Jute Gyte - Perdurance30. Huerco S - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)31. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound32. The Stargazer’s Assistant - Remoteness Of Light33. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service34. Julianna Barwick - Will35. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool36. Suede - Night Thoughts37. Jambinai - A Hermitage38. Convextion - 284539. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo40. Kemper Norton - Toll41. Puce Mary - The Spiral42. Black Merlin - Hipnotik Tradisi43. Daniel Patrick Quinn - I, Sun44. Lord Tang - Butterflies45. Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future46. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy47. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - We Be All Africans48. Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power49. Anna Meredith - Varmints50. Factory Floor - 25 2551. Tim Hecker - Love Streams52. Bully Fae - Defy A Thing To Be53. Beyoncé - Lemonade54. Kano - Made In The Manor55. Bruxa Maria - Human Condition56. Grumbling Fur - Furfour57. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker58. Skee Mask - Shred59. Oren Ambarchi - Hubris60. The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits61. Babyfather - BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow62. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness63. G.H. - Housebound Demigod64. Darren Hayman - Thankful Villages Vol. 165. Laniakea - A Pot Of Powdered Nettles66. Waclaw Zimpel - Lines67. Roly Porter - Third Law68. Chance The Rapper - Colouring Book69. Atlantikwall - Atlantikwall70. SHXCXCHCXSH - SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs71. Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor72. Pattern Man - Pattern Man73. Julien Marchal - II74. Billy Bao - The Lagos Sessions75. Gyda Valtysdottir - Epicycle76. Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina77. Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - Remain Calm78. Hen Ogledd - Bronze79. Kassem Mosse - Disclosure80. Kristoffer Lo - The Black Meat 81. Hannah Peel - Awake But Always Dreaming82. Sam Shalabi - Isis And Osiris83. Pangaea - In Drum Play84. Ghold - Pyr85. FIS - From Patterns To Details86. Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It's Like87. Swans - Glowing Man88. Bon Iver - 22, A Million89. Omar-S - The Best90. Knifeworld - Bottled Out Of Eden 91. Gnaw Their Tongues - Hymns For The Broken, Swollen And Silent92. John Cale - M:Fans93. The Invisible - Patience94. Wire - Nocturnal Koreans95. Jackie Lynn - Jackie Lynn96. The Dwarfs Of East Agouza - Bes97. Cat’s Eyes - Treasure House98. Ahrkh Wagner - Ahrkh Wagner99. Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings On Earth100. Stein Urheim - Strandebarm
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 11:38 (seven years ago) link
that's cool and contains loads of stuff i either love or have got to listen to (not least solange). however their #1 is utterly baffling. yeah i've tried.
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link
70. SHXCXCHCXSH - SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
oh come ON
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
cool album, cool title
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:03 (seven years ago) link
Fuck a Shucksuckchucksh
― nashwan, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link
Fat White Family in TheQ's top ten is sort of like ... did someone lose a bet or something?
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:12 (seven years ago) link
or maybe it is just typical TQ. But jeez, spare me ...
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link
I generally like the Quietus but some of the music they go absolutely apeshit for I find pretty poor - I don't get what's so great about Arabrot either but they're at least better than fucking Fat White Family.
At least their token black metal album's interesting though.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link
both of their token black metal albums are fairly good ;)
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:16 (seven years ago) link
xps the track listing on SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs is a delight too :)
― nxd, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
Our three token black metal albums are all very good if you ask me.
― Doran, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
xxp I was talking about JG actually I missed Oranssi Pazuzu which is higher than I would've expected!
(I was being tongue in cheek calling them token btw)
― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
gnaw their tongues is p good too, am guessing that's the third
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:00 (seven years ago) link
oh it's a new gnaw their tongues! oh em gee etc
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 13:01 (seven years ago) link
Nice to see an album released by The Quietus Phonographic Corporation made it to #24 on their year-end list.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
8. Ian William Craig - Centres
I've been trying this one off and on since it came out but it's just not connecting. Loved his first two. I guess I'm put off by the vocals being higher in the mix this time around.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱)
they're obviously considering branching out into gaming journalism
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
28. Wolfgang Buttress & Bees - Be One
by the way this is not some kind of "voices green and purple" thing, this is LITERALLY BEES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GadTfGFvU
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
the beece the beece the beece the beece rawr rawr rawr rawr
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
I keep meaning to listen to that bee thing. There was a liveish surround sound performance of it in the Glade at Glastonbury this year but it was shitting down at the time and I wasn't really in the mood.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), dinsdag 6 december 2016 15:29 (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Same here, the vocals are a complete turn-off for me. Real shame.
xp lol Whiney
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
ctrl+f we are king
RIP music criticism
― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
think that's bad try ctrl+f britney
― nashwan, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:21 (seven years ago) link
76. Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
From Quietus list and on NPR one too. Seymali and her rockin guitarist husband and band are edging out Bombino for the North African desert music slot on a few lists.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
King was just on the Quietus list! xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
king's exclusion from the decibel list was a real head-scratcher
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
I didn't think KING existed outside of ILM so to see them on two lists so far is kind of amazing
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
they also got a grammy nomination
― maura, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link
I think King are probably on the Quietus list BECAUSE of the ILM overlap?
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
racist much
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
go to hell
they're inside my own personal top ten THANKS TO ILX. the quietus is a british magazine whose writers READ ILX. it's not racist to draw the connection for fuck's sake
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Yeah man, remember when Treeship got them booked on Conan?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
;_;
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
never understood whiney's long running personal beef with the quietus
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
this appears to have nothing to do with The Quietus and everything to do with assuming no one outside of ILX has ever heard of King
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
yeah, my beef was with imago
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
you really are KING of the specious racism accusation
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
^^ taking home the gold
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBZgP3rAibE
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
Um anyway
The USA Today list is shockingly emo-crew friendly.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
rosenstock deserved to be no. 1 on at least one list
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
Is there a link for the USA Today?
Kinda surprised how underrepresented the year's big prestige emo albums are on a lot of these lists. But that may just be a reflection of the fact that 2016 was a strong year for a lot of music
― Evan R, Tuesday, 6 December 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
I'm excited that he's getting so much exposure but also I am concerned about his bound-to-rise anxiety levels lol xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 December 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link