Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

For easy reference:

The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2016

1. Årabrot - The Gospel
2. Solange - A Seat At The Table
3. Innercity Ensemble - III
4. Jessy Lanza - Oh No No No
5. Shirley Collins - Lodestar
6. Fat White Family - Songs For Our Mothers
7. David Bowie - Blackstar
8. Ian William Craig - Centres
9. D∆WN - Redemption
10. Jenny Hval - blood bitch
11. Frank Ocean - Blonde
12. Laura Cannell - Simultaneous Flight Movement
13. Matmos - Ultimate Care II
14. Klara Lewis - Too
15. Skepta - Konnichiwa
16. The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time
17. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
18. Shackleton - Devotional Songs
19. Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body
20. Marissa Nadler - Strangers
21. Sote - Hardcore Sounds From Tehran
22. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
23. Katie Gately - Color
24. Sex Swing - Sex Swing
25. Brian Eno - The Ship
26. King - We Are King
27. GNOD - Mirror
28. Wolfgang Buttress & Bees - Be One
29. Jute Gyte - Perdurance
30. Huerco S - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
31. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
32. The Stargazer’s Assistant - Remoteness Of Light
33. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
34. Julianna Barwick - Will
35. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
36. Suede - Night Thoughts
37. Jambinai - A Hermitage
38. Convextion - 2845
39. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
40. Kemper Norton - Toll
41. Puce Mary - The Spiral
42. Black Merlin - Hipnotik Tradisi
43. Daniel Patrick Quinn - I, Sun
44. Lord Tang - Butterflies
45. Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future
46. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
47. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - We Be All Africans
48. Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power
49. Anna Meredith - Varmints
50. Factory Floor - 25 25
51. Tim Hecker - Love Streams
52. Bully Fae - Defy A Thing To Be
53. Beyoncé - Lemonade
54. Kano - Made In The Manor
55. Bruxa Maria - Human Condition
56. Grumbling Fur - Furfour
57. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
58. Skee Mask - Shred
59. Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
60. The Comet Is Coming - Channel The Spirits
61. Babyfather - BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow
62. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
63. G.H. - Housebound Demigod
64. Darren Hayman - Thankful Villages Vol. 1
65. Laniakea - A Pot Of Powdered Nettles
66. Waclaw Zimpel - Lines
67. Roly Porter - Third Law
68. Chance The Rapper - Colouring Book
69. Atlantikwall - Atlantikwall
70. SHXCXCHCXSH - SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
71. Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor
72. Pattern Man - Pattern Man
73. Julien Marchal - II
74. Billy Bao - The Lagos Sessions
75. Gyda Valtysdottir - Epicycle
76. Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina
77. Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - Remain Calm
78. Hen Ogledd - Bronze
79. Kassem Mosse - Disclosure
80. Kristoffer Lo - The Black Meat
81. Hannah Peel - Awake But Always Dreaming
82. Sam Shalabi - Isis And Osiris
83. Pangaea - In Drum Play
84. Ghold - Pyr
85. FIS - From Patterns To Details
86. Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It's Like
87. Swans - Glowing Man
88. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
89. Omar-S - The Best
90. Knifeworld - Bottled Out Of Eden
91. Gnaw Their Tongues - Hymns For The Broken, Swollen And Silent
92. John Cale - M:Fans
93. The Invisible - Patience
94. Wire - Nocturnal Koreans
95. Jackie Lynn - Jackie Lynn
96. The Dwarfs Of East Agouza - Bes
97. Cat’s Eyes - Treasure House
98. Ahrkh Wagner - Ahrkh Wagner
99. Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings On Earth
100. Stein Urheim - Strandebarm

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.

70. SHXCXCHCXSH - SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs

oh come ON

cool album, cool title

Fuck a Shucksuckchucksh

Fat White Family in TheQ's top ten is sort of like ... did someone lose a bet or something?

or maybe it is just typical TQ. But jeez, spare me ...

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.

both of their token black metal albums are fairly good ;)

xps the track listing on SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs is a delight too :)

Our three token black metal albums are all very good if you ask me.

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)

gnaw their tongues is p good too, am guessing that's the third

oh it's a new gnaw their tongues! oh em gee etc

Nice to see an album released by The Quietus Phonographic Corporation made it to #24 on their year-end list.

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.

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)

they're obviously considering branching out into gaming journalism

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

the beece the beece the beece the beece rawr rawr rawr rawr

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.

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), 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

ctrl+f we are king

RIP music criticism

think that's bad try ctrl+f britney

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.

King was just on the Quietus list! xp

king's exclusion from the decibel list was a real head-scratcher

lol

I didn't think KING existed outside of ILM so to see them on two lists so far is kind of amazing

they also got a grammy nomination

I think King are probably on the Quietus list BECAUSE of the ILM overlap?

racist much

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

Yeah man, remember when Treeship got them booked on Conan?

lol

;_;

never understood whiney's long running personal beef with the quietus

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

yeah, my beef was with imago

you really are KING of the specious racism accusation

^^ taking home the gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBZgP3rAibE

Um anyway

The USA Today list is shockingly emo-crew friendly.

The USA Today list is shockingly emo-crew friendly.

rosenstock deserved to be no. 1 on at least one list

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

I'm excited that he's getting so much exposure but also I am concerned about his bound-to-rise anxiety levels lol xp

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/12/the-50-best-albums-of-2016

Why the fuck are the Fat White Family on any of these lists? They're awful. I played with them once and as soon as they got there they asked the promoter where to score crack and then bounced w/o a soundcheck. Their music was horrible.

That sounds kind of like the essence of 2016 to me.

fat white family are indeed terrible

Fat White Family
Fat White Family are an English rock band, formed 2011 in Peckham, South London.

Quick facts: Fat White Family, Background information ...
Lead guitarist Saul Adamczewski was previously the frontman of indie-pop band The Metros, which also featured the band's original bass player, Joseph Pancucci-Simpson.

The band, fronted by Southampton born[1] and Huddersfield raised Lias Kaci Saoudi[2] released their debut album Champagne Holocaust in 2013. Their second album Songs for our Mothers was released in 2016.[3][4]

In early 2014 the band launched a PledgeMusic campaign to fund their show at South by South West festival, with a subsequent US tour. [5] Rewards for backers include a special massage from any member of the group, dinner for two with the fat white family, drum lessons and a "Primal scream workshop" with Lias Soudi.[6]

Discography
Albums
Champagne Holocaust (2013)
Songs for Our Mothers (2016)
EPs
Crippled B-Sides And Inconsequential Rarities (2014) (Released to supporters of the FWF PledgeMusic fundraiser)
Singles
Special Ape (2013)
Cream of the Young (2013)
Heaven On Earth (2013)
Touch the Leather (2014)
I Am Mark E Smith (2014)
Whitest Boy On The Beach (2016)
Breaking Into Aldi (2016)