Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

they should compile a nominations list and make it mandatory for their staff writers to hear every record on the list before voting

that's in an ideal world. maybe I do hate poll results (ilx aside) though. won't post here any more after today

how mindful, how active, would you all say the inclusion of solange on these lists is. i'm not asking that to make a point about the album's quality like for blond. but really i don't have any confidence in the dialogue being there

i was completely taken by surprise by the solange album belatedly bowling me over - in the week after the us elections i often felt like it was the only thing i could listen to, which i didn't see coming. the initial wave of praise was suffocating (as initial waves of praise always are these days) but it's a really special album on a very real level to me

I've a heart of stone when it comes to that album but I've friends who like lex have embraced it since Nov. 8.

fun fact: Solange is Beynoce's sister

I liked it from the beginning but won't deny that it has a tranquility that has been partic appealing over the past month.

I like it a lot!

Afropop.org "stocking stuffers" (from below the equator on a couple of continents and more)

BISA KDEI
CAETANO VELOSA
DJ ROCKY MARSIANO
DON JAZZY
ELAGE DIOUF
ELZA SOARES
FATOU SEIDI GHALI
GILBERTO GIL
LOS HACHEROS
NOURA MINT SEYMALI
ORCHESTRE POLY-RYTHMO DE CONTONOU
OSEI KORANKYE
PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP
RICHARD BONA
TIKEN JAH FAKOLY
TIWA SAVAGE
VAUDOU GAME
VICTOR TAVARES
VIEUX KANTE
YISHAK BANJAW
ZOMBA PRISON PROJECT

Oops -- Here are the specifics

The complete list of this year’s recommended records, and where to find them:

Bitori, Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands (Analog Africa)

Elage Diouf, Melokàane (DEP)

Tiwa Savage, R.E.D. (Mavin)

Bisa Kdei, Break Through (BLMC)

Yishak Banjaw, Love Songs Vol. 2 (Terenga Beat)

Debo Band, Ere Gobez (FPE)

Various Artists, Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta (Numero Group)

Various Artists, Urgent Jumping! East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics (Sterns Africa)

Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Madjafalao (Because Music)

Vaudou Game, Kidayu (Hot Casa)

Bossacucanova The Best of Bossacucanova (Six Degrees)

Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, Dois Amigos: Um Século de Música (Ao Vivo) (Nonesuch)

Elza Soares, A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (Mais Um Discos)

Los Hacheros, Bambulaye (Chulo)

Ibrahim Maalouf, Black Light (Impulse)

Tiken Jah Fakoly, Racines (Universal)

Vieux Kanté, The Young Man’s Harp (Sterns Africa)

Bombino, Azel (Partisan)

Noura Mint Seymali, Noura Mint Seymali, Arbina (Glitterbeat)

Mohamed Abozekry, Karkadé (Jazz Village/Harmonia Mundi)

Osei Korankye, Seperewa of Ghana: Emmere Nhyina Nse (Akwaaba Music)

Richard Bona, Heritage (Qwest)

The Pedrito Martinez Group and Román Díaz, Habana Dreams (Motema Music)

Harold Lopez-Nussa, El Viaje (Mack Avenue)

Zomba Prison Project, I Will Not Stop Singing (Six Degrees)

Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni, Les Filles de Illighadad (Sahel Sounds)

Sahra Halgan Trio, Faransiskiyo Somaliland (Buda Music)

Aziza Brahim, Abbar el Hamada (Glitterbeat)

Rocky Marsiano, Meu Kamba Vol. Dois (Akwaaba)

Graveola E O Lixo Polifônico, Camaleão Borboleta (Mais Um Discos)

La Yegros, Magnetismo (Soundways)[i]

that Gil/Veloso album is a snooze imo

Noura Mint Seymali record is great, stripped down Saharan blues with a torch singer as a frontperson

she was super good live as well

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/620-revolvers-20-best-albums-of-2016/

Whiney I think used to write for Revolver

If you ignore the uniform adulation for Bowie, Radiohead, Nick Cave, Cohen and Iggy, albumoftheyear's aggregated list seems reasonably or at least predictably well representative of newer acts and genre range.

It's worse than GAPDY if you think it matters that the five this time are all decades old.

only if you're ageist

Oh yeah, and they're all men too.

interesting thing to me about the aggregate is how high kanye is placing with a record which seems widely to be considered a misstep. in the aoty rankings it's the highest placing record without a #1 vote. this i think is perhaps a better example than beyonce (whose record truly is superb) of someone getting plaudits based essentially on name recognition.

I liked it from the beginning but won't deny that it has a tranquility that has been partic appealing over the past month.

― rob, Friday, December 9, 2016 12:00 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's kind of brilliant about that album to me is that it conveys both serene and restorative tranquillity but also total broken-down (and very specific) depression simultaneously. it builds the former out of the latter but not in a worthy "how to overcome sadness through being excellent" kind of way, the sadness is the core of it.

like, it actually feels like being so fatigued that you want to give up while also ultimately working towards a kind of hope and making the case for these states of mind being intertwined if not the same thing

yep

I've never known the thread starter to be particularly interested in tracks rather than albums, and the thread title reflects that, but someone hit us up with some good tracks lists please. They're usually more fun/interesting.

It's worse than GAPDY if you think it matters that the five this time are all decades old.

GRAMPDY

just be glad the Wilco record is not showing up much

GAWDY

It's worse than GAPDY if you think it matters that the five this time are all decades old.

Hey some of them are dead. And you can't just filter Beyonce and Solange out because they don't fit the theory.

SOLRIPBEY

lol

I've never known the thread starter to be particularly interested in tracks rather than albums, and the thread title reflects that, but someone hit us up with some good tracks lists please. They're usually more fun/interesting.

― Matt DC,

gotta get your snidey remark in as usual, eh?

this type of thread has always had both albums & tracks and there has been tracks lists posted and I'm sure as they come out more will be

Haha that wasn't meant to be snide, you *are* usually more visibly involved/interested in the ILM albums poll when it rolls around.

If you would like a reminder of how dire pop music has been this year, I could post the Billboard Hot 100 for 2016.

xp

fair enough. I usually quite like the ilm tracks poll even if its more from a spectator point of view

we did try a metal tracks poll before but the voters werent interested so i dumped it

new board description

Has this been posted yet?
http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9990-the-20-best-electronic-albums-of-2016/

lol

lex otm on solange album, it is really good

i just heard this song the other day, it has almost 350 million views on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxuY9FET9Y4

the bandcamp countdown just finished up and it turned out to be a really great varied list https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/12/09/the-best-albums-of-2016-20-1/

king at no. 1! oranssi pazuzu!

that Jose Mauro reissue that led off their list was fantastic

I am super happy that Jenny Besetzt ended up at #6 on the Bandcamp list.

oh thanks for pointing that out, reminded me that i needed to buy it still

xpost. Somewhat ironically, now that Wilco are actually sort of good (last two albums) they're vanishing from the charts. Serves them right I guess.

Pitchfork's 20 Best Experimental Albums. I'm working through these. Matmos is really good and Yves Tumor is enjoyable so far.

Oh, people are hating on it on the Pitchfork thread.

serpentwithfeet is pretty badass but it's not really what I would bring to mind when thinking of "experimental music"

Anna Meredith album is great as well but there's nothing experimental about it at all.

Not at all??

Ha, yeah, I don't know if I'd really describe the things I've listened to as "experimental" per se but these lists usually include music I enjoy. xp

Requirement number one to be an 'experimental art' artist: your album cover must be black & white.

http://www.rap-up.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/adele-25-cover.jpg

Other notable entries from the Bandcamp list:

#37 Sélébéyone, Sélébéyone
#32 Marissa Nadler, Strangers
#28 SubRosa, For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
#24 The Body, No One Deserves Happiness
#14 Elza Soares, The woman at the end of the world (A mulher do fim do mundo)
#8 Jenny Hval, Blood Bitch
#6 Jenny Besetzt, Tender Madness
#5 Shabaka & the Ancestors, Wisdom of Elders
#4 Ette, Homemade Lemonade
#3 NxWorries, Yes Lawd!
#2 Moor Mother, Fetish Bones

Yeah I'm wondering about that Moor Mother album tbh. Very intrigued from the few snippets I've read