Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2016 • Page 27

Overall I included artists in my top 10 that I really appreciated the work of the album rather than if I even listened to it that much. Like I definitely listened to Jeffrey more than Oathbreaker, but I have a lot of respect for Rheia. It is so well crafted. Then there's Thrice and Future. One could argue Thrice didn't evolve their sound really, and only one song is "experimental"-ish. I definitely listened to Thrice more than Future, but the production on EVOL is my fav Future sound thus far. It suits his style so much, and was the first release by his where I immediately was attached to it. Where DS2, and Beast Mode were more growers for me.

 

This is based on what I listened to most:
1. Pinegrove
2. Every Time I Die
3. Hinds
4. Koi child
5. Frank Ocean
6. Thee Oh Sees
7. PUP
8. David Bowie
9. A$AP Mob
10. Cobalt

Honorable mentions:
Balance and Composure
21 savage
Young thug
Bon iver
Oathbreaker
Kvelertak
The Weeknd
Childish Gambino
Gucci
Dram
Meshuggah
Deftones
Vince Staples

 

i like this record, late passed it hard but i need to listen more

 

Alright, I need to stop making changes and overthinking this. I decided not to even look at singles or EPs.

Here's my final list accompanied by a Spotify playlist of my top 10 in their entirety.

Top 10

1.Touche Amore - Stage Four
2. Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
3. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
4. Trophy Eyes - Chemical Miracle
5. Every Time I Die - Low Teens
6. White Lung - Paradise
7. Moose Blood - Blush
8. Blink-182 - California
9. Microwave - Much Love
10. From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now

Honorable Mentions (no specific order)

Emarosa - 131
Trade Wind - You Make Everything Disappear
Black Foxxes - I'm Not Well
A Day to Remember - Bad Vibrations
Norma Jean - Polar Similar
Soasin - Along the Shadow
Issues - Headspace
Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks

 

It keeps growing on me

 

Something like this is my list for this year.

1) Touche Amore - Stage Four
2) The Hotelier - Goodness
3) Emarosa - 131
4) This Wild Life - Low Tides
5) Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
6) Butch Walker - Stay Gold
7) Nahko and Medicine for the People - HOKA
8) Grouplove - Enlighten Me
9) Pinegrove - Cardinal
10) American Football - LP2
11) The Holdup - Leaves in the Pool

 

Saw Bellows/Told Slant earlier this year with the Hotelier and they really sold me. Love both those albums.

 

1) The 1975 – I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
2) Bon Iver – 22, A Million
3) Dawn Richard – Blackheart (2015)**
4) Glass Animals – How to Be A Human Being
5) Jon Bellion – The Human Condition
6) Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
7) Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
8) Gates – Parallel Lives
9) Somos – First Day Back
10) Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership

11) Young Thug – Jeffery
12) Every Time I Die – Low Teens
13) Moose Blood – Blush
14) Yellowcard – Yellowcard
15) Polyphia - Reinassaince
16) Sing Street – Motion Picture Soundtrack
17) Lil Yachty – Lil Boat
18) Jimmy Eat Work – Integrity Blues
19) Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
20) I See Stars - Treehouse

**Not released this year, but one of the best albums I've listened to this year, and needed to be included in my list

Favorite Songs from Albums Not on List Above

Childish Gambino - Redbone
Pierce the Veil - Texas is Forever
Cardiknox - On My way
Blackbear - Something Real
Chain Gang of 1974 - I Still wonder
James Blake - I Need A Forest Fire
Issues - Lost n Found
Tiny Moving Parts - Happy Birthday
Drake - Fake Love
Bruno Mars - 24k Magic
Bruno Mars - Versace On the Floor
Dawn Richard - Not Above That
Skepta - Shutdown
Blood Orange - Best to You
Crying - There Was a Door
How to Dress Well - What’s Up
Sleigh Bells - Crucible

 

I didn't listen to too many albums this year so here's my top 3.
1. Malibu - Anderson Paak
2. Coloring Book - Chance the Rapper
3. Sea of Noise - St Paul and the Broken Bones

The 1975 and Bon Iver would probably make up 4 and 5 and could probably be interchangeable with Sea of Noise

 

I just put albums and eps in one list.

1. Touché Amore - Stage Four
2. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
3. Bonzai - Sleepy Hungry / Lunacy
4. Christine And The Queens - Chaleur Humaine
5. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
6. Billie Marten - Writings Of Blues And Yellows
7. Frank Ocean - Blonde
8. Margaret Glaspy - Emotions And Math
9. YG - Still Brazy
10. Daughter - Not To Disappear
11. Russian Circles - Guidance
12. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
13. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Eternal
14. Lapsley - Long Way Home
15. Balance & Composure - Light We Made
16. Leon Vynehall - Rojus
17. Oathbreaker - Rheia
18. Francis And The Lights - Farewell, Stalite!
19. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
20. Skepta - Konnichiwa
21. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful, Yet So Unaware Of It
22. Kiiara - Low Kii Savage
23. The Weeknd - Starboy
24. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
25. The Body & Full Of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
26. Anderson.Paak - Malibu
27. Vince Staples - Prima Donna
28. Pallbearer- Fear & Fury
29. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
30. NxWorries - Yes Lawd!
31. Tombs - All Empires Fall
32. Juliana Barwick - Will
33. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
34. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
35. Liss - First
36. Trna - Lose Yourself To Find Peace
37. Shura - Nothings Real
38. James Blake - The Colour In Anything
39. Miniature Tigers - I Dreamt I Was A Cowboy
40. Alcest - Kodak
41. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
42. Let's Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
43. Gates - Parallel Lives
44. Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being
45. AlunaGeorge - I Remember
46. Ash Borer - The Irrepassable Gate
47. Isaiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade
48. Burial - Young Death / Nightmarket
49. Rihanna - Anti
50. Andy Scott - Too Many Voices

Honourables

Aphex Twin - Cheetah
A$AP Ferg - Always Strive And Prosper
Astronoid - Air
Baauer - Aa
Classixx - Faraway Reach
Clean Cut Kid - We Used To Be In Love
David Bowie - Blackstar
Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy Of Molten Bones
DJDS - Stand Up & Speak
Drake - Views
Future - EVOL
Giggs - Landlord
Gucci Mane - Everybody Looking
Gucci Mane & Future - Free Bricks 2 Zone 6 Edition
Jack Garratt - Phase
The Japanese House - Swim Against The Tide
Joey Purp - iiiDrops
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
Kaytranada - 99.9%
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
Lone - Levitate
Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
Noname - Telefone
Old Gray - Slow Burn
Rae Sremmurd - Sremmlife 2
Sioux Falls - Rot Forever
Solange - A Seat At The Table
YG - Red Friday
Young Thug - Jeffery

 

Too many lists leaving off Lemonade. Im sorry is that not by far the best pop album of the year?

Also sad ive only seen one dude say David Bazan :(

 

Lemonade is good. I prefer Seat

 

Like 95% of publications had Lemonade in the top 3 lol

 

bazan record is bad, pains me to say

 

I feel like I'm always playing catch up, but here's what I dug this year

Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues
Russian Circles - Guidance
Touche Amore - Stage Four
Expire - With Regret
Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
Jeff Rosenstock - Worry.
Bent Life- Never Asked For Heaven
Trade Wind - You Make Everything Disappear
Gates - Parallel Lives
Wander - Mourning (official label release this year)
American Football - American Football
True Love - Heaven's Too Good For Us
If These Tree's Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying World
Moose Blood - Blush
Tonight Alive - Limitless
Basement - Promise Everything

 

Yeah I'm a huge bazan fan but blanco barely stuck with me

 

Lemonade is whatever

 

Lemonade is amazing

 

Dannnnnnnng it's probably my favourite thing he's done.

 

what the heck

 

It's not my favorite thing he's ever done, but I still absolutely love it.

It sounds so different than anything he's done under the Bazan name. I think if he had come out with it out of nowhere, I might have had a harder time enjoying it, but since he had done the monthly series prior to this, it definitely helped prepare me for it.

I can definitely see why fans of Pedro and such his other solo albums wouldn't like it, but the songs are still there. I got to see him perform a bunch of them at a house show on guitar and they kill.

 

Lemonade has some really high highs, but also a good amount of filler. I think its less the best album of the year and more the best marketing of the year. Surprise release, basically a plot line that demands a "thinkpiece" from every online publication at the time it comes out, and then proceeds to create additional stories later almost entirely removed from the music. Its basically designed to be featured high on every year end list regardless of site focus, it had a massive pop culture impact that will likely be short lived. Self titled was better for sure. I'd rather hear the album that Formation would make sense as a track 2 on, than this one where it has to be like a bonus track.

 

What's filler on Lemonade?

 

Idk, I think the distribution of the album keeps it from being the best marketed album of the year. Not putting it on major streaming (and using it as a pull to Tidal) and not really pushing it to radio both feel like pretty big missteps.

 

6 Inch, Freedom, which aren't bad songs on their own but don't really add to the very overt story that the album is telling. Also I don't like Sandcastles as far as Beyonce ballads go but that's on me.

But it was the most talked about album of the year I'd say easily, to me that's a marketing success, and a success for the brand that is Beyonce. Views is one of the best selling albums of the year but its not getting any placement on these year end lists (cause it was forgettable mostly).