2016 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread • Page 3

2016 Top 5:

1. O'Brother - Endless Light
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Pinegrove - Cardinal
4. Pup - The Dream is Over
5. Brian Fallon - Painkillers

 

I have mostly just used them as ways to go back and see what i used to listen to abs how silly my opinion was. I tried rating and reviewing stuff in the past but it isn't for me. Simply numbering them based off how much I listen to them makes more sense for me.

Going back and looking at old lists, there are albums I think I might have listened to once. lol. Not sure if they were placeholders or what.

 

I definitely agree with this.

 

So far this year I'm liking...

Mount Moriah- How to Dance
Sturgill Simpson- Sailor's Guide...
Frightened Rabbit- Painting of...
The Thermals- We Disappear
Brian Fallon- Painkillers
Mogwai- Atomic
Cassino- Bottlenecker

Really excited for...

Against Me!
Avett Bros
Menzingers
Band of Horses
Okkervil River
Blink 182
Butch Walker
Jimmy Eat World (?)
Bleachers (?)

 

Where the heck is O'bro on all these lists!

 

I haven't listened to it yet.

 

Top 5 Right now

01. Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves - No anchor
02. PUP - The Dream is Over
O3. Face to Face - Protection
04. Violent Soho - Waco
05. Belvedere - Revenge of the Fifth

But I know new albums by: Dinosaur Jr, Descendents, Iron Chic, Menzingers, and possibly blink will destroy this list.

 

My top 20 right now, in alphabetical order.

Aubrie Sellers - New City Blues
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Brothers Osborne - Pawn Shop
Charles Kelley - The Driver
Donovan Woods - Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled

The Hotelier - Goodness
Jared Deck - Jared Deck
Josh Kelley - New Lane Road
Madeline Merlo - Free Soul
Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Things That We Are Made Of

Michael McDermott - Willow Springs
Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
Ryan Beaver - Rx
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - Love Letter for Fire
Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent

Sister Hazel - Lighter in the Dark
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Weezer - The White Album
The Wild Feathers - Lonely Is a Lifetime
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep

And an honorable mention to my favorite EP of the year, Steve Moakler's self-titled.

 

Thanks brother. Also psyched you dig the Lake Street Dive album. That one just missed my top 20.

Is the new Friends in America out yet?

 

My top 15, not in order:

The Hotelier - Goodness
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
Angel Du$t - Rock The Fuck On Forever
Gods Hate - Mass Murder
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
PUP - The Dream Is Over
Dance Gavin Dance - Tree City Sessions
Creeper - The Stranger
Landscapes - Modern Earth
Worship This! - Mint
Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves - No Anchor
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Napoleon - Newborn Mind
Ducking Punches - Fizzy Brain

 

Top 20 so far, alphabetical. Easily my favorite list I've ever done, most diverse both through genre as well as gender and race I've probably ever had

Anohni - Hopelessness
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Beyonce - Lemonade
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
Chairlift - Moth
Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
Daughter - Not To Disappear
DJDS - Stand Up and Speak
Florist - The Birds Outside Sang
Future - EVOL
The Hotelier - Goodness
Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
Kevin Gates - Islah
Kvelertak - Nattesferd
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan
White Lung - Paradise
Young Thug - Slime Season 3
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep...

 

Nope not yet! Apparently it's all done, just working on marketing and promotion etc. The Be In Love release was an EP from back in February, and then they released a stand-alone single called Flat Tire (I Can Cope) last month. Hopefully the album will be around this year.

 

Black Peaks - Statues
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Creeper - The Stranger (EP)
Create To Inspire - Home Is Where The Heart Dies (EP)
Daughter - Not To Disappear
David Bowie - Blackstar
Deftones - Gore
Overhead, The Albatross - Learning To Growl
Milk Teeth - Vile Child
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
The Hotelier - Goodness
Weezer - The White Album

 

Definitely need to check out the few albums on your list I haven't heard. With the album quoted, did you like this one more than their debut?

I loved s/t and it's probably my favorite album I wouldn't have heard otherwise that I've seen rec'd on the site. I really could not get into the new album though, and it's probably my biggest disappointment of the first half.

 

I actually like this one more than their debut. That album had a few songs that I really loved, but didn't hold my attention that much overall. I think this one is catchier and more charismatic on nearly every level. Feels like a really successful pairing of roots rock and brash Oasis-esque Britpop.

 

Good list tbh. Going to get the few things I haven't heard on it (DJDS, Florist, Kvelertak, Posture & The Grizzly) so I can feel like I'm sort of caught up.

 

well yeah we all knew my list would be top tier

 

Florist - The Birds Outside Sang
Flume - Skin
Flower Hound - Buddy (this is a single not an album, but its my most listened to thing this year....so....)
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
The Hotelier - Goodness
I Love Your Life Style - We Go Way Back
LUH. - Spirtual Songs For Lovers to Sing
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan
Snowroller - Whats the Score?
Told Slant - Going By
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep...

 

Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Basement - Promise Everything
Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
Deftones - Gore
Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
O'Brother - Endless Light

 

Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Deftones - Gore
Polyphia - Renaissance
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
Basement - Promise Everything
Pierce the Veil - Misadventures
Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
Saosin - Along the Shadow
Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
The Hotelier - Goodness
PUP - The Dream Is Over
Somos - First Day Back
Pinegrove - Cardinal
O'Brother - Endless Light
The 1975 - I love it when you sleep...
Into It. Over It. - Standards

EPs
Protest the Hero - Pacific Myth (completed in 2016)
Turnover - Humblest Pleasures
Miguel - Rogue Waves

 

I think Creeper is my favourite release so far this year and it's only five songs! I can't even imagine how I'll react to a full length.

 

1. Bonzai - Sleepy Hungry EP
2. Daughter - Not To Disappear
3. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
4. Kiiara - Low Kii Savage EP
5. Lapsley - Long Way Home
6. Leon Vynehall - Rojus (Designed To Dance)
7. Drake - Views
8. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
9. James Blake - The Colour In Anything
10. Rihanna - Anti
11. The Body & Full Of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
12. Anderson.Paak - Malibu
13. Christine & The Queens - Chaleur Humaine
14. Future - EVOL
15. Lone - Levitate
16. A$AP Ferg - Always Strive And Prosper
17. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful, Yet So Unaware Of It
18. Julianna Barwick - Will
19. Jack Garratt - Phase
20. Liss - First EP

 

So much shit in here I've never even heard of. I need more time.

 

Mine too. If they make a full length as good the EPs it will probably be one of my favourite albums ever.