Your top 5 albums of 2016
Dec 16, 2016 at 2:27 AM Post #17 of 24
There's always the possibility that my list will change (still waiting on a couple of reviewers whose opinions I hold in high regard to release their year-end best lists), but for the first time that I can remember no year-end best lists have otherwise swayed or forced me to re-evaluate my personal list, which has been pretty well set in stone for the last couple of weeks (a few metal albums aside), and which thus makes me feel pretty confident in sharing it. Here's the top 10, with the remainder of the list tucked away in a spoiler box (I've worked it out all the way to #50). I would estimate that I've listened to about 450 new albums this year. I've been combining diverse genres into the same list for as long as I've been making year-end lists, and while it can lead to some admittedly silly juxtapositions (what exactly makes Gorguts one step better than Michael Kiwanuka?), it's reflective of what music meant the most to me this year. Note that I don't differentiate between EPs and LPs when list-making, but this year wound up with only two EPs on the list anyways.
 
50. Xiu Xiu: Plays the Music of Twin Peaks 49. Rome: The Hyperion Machine
48. The Avalanches: Wildflower
47. Deakin: Sleep Cycle
46. The Dillinger Escape Plan: Dissociation
45. Be'lakor: Vessels
44. Blood Orange: Freetown Sound
43. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas: Mariner
42. Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos
41. Ceu: Tropix
40. Whitney: Light Upon the Lake
39. Tanya Tagaq: Retribution
38. Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch
37. Destroyer 666: Wildfire
36. Chance the Rapper: Coloring Book
35. Drive-By Truckers: American Band
34. Deathspell Omega: The Synarchy of Molten Bones
33. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Nonagon Infinity
32. Wormrot: Voices
31. Oranssi Pazuzu: Varahtelija
30. Death Grips: Bottomless Pit
29. Inquisition: Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
28. Cobalt: Slow Forever
27. Anderson .Paak: Malibu
26. Beyonce: Lemonade
25. Massive Attack: Ritual Spirit
24. Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor's Guide to Earth
23. Shabaka and the Ancestors: Wisdom of Elders
22. Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate
21. Gorguts: Pleiades' Dust
20. Vektor: Terminal Redux
19. Entropia: Ufonaut
18. Death Angel: The Evil Divide
17. Fates Warning: Theories of Flight
16. Mitski: Puberty 2
15. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
14. Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered.
13. Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial
12. Solange: A Seat at the Table
11. Angel Olsen: My Woman
10. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
9. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
8. Wardruna: Runaljod - Ragnarok
7. Frank Ocean: Blonde
6. Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
5. David Bowie: Blackstar
4. The Dear Hunter: Act V: Hymns With the Devil in Confessional
3. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Ulcerate: Shrines of Paralysis
1. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
 
Jan 4, 2017 at 5:19 PM Post #21 of 24
If it's ok to post slightly more than just 5
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, then here's my favorite albums of 2016 list (top-rotation in bold):
 
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Alexander Von Schlippenbach - Jazz Now! Live At Theater Gütersloh
Aoife O'Donovan - In The Magic Hour
Bent Knee - Say So
Brian Eno - The Ship
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow - Andando El Tiempo
Case & Lang & Veirs - Case & Lang & Veirs
Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love!
D. D Dumbo - Utopia Defeated
David Bowie - Blackstar
David Helbock With Raphael Preuschl & Reinhold Schmölzer - Into The Mystic
Deep Sea Diver - Secrets
Donny McCaslin - Beyond Now
Dr. Dog - The Psychedelic Swamp
Elliott Power - Once Smitten
Eveline's Dust - The Painkeeper
Fay Hield - Old Adam
Gogo Penguin - Man Made Object
Griffin House - So On And So Forth
Helene Grimaud - Water
Holy Esque - At Hope's Ravine
Hvide Sejl, Varg & F. Valentin - Brazil
If By Yes - Salt On Sea Glass
Jane Siberry - Ulysses Purse
Jeremy Flower - The Real Me
Jon Bryant - Twenty Something
Josephine Foster - No More Lamps in the Morning
Junius Meyvant - Floating Harmonies
Kayo Dot - Plastic House On Base Of Sky
King Crimson - Radical Action (To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind)
Lambchop - FLOTUS
Lanterns On The Lake - Live With Royal Northern Sinfonia
M. Craft - Blood Moon
M. Ward - More Rain
Marina Lima - Sissi Na Sua
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
Motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters
Nancy Harms - Ellington At Night
Natacha Atlas - Myriad Road
Natalia Sikora (Feat. Voo Doo Dog) - Buried Alive In The Blues
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile - Continuum
Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger
Pete Yorn - Arranging Time
Pitts Minnemann Project - The Psychic Planetarium
Polica - United Crushers
Pristine - Reboot
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Richard James - All the New Highways
Rolf Kühn - Spotlights
Rosa Passos - Ao Vivo
Rusconi & Fred Frith - Live In Europe
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - Love Letter For Fire
Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow
Snowpoet - Snowpoet
Steven Wilson - 4 And A Half
Stick Men - Midori
Stranded Horse - Luxe
Suede - Night Thoughts
Tanita Tikaram - Closer to the People
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By
The Besnard Lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum
The Cave Singers - Banshee
The Divine Comedy - Foreverland
The Gathering - Tg25 Live at Doornroosje
The Magnetic North - Prospect Of Skelmersdale
The Slow Show - Dream Darling
Theo Croker - Escape Velocity
Villagers - Where Have You Been All My Life

 
Jan 4, 2017 at 8:17 PM Post #23 of 24
Here is my short list:

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Okkervil River - Away

The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it - Explicit Lyrics

The Pretty Reckless - Who You Selling For

Florence + The Machine - How Big, How Beautiful, How Blue

David Bowie - Blackstar
 
Jan 5, 2017 at 3:44 PM Post #24 of 24
Number 5: Wild by Joanne Shaw Taylor. She just keeps getting better, I hope she gets back to Belfast at some point next year.

Dyin to Know

Number 4: Fire on the Floor by Beth Hart. Don't try to pigeon hole this one into a genre because you'll fail. Unless............is 'awesome' a genre?

Fire on the Floor

Number 3: Grow by Amanda St John. Great debut, I look forward to more from her

You Blew It

Number 2: Solas by The Answer. Bold decision to go in a different direction but it works. The album is more dynamic and interesting than anything they've done before, the song writing is more mature, and the musical arrangements & Cormac's vocals have more restraint.

Solas

Number 1: Feelin Good by Kaz Hawkins. There wasn't much between number 1 and 2 but this edged it. Just a superb blues/soul/gospel/rock n roll album

Pray

Feelin Good (cover)

Soul Superstar

This Is Me
 
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