2016 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread • Page 10

My ten best, no order:

Anderson .Paak - ANOHNI - Blood Orange - Car Seat Headrest - The Hotelier - James Blake - Modern Baseball - Pinegrove - Radiohead - The 1975

 

Here's the staff list: The Top Albums of 2016 (So Far)

 

Albums

1. Kanye West- The Life of Pablo
2. Sturgill Simpson- Sailers Guide to Earth
3. The Hotelier- Goodness
4. Chance the Rapper- Coloring Book
5. Pinegrove- Cardinal
6. Beyonce- Lemonade
7. Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial
8. Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool
9. PUP- The Dream is Over
10. Mitski- Puberty 2

Songs

1. "Your Best American Girl"- Mitski
2. "Ultralight Beam"- Kanye West
3. "Sorry"- Beyonce
4. "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales"- Car Seat Headrest
5. "Soft Animal"- The Hotelier
6. "Cadmium"- Pinegrove
7. "Oh Sarah"- Sturgill Simpson
8. "Higher"- Rihanna
9. "No Problems"- Chance the Rapper
10. "L.A. Girlz"- Weezer

 

The 1975 - ILIWYS
I See Stars - Treehouse
Daughter - Not to Disappear
Blink - Cali
Penny and Sparrow - Let a Lover Drown You
Jon Bellion - The Human Condition
Sunrise Skater Kids - Friendville
Settle Your Scores - The Wilderness
Kanye - TLOP
Parachute - Wide Awake

 

this thread needs more car seat headrest

 

Young and Heartless - Stay Away
The Hotelier – Goodness
Pinegrove – Cardinal
PUP – The Dream is Over
Somos - First Day Back
Blink 182 - California
Landscapes - Modern Earth
Into It Over It - Standards
Direct Hit! - Wasted Mind
Trash Boat- Nothing I Write You can Change
The Struts - Everybody Wants
Panic! At the Disco – Death of a Bachelor
Sherwood – Some Things Never Leave You
Saosin – Along the Shadow
O'Brother - Disillusion

Not 2016 but I can't stop listening to Bad Luck - The Noise In Your Head EP

 

1. Against the Current - In Our Bones
2. Panic! At the Disco - Death of a Bachelor
3. Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
4. The Summer Set - Stories for Monday
5. The Rocket Summer - Zoetic
6. Roam - Backbone
7. Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death
8. 3OH!3 - Night Sports
9. Issues - Headspace
10. Beartooth - Aggressive

Damn, a lot of pop records in my list. Bad year for the scene or just my tastes are shifting.

 

How is nobody talking about the new Direct Hit! album? That record is so freaking good. That and the new Endless Mike and the Beagle Club (St. Paul, another insanely good album) are my picks for albums of the year so far. New Blink is a banger too.

 

I really cannot believe Standards made only 1 staff or mod list. That's criminal. Here's my list: 1-3 are basically interchangeable, as are 4-5, and then 6-10.

1. The Dirty Nil- Higher Power
2. Into It Over It- Standards
3. PUP- The Dream is Over
4. Pinegrove- Cardinal
5. The Hotelier- Goodness
6. O'Brother- Endless Light
7. Hands Like Houses- Dissonants
8. Thrice- TBEITBN
9. Hail the Sun- Culture Scars
10- TIE: Saosin- Along the Shadow/ Gates- Parallel Lives/Diarrhea Planet- Turn to Gold

The latter 3 could easily change out with everything from 6-10.

 

Standards should be up there.. Weird

 

standards is good but not amazing or anything
like it's one of the better "chorus" records but like there's been so much good to come out this year, a lot more ridiculous misses than that

 

I really gotta sit down to do my list.

 

1. aesop rock - the impossible kid
2- sioux falls - rot forever
3. big thief - masterpiece
4. trash boat - nothing i write you can change what you've been through
5. pinegrove - cardinal
6. tiny moving parts - celebrate
7. david bazan- blanco
8. death grips - bottomless pit
9. denzel curry - imperial

 

I think this is it.

1. Lemonade - Beyoncé
2. I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It - The 1975
3. Puberty 2 - Mitski
4. Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande
5. Not To Disappear - Daughter
6. Coloring Book - Chance The Rapper
7. ANTI - Rihanna
8. Cardinal - Pinegrove
9. The Life of Pablo - Kanye West
10. EVOL - Future

 

No order
Blink 182- California
Thrice- TBEITBN
White Lung- Paradise
Brian Fallon- Painkillers
Explosions In The Sky- The Wilderness
Creeper- The Stranger EP
The Falcon- Gather Up The Chaps
Pup- The Dream Is Over
Trash Boat- NIWYCCWYBT

 

Love
- Thrice
- Daughter
- Sumac
- If These Trees Could Talk

Like
- YG
- Deftones
- Kanye West
- Brian Fallon (replace the new versions of Red Lights, Long Drives and Smoke with the old, and this would be placed under 'Love')
- Chance the Rapper

Need More Time With
- Radiohead
- Gates
- O'Brother
- Weezer
- Explosions in the Sky

 

Haven't put much thought into this at all so far as I wait until December. But I love the idea of already coming up with stuff because usually when December comes around I see everyone's lists and there's a ton of stuff I've never heard of. For example I'm going to listen to Pup since so many people put it in their lists. Here are the albums I've listened to a lot so far in 2016:

Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Cassino - Bottlenecker
Run River North - Drinking From a Salt Pond
Tokyo Police Club - Melon Collie and the Infinite Radness Part 1
Gregory Alan Isakov - Colorado Symphony
Kevin Devine - Live at St. Pancras Old Church

Albums that are shit and were a huge letdown:
M83
Say Anything
Bloc Party

 

Not much has changed since the end of May...just a few new entries and some flip flopping.

1. PUP
2. PTV
3. Real Friends
4. Killswitch Engage
5. Stories Untold
6. Rihanna
7. Against the Current - In Our Bones
8. Beartooth - Aggressive
9. Cilver
10. Kanye

 

1. Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial
2. The Hotelier- Goodness
3. The 1975- I Like It When You Sleep...
4. Chance the Rapper- Coloring Book
5. Sioux Falls- Rot Forever
6. Kanye West- The Life of Pablo
7. Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool
8. The Range- Potential
9. dvsn- Sept 5th
10. Daughter- Not to Disappear

Just missed the cut:
Explosions in the Sky- The Wilderness
Mitski- Puberty 2
David Bazan- Blanco
Pinegrove- Cardinal
James Blake- The Colour In Anything

Blood Orange would be top 5 and it was released before July 1st but I didn't listen to it until July so I'm considering it Q3.

 

this guy gets it.

 

I know my top 5 for sure. Then the rest are just albums I love with no real order. This year rocks already.

1. Pinegrove - Cardinal
2. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
3. From Indian Lakes - Wanderer EP
4. Big Thief - Masterpiece
5. Pup - The Dream is Over
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Fear of Men - Fall Forever
Told Slant - Going By
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Mitski - Puberty 2
Glenn Kotche / So Percussion - Drumkit Quartets
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
Donovan Woods - Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled
Astronoid - Air
Chairlift - Moth
White Lung - Paradise
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Daughter - Not To Disappear
LUH. - Spirtual Songs For Lovers to Sing
Leon Vynehall - Rojus
Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan

 

Car Seat Headrest
Radiohead
The Hotelier
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After that, ones I've loved:

The 1975
Pinegrove
PUP
David Bowie
Teen Suicide
James Blake
Modern Baseball
Into. It. Over. It

 

Here are my top 5:

1 / I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it by The 1975
2 / Not to Disappear by Daughter
3 / Death of a Bachelor by Panic! At The Disco
4 / Love You To Death by Tegan and Sara
5 / Junk by M83
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Unfortunately, this probably isn't too accurate because I'm so behind on music right now. Still haven't listened to new St. Lucia, DIIV, The Joy Formidable, or Explosions In The Sky. I'll get to it eventually ha.

For the rest of the year I'm really looking forward to the new Two Door Cinema Club album and maybe new Now, Now, The xx, or Paramore if they're out by the end of the year.

 

Man, if we get a new Now, Now LP I don't know what I'll do with myself

 

My list is almost identical to the one I posted earlier, but

1) Daughter - Not To Disappear
2) James Blake - The Colour in Anything
3) Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth
4) St Lucia - Matter
5) Aurora - All My Demons Treating Me As A Friend
6) Highasakite - Camp Echo
7) Chairlift - Moth
8) White Lung - Paradise
9) The 1975 - I like it when you sleep...
10) Kings Kaleidoscope - Beyond Control

The order is pretty fluid. I really enjoy all of them, but I doubt I've heard my AOTY yet.