2016 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread • Page 5

I'll add Radiohead and Death Grips to my list of Deftones and Parquet Courts.

 

I had no idea about that until I read some promo right before the EP was released.

I saw a video a few weeks ago of him making his Opry debut. It's awesome that he's finding a new level of success as a songwriter and performer. I always thought he had the talent deserving of a much wider audience.

 

1. SWMRS - Drive North
2. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
3. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
4. Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head
5. Weezer - The White Album

Sorry, Rihanna

 

I feel like more and more of these people who find their first success writing songs for other artists are going to start finding success in their own right. Glad he seems to be on that path.

 

1. The Hotelier - Goodness
2. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
2.5 Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years
3. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
4. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
5. Pinegrove – Cardinal
6. M83 - Junk
7. Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death
8. Weezer – Weezer (The White Album)
9. Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
10. David Bazan – Blanco

Top half is very solid, the bottom half waivers but I'm sure the second half of 2016 will pick up and it'll be as tough as always to narrow the year down to 10 releases come December

 

Adding Gargage - Strange Little Birds to my list.

 

Solid list. Missing thrice though

 

Its literally right after the cutoff lol

 

I was kind of meh on it at first, but I'm seeing them in two weeks so I wanted to listen to it a lot. It really grew on me, it's probably a top 5 thrice record for me now. Once I realized that stay with me was about a post apocalyptic romance I realized there was a lot more to the record than I originally thought.

 

Twin Peaks - Down in Heaven
Kaytranada - 99.9%
M83 - Junk
The 1975 - if you're on this website you know this albums name
Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death
Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
Koi Child - Koi Child
Rihanna - ANTI
PUP - The Dream is Dead
Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto

Probably my top ten in some unarranged order

 

My year has been consumed by only a few albums:

Brian Fallon - Painkillers and Georgia EP
Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
Arliss Nancy - Greater Divides
Dustin Kensrue - Thoughts that Float on a Different Blood
Mudcrutch - 2



Albums that weren't released this year but I've been spending a ton of time with:

Brand New - Daisy
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Whiskeytown - Pneumonia
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Southern Accents
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
Coasta - Sunzal EP

 

No particular order

The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
Saosin - Along The Shadow
Basement - Promise Everything
The Word Alive - Dark Matter
Dance Gavin Dance - Tree City Sessions
Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor
Somos - First Day Back
Deftones - Gore
Hands Like Houses - Dissonants
Issues - Headspace
Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness
Normandie - Inguz
The Hotelier - Goodness
Dowsing - Okay
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Anchor & Braille - Songs For The Late Night Drive Home
Weezer - The White Album
Into It. Over It. - Standards
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Vinnie Caruana - Survivor's Guilt
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Rarity - I Couldn't Be Weaker

 

Not a lot has been on my radar lately.

So far:
1. Pinegrove
2. The 1975
3. The Hotelier
4. PUP
5. Modern Baseball

 

Adding If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying World and Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us to my list.

 

no order

Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor
Chairlift - Moth
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Somos - First Day Back
BRAZA - BRAZA
The 1975 - I like it when you sleep...
Shields - How Can We Fix This?
Galileo Galilei - Sea and the Darkness
Mahmundi - Mahmundi
The Hotelier - Goodness

EPs:

Turnover - Humblest Pleasures
Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet
The Starting Line - Anyways
TWIABP - Long Live Happy Birthday
Fióti - Gente Bonita

 

No order...yet.
Too much good music this year.

Beyoncé-Lemonade
Kanye West-The Life of Pablo
Chance the Rapper-Coloring Book
Kendrick Lamar-Untitled Demos
White Lung-Paradise (More people need to listen to this)
Explosions in the Sky-The Wilderness
Pity Sex-White Hot Moon
The Hotelier-Goodness
Nothing-Tired of Tomorrow
Anohni-Hopelessness
DIIV-Is the Is Are

 

I've checked out quite a bit of music from this year (well, relative to how much I generally get into around this time for the past few years). That said, not much has stood out for me yet. Maybe some of the records that I've gotten in the past month or so will end up appealing to me more, maybe some stuff that I was digging earlier in the year but ended up not having much staying power will return with a vengeance, but as of now I'd say that I really like a lot of stuff from this year, but don't really love anything.

In terms of just sheer rotation I think my favourite so far this year is The Falcon's Gather Up the Chaps. I've been playing it pretty consistently since I first checked it out. Compare that with Brian Fallon's Painkillers, Kendrick's untitled unmastered, or Sam Means' 10 Songs which I was listening to a lot earlier in the year but haven't given much time to the past couple months. Same goes for The Life of Pablo and even Lemonade and Chance's Coloring Book - lots of plays when they first came out, followed by a quick drop-off.

 

The 1975
Thrice
O'Brother
Basement
Saosin
Architects
We Are Scientists
gates
Young Thug
Hands Like Houses
Catfish and the Bottlemen
Say Anything
St. Lucia

 

Probably my favorite half-year of music ever? I think I listened to and loved more albums the past 5+ months than I did all of 2015.

1. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere
2. Pinegrove - Cardinal
3. O'Brother - Endless Light
4. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
5. Future - EVOL
6. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
7. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
8. Young Thug - Slime Season 3
9. The Hotelier - Goodness
10. Deftones - Gore

Other shit I liked:
YG - Still Brazy
Sumac - What One Becomes
Gates - Parallel Lines
Daughter - Not to Disappear
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Young Thug - I'm Up
PUP - The Dream Is Over
Saosin - Along the Shadow (most likely to rise)
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
DJDS - Stand Up and Speak

 

Favorite songs of 2016 so far:

The Hotelier - "Soft Animal"
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YG - "Twist My Fingaz"
Pinegrove - "New Friends"
Thrice - "Hurricane"
Young Thug - "F Cancer", "Drippin'"
Daughter - "New Ways"
Kanye West - "Ultralight Beam", "Highlights"
Future - "Lil Haiti Baby"
Radiohead - "Daydreaming"
Sturgill Simpson - "Sea Stories"

 

No order, I'm still behind on a lot of music, if anyone has suggestions based on this list let me know!

Pinegrove- Cardinal
The Hotelier- Goodness
Angel Du$t- Rock The Fuck On Forever
Modern Baseball- Holy Ghost
Like Pacific- Distant Like You Asked
Basement- Promise Everything
Kanye West- TLOP
Panic At The Disco- Death of A Bachelor
Chance The Rapper- Coloring Book
Turnover- Humblest Pleasure (not really an album but still great songs)
Lost Souls-Get Lost (once again not an album but great songs)

 

brian fallon - painkillers
the hotelier - goodness
face to face - protection
nothing - tired of tomorrow
weezer - the white album
the so so glos - kamikaze
pup - the dream is over
modern baseball - holy ghost
mean jeans - tight new dimension

EDIT: car seat headrest - teens of denial

 

oh shit, I forgot that one!

 

Dope, this is helping me catch up on some things I've missed

 

Pinegrove is probably my AOTY. I've spun that the most. Hotelier is great, Chance is great and surprisingly I've come back to Weezer a lot. Others I enjoyed:
Hinds
Bowie
Future
DJDS
The 1975
Postiljonen
Kendrick
Anderson .Paak
ANOHNI
James Blake
Radiohead
I really haven't even given a lot of them on the list too many listens. I need to get in my new music grind, threw a bunch of albums on Apple Music today so we'll see what sticks out