2016 Albums • Page 7

Update.

It's been a while. I had to stop my crazy hardcore listening. It was driving me mad.

Here's what I've listened to the past month or so that's new... I'll still be keeping up with my list but it won't be nearly as often as it was.

 

It's the end of an era!

 

I don't know whether to question this or like it?

 

Both! Or neither!

On a serious note, I'm both surprised and not surprised that you're feeling burned out. I've been following your listening off and on, and you've been going at it like a maniac. I've listened to a fair bit this year, but I've found that the only way I'm able to is bingeing on a bunch of new albums, listening to some old stuff, and then taking a break from music for a while. Otherwise I bet I'd be in the same boat.

 

179. Kelly Clarkson - The Smoakstack Sessions Vol. 2 (2012)
180. Saosin - Along The Shadow (2016)
181. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman (2016)

 

33. Demi Lovato - Demi (2013) ++
34. Run Forever - Run Forever (2015) +
35. Bruce Springsteen - American Beauty EP (2014) +
36. Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream (2009) ++

 

May

68. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit *
69. Anohni - Hopelessness +
70. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool +
71. Drake - Views +
72. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman ++
73. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost ++
74. The Hotelier - Goodness ++
75. Yrs - Through Time and Space +
76. Frost* - Failing Satellites +
77. Yes Yes A Thousand Times Yes - Not Once, Not Ever +
78. Thrice - To be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere ++
79. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebration +
80. Angel Dust - Rock the Fuck On Forever *
81. Saosin - Along the Shadow +
82. Mitski - Puberty 2 ++
83. Camp Cope - Camp Cope ++
84. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book ++
85. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet+
86. Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head *
87. Clique - Burden Piece +
88. Twin Peaks - Down in Heaven +

May

60. Government Issue - Legless Bull (1981) +
61. Nicole Dollanganger - Natural Born Losers (2015) ++
62. The Obsessives - Manners EP (2015) +
63. Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (2015) ++

May has been a busy month for me with the semester ending and going on vacation. I finally had the time to update my list. I can't do a top five of the month yet with me still needing to listen to a few albums released today.

 

New Monkees album sounds straight out of the 60s

 

107. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool +
108. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book +
109. Kvelertak - Nattesferd +
110. Head Wound City - A New Wave of Violence *
111. Posture & the Grizzly - I Am Satan +
112. This Is Hell - Bastards Still Remain +
113. Wolf Parade - EP 4 +
114. Mitski - Puberty 2 ++
115. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman ++
116. Gorguts - Pleiades's Dust EP +
117. Braids - Companion EP *
118. Mutual Benefit - Skip a Sinking Stone +
119. Saosin - Along the Shadow *
120. The Hotelier - Goodness +
121. Weekend Nachos - Apology +
122. Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate +
123. Sumac - What One Becomes +
124. Adult Jazz - Earrings Off! +
125. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere +
126. Fifth Harmony - 7/27 *
127. Flume - Skin +
128. The Strokes - Future Present Past EP +
129. PUP - The Dream Is Over +
130. ANOHNI - HOPELESSNESS +
131. Marissa Nadler - Strangers +
132. Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death ++

 

My May

Favourites were Kiiara, Radiohead, James Blake, Julianna Barwick and Skepta.

 

best month of the year so far with two or three AOTY contenders.

 

Some really good stuff this month + gone back to the odd album I was planning to listen to earlier this year.

 

May was pretty damn great for me

 

Here's May.

 

Mayyyy

 

April/May

 

182. The Hotelier - Goodness (2016)
183. Flume - Skin (2016)
184. Vic Mensa - There's Alot Going On (2016)

 

my May

 

Definitely missing loads but oh well...

January
Daughter - Not to Disappear ++
DIIV - Is The Is Are +
Hinds - Leave Me Alone +
David Bowie - ★ ++
Chairlift - Moth +
Savages - Adore Life ++
Rihanna - Anti *
Bloc Party - Hymns –
Sia - This Is Acting +
Foxes - All I Need *
Panic! At The Disco - Death of a Bachelor --
Mystery Jets - Curve Of The Earth +

February
Gambles - Vicious Times ++
Porches - Pool ++
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered +
Say Anything - I Don't Think It Is --
M. Ward - More Rain +
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo *
Animal Collective - Painting With +
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It ++
Friends In America - Be In Love EP ++
Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom *
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression +
Birdy - Beautiful Lies -

March
The Bright Road - Ocean ++
ZAYN - Mind of Mine *
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered. +
Låpsley - Long Way Home +
Polyenso - Pure in the Plastic ++
Cosmic Vagina - Subterranean Penetration ++
Clint Mansell - High Rise OST +

April
Deftones - Gore ++
M83 - Junk *
Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack +
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - This Unruly Mess I've Made -
The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect +

May
White Lung - Paradise ++
LUH. - Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing +
The Hotelier - Goodness +
PUP - The Dream Is Over ++
Drake - Views +
James Blake - The Colour In Anything +
Skepta - Konnichiwa +
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool ++
Saosin - Along The Shadow *
Catfish and The Bottlemen - The Ride *

June
The Kills - Ash & Ice +
Ladyhawke - Wild Things *

 

anyone know where I can find a directory of new singles that get released every week?

 

185. Sherwood - Some Things Never Leave You (2016)
186. Priscilla Ahn - La La La (2016)

 

May

70. Pet Shop Boys - Super *
71. Weezer - White Album *
72. Deftones - Gore *
73. Travis - Everything at once *
74. Adam Green - Aladdin ++
75. Skepta - Konnichiwa +
76. James Blake - The colour in anything +

Uchu Nekoko & LovelySummer-Chan - 日々のあわ.EP (2014) +
Anoice - Into the shadows (2015) ++
Yuki Murata - Gift (2014) ++
Kinoko Teikoku - Eureka (2013) ++
the telephones - bye bye hello (2015) +

June

77. The Hotelier - Goodness +
78. Car Seat Headrest - teens of denial +
79. Thrice - to be everywhere is to be nowhere +
80. Oh My Girl - Windy Day +

 

may

 

Update.

 

New Garbage album is . Maybe their best since 2001's beautifulgarbage.