Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

p.s. Dec 2014 was amazing

Beyonce and D'Angelo each released surprise December albums in recent years that rendered lots of lists incomplete. Kinda a refreshing reminder that not all artists need or remotely care about year-end validation.

December used to be a drop date for a lot of good but shelved albums from rap and R&B B-listers, but that doesn't seem to happen as much anymore.

Miguel's first album came out the first week of December, for instance. Major labels seem to treat December like movie studios treat January, a release date for projects they don't have high expectations for

Isn't there still 10 % of the year left?

Yes, but EOY lists coming out before the end of the year isn't particularly surprising or noteworthy at this point.

that FOPP list is hilariously, almost unbelievably bad

guillotine pour monsieur le fopp

won't someone think of the lists

thank you Fopp for cheering me up

Damn, we're publishing these already? The turkey isn't even cold!

i confess that i can't tell the difference between a bad year end list and a good year end list, but whenever i hear a mediocre record i immediately forget ever having heard it.

I still have Halloween candy left. What the fuck, music press?

At least FOPP's list has the Warpaint album on it, which is better than could be said for the other lists so far, even if it was far too low.

Yeah, and the Beth Orton.

Also, Cavern of antimatter, and the top shares loads with the other lists as per, so hey.

who is the Gaz Coombes of 2016

http://www.craftweb.org/web/ed/songlink.jpg

ha, my reaction to about 80% of the entries on that Fopp list was "I had no idea they were still going/I had no idea they released a new album this year"

I mean, Richard Ashcroft? James?

My contacts among the lumberjacks like what they've heard of this Neil Young album, out Dec.9---and some people are looking forward to the Stones' blues set:
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date

gaz coombes of 2016 is quite possibly kate tempest

I didn't realize until last week there was a new Kate Tempest record. Then I listened to it. How is it possible for it to be worse than her last one? I don't know, but it is.

The Kate Tempest record might be the worst thing I've heard all year. It's an album with no redeeming features. That and The Anchoress album were the low points of my 2016 listening.

The inclusion of The Courteeners on that Fopp list is the most shocking one for me. The popularity of that group in the UK is baffling.

Surprised to see The Divine Comedy record pop up on a couple of lists. I love that band but it's an appalling album.

I know it's early days, but I have a feeling Shura's album is going to be the most disappointing omission on all these lists.

that james record was ok. some nice droney moments

had never heard of kate tempest, but boy, i am glad somebody is picking up the gauntlet dolores o'riordan laid down in 1996.

poor Kate Tempest. her first album wasn't THAT bad was it? (albeit in a 'hey, remember The Streets?' kind of way, admittedly). not heard this new one though

something so rare and refreshing about being able to enjoy exquisitely bad taste like that fopp list. it's a masterpiece

there are a lot of great records on the fopp list tbh

You'd have to produce an astonishing list to have no good records on it, though.

kate tempest is the ill manors of 2016

that's more appropriate yeah

but worse

That Fopp list does read like it was compiled by a lot of people who haven't really liked music since the 90s.

Kaiser Chiefs not even in the Fopp list. Almost feel bad for the lads.

Or another perspective, some people are not so quick to drop an artist because they're no longer in fashion. Travis does make me laugh, but to be fair, there's very little that's actually embarrassing. Plenty of other lists will do far worse. While I never liked Garbage, I heard the new album, and it's no worse than the old stuff. Bloc Party, Wild Beasts, The Julie Ruin, Explosions in the Sky, Pet Shop Boys, Primal Scream, Tindersticks, Lucinda Williams are all decent. #60-51 are not unusually retro entries. We'll see Dinosaur Jr on some other lists I'm sure. I like that Teleman is on there, even though I don't think it's quite in my top 100. I don't love the new Suede or Coral, but would take them over Bon Iver. I'm surprised they have De La Soul but not A Tribe Called Quest. Haven't heard the Dexys but would check it out. I used to like Lambchop, but find the latest a chore. Same with the Eno. Just recently heard Christine & the Queens. It's alright, but would never ever say it's close to album of the year territory.

The Piccadilly list has some interesting things:

Camera - Phantom of Liberty - Kosmische
The Mystery Lights - The Mystery Lights - Garage noir and psych. I saw them live last summer, lots of potential.
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex - More Kosmische!
Whyte Horses - Pop or Not - Certainly a unique #1 choice. Slightly psychedelic jangle pop, worth a listen.

Thee Oh Sees, Goat and Psychic Ills will probably turn out to be the go-to psych choices on most other lists. Wolf People, Lola Colt, Syd Arthur, Blues Pills, Purson and Causa Sui remain under the radar for most which is too bad. But what about Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band? They were celebrated in the past, and The Rarity of Experience is a pretty glorious double album.

Bloc Party...decent.

What u smokin?

Teleman is a cool inclusion, I agree, but it's a cool inclusion from Fopp's extremely limited wheelhouse

poor Kate Tempest. her first album wasn't THAT bad was it?

No, it wasnt, it had its moments but kinda wore out its welcome quickly.

that vanishing twin album is something else

Very much enjoying this. Thanks!

1975 tops NME's list.

Rihanna has fallen off everyon's radar completely it seems.

NME

50. Bon Iver – '22 A Million'
49. Public Access TV – 'Never Enough'
47. Wild Beasts – 'Boy King'
46. Savages - 'Adore Life'
45. Car Seat Headrest – 'Teens Of Denial'
44. The Lemon Twigs – 'Do Hollywood'
43. Anohni – 'Hopelessness'
42. Whitney – 'Light Upon The Lake'
41. Solange – 'A Seat At The Table
40. Rihanna – 'Anti'
39. Green Day – 'Revolution Radio'
38. Slaves – 'Take Control'
37. Soft Hair – 'Soft Hair'
36. Swet Shop Boys – 'Cashmere'
35. Glass Animals – 'How To Be A Human Being'
34. Let’s Eat Grandma – 'I, Gemini'
33. Margo Price – 'Midwest Farmers Daughter'
32. Kings Of Leon – 'Walls'
31. Bastille – 'Wild World'
30. Nao – 'For All We Know'
29. Kate Tempest – 'Let Them Eat Chaos'
28. Goat – 'Requiem'
27. Giggs – 'Landlord'
26. Biffy Clyro – 'Ellipsis'
25. Blossoms – 'Blossoms'
24. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – 'Skeleton Tree'
23. Michael Kiwanuka – 'Love And Hate'
22. Radiohead – 'A Moon-shaped-pool'
21. Anderson. Paak – 'Malibu'
20. Lady Gaga – 'Joanne'
19. White – 'Lung Paradise'
18. Tegan And Sara – 'Love You To Death'
17. Drake – 'Views'
16. Danny Brown – 'Atrocity Exhibition'
15. Kano – 'Made In The Manor'
14. Jamie T – 'Trick'
13. Angel Olsen – 'My Woman'
12. Sunflower Bean – 'Human Ceremony'
11. Beyonce – 'Lemonade'
10. Frank Ocean – 'Blond'
9. Chance The Rapper – 'Coloring Book'
8. Iggy Pop – 'Post Pop Depression'
7. Diiv – 'Is The Is Are'
6. David Bowie – 'Backstair'
5. Kaytranada – '99.9%'
4. Skepta – 'Konnichiwa'
3. Christine And The Queens – 'Chaleur Humaine'
2. Kanye West – 'The Life Of Pablo'
1. The 1975 – 'I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It'

nice of them to spell the bowie properly :D

Got it from here http://www.capitalxtra.com/news/nme-release-controversial-top-albums-of-2016-list/#d9T1ZFgL2fKyCThL.97

and there's kate tempest again

19. White – 'Lung Paradise'

future poet laureate kate tempest

Somehow the Biffy Clyro album still remains the worst band/album on all these lists.

There just isn't anyone as hopeless or talentless out there selling as many albums as those cunts.

the only reason i know who kate tempest is is because [ILXOR NAME REDACTED] texted me in disbelief that SPIN said she had made a better hip-hop album than Flockaveli

http://www.spin.com/featured/50-best-hip-hop-debut-albums-since-reasonable-doubt-jay-z/

isn't there a dan weiss zing thread on here somewhere

I dislike Kate Tempest but attempting to sell her as hip-hop is pretty dumb. I know Imago has been trying to make this pile-on happen for about two years though so let him have his fun.

38. Slaves – 'Take Control'
37. Soft Hair – 'Soft Hair'
36. Swet Shop Boys – 'Cashmere'
35. Glass Animals – 'How To Be A Human Being'
34. Let’s Eat Grandma – 'I, Gemini'

I haven't heard a single note of any of these but this is probably the worst run of band and album names I've ever seen.

The brass neck of all that Skepta score inflation as well.

The music isn't very good either. Let's Eat Grandma did one fantastic song a few years ago when they were 13 but the album (including a rerecording of that song) is mostly just annoying

Lol Dinsdale am I way behind the curve in figuring out who you are, cuz it took me a whole year to realize rev changed her sn

I'm not a former ilxor or anything like that, so there's no such thing as figuring out who I am

I'll fucking do it

(j/k)

Ohhh ok

I think I remember one year (probably 2012? Back when stephen ilxor was still affiliated with them) when one of their worst albums might have actually made the best albums list.

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Doesn't that routinely happen with the NME reader polls or am I imagining that

wow the whiteness of the brainwashed list is particularly glaring in a year when yves, dedekind, klein, etc were all basically running down different nurse with wound threads

ooh thanks for those other two recommendations, I already got turned on to the excellent Yves Tumor record via the Spotify playlist

I hope you will take a look at the 2016 music year in review at

http://phivel.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-in-review-visions-of-end-and-back.html

I would love to hear your reactions (pro and con).

a sort of macho inadequacy 'it's just nooooise' self-pwning incurious sense

uh what? Do you even know what the majority of what made the list sounds like? Undoubtedly people who rep for Fennesz, Oren Ambarchi, Nurse with Wound, Whitehouse, and Tim Hecker are totally turned off by nooooise. Oh and Full of Hell, who had a recent collab with lush melodic masters Merzbow?

Moderately surprised Moor Mother didn't get love from this list.

I hadn't heard nearly half of this list, but in sampling they all seem pretty solid pop, garage punk, jangle, psych, etc.

https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/albums-of-2016/

Good list. I've bookmarked a few of those.

Quite late to past this in this thread, the end of year-list of the radio station I'm working for in free time, called Radio Scorpio (Belgium). Was aired two weeks ago in a 12 hour show. (I had a vote)

1 Frank Ocean – Blonde
2 A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
3 Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä
4 Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
5 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS
6 Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
7 Rick Parker / Li Daiguo – Free World Music
8 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
9 V/A - Mambos Levis D’Outro Mundo
10 Big Ups – Before a Million Universes

11 Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina
12 Babyfather – BBF hosted by DJ Escrow
13 Equiknoxx – Bird Sound Power
14 Whores. – Gold
15 David Bowie – Blackstar
16 Solange – A Seat at the Table
17 Jessy Lanza – Oh No
18 Cobalt – Slow Forever
19 Run The Jewels – RTJ3
20 Jambinai – A Hermitage

21 El Yunque – Baskenland
22 Mono – Requiem for Hell
23 Yves Tumor – Serpent Music
24 Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo
25 Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits
26 Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines
27 Angel Olsen – My Woman
28 Heron Oblivion – Heron Oblivion
29 Julius Eastman – Femenine
30 Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks

31 Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
32 Mumdance & Logos Presents Different Circles
33 Seekersinternational – LoversDedicationStation / RaggaPreservationSociety
34 Schoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
35 Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
36 Pop. 1280 – Paradise
37 YG – Still Brazy
38 Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered
39 Ryley Walker – Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
40 Ignatz – The Drain

41 V/A - Space Echo
42 Elza Soares – A Mulher do Fim do Mundo
43 Ulrika Spacek – The Album Paranoia
44 Autechre – Elseq
45 Melanie De Biasio – Blackened Cities EP
46 Anderson .Paak – Malibu
47 Preoccupations – Preoccupations
48 Aluk Todolo – Voix
49 Darkher – Realms
50 Stargazer’s Assistant – Remoteness of Light

51 Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
52 V/A - Digital Zandoli
53 ANOHNI – Hopelessness
54 Avalon Emerson – Whities 006 en Narcissus in Retrogade
55 pg.lost – Versus
56 Oathbreaker – Rheia
57 Convextion – 2845
58 Huerco S. – For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
59 Foodman – Ez Minzoku
60 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity

61 Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
62 Cocaine Piss – The Dancer
63 Anxiety – Anxiety
64 Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat To Earth
65 Rangda – The Heretics Bargain
66 75 Dollar Bill – WOOD/METAL/PLASTIC/PATTERN/RHYTHM/ROCK
67 Razen – Endrhymes
68 Jack DeJohnette / Ravi Coltrane / Matthew Garrison – In Movement
69 Sendai – Ground And Figure
70 V/A - Objekt – Kern Vol. 3

71 Russian Circles – Guidance
72 Vektor – Cygnus Terminal
73 Puce Mary – The Spiral
74 Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
75 Young Thug – Jeffrey
76 Vince Staples – Prima Donna (EP)
77 Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Yermande
78 Alain Pierre – Jan Zonder Vrees OST
79 Mica Levi é Oliver Coates – Remain Calm
80 Lorenzo Senni – Persona

81 Causa Sui – Return to Sky
82 Georgia – All Kind Music
83 Fatou Seidei Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni – Les Filles De Illighadad
84 V/A - Soul Sok Sega
85 Black Flower – Ghost Radio + Artifacts
86 Wang Wen – Sweet Home, Go!
87 Savages – Adore Life
88 Swans – The Glowing Man
89 Hashshashin – nihsahshsaH
90 Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book

91 V/A - Bobo Yéyé – Belle Epoque in Upper Volta
92 Tortoise – The Catastrophist
93 Horse Lords – Interventions
94 Whitney – Light Upon the Lake
95 Steve Hauschildt – Strands
96 Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio – Desire and Freedom
97 Raime – Tooth
98 Manngold – Manngold
99 Gojira – Magma
100 Kevin Morby – Singing Saw

101 Echo Beatty – Nonetheless
102 Guerilla Toss – Eraser Stargazer
103 Anna Meredith – Varmints
104 Shirley Collins – Lodestar
105 Dans Dans – Sand
106 Washington Phillips – Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams

Today is a good day to buy a bunch of the 2016 albums you've been meaning to, as Bandcamp is donating 100% of their proceeds to ACLU.

https://wolfpeople.bandcamp.com/album/ruins
https://sydarthur.bandcamp.com/album/apricity
http://shop.lolacolt.com/album/twist-through-the-fire
http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/hunted-2
https://wovenhand.bandcamp.com/album/star-treatment
https://fuzzoramarecords1.bandcamp.com/album/iii
https://chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/the-rarity-of-experience
https://sirrobinandthelongbowmen.bandcamp.com/album/sir-robin-the-longbowmen
https://rollingblackoutscoastalfever.bandcamp.com/album/talk-tight
https://sunsofthyme.bandcamp.com/album/cascades
https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/air
https://soniccathedral.bandcamp.com/album/ii
https://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com/album/chained-to-oblivion
https://badomenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/prelude
https://thewinstons.bandcamp.com/album/the-winstons
https://drakkarnowhere.bandcamp.com/album/drakkar-nowhere
https://maddermortem.bandcamp.com/

a Google search brought me here: did ILM's PWR BTTM thread get deleted??