Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

https://boomkat.com/charts/2016

Probably an unfair gripe but checking out a few things on the FACT/Boomkat lists that I hadn't heard and... I'm just feeling uninspired. A lot of it seems to be trying hard to be forward-thinking and current, but it's all just a bit empty. This kind of hipstery quasi-dance makes me feel like I'm trapped in a perpetual 2010 listening to Joy Orbison and early James Blake EPs. Just don't see the point in that Lorenzo Senni thing at all...

that is unfair... precious few works of art can ever hope to attain the level of dog latin eureka moment

The Jazzwise Top 20 Jazz Albums of 2016

A lot of good records on this list, and several I haven't heard but am interested to check out.

FACT's trax list is out:

http://www.factmag.com/2016/12/20/50-best-tracks-2016/

And sure, it may be packed with the overdone “where the hoes, though?” lyrics and vows of “the bro code”, but here it is enacted by one of the first queer voices to dominate legitimate top 40 radio.

"fact" magazine

:|

for the life of me I do not understand the appeal of Maren Morris

i never want to begrudge popcaan this sort of limelight - he is indeed a special, alluring, maybe iconic artist and 'ova dweet' is pretty magic - but it does kinda suck that truthfully i only like it maybe 2% more, somedays, than '7 days' by vershon on the same riddim

https://soundcloud.com/dancehallpromo/vershon-7-days-clean-ova-dweet-riddim

it was popular too! it would be nice to think that Murlo, Swing Ting and Hipster’s Don’t Dance, not to mention Mixpak boss Dre Skull also felt a twinge of grief at its sacrifice to the popcuult.

for the life of me I do not understand the appeal of Maren Morris

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, December 20, 2016 6:43 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

album reminds me of a young taylor swift but more worldly

yeah that is the same feel i get from it—hooks and attitude for days. "once" is devastating

every time i came back to that record i liked it even more

Just don't see the point in that Lorenzo Senni thing at all...

won't lie, i enjoyed that record a lot

I will keep trying because I would love to be on the same page as you fine folks

Glide's Top Ten Jazz Albums of 2016

The Dinosaur album on the Jazzwise list caught my attention. It sounds good - a fluid and funky electric Miles sound.

https://dinosaurband.bandcamp.com/album/together-as-one

jazzwise list needs links/embeds with songs from those albums

also nice blurb for one of the top jazz albums of 2016:

Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’ could have been successfully edited to half its length, for example, in its present form an amiable noodle, and this seems to be the destiny of several songs. Part of the problem is the laid back playing of Bill Frisell, who sounds as if he could barely get out of bed in the morning. Lloyd plays well, but he does need someone to bounce off. There are nice moments: ‘Abide With Me’ would please the Anfield faithful, ‘All My Trials’ has elegance as long as Lloyd is at the microphone, while Willie Nelson’s ‘Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream’ somehow works in the context of the album. Dear old Norah Jones – she who bank rolled the survival of the Blue Note label – is unmistakably Norah, if you like that sort of thing. Great for iPod listening since this functions well as undemanding background music.
Stuart Nicholson

here's the boston globe's, which is also mine

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2016/12/22/top-pop-albums/rFepkffDwQWJsBguJ1IPgM/story.html

The AV Club's Least Essential Albums of 2016

(the Clones blurb made me lol)

Good list

Other Music staff

http://www.othermusic.com/blogs/staff-picks/other-music-staff-picks-for-2016

Radio 3's Late Junction show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1kKy56yZYw6dcwtlx2hbBJy/the-late-junction-albums-of-2016

RA tracks:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2862

A Closer Listen:

https://acloserlisten.com/2016/12/23/acl-2016-the-top-20-albums-of-the-year/

Arctic Drones:

http://arcticdrones.com/staff-picks/50-favourite-albums-2016/

fROOTS:

http://www.frootsmag.com/content/critpoll/

Still to come:
http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/
http://beehy.pe/best-of-2015/

https://somanyshrimp.com/2016/12/22/best-music-2016/

That RA list is solid

that somanyshrimp list is solid

Electronic Sound mag Top 24 albums (unveiled advent calendar style on their blog)

1. Hannah Peel
2. Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve
3. Anna Meredith
4. V/A - Close To The Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984
5. Lambchop
6. Blancmange
7. onDeadWaves
8. Gold Panda
9. Wrangler
10. Silver Apples
11. Brian Eno
12. Oliver Coates
13. Yello
14. The Orb
15. Cavern of Anti-Matter
16. S U R V I V E
17. Floorplan
18. Let's Eat Grandma
19. Mark Pritchard
20. Graingerboy
21. Fakear
22. The Pattern Forms
23. Baltic Fleet
24. Reed & Caroline

The System EP re-release on Music from Memory is like the ancestral origin point of Junior Boys.

Also Digital Zandoli, man. This comp is so good! Was trying to ID Puzzle Pulsion - Mwoin Ka Songe from maybe a Young Marco set a while back? Anyway... other instant gems: Selekta - Fle Pou' W and Milton - Mizik Nou.

Afisha's top 20 international albums of the year:

20. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
19. Angel Olsen - My Woman
18. Zomby - Ultra
17. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
16. Kaytranada - 99.9%
15. Rihanna - Anti
14. Drake - Views
13. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
12. Jessy Lanza - Oh No
11. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
10. The Weeknd - Starboy
9. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
8. Anohni - Hopelessness
7. Solange - A Seat at the Table
6. David Bowiw - Blackstar
5. Skepta - Konnichiwa
4. Blood Orange- Freetown Sound
3. Frank Ocean - Blond
2. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
1. Beyonce - Lemonade

Their Russian list is a bit more interesting:

20. Gromyka - Akrobatenka
19. Buerak - Tantsi Po Raschetu
18. Auktsion - Na Solntse
17. Pika - A L F V
16. Pharaoh - Fosfor
15. NV - Binasu
14. Monetochka - Psikhodelicheskii Klaud Rep
13. Basta - Basta 5
12. Ne Tvoe Delo - Best Hits
11. Monatik - Zvuchit
10. Del'fin - Ona
9. Maks Korsch - Malii Povzroslel
8. L'One - Gravitatsiya
7. Megapolis - Zerolines
6. Antokha MC - Rodnya
5. Luna - Magniti
4. ГШ - Oeshch Magziu
3. Gribi - Dom Na Kolesakh
2. Thomas Mrvz - May 13
1. Kaspiiskii Gruz - The Brutto

No Mujuice on the Russian list is very surprising.

http://post-trash.com/news/2016/12/23/post-trashs-best-of-2016-staff-picks

^^ Focuses on louder alt-rock and indie.

My annual avant list :)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/20-best-avant-albums-of-2016-w455706

It might just be my browser but suddenly everything is centered on the page starting at #17

Scene leader Masami Akita (better known as Merzbow) and Steely Dan–esque. . .

This sounds promising already.

"Disorienting and gorgeous." just embarrassing overpraise

Great list Whiney! Bonus points for Wadada Leo Smith (should've been top 3) Writing about avant music is hard I gather... the more experimental it gets the harder it is to explain to someone why they should listen to it and what it sounds like if there's no references.

Whitney - glad to know someone else liked the Fox/Soper Duo record.

oren ambarchi too low

nice list Whiney, looking forward to following up the stuff i haven't already listened to

lol mordy

if you translate back from blurbese you basically get something indistinguishable from the random set of posts singled out in those two locked threads - wasn't there also a (v coherent I'm sure) critique of stranger things along the lines of this is good but ¿retromania? People got REALLY MAD iirc, fun all round

can't front tho, that list has most of the new albums I listened to this year on it :-( :-)

loved that battle trance album; would like to see it popping up on lists
not everything but: whiney tries

lots of stuff on Whiney's list that I want to check out, nice work dude

https://fracturedair.com/2016/12/28/albums-of-the-year-2016/

^^^ really love how they redesigned the album art in the top ten

The cassette and CD-R underground has been mining the knob-twiddling era of Tangerine Dream and Vangelis for more than a decade now, but the wildly popular series mixed with Dixon and Stein's diverse emotional palette will likely make this a gateway to the experimental music upside-down for years.

love this

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2016/12/12/giittvs-albums-poll-of-2016/

Overblown’s 10 Best Japanese Albums of 2016. Was going to cut and paste names and titles, but they've made it too difficult to do so.

(I don't know anything about Overblown.)