2016 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread

Post your lists for the halfway point of the year. It's not quite the end of June just yet but I'd like to see how things are looking on your end. If anything, we could share what we got so far and use it to polish things up. Plus, it's fun so why not? Here's what I got so far:

1. M83- Junk
2. The 1975- I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are Beautiful yet So Unaware Of It
3. Thrice- To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
4. David Bowie- Blackstar
5. School of Seven Bells- SVIIB
6. Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool
7. Kanye West- Life of Pablo
8. White Lung- Paradise
9. Chance The Rapper- Coloring Book
10. The Hotelier- Goodness
11. Brian Fallon- Painkillers
12. Jank- Awkward Pop Songs
13. Pity Sex- White Hot Moon
14. G.L.O.S.S- Trans Day of Revenge
15. Gorguts- Pleiade’s Dust
16. Kvelertak- Nattesferd
17. The Melvins- Basses Loaded
18. Pup- The Dream Is Over
19. Death Grips- Bottomless Pit
20. Gates- Parallel Lives
21. Daniel Romano- Mosey
22. Ariana Grande- Dangerous Woman
23. Flume- Skin
24. Spirit Adrift- Behind: Beyond
25. James Blake- The Colour In Anything
26. Daughter- Not To Disappear
27. Deftones- Gore
28. Future- EVOL
29. Sturgill Simpson- A Sailor’s Guide To The Earth
30. Brian Eno- The Ship
31. Drake- Views
32. Explosions In The Sky- The Wilderness
33. John Carpenter- Lost Themes II
34. Pinegrove- Cardinal
35. Various Artists- Day of The Dead
36. Saosin- Along The Shadow
37. Foxes- All I Need
38. Killswitch Engage- Incarnate
39. Yeasayer- Amen & Goodbye
40. Diiv- Is The Is Are

 

I haven't even like... kind of started forming a list haha. Not even something I try and think too much about until the end of the year, especially because the number I settle on is usually kind of arbitrary. I would say the following albums are likely all secured a spot somewhere on the list, in no particular order of course

Pinegrove - Cardinal
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep
Daughter - Not To Disappear
Anderson .Paak - Malibu
Whitney - Light Upon The Lake
Rihanna - ANTI
Tancred - Out Of The Garden
DIIV - Is The Is Are
Wet - Don't You
Polyenso - Pure In The Plastic
Porches - Pool
Saosin - Along The Shadow
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book

Need to spend more time with PUP, Tim Hecker, M83, O'Brother, BADBADNOTGOOD, Mitski, David Bazan, Cassino

 

I like lists like these because it's a picture of how you feel now about music. It could change by the end of the year but there's still a placement of where things are going with it.

 

Not even gonna wait until we actually get halfway through the year before doing this? Wasn't even considering doing this until the last third of June lol
This is like all the publications that drop year end lists in like early December before the inevitable Beyoncé drop happens

 

Top Three:

Beyoncé
Thrice
Kanye

I have a longer list of every album in 2016 I've listened to on my computer and its sorta ranked.

 

Don't really have a set leader yet. It's a close tie between Hesitation Wounds/YYATTY/Gadget.

Hesitation Notes - Awake for Everything
Yes Yes A Thousand Times Yes - Not Now, Not Never
Magrudergrind - II
Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
Gadget - The Great Destroyer
Teen Suicide - It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot
Eglise - Eglise
Head Wound City - A New Wave of Violence
Saosin - Along the Shadow
Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
The Hotelier - Goodness
Sumac - What One Becomes
Hungry Like Rakovitz - Nevermind the Light

 

i am ok with this.

aesop rock - the impossible kid
sioux falls - rot forever
pinegrove - cardinal
david bazan - blanco
death grips - bottomless pit
denzel curry - imperial

 

To be frank, there's nothing wrong with setting up something ahead of time but cool dude, clown on me I guess. I'm just stupid, I get it.

 

not saying you did something wrong, i just think you're a month early, haha
no need to be self-deprecating, it's unhealthy, just the internet, hah

 

In no particular order:

Thrice
Kanye West
Saosin
Deftones
Chance The Rapper
Radiohead
All Human
Brian Fallon
Greater Pyrenees
O'Brother
Drake
Beyonce
WRITER
Cassino

 

To be honest, I thought people did this right around the beginning of the month. You could of at least not been snide about that information, I would much more appreciated that over someone going LOL at me about it.

 

1. The 1975 - ILIWYS
2. The Hotelier - Goodness
3. Thrice - To be everywhere is to be nowhere
4. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
5. Basement - Promise Everything
6. The Range - Potential
7. White Lung - Paradise
8. Architects - AOGHAU
9. Into it. over it - standards
10. face to face - protection

 

1. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
2. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
3. The Hotelier - Goodness
4. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
6. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
7. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are beautiful yet so unaware of it
8. Kevin Gates - Islah
9. Pinegrove - Cardinal
10. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere

 

For sure man, not hating on your thread. Only speaking for myself! Probably not a bad idea to get this kind of thing going before the mid year lists really start to roll in. Gives people a chance to review some stuff that got lost in the flurry of bigger releases. There's a lot of stuff on your list I haven't heard of at all that I'll have to check out at some point.

 

I'll post now because why not. And then I'm sure I'll change my mind a million times before the actual halfway point and post a new list then. But right now...

1) James Blake - The Colour in Anything
2) Daughter - Not to Disappear
3) Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
4) St Lucia - Matter
5) Chairlift - Moth
6) The 1975 - I like it when you sleep...
7) The Joy Formidable - Hitch
8) Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
9) School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
10) Highasakite - Camp Echo

Others worth listing (mostly in chronological order):
ANIMA! - ANIMA!
The Jezabels - Synthia
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
The Saint Johns - Dead of Night
Lucius - Good Grief
Little Green Cars - Ephemera
Donovan Woods - Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled
Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
iamthemorning - Lighthouse
White Lung - Paradise
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Arthur Beatrice - Keeping the Peace

 

There, thread name changed upon reflection.

 

i updated mine, in order.

 

Mainly Im excited for this thread so I can throw things I haven't listened to into a playlist and listen over the next couple months.

 

Alphabetical list of albums I've liked.

Basia Bulat - Good Advice
Beyonce - Lemonade
Bombino - Azel
Boulevards - Groove
Chance the Rapper - Colouring Book
Craig Manning - A Way To Get Back Home
Daughter - How To Disappear
David Bowie - Blackstar
Escondio - Walking With a Stranger
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
Friends in America - Be In Love
Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
Gregory Porter - Take me to the Alley
James Blake - The Colour In Anything
The Jezabels - Synthia
Juliana Barwick - Will
Lake Street Dive - Side Pony
Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit
Mitski - Puberty 2
Munie Girls - From Caplan to Belsize
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
Saul Williams - Martyr Loser King
Yndi Halda - Under Summer
The 1975 - Album


Favourite so far is probably Daughter

 

Still looking forward to the following releases:

Empty Houses
Sherwood
Blink-182
Red Hot Chili Peppers
letlive.
Chevelle
Russian Circles
This Town Needs Guns
Brand New
Hundred Suns
Holy+Gold
Jimmy Eat World?
Portugal. The Man
Okkervil River
ScHoolboy Q
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's / Richard Edwards

 

Best of 2016 - Rate Your Music

 

Gonna wait, I'm sure there will still be a bunch that make my list still yet to come in June

 

1-10. Goodness

 

Only two I'm familiar with are The Cave Singers' "Banshee" and Mock Orange's "Put The Kid On The Sleepy Horse."

Been a slow year for me so far.

 

This year has been a lot weaker than 2015 for me so far. So not completely sure yet. But I will say that Thrice and Radiohead seem pretty well locked into my top 10.