2016 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread • Page 8

Here's a wildly overlooked album I hope some of you will enjoy! Halfway through my list!

2016’s Midyear Best #6: Chairlift

 

so good, my favorite pop album of the year

 

THANK you!

I've enjoyed revisiting this album so much that I could imagine it landing higher on my year-end list than it did on my midyear list, hahahaha.

 

yeah for some reason i haven't really revisited this album too much lately even though i often find myself humming songs from it. listened to "Show U Off" earlier today and didn't remember it being so catchy. Caroline's vocals are so good

 

That's my favorite song, albeit by a tiny margon. She's nuts. She hits some really unpredictable melodies that never cease to blow me away

 

@felipecardel also just occurred to me that your avatar is Act V. Heck yeah.

 

it's gonna be

 

Gotta add YG and Sumac as my june submissions

 

I'm still waiting for THE album to be honest. I think I've already listened to more 'really good' albums than last year but unlike last year, I don't think I've heard any great, 10/10 albums yet.

 

First time actually getting in on a mid-year thread! From what I have actually had time to listen to....
Hotelier - Goodness
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep...
Kendrick Lamar - untitled, unmastered
Saosin - Along the Shadow
Say Anything - I Don't Think It Is
PUP - The Dream is Over

EP's:
Sorority Noise - It Kindly Stopped For Me
Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet
The Starting Line - Anyways

What I need to listen to/listen to more:
Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Thrice - TBEITBN

Anticipated:
Against Me!
Brand New
Bayside - Vacancy
Moose Blood - Blush
Two Tongues

Wish I had liked more:
Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head

So much else I have missed this year, hopefully I can catch up in July while there is a lull in releases I am super excited about. 2016 has been good!

 

Albums

1. Brian Fallon - Painkillers
2. The Hotelier - Goodness
3. YG - Still Brazy
4. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
5. God's Hate - Mass Murder
6. Dance Gavin Dance - Tree City Sessions
7. Landscapes - Modern Earth
8. Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death
9. Angel Du$t - Rock The Fuck On Forever
10. Worship This! - Mint
11. The Ship Thieves - No Anchor
12. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
13. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
14. PUP - The Dream Is Over
15. Hesitation Wounds - Awake For Everything

EPs

1. Creeper - The Stranger
2. G.L.O.S.S. - Trans Day Of Revenge
3. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet
4. Grader - Wholly
5. Cold Years - Mile Marker
6. Terrible Love - Change Nothing
7. Stars Hollow - I'm Really Not That Upset About It
8. Life Moves On - Remedy

 

Hell of an album! Romeo is my jam.

 

As it should be!! Hahah

 

I finally finished one of these reviews at a decent hour! Thank you, Sabbath.

2016’s Midyear Best #5: Donovan Woods

This is an artist @Craig Manning turned me onto, and he did a review and interview back on AP.net, now hosted on Craig's blog:

Closer to the Truth and Further From the Sky: Interview: Donovan Woods (February 10th, 2016)

 

Two other really good albums that have been severely overlooked but might end up making my top-10 depending on my mood in December: Holy Pinto - Congratulations, & Amarillo Tapes (Young Statues side project) - Vol. 1 & 2. Links for both here: Congratulations, by Holy Pinto amarillo tapes

 

Talking to him about songwriting was a real treat. Wish more people would have read that one!

 

- The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
- Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
- Blink-182 - California
- Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
- Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death
- Slow Dakota - The Ascension of Slow Dakota
- Basement - Promise Everything
- Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
- Weezer - The White Album
- Pity Sex - White Hot Moon

 

1. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
2. White Lung - Paradise
3. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
4. DIIV - Is the Is Are
5. Wet - Don't You
6. dvsn - Sept. 5th
7. Deftones - Gore
8. Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death
9. Joey Purp - iiiDrops
10. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
11. Postiljonen - Reverie
12. Future - Purple Reign
13. Beyonce - Lemonade
14. Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
15. Daughter - Not to Disappear
16. Mitski - Puberty 2
17. James Blake - The Colour in Anything
18. O'brother - Endless Light
19. DJDS - Stand Up and Speak
20. Rome Fortune - Jerome Raheem Fortune

 

I'm pretty behind on a lot of music this year, but these have been my favorites so far:

Angel Du$t - Rock the Fuck On Forever
Blink-182 - California
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Face to Face - Protection
The Falcon - Gather Up The Chaps
Holy Fever - The Wreckage
Ignite - A War Against You
letlive. - If I'm the Devil
PEARS - Green Star
PUP - The Dream Is Over
Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere

 

Shadow Of Intent – Primordial (AOTY so far)
Fleshgod Apocalypse – King
Destroyer 666 – Wildfire
Exmortus – Ride Forth
Entombed A.D. – Dead Dawn
Amon Amarth – Jomsviking
She Must Burn – She Must Burn
Bradi Cerebri Ectomia – Threads Of Desperation
Bombs Of Hades – Death Mask Replica
From Ashes To New – Day One
Primal Fear – Rulebreaker
Toothgrinder – Nocturnal Masquerade
Avantasia – Ghostlights
Bury Tomorrow – Earthbound
Lycus – Chasms
Aborted – Termination Redux
Skuggsja – Skuggsja
Those Poor Bastards – Sing It Ugly
Wake – Sowing the Seeds of A Worthless Tomorrow
Ripper – Experiment Of Existence
Wormed – Krighsu
Normandie – Inguz
Missouri Quiet – Through The Milleniums
Black Cobra – Imperium Simulacra
Chthe’ilist – Le Dernier Crepuscule
Armageddon Awaits – Freak Show
Within Destruction – Void
Aborted – Retrogore
Hacktivist – Outside The Box
In Dying Arms – Original Sin
Nucleus – Sentient
Desaster – The Oath of an Iron Ritual
Inherit Disease – Ephemeral
Abnormality – Mechanisms of Omniscience
Fallujah – Dreamless
Lord Mantis – Nice Teeth Whore
Humanity’s Last Breath – Detestor
Before I Turn – The Virus
Eyes Of The Defiled – Distant Tellings
Vredehammer – Violator
Xenomorphic Contamination – Colonized From The Inside
Brutal Brain Damage – Bang Bang Theory
Rebaelliun – The Hell’s Decress
Whispered – Metsutan, Songs Of The Void
Katalepsy – Gravenous Hour
Blade Of Horus – Monumental Massacre
CABAL – Purge
PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
Beartooth – Aggressive
Volbeat – Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie
Fleshgore – Denial Of The Scriptures
Veil Of Pnath – II
Hands Like Houses – Dissonants
Embalmer – Emanations From The Crypt

And it'll only get bigger with coming releases.

 

An easy List for me

Thrice
Modern Baseball
Saosin
Blink 182
Brian Fallon
The Hotellier
Pierce the Veil

 

Thrice
Blink-182
Ariana Grande
Chairlift
You Fail Me Redux (it's that good)
Death Grips
Kanye (my fav this year by a mile)
Anderson .Paak

Saosin could've been better but it'd hurt my heart not to mention them.

 

blogged about mine at parentheseslive.com

but here is my list

10. Brian Fallon- Painkillers
9. Modern Baseball- Holy Ghost
8. Weezer- Weezer (White Album)
7. Beyonce- Lemonade
6. The Hotelier- Goodness
5. Pup- The Dream Is Over
4. Pinegrove- Cardinal
3. Chance The Rapper- Coloring Book
2. Thrice-To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
1. The 1975- I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

I already wish I had put Modern Baseball higher.

 

1. Hotelier - Goodness
2. Deftones - Gore
3. Pinegrove - Cardinal
4. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
5. 1975 - I like it when you are sleeping, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware
6. Into It. Over It. - Standards
7. Future - EVOL
8. Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
9. Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
10. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

 

Today's installment is a big one: a strong AOTY contender since I first heard it in January, although wildly overlooked--I can't say I've seen it on anyone's list in here yet.

2016’s Midyear Best #4: Shearwater

Please do yourself a favor and check this band out. It began as the side project of Okkervil River, who I'm excited to say also have an album due out later this year.