Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

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.)

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

― just another (diamonddave85), Wednesday, December 28, 2016 3:52 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks, Dave, that sentence was the result of an IRL convo with a Brooklyn record store clerk who def wasn't impressed with Dixon/Stein since he's seen an entire wave of analog synth festishists come and go, and was def trendy in the BK around 2010: Emeralds, the first three Oneohtrix Point Never records, RVNG Itnl reissues, all the way through the last Boards of Canada record. I think the fact that the Stranger Things soundtrack has been a commercial and cultural success proves that it's resonating with people way beyond the universe that reads Gorilla Vs Bear and can recognize a Robert Beatty drawing. Its actually turning people on to synths and synth culture and, one would believe, eventually, this whole universe of space-rock, drone, horror soundtracks, or w/e... I do wonder if the "lol simpsons did it" attitude affected its lack of acclaim at "cool" places like The Wire, The Quietus and Pitchfork. But I'm pretty certain this is gonna have a pretty big impact on a lot of young people who never bought a record of noises and drones.

I do wonder if the "lol simpsons did it" attitude affected its lack of acclaim at "cool" places like The Wire, The Quietus and Pitchfork.

I think in The WIre's case, it was probably more a case of "we've been covering this kind of music for a decade or so already, and frankly this iteration is...just okay." They reviewed both volumes of the soundtrack, and the Survive album, in the electronic column in the October issue, and called it "a capable xerox of gestures from 80s Tangerine Dream (the opening theme plunders The Keep), Jean-Michel Jarre and Timewind-era Klaus Schulze."

I think there's room for both what Whiney is saying and what Wire feels about SURVIVE/ST soundtrack. It's great if this music opens the door for youngsters though! I personally feel "It Follows" soundtrack did this thing better in the mainstream first.

or "under the skin" tbh

Hm, I don't really associate Mica Levi's work with retro-aesthetics.

If anything it's utterly contemporary.

SURVIVE/ST soundtrack is total member berries.

whiney hypocrisy so lame that mark fisher and simon reynolds died immediately

Thought Whiney was on team KAS Is Dull but looks like we've lost a good man

Keen to check out other stuff on that list though

Friend's list. Interesting stuff!

http://resonantspace.blogspot.com/2016/12/best-improvised-and-creative-music-of_28.html

lol at "Creative Music" but that's an intriguing list

I must be a very "creative" person cos I very much like a load of that shit :p

am dying to hear that Nuova Camerata one and have read a few people repping for it.

http://www.offbeat.com/articles/50-best-albums-2016/

New Orleans magazine's fave Louisiana releases

1.Aaron Neville: Apache

2. Roddie Romero & the Hub City All-Stars: Gulfstream

3. Allen Toussaint: American Tunes

4. Bobby Rush: Porcupine Meat

5. Honey Island Swamp Band: Demolition Day