Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2016 • Page 33

I listen to the 1975 multiple times a week and it continues to help me in numerous ways, nevermind the ways it has already helped me and gotten me through a literal nightmare

 

yeah i'm the same way, it showed up deep on my list because it is good it is just not the kind of record i want to listen to these days haha

 

1975 is a nice listen. Play it occasionally

 

Ya'll forgot about The Range in 2016

 

Great album in a sea of great albums

 

Like all my top 50 and honorable mentions are albums I love and there are even more that I forgot to list that I love. I'm baffled when people say they can't come up with 20 albums they love

 

20 is really the limit for me.

That's out of 150+ records this year. I'm fine with that.

 

missed out on planes mistaken for stars. definitely could have seen that making my list if i had more time with it

 

I finally tried that 1975 album a week or two ago and really don't vibe with it at all.

On my list!!!!!

 

Glad you get it more haha, but I think I'm done trying. The lyrics are interesting but don't catch my attention enough to make up for not liking anything else, and I cannot get into this dudes voice

Actually reminds me a lot of the Sorority Noise album from last year that I also didn't get at all.

 

Home - 2014, sorry. What an ignorant fool I am. Regardless, their new one annoyed me more than anything. Especially that first song and it's drumming.

 

Yeah I didn't like it after the first few listens and then gave up on it...until about a week ago. I had it on loop playing in the background and I noticed the last song, New Friends, enjoyed that one and then the album started over with Old Friends. I think the pairing of those two songs really got me into the album as a whole.

 

Just love them so much more when they're at their "darkest" if that makes sense.

 

I'm late and nobody cares but here ya go

1. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
2. Pinegrove - Cardinal
3. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
4. Frank Ocean - Blonde
5. Whitney - Light Upon the Lake
6. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
7. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
8. David Bowie - Blackstar
9. Mitski - Puberty 2
10. Angel Olsen - My Woman
11. Wet - Don't You
12. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
13. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
14. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
15. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
16. Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker
17. Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!"
18. Solange - A Seat At The Table
19. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
20. James Blake - The Colour in Anything

Merry Christmas, y'all!

 

Shocked at your number one. Just shocked.

 

Hahahahaha, fuck off. I need you to twitter DM me records that you don't see here so I can check them out. I'm sure there's plenty of good country I completely missed.

 

Alright, this took two weeks. I'm exhausted.

Top 10:
1 / The 1975 - "I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it"
2 / From Indian Lakes - "Everything Feels Better Now"
3 / Daughter - "Not to Disappear"
4 / Two Door Cinema Club - "Gameshow"
5 / Panic! At The Disco - "Death of a Bachelor"
6 / Shura - "Nothing's Real"
7 / Tegan and Sara - "Love You To Death"
8 / St. Lucia - "Matter"
9 / Enemies - "Valuables"
10 / M83 - "Junk"

Song of the Year:
The 1975 - "Somebody Else"
Runner-Up: From Indian Lakes - "Blank Tapes"

Honorable Mentions:
11 / Chairlift - "Moth"
12 / Bon Iver - "22, A Million"
13 / Explosions In The Sky - "The Wilderness"
14 / Bastille - "Wild World"
15 / Lacey Sturm - "Life Screams"
16 / Local Natives - "Sunlit Youth"
17 / SWMRS - "Drive North"
18 / Halfnoise - "Sudden Feeling"
19 / Bad Suns - "Disappear Here"
20 / Farro - "Walkways"

Best EPs of the Year:
1 / Goldensuns - "Give It Up" EP
2 / I'm a Lion, I'm a Wolf - "Know." EP
3 / From Indian Lakes - "Wanderer" EP

Here's my Spotify Top Songs of 2016 playlist that they created as well:

 

1. Touché Amoré - Stage Four
2. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
3. Microwave - Much Love
4. Balance and Composure - Light We Made
5. Pinegrove - Cardinal
6. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
7. All Get Out - Nobody Likes A Quitter
8. The Hotelier - Goodness
9. Moose Blood - Blush
10. Weezer - Weezer/The White Album
11. Chase Huglin - You Deserve An Island
12. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
13. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
14. Yellowcard - Yellowcard
15. Somos - First Day Back
16. PUP - The Dream Is Over

EPs
1. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet
2. Sorority Noise - It Kindly Stopped For Me

 

Just finished mine.

1) Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being
2) Local Natives - Sunlit Youth
3) Paper Route - Real Emotion
4) Chairlift - Moth
5) Bon Iver - 22, A Million
6) From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now
7) Daughter - Not to Disappear
8) White Lung - Paradise
9) Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth
10) School of Seven Bells - SVIIB

11) Future of Forestry - Awakened to the Sound
12) Joseph - I'm Alone, No You're Not
13) Needtobreathe - HARD LOVE
14) Highasakite - Camp Echo
15) James Blake - The Colour In Anything
16) Owel - Dear Me
17) King's Kaleidoscope - Beyond Control
18) St Lucia - Matter
19) The Naked and Famous - Simple Forms
20) The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it

21) Royal Canoe - Something Got Lost Between Here and Orbit
22) Esparanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
23) Whitney - Light Upon The Lake
24) Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
25) Dawn Richard - Redemption
26) American Football - American Football
27) Samaris - Black Lights
28) Enemies - Valuables
29) Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes
30) Lapsley - Long Way Home

31) Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
32) Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
33) ANOHNI - Hopelessness
34) Mitski - Puberty 2
35) The Weeknd - Starboy
36) The Joy Formidable - Hitch
37) Pinegrove - Cardinal
38) Arthur Beatrice - Keeping the Peace
39) AURORA - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
40) King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity

41) Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
42) The Jezabels - Synthia
43) Kano - Made In The Manor
44) Banks - The Altar
45) Prinze George - Illiterate Synth Pop
46) Francis and the Lights - Farewell, Starlite!
47) Relient K - Air For Free
48) Anna Meredith - Varmints
49) Deep Sea Diver - Secrets
50) Into It. Over It. - Standards

 

I'm glad people didn't forget about Daughter. It was released so early that I felt like it may slip through the cracks but seeing it rated highly is nice.

 

Haha, not trying to offend! My AOTY is predictable as fuck too.

I'll send you a few recs in a few minutes!

 

I like you. So much great stuff on here, so I'm going to go through the ones I haven't heard throughout the week!

 

I see that you really enjoy the new From Indian Lakes album. What do you like about it? Did you like Able Bodies? I feel like his sound has changed drastically since then and I really dislike where he's gone.

Also the whole album first then band is a bit annoying. : )

 

Thanks for this...you like a lot of albums I do, so the ones I never heard of (Microwave, All Get Out) I checked out and dig too. This is why end of year lists are awesome.

 

Noted, will change that!

I've loved every FIL release. It goes Absent Sounds > Able Bodies > Wooden Legs > EFBN, and they're not that far apart. My taste has just evolved with their sound. I used to be into the heavier indie music a few years back and as they've gotten quieter and more experimental, my taste in indie has as well. I won't lie, I didn't like it as first listen, I was disappointed. But after a few more listens I started to find things I love, until I grew to put it up there with their past work. Blank Tapes, Nome, and Sunlight is some of Joey's best work. I particularly love the chorus in Sunlight where the synth and vocal melody follow each other, the explosive chorus in Nome, and the song structure in Blank Tapes. I lot of the things he's tried on these songs has worked for me and I find new things every few days that make me appreciate it more and more. For example, just today I put on a good pair of headphones and found some hidden lyrics buried deep in the mix in Nome.