Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

Yeah, I've been disappointed to see School Of Seven Bells miss out. I don't think they were ever really that popular with the critics. I have no idea why.

SVIIB is probably my favourite album of the year that doesn't have a Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith credit

Paste Magazine. Lots of things I've never heard of.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/11/the-50-best-albums-of-2016.html?a=1

speaking of posthumous albums, I realize this is me reverting back to primordial commenter form but everyone seems to have dismissed the school of seven bells record

Not me! One of my most played records this year.

I listened to School of Seven Bells for about a week and then haven't gone back to it. I've spent more time this year with the Monkees album.

Both are mighty fine things.

The Paste top 5 is pretty great, except for Car Seat Headrest clogging it up. The rest is boooooring af.

(Not all bad, but a lot bad, and the good things are the same things I've already seen.)

Paste Magazine? Boring? No way.

Routinely shit-talking Paste is my part-time hobby, so co-sign.

Is anyone on ILM a fan of Car Seat Headrest? I have some friends who love it and I just don't get the EOY praise it's getting. Seems like run of the mill indie rock to me and boring one at that.

Cate Le Bon seems like a real oversight on that Paste list (judging by the other artists on there).

Always an eclectic list:

http://tedgioia.com/bestalbumsof2016.html

as loath as I am to approve of ted gioia I am listening to this hannah epperson album and it is quite good

If all the picks on that Treble list are as good as the first one, I'm going to be spending a lot of time with it.

Listening to 1021 new albums a year... what a life

what a crushing bore. take out the jazz and you're left with what everyone else has

Radiohead always suffers from buyer's regret in the EOY lists. I could bet AMSP would be in several top 10s if they had released it a month ago.

Their releases always get hyped to death is what I mean.

Lists are missing the Tribe Called Quest album. This is unacceptable.

as loath as I am to approve of ted gioia I am listening to this hannah epperson album and it is quite good

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, November 30, 2016 9:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk who this guy is but yeah this is cool!

Yep.

Cate Le Bon seems like a real oversight on that Paste list

I wonder what effect keeping an album off of Spotify has on eoy list placement.

http://www.stereogum.com/featured/the-50-best-albums-of-2016/

Some good stuff in the lower reaches with a very consensus-y top five

Top 10:
10. Danny Brown
9. Kanye
8. Mitski
7. Angel Olsen
6. Solange
5. Bowie
4. Tribe
3. Chance
2. Frank Ocean
1. Beyonce

(ted gioia is a jazz critic who is very bad at writing about pop. which is fair, I probably would be very bad at writing about jazz, but I don't write dismissive takes about it in salon or wherever)

is the frank ocean any good

good question

that stereogum top 10 is close to what I'm expecting to see from here on out

i thought the frank ocean record was terrible tbh. imago might enjoy the sounds on that danny brown though?

The Frank Ocean album is probably the year's biggest grower. It seemed like a self-evident disappointment at first but it really opens up. I ended up listening to it as much as just about anything this year

Norman Records Top 100 is a great list every year.

Norman records

http://email.normanrecords.com/t/y-l-hruyak-mkjulhyi-j/

Beat me to it LBI

(top 50 actually)

xp :)

There's an 8-song EP in the Frank album that would be incredible. The first and last songs on the album are very bad.

xp OK now that's my kinda list

interesting that the katie dey album made stereogum's top 20, it was quite nice but don't expect it will show up anywhere else at all

a fair bit of Blonde grew on me but it still feels too fragmented overall. the highs are great (a solid 8 track EP sounds about right) but a lot of it just doesn't quite work which is really frustrating.

lots to dig into on the Norman Records list, just hope it isn't mostly boring piffle

i love the katie dey record

imagine if people gave other records as much of a chance to grow as they give blond/e! must be nice to have a rep as a ~genius~

I dunno, that's fair, but he took advantage of the benefit of the doubt to make a unique album that most artists couldn't have gotten away with. I can't fault him for that

I realize there's a chance blond/e could grow on me and open up if I spent time with it, but I haven't felt the need or desire to go back to it. *shrug*

I already felt Channel Orange was a bluff so I gave Blond/e very few chances. Love nostalgiaultra.

definitely lots of good stuff on the Norman Records list

good write-ups too

can't say I know half the albums

listened to that Western Skies Motel album off the Norman Records list, held my attention more than I thought it would based on the description, really nice album.

That Western Skies Motel album on the Norman list is gorgeous. I think they're Danish, but they sound like the uncanny, backwoods stuff of Bruce Langhorne or Scott Tuma. The C. Diab is lovely, too.

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reminded me a bit of koen holtkamp/mountains, which is always a good thing

I've heard half of those Norman Records list... some of them are really good and glad they're giving deserved attention to some ignored records but there's also some boring ones in there. At any rate these sort of 'non-zeigeist' lists are always better than the consensus ones. Yeah we all love Lemonade but I prefer finding out about records I might have overlooked instead of the ones we've talked about all year.

lmao frank ocean is some fresh bollocks