2016 Albums • Page 13

Pretty incredible month having to catch up with the last couple of weeks in August and every thing out this month.

Favourites were An Autumn For Crippled Children, Frank Ocean, Touché Amoré, Billie Marten and Nicolas Jaar.

 

September.

Easily the best month of the year so far. Looking forward to an almost as crazy October!

 

SEPTEMBER

35. of Montreal - Innocence Reaches +
36. Tegan & Sara - Love You to Death ++
37. Empty Houses - Daydream +
38. The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With the Devil in Confessional ++
39. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me +
e10. tricot - Kabuki EP ++

22. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (2008) +
23. Mundo Alto - A Interminável Necessidade de Ser (2015) +
24. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014) ++

sept was cool

 

294. Regina Spektor - Remember Us To Life (2016)
295. Yellowcard - Yellowcard (2016)
296. Fences - To The Tall Trembling Trees (2016)
270. American Football - American Football (2016)

 

September. Was really tough picking my top 5 this month, so many great releases.

 

September

154. DREAMERS - this album does not exist *
155. Jamie T - Trick +
156. Against Me! - shape shift with me +
157. Cymbals Eat Guitars - pretty years +
158. Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis +
159. Touche Amore - Stage Four +
160. Mirei Touyama - My Way ++
161. Black Foxxes - I'm not well *
162. Warpaint - Heads up *
163. School '94 - Bound EP +
164. Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave +
165. Sora Amamiya - Various Blue +
166. Butch Walker - Stay Gold +
167. Frank Ocean - Blonde *
168. Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust +
169. Takahiro Kido - Insido-Out Tokyo (EP) ++

October

170. Aimer - daydream ++
171. Makura Izumi - Identity ++

 

Wow, September was packed. At least three of these albums are going to end up in my top ten, potentially top five.

This year has been a real blessing for music.

 

271. Tycho - Epoch (2016)
272. The Get Down (Original Soundtrack from the Netflix Original Series) (2016)
273. The Lonely Island - Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
274. Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy (2013)

 

This band I love from back home in Cincinnati is releasing an album in November. Super pumped for it.

 

I monitor this thread but never post because i have not kept track of the albums i have listened to this year (maybe 2017 hey)

But i admire all those in here that do.

 

275. Norah Jones - Day Breaks (2016)
276. Third Eye Blind - We Are Drugs (2016)
277. Sum 41 - 13 Voices (2016)
278. Joyce Manor - Cody (2016)
279. Omar Rodríguez-López - Sworn Virgins (2016)
280. Springtime Carnivore - Springtime Carnivore (2016)
281. Green Day - Revolution Radio (2016)
282. Nao - For All We Know (2016)
283. Omar Rodríguez-López - Corozones (2016)
284. Rachel Yamagata - Tightrope (2016)

 

158. Tycho - Epoch ++
159. The Mercury Program - New Myths +
160. Yellowcard - Yellowcard *
161. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me +
162. Bon Iver - 22, A Million +
163. Alcest - Kodama *
164. BANKS - The Altar *
165. Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life +
166. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition *
167. Trap Them - Crown Feral *
168. Francis and the Lights - Farewell Starlite! *
169. Keaton Henson - Kindly Now *
170. Okkervil River - Away +
171. Goldroom - West of the West *
172. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch *
173. Royal Canoe - Something Got Lost Between Here and Orbit *
174. Paper Route - Real Emotion *
175. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens +
176. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Eternal *
177. Billie Martin - Writing of Blues and Yellows +
178. Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade +
179. James Vincent McMorrow - We Move +

 

285. Lowell - Paris YK, Pt. 1 (2016)
286. Haerts - Power / Land (2016)
287. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry. (2016)

 

October:

227. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine +
228. Balance and Composure - Light We Made ++
229. KAYTRANADA - 99.9% +
230. Joyce Manor - Cody +
231. Phantogram - Three *
232. Third Eye Blind - We Are Drugs EP *
233. Dance Gavin Dance - Mothership *
234. Abhi//Dijon - Montana EP +
235. Red Fang - Only Ghosts +
236. Kings of Leon - Walls +
237. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry +
238. The Naked and Famous - Simple Forms ++
239. Conor Oberst - Ruminations +
240. Super Unison - Auto +
241. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation +

 

288. The Naked and Famous - Simple Forms (2016)
289. Conor Oberst - Ruminations (2016)

 

Made this real quick, too many good albums out this year

 

Some good stuff in there! A fair amount I don't know, maybe I'll take some time to listen to at least a track or two from some unknowns

 

290. Phantogram - Three (2016)
291. Omar Rodríguez-López - Blind Worms, Pious Swine (2016)
292. Colbie Caillat - The Malibu Sessions (2016)
293. How To Dress Well - Care (2016)

 

BIG UPDATE... it's been a few months.

 

holy shit dude hahahahah

 

Holy shit. Does that leave much time to have the albums soak in?

 

294. Two Tongues - Two Tongues Two (2016)
295. Omar Rodríguez-López - Arañas en La Sombra (2016)

 

Is this your job? Haha, that's amazing. That's what... 3 new albums a day?

 

I'm the only cook at a small restaurant in Currituck (the county you'd be in if you crossed VA into NC heading toward the outer banks). I work 10 hour days and have my own speakers in the back so I pretty much listen to music allllll day. Also keep in mind that these are releases (splits, EPs and full lengths) so not all of them are full albums.

I think of my list as my initial impressions, not rankings so much. I'd say about 50% get repeated listens and 20-30% of those get regular plays as long as they're on my phone. Of course the sheer volume of releases effects how much something would "sink in" but it's easy to say "I don't like this enough to listen to it again".