Thread for all 2016 albums of the year lists

Jeff Miller's 2016 punk scrapbook at Said the Gramophone: http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/punk_scrapbook_2016.php

― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 17:34 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ good list imo

Please, if I ever become this kind of insufferable dour hateful misogynistic racist snob cunt about my music*, kill me. This kind of closed-mindedness and posturing is a million times worse than any sort of pop music exclusivism. This really raises the mirror to the sorts of people who self-style as experimental music fans and reveals them for the dreadful, damaged bores that they are.

*as was vaguely threatened itt, still so :/ about that

A category for "Worst Album of the Year?" My middle-school-aged child is more open-minded.

Sort of understand the hate for Jute Gyte in a sort of macho inadequacy 'it's just nooooise' self-pwning incurious sense but voting Weyes Blood as second-worst album of the year makes me entirely suspect the Brainwashed readership to comprise a suppurating hate-riven subreddit of actively bigoted shut-ins (probably confirmed by the seething unchecked Swans support, lack of POC or women etc etc) - it just isn't an album I could imagine anyone with any sort of acceptable social adjustment hating. Even if you can't get with its vibe it's not much more than an intricate pop-folk record with proggy touches and lots of harmonies. If this is what drives you to hatred then you're undoubtedly worthless and probably a localised threat to others.

Since I'm one of the assholes who vote in their poll, let me say that you don't actively vote for a "worst album of the year", you just rate the albums you've heard (love, like, dislike, hate) so a record could get in that list simply by the matter of having a lot of people not liking it. I don't think there are that many voters either so it doesn't even have to be a lot of people.

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.

Ummm wait...Dinsdale??

that is a truly deranged way to run a poll at the best of times, but with such a voting public (present company excluded I suppose) it becomes actively reckless

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.

― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, January 5, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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??