Best of 2016: Q1 • Page 3

I know my favorite release of the first quarter thus far is the new Into It Over It

 

You into pinegrove?

 

Current list of stuff from Q1 that I really dug. It's mostly metal and hardcore so I'm sorry to peers if they check anything out and hate it. :)

Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Ignite - A War Against You
Magrudergrind - II
Wake - Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow
Conan - Revengeance
Full of Hell - Amber Mote in the Black Vault
Gatecreeper/Homewrecker/Outer Heaven/Scorched - 4 Way Split
Seven Sisters of Sleep - Ezekiel's Hags
Fuming Mouth - Lotus
The Body - No One Deserves Happiness

 

1) Daughter - Not To Disappear
2) Chairlift - Moth
3) The 1975 - I like it when you sleep...
4) The Jezabels - Synthia
5) St Lucia - Matter
6) AURORA - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
7) School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
8) The Saint Johns - Dead of Night
9) Lucius - Good Grief
10a) Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
10b) Little Green Cars - Ephemera

 

1. Loner Chic - Year of the Goth
2. Pinegrove - Cardinal
3. David Bowie - Blackstar
4. Future - EVOL
5. Father - I'm a Piece of Shit
6. Daughter - Not to Disappear
7. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
8. Into.It.Over.It - Standards
9. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
10. Sioux Falls - Rot Forever

Hmm, I had a hard time coming up with an order but this is close enough. The honorable mentions go to Somos, Rihanna, and Jazz Cartier.

 

Pinegrove - Cardinal
Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor
Chairlift - Moth
BRAZA - BRAZA
Somos - First Day Back
DIIV - Is The Is Are
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep
Into It. Over It. - Standards
DJDS - Stand Up And Speak
Basement - Promise Everything

these are actually the 10 albums i liked out of 14 new releases i listened to. first five will likely make my EOTY top 30, so it's been a decent year so far. i still haven't been blown away like with Harmlessness or Peripheral Vision last year though

 

Nada Surf - You Know Who You Are
Weezer - White Album
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Killswitch Engage - Incarnate
Iggy Pop with Josh Homme - Post Pop Depression
Face to Face - Protection

Bloc Party - Hymns was kinda disappointing.

 

Just going by my post played on last.fm

1. Killswitch Engage - Incarnate
2. Kanye West - Life of Pablo
3. Rihanna - Anti
4. Like Pacific - Distant Like You Asked
5. Future - Evol
6. Asking Alexandria - The Black
7. Daughter - Not to Disappear
8. Lacey Sturm - Life Screams
9. Simple Plan - Taking One for the Team
10. Adelitas Way - Getaway

 

Pool from Porches and Painkillers from Brian Fallon are my two favorites so far. I definitely need to listen to more new music. I've been playing a lot from 2015 and I've fallen behind.

 

Brian Fallon, O'Brother, The 1975, Polyenso, Wet, Weezer, Pinegrove, The Sun Days, The Rocket Summer - favourite releases of the first quarter.

 

Matmos — Ultimate Care II
Roly Porter — Third Law
Oranssi Pazuzu — Värähtelijä
The Body & Full of Hell — One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
The Body — No One Deserves Happiness
The Drones — Feelin Kinda Free
Ty Segall — Emotional Mugger
Jesu & Sun Kil Moon — Jesu / Sun Kil Moon
Field Music — Commontime
Lemon Demon — Spirit Phone
Chairlift — Moth
Aluk Todolo — Voix
Pop. 1280 — Paradise
Big Ups — Before a Million Universes
UXO — UXO
Bullion — Loop the Loop
MONEY — Suicide Songs
DIIV — Is the Is Are
The Jezabels — Synthia
Anderson .Paak — Malibu
The Black Queen — Fever Daydream

 

I've seen a lot of people going on about DIIV, but I saw them open up for Weezer in 2014 and I was "mehhhh"

 

In rough order...

The 1975 - I like it when you sleep...
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Into It. Over It. - Standards
Animal Collective - Painting With
Kanye - TLOP
Weezer - Weezer (White Album)
Somos - First Day Back
Young and Heartless - Stay Away
Sam Means - 10 Songs
Dustin Kensrue - Thoughts that Float on a Different Blood

 

Favs so far in no order:
1. The 1975
2. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
3. Asking Alexandria - The Black
4. The Word Alive - Dark Matter
5. Denzel Curry - Imperial
6. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered

Most Anticipated:
Beartooth
Drake
Kanye (?)
Saosin
Fall of Troy
Schoolboy Q
Blink 182
ADTR
Brand New.

 

my faves so far would be

Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
Rihanna - ANTI
Wet - Don't You
Future - EVOL
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
The Zolas - Swooner
Zayn - Mind of Mine
dvsn - SEPT 5TH

not in any kind of order though.

 

Pinegrove was my favorite by far. Nothing really came close, but I also listened to far less new music than I'd hoped/expected to

 

1. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep
2. Pinegrove - Cardinal
3. Kanye West - TLOP

 

In no order..

Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day
Hayes Carll - Lovers and Leavers
Robbie Fulks - Upland Stories
Richmond Fontaine - You Can't Go Back
White Denim - Stiff
Charles Bradley - Changes
The Suffers - s/t
Teseschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By
Mount Moriah - How to Dance
The Cactus Blossoms - You're Dreaming

 

1. The Range- Potential
2. Kanye West- The Life of Pablo
3. The 1975- I Like It When You Sleep...
4. Daughter- Not to Disappear
5. Sioux Falls- Rot Forever
6. Pinegrove- Cardinal
7. Anderson Paak- Malibu
8. DIIV- Is The Is Are
9. Baauer- Aa
10. Future- EVOL

Least Favorite Releases
1. Wet- Don't You
2. Panic! at the Disco- Death of a Bachelor
3. Bloc Party- Hymns

Albums that just missed the Q1 cutoff but would probably be in my top 10:
Explosions in the Sky- The Wilderness
dvsn- Sept 5th

 

Quoting so I remember to check out the few on here I haven't heard yet.

 

I think you would be into the Richmond Fontaine album if you haven't heard that one yet. One of the most underrated bands out there and this is their final album.

 

That's one of the ones I haven't heard yet. Will definitely check it out though.

 

I loved this record. Reminded me of early Ryan Adams.

 

My first quarter as of right now.

1. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of it
2. Pinegrove - Cardinal
3. Basement - Promise Everything
4. Daughter - Not To Disappear
5. Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
6. Brian Fallon - Painkillers
7. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
8. David Bowie - Blackstar
9. Future - EVOL
10. Wet - Don't You

 

I could see that. I always kind of viewed them as a mellower drive by truckers, but that may just be bc that's how I first heard of Richmond Fontaine. Patterson had one of their albums on his end of the year list a few years back.