Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

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)

They definitely play up the gobby British rock arseholes thing as part of their 'act', but the point of their music hasn't reached me yet either

ROCK IS BACK MATES

anglophobic much

Union Jackoff

Main guy nearly had a heart attack tripping on mushrooms and cracked out that night, i'm honestly surprised they're still alive and able to make a record at all.

Main guy returns as out and proud rock arsehole Johnny Rocket in the forthcoming Moonlandingz LP, itself a spin-off of The Eccentronic Research Council's excellent album last year. I'm sure you're all on tenterhooks

Rock band takes copious amounts of drugs shocker.

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.

poll

dinner for two with the fat white family

lack of capitalization indicates this is a trick

I’m not sure whether he’s Hitler and I’m Goebbels, or he’s Goebbels and I’m Hitler… I’m definitely Tina Turner.

I'm assuming the special massage was to take place in Nevada to cover all legal bases.

I don't really care about their substance abuse problems or their hilarious gobshite antics, I'm not a music journalist, the thing for me is the music and the swagger or lack of swagger

bandcamp's list isn't done but (probably due to obvious self-imposed limitation, at least in the top reaches) is quite good: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/12/06/the-best-albums-of-2016-80-61/

fat white family at least had the sense to have dilly dally open for them earlier this year. i saw dilly dally (who ruled) and then bounced

also that usa today list is on... the sports blog? shout out to lucy dacus tho

lucy ducas was one of my pitchfork discoveries, helps that i always keep my eyes peeled for Brad Nelson reviews

i love bandcamp so much of late, so much of my listening comes directly from there. am kind of surprised how much of the stuff on their list i already knew about/loved that i _didn't_ get to through bandcamp, though!

having said that:

"The thing about dark magic is that it really isn’t something to trifle with, not something you can achieve with a couple of crystals from Urban Outfitters, a Stevie Nicks album, a leather corset, a smudge stick and a change to your Twitter handle."

this is false and i have the photos to prove it.

brad nelson is def ilx tastemaker of teh year

tim's padawan breaks free ;)

whats up with quietus's #1 Årabrot - The Gospel? track 3 almost sounds like 90s alternative grunge metal

Arabrot is a headscratch record... feels like a contrarian statement to have that one on 1 but hey the rest of the list is good and at last I see an indie-focused list without that painfully average Car Head Seatrest album.

<3 Doran and the gang but this happened with Grumbling Fur a few years ago and appears to be based largely on friendship with the band in question. Which is probably fine, these bands often require a boost, although I've not liked either record myself.

That Grumbling Fur album was great though.

*shrug*

doran has been a fan of arabrot as long as I've known him so im not surprised he got the rest of the staff into them.

I got him into jute gyte

Lol

I'm enjoying this SHXCXCXCHCXSH album. Good background music for work.

http://www.treblezine.com/32903-10-best-metal-albums-of-2016/

10. SubRosa – For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
09. The Body – No One Deserves Happiness
08. Neurosis – Fires Within Fires
07. Khemmis – Hunted
06. Anagnorisis – Peripeteia
05. Hammers of Misfortune – Dead Revolution
04. Palace of Worms – The Ladder
03. Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
02. Baroness – Purple
01. Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä

Many xps

I couldn't get in to that Bees album. Think someone on the Spiritualized thread said something along the lines of it being the best thing Jason Pierce had been involved in and whilst it was nice enough, it was nothing that I particularly wanted to listen to repeatedly.

http://www.treblezine.com/32802-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2016/

10. Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids – We Be All Africans
09. Brain Tentacles – Brain Tentacles
08. Jack DeJohnette/Ravi Coltrane/Matthew Garrison - In Movement
07. Fire! – She Sleeps, She Sleeps
06. Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith – A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
05. LAM – LAM
04. Shabaka and the Ancestors - Wisdom of Elders
03. Dr. Lonnie Smith – Evolution
02. Tangents – Stateless
01. Yussef Kamaal – Black Focus

treblezine songs

100) Moses Sumney - Lonely World
99) Kamaiyah - How Does It Feel
98) Andy Stott - New Romantic
97) Neurosis - Reach
96) Young Thug - Wyclef Jean
95) James Blake feat. Bon Iver - I Need a Forest Fire
94) Inter Arma - The Paradise Gallows
93) American Football - Where Are We Now?
92) Amy O - Arrow
91) Lucy Dacus - I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore
90) The Weekend feat. Daft Punk - Starboy
89) Omni - Wire
88) Deftones - Doomed User
87) Joyce Manor - Last You Heard of Me
86) Jlin - Downtown
85) School of Seven Bells - Ablaze
84) Bat for Lashes - In God's House
83) Nicolas Jaar - Three Sides of Nazareth
82) Nap Eyes - Lion in Chains
81) Descendents - On Paper
80) Father John Misty - Real Love Baby
79) Esperanza Spalding - Earth to Heaven
78) Brand New - I Am a Nightmare
77) Massive Attack feat. Azekel - Ritual Spirit
76) Jessy Lanza - Never Enough
75) G.L.O.S.S. - We Live
74) PUP - Pine Point
73) Courtney Barnett - Three Packs a Day
72) Sturgill Simpson - Brace For Impact (Live a Little)
71) Savages - T.I.W.Y.G.
70) Kvelertak - Ondskapens Galakse
69) Diarrhea Planet - Bob Dylan's Grandma
68) Babyfather - Meditation (feat. Arca)
67) Death In Vegas - You Disco I Freak
66) Cymbals Eat Guitars - Wish
65) Charles Bradley - Ain't It a Sin
64) Kyle Dixon - Stranger Things
63) Kevin Gates - 2 Phones
62) Future feat. The Weeknd - Low Life
61) Death Grips - Eh
60) Big Ups - National Parks
59) case/lang/veirs - Best Kept Secret
58) Rihanna feat. SZA - Consideration
57) Underworld - I Exhale
56) Beach Slang - Atom Bomb
55) YG feat. Nipsey Hussle - FDT
54) Danny Brown - When It Rain
53) Erykah Badu - Hello
52) Heft - Japanese Breakfast
51) Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 07 | 2014 – 2016
50) Oranssi Pazuzu - Hypnotisoitu Viharukous
49) Angel Olsen - Intern
48) Car Seat Headrest - Vincent
47) Andorson.Paak feat. Schoolboy Q - Am I Wrong
46) Sunflower Bean - Easier Said
45) Glass Animals - Life Itself
44) Radiohead - Identikit
43) Blood Orange - Best to You
42) Animal Collective - FloriDada
41) Beyonce - Formation
40) White Lung - Hungry
39) Anna Meredith - Taken
38) Beyonce - All Night
37) Modern Baseball - Apple Cider, I Don't Mind
36) Drake feat. WizKid & Kyla - One Dance
35) Chance the Rapper - Blessings
34) The Avalanches feat. Camp Lo - Because I'm Me
33) DJ Shadow feat. Run the Jewels - Nobody Speak
32) Emma Ruth Rundle - Protection
31) Mothers - It Hurts Until It Doesn't
30) Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
29) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Jesus Alone
28) Solange feat. Sampha - Don't Touch My Hair
27) Preoccupations - Anxiety
26) Bon Iver - 22 (OVER S∞∞N)
25) Blood Orange - Hands Up
24) Pinegrove - Old Friends
23) Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 03 | 05.28.2013
22) Frankie Cosmos - On the Lips
21) Solange - Cranes in the Sky
20) Radiohead - Burn the Witch
19) Chance the Rapper - Same Drugs
18) Frank Ocean - Ivy
17) Savages - The Answer
16) Car Seat Headrest - Fill in the Blank
15) ANOHNI - 4 Degrees
14) Frank Ocean - Nikes
13) Mitski - Your Best American Girl
12) Danny Brown feat. Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt, Ab-Soul - Really Doe
11) Beyonce - Sorry
10) Baroness - Shock Me
9) Kanye West ft. Chance the Rapper, The-Dream, Kelly Price, and Kirk Franklin - Ultralight Beam
8) Chance the Rapper feat. Kanye West & Chicago Children's Choir - All We Got
7) Kanye West feat. Kendrick Lamar - No More Parties in LA
6) Radiohead - True Love Waits
5) Parquet Courts - Human Performancce
4) Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
3) David Bowie - Lazarus
2) Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers/Killers Whales
1) David Bowie - Black Star

I liked Black Star (the track) as much as anyone, but it was released in November 2015. Seems odd to put it at #1 this year when any other track from the LP was available.

that is a horrendous list tbh