Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2016

So, what's your AOTY 2016?

Wild Nothing - Reichpop

The last time I heard from them they sounded like jangle rock band. This one is the first track from the new album and it sounds closer to afro-pop (maybe it's just the polyrhythms), haven't heard anything else from this album yet. So far, so good.

Charlie Hilton - 100 Million
This was technically released online a few weeks ago but the album drops this month so I'm considering it a 2016 release. She's a former member of band Blouse, song features Mac DeMarco on guitar and vocals and was produced by Woods' Jarvis Taveniere... it sounds exactly like you imagine it sounds considering the people involved. I'm getting a VU's Loaded vibe from this song, which means I love it.

I suppose I'll be updating on a spotify playlist anything that I find interesting and purge every now and then like last year: https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/7IUyyJbFUQ9r8kxQar0Cwr

Rolling Favorite Tracks 2016 Thread Spotify Playlist
^ will be updating in early February.

Nicholas Krgovich - The Place Goes Quiet
https://soundcloud.com/tin-angel-records/nicholas-krgovich-the-place-goes-quiet

Laura Mvula ft. Nile Rodgers - Overcome
Fantasia - No Time For It
Pr0files - Life a Knife
Anderson .Paak - Come Down
Sizzy Rocket - Need SomebodyJehnny Beth & Julian Casablancas - Boy/Girl (actually from December, but I'm counting it as a 2016 discovery)

If you're so inclined, here is my 2016 spotify playlist. Follow now if you like. I'll be updating it every few days throughout the year: https://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/6nWMPae5bYBiIQ0g1O5UKD

My tracks playlist is still close to empty: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/0xBziinqg5kf9KiKSSR2Rb
My albums playlist really is empty: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/6CKAljX8QIlFaKzCBN62bx

i found this when i missed my stop, its not out yet though

http://www.juno.co.uk/miniflashplayer/SF595356-01-01-02.mp3

my first on-repeat jam of the year is: Shearwater - Quiet Americans

I'm really looking forward to Pr0files - Jurassic Technologie. The measured, glacial Italo the "Get it Up" was such a good look last year. Thanks for the heads up.

Also loved that pr0files song johnny.

For Paak i've chosen the bird song but it's a fine album.

You all need to listen to the new single by Sampa the Great.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FwGtxcFvrgg

https://m.soundcloud.com/sampa-tembo/blue-boss
Riyl: Tribe called quest, Lauryn Hill and Badu?

New Massive Attack Ep sounds great on first listen.

Bigging up the new Daughter and Fat White Family albums

I feel like I've been buying albums by people I know I like (Tindersticks, Bonnie Prince Billy and so on). Any suggestions for a *new* artist I might enjoy? Below are my tracks of the year compilations for the last two years (as a bit of direction as to what I like).

2015

1. King Creosote - You Just Want
2. Spheruleus and friends - To Us Thy Memory Can Never Be Lost
3. Moon Ate The Dark - Bashy
4. Visionary Hours - Reaches Into Silence
5. Richard Skelton - Canis, Lynx, Ursus: Awake, Arise, Reclaim
6. Olli Aarni - Pohjoistuuli
7. Nils Frahm & Olafur Arnalds - 23:52
8. Roisin Murphy - House of Glass
9. Espen Eriksen Trio - Gravity
10. Aiden Moffat - Any Other Mirror
11. Father John Misty - I Went To The Store One Day

2014

1. Richard Skelton - Carr
2. Memory Drawings - There Is No Perfect Place
3. British Sea Power - Heroines of the Cliff
4. Hildur Gudnadottir - Saman
5. Jon Hopkins - Immunity (Asleep Version)
6. S Carey - Glass/Film
7. Lewis - Like To See You Again
8. Susanna/Jenny Hval - I Have Walked This Body
9. Lapland - Unwise
10. King Creosote - For One Night Only
11. Douglas Dare - Swim
12. Kiasmos - Looped
13. Gus Gus - Obnoxiously Sexual
14. Bracken - We Put The Pop In Unpopular
15. Hauschka - Elisabeth Bay
16. Hiss Golden Messenger - Saturday's Song

Maybe you're already familiar with those but this is mostly based on the neo-classical stuff:

Otto A. Totland
Lubomyr Melnyk
Takeshi Nishimoto

Although if you were only looking for 2016 stuff in that vein, I got nothing

Djh: from 2016 so far I can reccomend the Whitney album. Only first songNo Woman is on spotify.

Also from past years check out Colleen, Grouper, Benoit Pioulard. Looking at that list makes me think you might like them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGKN6qiDqnk

Kidnap Kid - Birds That Fly

is nice. Don't want to describe it in case god forbid I use the wrong house sub-genre, but it's one of his more straightforwardly house tracks (compared to the more sui generis things he was doing a few years back that I like even more).

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have (and like) the recent(ish) Otto A. Totland album. I like Melnyk - but haven't heard the most recent one (I thought someone might buy it me for Xmas and then forgot about it). Takeshi Nishimoto seems to be in the "sounds nice; need to stop buying stuff like this" category. I've a curious number of Colleen albums but haven't kept up.

Not sure about Whitney though if anyone wants an Oxford meet up where we drink beer and throw axes/smoke bombs, that'd be cool.

Pioulard's Noyaux is doing the trick, right now ...

new Surgeon album is rad

btw djh, if you're not already familiar with that website you might want to check out Headphone Commute

Thanks moans. I'm aware of it but its not a site I spend a lot of time at (my loss, perhaps?)

playlist is updated.

ILM's Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

real stand-out albums so far

king - we are king
katy b - honey
kyle hall - from joy
brothers osborne - pawn shop

I was blasting out that Kyle Hall one earlier, it is really bright and joyful + it makes me yearn for summer.

January Favorites (includes albums from the future)

Roly Porter - Third Law
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Naðra - Allir vegir til glötunar
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
Bloodiest - Bloodiest
Moongazing Hare - Wild Nothing
Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
Stranded Horse - Luxe

10 Favorite January Songs:

Sampa the Great - Blue Boss
Massive Attack - Dead Editors
Charlie Hilton - 100 Million
Pr0files - like a knife
David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
Anderson Paak - The Bird
Whitney - No Woman
AlunaGeorge - I'm In Control (feat. Popcaan)
Cross Record - Lemon
Casey Mecija - Palms Lose

Roly Porter record is some wonderfully tense space ambient

Aside from Bowie and KING, my favourite January 2016 album release is Adrian Younge's Something About April II. It helps obviously that Laetitia Sadier is all over it, but the whole thing is worth your attention.

Step Beyond
Hands of God
Ready to Love

Other tracks faves new to Spotify in January:

Sia - "Reaper"
Margaret Berger - "Apologize"
AURORA - "Conqueror"
Anna Meredith - "R-Type"
Brandy Clark - "Girl Next Door"
Stabat Stable - "You're In My Chair"
Dawn Richard - "Not Above That"

Kanye West - Real Friends sounds real good ASS JOB to me

And here I thought the one with the ass job was his wife.

Courtesy of the Shambhala thread, the first track of the year that I'm truly digging:

L.A. Girlfriend - Little Do I Know

That sounds great!

After discovering this song this morning, I've had it on a loop in my headphones for a very, very long time and I'm nowhere near being tired of it. Have to add it to my list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1E7vu9gMv8

Lex Allen ft. WebsterX - Cream and Sugar

20x February highlights (tracks)

Cavern of Anti-Matter - Tardis Cymbals
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Blowing My Nose Under Close Observation
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hi-hats Bring The Hiss
Adrian Younge - La Ballade (Instrumental)
Elton John - Guilty Pleasure
Zayn - Pillowtalk
Benjamin Schoos - Une fille en or
Anna Wise - Precious Possession
Only Girl - Young Blood
Basia Bulat - Someday Soon
C. Duncan - A Year Or So
K. Michelle - Mindful
K. Michelle - Time
Nao - Fool To Love
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Existence in the Unfurling
Tweet - Dadada…Struggle
Giorgio Tuma feat. Laetitia Sadier - Maude Hope
Tinie Tempah feat. Zara Larsson - Girls Like
School of Seven Bells - Music Takes Me
Keren Ann - Where Did You Go?

Prince Rama: Xtreme Now

I have never heard about them before, but this album is ridiculously good, a very strange and catchy mixture of styles - electro-pop, psych, even new age sometimes. So far clearly my favourite album in 2016.

There are only 4 tracks on Spotify so far, the album comes on 4 March: http://www.stereogum.com/1861912/stream-prince-rama-xtreme-now-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

10 Favorite February Songs

Animal Collective - Golden Gal
Cat Clyde - Mama said
CFCF - Pleasure Center
Eleanor Friedberger - Never is a long time
Jim-E Stack - Deadstream
Kedr Livanskiy - Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)
Kidnap Kid - Birds that Fly
Moderat - Reminder
Pantha Du Prince - Winter Hymn
Rihanna - Work

Previously released songs I loved and finally received an official release:

Beady Belle - When My Anger Starts to Cry (Moodymann edit)
Shura - Touch
KING - The Greatest
Jamie XX & Four Tet - Seesaw (club version)
Wet - You're the best

Recent albums I rate:

CFCF - On Vacation
The Gloaming - 2
Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
12z - Trembling Air
Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
Promise and the Monster - Feed the Fire
France Jobin - Singulum
V/A - Gqom Oh! The Sound of Durban Volume 1

PJ Harvey - The Wheel

I used to listen to so many albums, maybe 100 per year... nowadays I don't have enough time or the right mood to sit down and listen.

It's a brief list but here's the list of albums I've loved in the past two months, not enough for a top 10 and technically KING is a compilation, Anna Homler a reissue from 1985 and Livanskiy an EP...

Anna Homler & Steve Moshier - Breadwoman & Other Tales
Animal Collective - Painting With
Anderson Paak - Malibu
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
KING - We are King
Kedr Livanskiy - January Sun
Wacław Zimpel - Lines
Good WIllsmith - Things Our Bodies Used to Have
David Bowie - Blackstar

Some ilxors might enjoy my albums list far better than my songs list, I usually go for more "world creating" experiments in albums and easy stuff on singles.

playlist is updated.

Rolling Favorite Tracks 2016 Thread Spotify Playlist

Yield from the first bimester:

King - We Are KING (spotify) Dreampop & 80s influenced R&B trio
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB (spotify) RIP Ben
Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge (spotify) electric violin post-minimal dreampop
GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object (spotify) dance inspired jazz trio
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered (spotify) The Русский Стандарт of shoegaze
Wacław Zimpel - Lines (spotify, youtube) wind improv over Tangerine Dream
The Jezabels - Synthia (spotify) grower, well-realized melting pot of 80s & 90s pops
Chairlift - Moth (spotify) uneven, stretched between clever R&B production and a yodel-Sade.

EPs
Moro - San Benito (bandcamp) Elysia Crampton fans, take note
Ninos du Brasil - Para araras (spotify) more acidic/driving batucada techno

Singles
Allie X - "Old Habits Die Hard" (spotify) Chvrches fans, take note
Melt Yourself Down - "Dot to Dot" (youtube, spotify) industrio-Nubian morsel
The Jezabels - "Pleasure Drive" (youtube, spotify) meticulous & horny, the chorus a bit coitus interruptus
Kill J - "Trickle Trickle" (youtube, spotify) If Grimes did R&B
Riton - "Rinse & Repeat" (feat. Kah-Lo) (youtube, spotify) narcotized dance exhortation
Lucius - "Something About You" (youtube, spotify) Motown new-wave
Choir of Young Believers - "Perfect Estocada" (youtube, spotify) ghostly pants entry
Nicole Millar - "Tremble" (youtube, spotify) nails the slow build
Jessy Lanza - "It Means I Love You" (youtube, spotify) goes Shaangan

Isn't that Riton song from past year? I remember hearing it last summer.

The Riton had releases in December and February. I don't get out much, so its all new to me.

This snuck onto iTunes and streaming services last week while I wasn't looking: the B-side of the forthcoming debut single by the brilliant Let's Eat Grandma, Sink. Be afraid, be very afraid.

I love that Waclaw Zimpel album a lot, will be checking out his earlier works.

https://youtu.be/a8QMDNK9-kI

μ-Ziq - Aberystwyth Marine - full album (2016)

February/March favs:

Matt Elliott - The Calm Before
Ulaan Passerine - The Great Unwiding
Mary Lattimore - At the Dam
Dreamboat - Dreamboat
Good Willsmith - Things Our Bodies Used To Have
Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain
Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion
Paul Jebanasam - Continuum

Haven't heard the full new Willie Rosario album yet, but this track from it is first rate:

Willie Rosario - Ya No Eres Nada

From the last few weeks, enjoying these albums a lot:

Anenon - Petrol
Night Moves - Pennied Days
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
Steve Mason - Meet the Humans
Underworld - Barbara Barbara, we face a shiny future

marc baron - carnets

Playlist is updated through March.

Rolling Favorite Tracks 2016 Thread Spotify Playlist

(Please note that due to the snowballing onerousness of trying to backtrack and update the entire thread stem to stern, I'm only updating entries made since March 1 to this particular playlist. I'll do a clean sweep at the end of the year to mop up anything that got added to catalogue later. If there's a track that you think really needs immediate inclusion, bring it back up again onthread and it'll get added in the next month of housekeeping.)

Does that mean I shouldn't post my March faves list until 1 April?

post em when you got em! this is all just playlist stuff.

I'm overdue for an update here. With Spotify links!

Florio - Want You
Savages- Adore
case/lang/veirs - Atomic Number
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate
Baauer ft. M.I.A. & G-Dragon - Temple
PJ Harvey - The Community of Hope
Wussy - She's Killed Hundreds
Beyonce - Sorry

April keepers:

Jazz, Cosmic, Heavy Kraut
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers
Our Solar System - In Time

Melancholic, Sad Folk, Goth-ish
And Also the Trees - Born Into the Waves
Marissa Nadler - Strangers

Experimental-ish
Mamiffer - The World Unseen
Colin Stetson - Sorrow - A Reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony

Guitar wanderings
Gaspar Claus & Pedro Soler - Al Viento
Western Skies Motel - Settlers

Psychedelic rock, Dreamy
Mars Red Sky - Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul)
Yeti Lane - L'aurore

Metal
Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night

Rock for driving around in the countryside
Steve Gunn - Eyes on the Line

(I'd say it was a pretty good month)

Here's my running list on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/lists/Favorites-of-2016/269401

Playlist is updated through April.

Rolling Favorite Tracks 2016 Thread Spotify Playlist

Also Beyonce's "Daddy Lessons" is setting the bar for best song of the year for me right now.

Suuns Hold/Still which I've been patiently waiting for for three years is out, and is great/difficult/challenging.

Tidal link: http://s3-web.tidal.com/us/store/artist/3783691

please be the guy who does the same thing i'm doing it but does it on tidal and we both scrupulously step around each other with rare passive aggressive hints of the seething anger just below the surface

Someone else will have to do that. Glad to see Suuns getting some attention elsewhere!

So far this year has been fruitful. Stuff that's latched on for repeated listens:

Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
Odd Nosdam - Sisters (BoC remix too!!!)
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
Sound of Ceres - Nostalgia for Infinity
Ital Tek - Hollowed
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
dälek - Asphalt for Eden
Brian Eno - The Ship

Singles - only one:
Lindstrøm - Closing Shot

Denzel Curry - Imperial
Parquet Courts - Human Performance

Full Crate Ft. Gia Koka - Son Of A Gun

Another Man's Woman - TEEN

My singles:

1. Alex Anwandter – Siempre Es Viernes En Mi Corazón
2. Maxwell – Lake By the Ocean
3. Rihanna – Kiss It Better
4. Brandy Clark – Girl Next Door
5. BTS – Run
6. Corinne Bailey Rae – Been to the Moon
7. Eric Church – Record Year
8. Azealia Banks – Can’t Do It Like Me
9. Jason Derulo – If It Ain’t Love
10. Katy B & Chris Lorenzo – I Wanna Be
11. TT the Artist & Snappy Jit – Dig
12. Grimes – Kill V. Maim
13. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled 02 06.23.2014.
14. Tegan and Sara – Boyfriend
15. Mannie Fresh ft. Juvenile & Tunechi – Hate
16. Clare Dunn – Tuxedo
17. Ladies’ Code – Galaxy
18. Taemin – Press Your Number
19. Mamamoo – Taller Than You
20. Prince Royce – Culpa al Corazón
21. Riton ft. Kah-lo – Rinse & Repeat
22. Pet Shop Boys – The Pop Kids
23. Ulises Hadjis ft. Gepe – Movimiento
24. Mamamoo – Taller Than You
25. Kevin Gates – 2 Phones
26. Jeremih – Oui
27. Erykah Badu – Phone Down
28. Esperanza Spalding – Good Lava
29. Morning Musume ’15 – Tsumetai Kaze to Kataomoi
30. Chloe x Halle – Drop

Radiohead - Burn the Witch

:D

Oohhh did they review Phone Down on TSJ? I should look that up

albums so far

1. Beyoncé, Lemonade
2. King, We Are King
3. K. Michelle, More Issues Than Vogue
4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Ears
5. Cardi B, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1
6. Anohni, Hopelessness
7. Tweet, Charlene
8. Brothers Osborne, Pawn Shop
9. Yemi Alade, Mama Africa
10. Skepta, Konnichiwa
11. Corinne Bailey Rae, The Heart Speaks In Whispers
12. Kyle Hall, From Joy
13. Katy B, Honey
14. Stereociti, Lost Land
15. Ricky Blaze, Conquer The Moment
16. Kevin Gates, Islah
17. Cassy, Donna
18. School Of Seven Bells, SVIIB
19. Kamaiyah, A Good Night In The Ghetto
20. Aubrie Sellers, New City Blues

Favorite 10 March/ 10 April songs - sounds like some sort of a party playlist

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Meticulous Bird
NVDES - The Other Side
Still Corners - Horses At Night
Kenton Slash Demon - TT
Lindstrom - Closing Shot
Mr. Fingers - Qwazars
Leon Vynehall - Saxony
Sofi Tukker - Hey Lion
David August - JBY
Justin Jay - What Do You Want
A. K. Paul - Landcruisin'
Manila Killa - All Thats Left (The M Machine remix)
Maria Usbeck - Moai Y Yo
HONNE - Someone that loves you
Snoh Aalegra - Under the Influence
Fujiya & Miyagi - Serotonin Rushes
Death in the Afternoon - We Don't Have to go out tonight
Carmody - Skin
Deakin - Golden Chords
Damien Jurado - Lon Bella

Drake - Too Good (feat. Rihanna)

has also been making the rounds but that one's for May, there's no Drake in the playlist so far I'm terribly sorry.

record makers france is pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNvye72Cpx0

A. K. Paul - Landcruisin'

yessssssssssssssss

MELANIE DE BIASIO - BLACKENED CITIES

that is all

That Melanie De Biasio is amazing. Tell me more.

i enjoyed it as well

New Melanie De Biasio is amazing - Lynch noir meets In a Silent Way. Oh and for those who want to know more, she's a Belgian jazz singer. Previous album, No Deal, is well worth checking out. Was thinking of starting a thread.

i *loved* no deal, look forward to hearing the new 'un

Tony Malaby w/ Paloma Recio - Incantation Suite
Chris Abrahams - Fluid to the Influence
Thumbscrew - Convallaria
Jack DeJohnette - In Movement
Steve Khun - At This Time
Eric Revis Trio - Crowded Solitudes
Gregory Porter - Take Me To The Alley

maybe it's just an effect of seeing chris abrahams on calzino's list, but there is a definite the necks-ishness to the melanie de biasio record on first listen

yeah, i like the debiasio too.

not as much as her first album tho.

Enjoying Midday Veil album - SVIIB x Emperor Tomato Ketchup isn't quite the right comparison but it's halfway there.

oh is there a new midday veil

ALBUMS:

Brian Eno - The Ship
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
King - We Are King
Autechre - Elseq
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Prince Rama - Xtreme Now
Pr0files - Jurassic Technology

TRACKS
Fay-Ann Lyons - Hands In The Air
Olatunji - Oh Yay
Hypasounds - Sugar Rush
Nesbeth - My Dream
DJ Marfox - 2685
Alkaline - Champion Boy
Fracture & Deft -I Just
Tifa - Big Bumper

Seiho - Collapse

Enjoying this for now. Mostly ambient, often disjunctive, electronic music with jazzy bits. At times not far from Cornelius. I don't listen to too much music like this, so I don't think I have the right category slots or "sounds like artist x" to describe it.

Couple more albums:

Wrong - Wrong
Seratones - Get Gone

Selma Oxor - Fantasias de Tocador

Managed to list my albums/EPs. Mostly time travel stuff.

* Autechre - Elseq 1–5
* Babyfather - "BBF" Hosted By DJ Escrow
* Carl Gari & Abdulah Miniawy - Darraje EP
* El Yunque - Baskenland
* Foodman - Ez Minzoku
* Form a Log / Moth Cock - Split LP
* Good Willsmith - Things Our Bodies Used To Have
* Ian William Craig - Centres
* Ignatz - The Drain
* Kablam - Furiosa
* Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
* M. Geddes Gengras - Two Variations
* Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
* Rangda - The Heretics Bargain
* Razen - Endryhmes
* Sarah Davachi - Dominions
* Sonic Youth - Spinehead Sessions
* Steve Gunn - Eyes On The Lines
* V/A - Space Echo
* Yearning Kru - Copper Vale

Not so surprisingly the previous list is part of the radio show I'm running. Just uploaded this 'mid-year roundup' show on mixcloud (meaning I can take a summer break): https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-24-juni-2016-mid-year-roundup-2016

Thanks to Fat Cat's modern classical offshoot '130701' we had the chance to play a song from Ian William Craig's great 'Centres' and even an unreleased 2005 song of Set Fire To Flames, from the upcoming Eleven Into Fifteen compilation.

Also, show is in Dutch.

TRACKS
Kristin Kontrol - Show Me
Tegan and Sara - U-Turn
Satin Jackets ft. Scavenger Hunt - Feel Good
Usher - Crash

albums in no particular

brian fallon - painkillers
afrobeat makers - nu guinea - the tony allen experiments
kaitlyn aurelia smith - ears
sam beam & jesca hoop - love letter for fire
myrath - legacy
sturgill simpson - a sailor's guide to earth
beth orton - kidsticks
brandy clark - big day in a small town
neko case, k.d. lang, laura veirs - case/lang/veirs
a-wa - habib galbi
sunburst - ave africa: the complete recordings 1973-1976

Selected albums for half a 2016:

A Pleasure - Jream House
KING - We Are KING
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
The Gloaming - 2
Mary Lattimore - At The Dam
Aziza Brahim - Abbar al Hamada
Khun Narin - 2
Perfume - Cosmic Explorer
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
M83 - Junk
ANOHNI - HOPELESSNESS
Julianna Barwick - Will
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
Kedr Livanskiy - January Sun
Sonido Gallo Negro - Ecos de otro Mundo
V/A - Space Echo (The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed)
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Nite Jewel - Liquid Cool
Big Thief - Masterpiece

My favorite singles so far (Spotify link too).

2nd Khun Narin!

Brad Mehldau Trio - Blues and Ballads
Steven Julien - Fallen
Matthew Halsall - On The Go
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis - Azul Infinito
Rez Abbasi & Junction - Behind The Vibration
Antonio Adolfo - Tropical Infinito

Halftime addenda to our Winter list.

ALBUMS:
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears (spotify) Pastoral Berlin school
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile - Continuum (MODUL 29_14 on YouTube) Zen minimal jazz
Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings on Earth (spotify) Nubian party punk
LOTTO - Elite Feline (bandcamp) Mantric Western, attn: Necks fans
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution (spotify) Joni + Pastorius redux
Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body (spotify) In Andy Stott's hood, ft. Glasser
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate (spotify) Solid makeover.
Lyra Lynn - Resistor (spotify) Now banjoless and Lynchian.
The Knocks - 55 (spotify) NY Nu-disco pop.
Classixx - Faraway Reach (spotify) LA Nu-disco pop.
Autolux - Pussy's Dead (spotify) Best when Carla sings and chaos deferred.
Hammock - Everything and Nothing (spotify) More wistful postgaze.
Konono N°1 & Batida - Konono Meets Batida (spotify) Mbira churn.
Andy Stott - Too Many Voices (Butterflies on YoutTube) Suffocating ducking still his best idea.
Max Richter - Sleep Remixes (https://play.spotify.com/album/6pBq7xlUDUChkJZmy4jqD0) Fine adjunct when resequenced.

SINGLES:
Soldier's Heart - "Randy" (youtube) Formally perfect 80s earworm
Anohni - "Drone Bomb Me" (spotify) Modern Holiday, dedicated to Barack
Naadia/наадя - "Хорошо" (spoundcloud) Russophone Shambhala
ARO - "Cocaine Style" (youtube, spotify) Wisely avoided Osbourne vices
These Hidden Hands ft. Lucrecia Dalt - "These Moments Dismantled" (youtube, spotify) Hydraulic press little match girl
Shura - "What's It Gonna Be?" (youtube) Move over M83
Ekkah - "Small Talk" (youtube, spotify) 2nd single as consistent as Ronika.
Smerz - "Because" (youtube, spotify) Icy Norwegian R&B house
Christie & the Dream Beats - "Wasn't My Fault" (youtube, spotify) attn: CRJ & Swift fans
Kristin Kontrol - "X-Communicate" (spotify) Album highlight
Phantogram - "You Don't Get Me High Anymore" (youtube, spotify) Solid Shambhala
The Knocks - "Love Me Like That (feat. Carly Rae Jepson)" (spotify) 80s mid-tempo is a good look
White Sea - "Arcadia" (youtube, spotify) a good haunt
Lera Lynn - "Drive" (spotify) upbeat outlier on Lynchian album
La Femme - "Sphynx" (nsfw youtube, spotify) francophone minimal wave

Still want to listen to Pr0files and others upthread.

albums

jacquees x birdman - lost at sea
postiljonen - reverie
majid jordan -s/t
future - evol
rihanna - anti
chance - coloring book
dej loaf - all jokes aside
travis porter - 285
chris brown & OHB - before the trap: nights in tarzana
shura - nothings real
schoolboy q - blank face lp

trax

beyonce - formation; sorry
drake - one dance; 4pm in calabasas; summer 16
french f/ kodak black - lockjaw
50 cent f/ chris brown - im the man remix
dj esco f/ nef the pharoah & casey veggies - stupidly crazy
rihanna - nothing is promised
post malone - 40 funk
dizzie & calvin harris - hype
jeremih - oui
dreezy f/ jeremih - body
the-dream - first time in paris
madeinTYO - uber everywhere
a-wax - always something
james blake - i hope my life
uncle murda f/ french - all the way up remix

autechre - elseq 1-5
aphex twin - cheetah ep
david grubbs - prismrose
linda catlin smith - dirt road
Angharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji - ffansïon | fancies

a new Graham Lambkin album in October, titled 'Community'

the Cheetah ep is really good.

New Connections album is yet another great fake GBV (circa 90s) album. Better than anything Pollard can come up with these days.

Connections - Midnight Run

I've missed that Grubbs had a new one out. What's it like?

five tracks, only one brief track with vocals.. the rest is sort of like Grubbs' circular/spidery/repeating riffing/arpeggios, with loose and nimble drumming (free jazz-like, breezy, secondary to the more pronounced guitar patterns) -- basically Grubbs' guitar and drums (Eli Keszler) with subtle (synthesizer, added afterwards) flourishes/augmentation. Drag City doesn't charge for shipping within the US (for CD), not bad.

playlist is updated.

fave albums:

david bowie - blackstar
radiohead - a moon shaped pool
dexy's - let the record show: dexys do irish and country soul
william tyler - modern country
dorisburg - irrbloss
leon vynehall - rojus
steve gunn - eyes on the lines
king - we are king

Top 10 so far:
Parquet Courts - Human Performance 
BRONCHO - Double Vanity 
Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure
Kvelertak - Nattesferd 
Wrong - Wrong 
Denzel Curry - Imperial 
Blizaro - Cornucopia della morte 
Mitski - Puberty 2 
Seratones - Get Gone 
Horse Lords - Interventions 

self indulgent top 33 LPs and EPs so far:

Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex
KING - We Are King
Esparanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution
Let’s Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
David Bowie - Blackstar
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
Giorgio Tuma - This Life Denied Me Your Love
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Algodón Egipcio - La Confianza Ciega
Margo Price - Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
Adrian Younge - Something About April II
The Dandelion Set - A Thousand Strands (1975-2015)
Shura - Nothing’s Real
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Heart Speaks In Whispers
A$AP Ferg - Always Strive and Prosper
Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town
Brian Eno - The Ship
Anna Wise - The Feminine: Act 1
Lindstrøm - Wingdings
Floorplan - Victorious
Belbury Poly - New Ways Out
Astrobal - Australasie
K. Michelle - More Issues Than Vogue
Gemma Ray - The Exodus Suite
Marit Larsen - Joni Was Right
Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
Mr. Fingers - Outer Acid
DMX Krew - You Exist
Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night
Mýa - Smoove Jones
ABC - The Lexicon of Love II
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered
Cat’s Eyes - Treasure House

thanks Lowell!

Aireene Espiritu - Back Where I Belong
Bobby Avey - Inhuman Wilderness
Sri Hanuraga - To The Universe
Greg Ward - Touch My Beloved's Thought
Objekt - Kern, Vol 3
Jeff Parker - The New Breed
Axel Erotic - In Love With

I forgot this one.

Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family - Beginning of a Memory

iLe - Canibal

(Ironic alt latino sombrero tip to curmudgeon.)

Feels like I've heard loads of good music this year, but there are only a few clear standouts so far:

BONAFIDE CLASSICS:
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Brian Eno - The Ship

GREAT - NEED TO LISTEN TO MORE:
Yemi Alade - Mama Africa The Diary of an African Woman
Young Thug - Slime Season 3
King - We Are King
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Floorplan - Victorious
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

PROBABLY GOOD BUT NOT LISTENED TO ENOUGH TIMES:
Prince Rama - Xtreme Now
Forteresse - Themes Pour La Rebellion
Polica - United Crushers
Pr0files - Jurassic Technology
Paul Jebanasam - Continuum
Roly Porter - Third Law

I'm sure I've missed a few big ones out...

Marit Larsen - Joni Was Right
Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
Mr. Fingers - Outer Acid
DMX Krew - You Exist

"Joni Was Right" must have primed me, because I seriously read the last artist as DMX Knew.

My list.

Whyyyy do you guys like 1975!? Everytime I try to like them they just sound like an INXS tribute band and I don't even like INXS that much. What am I missing!?

I think if they were actually more like INXS, I'd find a reason to like them. But because they mostly sound like Duran Duran, I cannot.

cuz their moves are so raw

rolling and woefully incomplete best-of-2016: https://open.spotify.com/user/1239159458/playlist/2nTGXT3XMyWYVg7W4bcQwj

subtitle: at some point I should probably listen to something other than sviib

Album:

iLe - iLevitable

This is PG13 (Ileana Cabra) from Calle 13, the younger sister. She's been singing on their albums since the beginning. I'd be curious to hear other people's impressions but I don't think I have anything to say to entice people to listen. Wish I knew Spanish. Will be saying that on my deathbed.

Definitely not reggaeton.

Xpost: wait rudi you don't speak spanish!? I assumed you did because you're a big fan of latin music!

ILE sounds really good! Closest popular comparison I can think of is Natalia Lafourcade. there's some really nice instrumentation in some of those songs.

I don't. So pathetic. All these years of listening to so much music in Spanish (mostly salsa though) and so little has sunk in.

there's some really nice instrumentation in some of those songs.

I feel that the instrumentation tends to fall short most of the time. It's polished, but somehow lacking. I still like the album but I'm a but ambivalent about it. I think her vocals and songwriting are the strongest parts.

Vocals are somewhat unique from what is normally used in the genre. They're the definite highlight of course, just pointing out some of the instrumentation sounded good on first listen hahaha but yes there's nothing particularly outstanding in that matter.

I hope you at least have learned how to dance salsa! I like the genre but it has never made sense to me as home listening. You need to listen to it while moving.

Oh yeah, learning to salsa is what got me started listening to salsa. I am not dancing these days due to chronic health problems which I'm still trying to resolve. I think it's fine as home listening, especially classic salsa, though I mostly listen in the car these days. Good driving music.

For me, the absolute cream of this year's albums so far is something like

all-time brilliance

Jute Gyte - Perdurance

superlative

Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
Mitski - Puberty 2
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
King - We Are King
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Ka - Honor Killed The Samurai
Comet Control - Center Of The Maze
The Display Team - Drones
The Drones - Display Team Feelin' Kinda Free

very, very good

Teen - Love Yes
Suede - Night Thoughts
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
Working For A Nuclear Free City - What Do People Do All Day?
Saqqara Mastabas - Libras
Xenia Rubinos - Black Stars
Teleman - Brilliant Sanity
Kel Valhaal - New Introductory Lectures On Transcendental Qabala

more or less in that order, but there's loads bubbling under, probably some I've forgotten, and plenty coming to blast the above asunder

Playlist updated for August.

here's a list I've been making of 2016 singles I like:

Hazel English - Never Going Home
The Raveonettes - Where Are You Wild Horses
Amason - Airport
Cobalt - Hunt the Buffalo
Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
M83/Mai Lan/Animal Collective - Go

There's plenty more but that's all I've managed to put in a spotify playlist I made for such things.

kvelertak sounds more than ever like a blackened thin lizzy on this one and it's making me happy
https://youtu.be/2LsqLO7h3E8

Jimmy Eat World - Sure and Certain
Beach Slang - Spin the Dial
Twist - Can't Wait

Have been enjoying

Flava D - Fabriclive 88

in the car, but I do generally skip all the rapping (I guess those are grime or bassline tracks then).

Good for driving along Zuni after dark.

favorites so far:

Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Aphex Twin - Cheetah ep
Marc Baron - Un salon au fond d'un lac
Angharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji - ffansïon | fancies
Radiohead - A Poon Shaped Mule

still haven't heard many new releases

I should put in a good word for Bobby Kapp/Matthew Shipp's Cactus. At the very least, I keep returning to it.

(I don't feel that strongly about any new albums this year. Even Ilevitable, which has some truly great tracks, slumps in the middle for me. Every album I've listened to and liked still bugs me a little, or is consistent but not special enough, like the Miramar album.)

I keep returning to it.

For the last week and a half or so. The test of time.

New Nicolas Jaar album is pretty good.

Adding the following songs:

Nicolas Jaar - No
Devendra Banhart - Saturday Night
NxWorries - Lyk Dis
Angel Olsen - Sister
The Modernist - The Price of Love
NOIA - Nostalgia del futuro

Spotify's web player isn't cooperating, so you'll have to find links for this short addenda to my March and July lists yourselves. Sorry.

Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death (bandcamp) Confessional as K. Hersh, more convincing than C. Wolfe
ГШ (Glintshake) - ОЭЩ МАГЗИУ (bandcamp) 1979 post-punk from Moscow
65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (youtube Gazy post-rock from an unfinished game
Black Merlin - Hipnotik Tradisi (clips at soundcloud) Humid ambient immersed in Bali
Metá Metá - MM3 (Mano Légua on YouTube) Adding sax pulls Brazilians further no wave. I'd start with earlier releases.
Sote - Hardcore Sounds from Tehran (bandcamp) Laptop techno with academic cred

bandcamp is quickly becoming my "discover new music" destination. every couple weeks i just go there, click on all the genre buttons to see the most popular stuff for every genre, and listen to the ones that have interesting covers. Works better than you would think- all kinds of stuff there that gets zero hype anywhere else.

TOP 10 ALBUMS 2016 / as of Oct. 2016

Anderson.Paak - Malibu
BADBADNOTGOOD - IV
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - We Be All Africans
Metá Metá - MM3
Moderat - III
Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
Noname - Telefone
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Shura - Nothing's Real
Xenia Rubinos - Black Stars

Runner-ups / further listens required:

Angel Olsen - My Woman
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
David Bowie - Blackstar
Drugdealer - The End of Comedy
Kedr Livanskiy - January Sun
KING - We are King
Mitski - Puberty 2
Sofi Tukker - Soft Animals
Two Feet - First Steps
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
Whitney - Light Upon the Lake

I should probably also add Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith to my listening list since it's one of the albums that appears the most on this thread.

8 mentions for it vs say 6 for the Radiohead one.

Really loving this - whatever genre it is (yt comment describes as 'psychotropic steel trap' I don't know what any of those words mean)
Sporting Life feat. Evy Jane - Court Vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwbNAQAQHBI

Also the Asusu - Sendak / Hallucinator single is fire. Particularly Sendak, sounds like a chainsaw splitting basslines.

have been enjoying the kelsey lu album 'church' lately. it's vocals + cello + pedals, so i guess colleen would be the easy comparison to make. it has that same mix of airiness and tension, but there's more of an emphasis on vocal expression rather than hypnotic rhythms.

playlist is updated; as in prior years, this one becomes a crazy thread dump of whatever's of interest to a strange collective so we end up with over 450 tracks and 38 hours of music to pick through. have at it and suggest what's missing!

ILM's Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Pretty much cemented in place now that my two favorite albums of the year are

Noname - Telefone
Kelsey Waldon - I've Got a Way

...then some other stuff that's not even close to being on that level. I'll sort it out in December.

Baby Queens' debut album came out yesterday, and it is pretty good. They're a five-piece R&B group produced by Cian Ciaran from Super Furry Animals. The first single, "Red Light", came out a few years ago; it's definitely one of the best tracks on the album, but there's a lot of other good stuff on here. I think they're the most promising group Cian has worked with; the lead vocalist, Vanity, has a great voice, and she sounds amazing on "Had My Heart."

Also really enjoying The Pattern Forms. I seem to like everything Jon Brooks touches. The Hintermass LP from earlier this year is also really good and seems to have been lost under the pile of great releases this year. Also a Jon Brooks project.

Baby Queens - Baby Queens https://open.spotify.com/album/0QgNBma8J1MLfK3dZmM6D9
The Pattern Forms - The Pattern Forms https://open.spotify.com/album/2uP2fSxeSmTdtgm0iQQl3v
Hintermass - The Apple Tree https://open.spotify.com/album/4yJYBE0cThCRhp6EglBSN8

A full list of albums here.

Really enjoying/appreciating all these recommendations.

https://youtu.be/Lj-wHYNwYaY

Papa M: “Bloom”

These have been in steady rotation this year:

Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
The High Llamas - Here Come the Rattling Trees
Deftones - Gore
White Lung - Paradise
Lone - Levitate
Bat For Lashes - The Bride
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
Deerhoof - The Magic
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Lake Ruth - Actual Entity
Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Zomby - Ultra
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani - Sunergy
Mr. Oizo - All Wet
Monolake - VLSI

a few additions since my last post:

Joyce Manor - "Cody"
Interment - Scent of the Buried
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure

Euglossine - Canopy Stories

TOP 10 SONGS 2016 as of Nov. will likely change drastically as I start digging EOY lists)

A.K. Paul - Landcruisin'
Alsarah & The Nubatones - Soukura
Avalanches - If I Was a Folkstar
Kadhja Bonet - Honeycomb
Maggie Rogers - Alaska
Nicolas Jaar - No
Noname - Diddy Bop
Radiohead - The Numbers
Sporting Life - Court Vision
Whitney - No Woman

John K. Samson - Requests
Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane – Black Beatles
Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart of Life

some tracks:

Kikagaku Moyo "Kogarashi" https://open.spotify.com/track/1dNVXjJxMvu8agaXXD80Q2
CFCF "Sate Padang" https://open.spotify.com/track/10KLZOKmh3c7SKCmYLbpZP
dvsn "Another One" https://open.spotify.com/track/72e5ilFtd3OoPFGzmQwja1
The Weekend feat. Daft Punk "I Feel It Coming" https://open.spotify.com/track/2dMJG9mGhuRePUKPvWBtei
Young Thug & Travis Scott feat. Quavo "Pick Up The Phone" https://open.spotify.com/track/5NAMZI9lVhxNa6AZp3iQVH
ScHoolboy Q feat. SZA "Neva CHange" https://open.spotify.com/track/6tPDalwocS7zgeFpYi3xtr

Pick Up The Phone is so good.

Black Beatles has got to be a contender for track of the year. Witnessing it coming on at the bar tonight and half the crowd start spontaneously dancing...

And yeah, it's a Monday night.

to add:

Sepalcure - Folding Time
Machinedrum - Human Energy
Graham Lambkin - Community
Moonlight ost

See it's not even November yet and I'm debating this 8 songs in my top 10 instead of some of the aforementioned ones.

Kaytranada - You're The One
Drama - Forever's Gone
Weyes Blood - Used to Be
Solange - Cranes in the Sky
Carla Dal Forno - What you gonna do now?
Sofi Tukker - Awoo
KING - the Greatest
Yuri - Days on the Southside (Drake cover)

We're pretty far into November, btw.

end of november haha sorry meant to write 'So it's not even the end of November'

Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation

My Top 20 albums:

1. TIM HECKER - Love Streams
2. ANDY SHAUF - The Party
3. NELS CLINE - Lovers
4. JUNIOR BOYS - Big Black Coat
5. DIANA - Familiar Touch
6. ARCHY MARSHALL - A New Place 2 Drown
7. THE ORB - COW / Chill Out, World!
8. ÆTHENOR - Hazel
9. THE MIKE SMITH COMPANY - Famous Wildlife Movies
10. SHOW ME THE BODY - Body War
11. NONAME - Telefone
12. AUTECHRE - Elseq 1-5
13. THE CARETAKER - Everywhere at the end of time
14. JESSY LANZA - Oh No
15. KEIJI HAINO/JIM O’ROURKE/OREN AMBARCHI - I wonder if you noticed/'I’m sorry' is such a lovely sound/It keeps things from getting worse
16. OFF WORLD - 1
17. MAX D - Boost
18. UN BLONDE - Good Will Come To You
19. JUSTIN HAYNES PLAYS ROB CLUTTON - bim
20. ANDREW CYRILLE QUARTET - The Declaration of Musical Independence

autechre pretty much killed it this year.

Thanks for keeping the playlist going, ulysses. Looking pretty good rn, if I may say so.

However, here are some more tracks to make it better still :)

Charli XCX - Explode
FEMM - PoW!
The Hardy Tree - Looking Down On London
The Hardy Tree - Near Windmill Bridge
Justin Timberlake - Can’t Stop The Feeling!
Kishi Bashi - Say Yeah
Beautify Junkyards - Constant Flux
Adrian Younge - Systems
Dawn Richard ft. Trombone Shorty - LA
Dawn Richard - The Louvre
Cabane - Wooden Home
Death Grips - Giving Bad People Good Ideas
Röyksopp ft. Susanne Sundfør - Never Ever
Ariana Grande - Into You
Daniele Baldelli - Tangram
Daniele Baldelli - Surpass
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - First World Problem
Floating Points - Kuiper
Floating Points - For Marmish Pt.II
Britney Spears - Clumsy
Britney Spears - Do You Wanna Come Over?
4Minute - Canvas
Blackpink - WHISTLE
Todd Terje & The Olsens - La fête sauvage (Prins Thomas remix)
The Orb - Alpine (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
Kero Kero Bonito - Break
Kero Kero Bonito - Picture This
Fergie - M.I.L.F. $
Yoko Ono & tUnE-yArDs - Warrior Woman
Grimes - Medieval Warfare
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Sai & Co
Hologram Teen - Hex These Rules
Vanishing Twin - The Conservation of Energy
The Bongolian - Kids Love Moogs
Mouse on Mars - Lichter
The Pattern Forms - Fluchtwege
Cavern of Anti-Matter - I'm the unknown
The Leaf Library - Acre (Cavern of Anti-Matter remix)
Angel Haze - Resurrection
Shura - Nothing’s Real (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas remix)
Shura - The Space Tapes
Laura Marling - Soothing
Ronika - Dissolve
A Tribe Called Quest - Melatonin
Laura Mvula - Phenomenal Woman

Playlist is updated.

just discovered 'Bird Sound Power' by Equiknoxx https://soundcloud.com/equiknoxxmusic/sets/equiknoxx-bird-sound-power-dds

OH. MY. GOD!

My top ten . . .

Mndsgn – Body Wash
Robert Glasper – ArtScience
Tiger & Woods – On The Green Again
Avalanches – Wildflower
Junior Boys – Big Black Coat
ABC – Lexicon Of Love II
Kyle Hall – From Joy
Terrace Martin – Velvet Portraits
Lindstrom – Windings EP
Mark Barrott – Sketches From An Island 2

Listening to the play list and something stood out. Who is this? Euglossine. Oh, okay. Who is this?

euglossine is some vaporwave-ish jazz fusion-ish guy that i'm a fan of. don't know much about him, don't have any real reference points for his style.

is it time for a nomination thread

sometime in the next couple weeks, yeah. not sure who's running it this year, it's usually Johnny Fever i think.

Noms thread starts next Tuesday and runs thru January 3rd.

cheers

see you next tuesday

Wow, that Mndsgn album is pretty good, jon123?

My list of what really stuck with me this year:

David Bowie - Blackstar
SHALT - Acheron EP
Maxwell August Croy - Kaniza
beaunoise - Pianoworks
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
M.E.S.H. - Damaged Merc EP
Air Max ‘97 - HPE EP
Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
TSVI, Sacred Drums EP
Solange - A Seat at the Table
LOFT - Turbulent Dynamics EP
Kid Smpl - Privacy
Eaves - Verloren

I've been oddly nonplussed this year, music wise. Loads of great music, no question, but blown away I have been not. Maybe it just wasn't that kind of year. But if I had to pick my one favorite piece of music this year, it is this. Which isn't 'blown away' stuff either, but it is just so achingly gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SWGyLwFqko

euglossine is some vaporwave-ish jazz fusion-ish guy that i'm a fan of. don't know much about him, don't have any real reference points for his style.

― ciderpress

orange milk. i've seen that label name... oh, nv from glintshake is on orange milk.

Xpost: I love Matt Elliott's style but I'm never in the mood to actually listen to his music. Too depressing - not saying that's a bad quality to have - and I guess I'm not completely burned out for it.

I've never experienced his music as depressing. Intense, melancholy, painful: yes. But never depressing. Different strokes I suppose.

stuff i loved:

david bowie - blackstar
a tribe called quest - we got it from here...thank you for your service
king - we are king
radiohead - a moon shaped pool
dexy's - let the record show: dexys do irish and country soul
leon vynehall - rojus
dorisburg - irrbloss
william tyler - modern country
goat - requiem
cass mccombs - mangy love
steve gunn - eyes on the lines
ultimate painting - dusk
waveless - spirit island e.p.
happyness - tunnel vision on your part e.p.
dwight yoakam - guitar cadillacs etc etc
DIIV - is the is are
lambchop - flotus
factory floor - 25 25
fat white family - songs of our mothers
brian eno - the big ship
bombino - azel
sound of durban vol. 1
kanye west - the life of pablo
africans with mainframes - kimt
Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald present Borderland - Transport

Without actually checking and just top of my head the 20 albums I remember listening to the ost in 2016:

Mmm asi sin ver y sin ranking estarian en el top 20 estarian

Shura
Nicolas Jaar
Noname
Radiohead
Andy Shauf
KING
Anderson Paak
Prins Thomas
Cavern of Antimatter
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Weyes Blood
Western Skies Motel
Carla Dal Forno
Bowie
Badbadnotgood
Xenia Rubinos
Avalanches
Kaytranada
Thee Oh Sees
Cullen Omori

But I could see half of these as disposable in the sense that I know I wont be listening to them much again safe from a couple of songs... I feel like I'm missing many albums that I didn't really listen that often but left a mark... probably listened around 20 albums per month so need to check out my actual lists when I get home.

Wooos slipped some thought in spanish in there. It's the same thing as above.

1. Blackstar — David Bowie
2. Painting With — Animal Collective
3. The Magic — Deerhoof
4. Black Bubblegum — Eric Copeland
5. Ultimate Care II — Matmos
6. At the Dam — Mary Lattimore
7. Six Improvisations — Liz Durette
8. Hot Winter — Scroll Downers
9. The Life of Pablo — Kanye West
10. Human Story 3 — James Ferraro

Ah yes that list has some that I forgot and loved!

Car Seat Headrest, Kanye and Frank Ocean get my vote for most overrated albums this year tho

Brigid Mae Power - s/t
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings
David Bowie - Blackstar
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Big Thief - Masterpiece
Lucy Ducas - No Burden
Mitski - Puberty 2
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
Underworld - Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
SubRosa - For This We Fought the Battle of the Ages
Moodymann - DJ Kicks

Yeah, that Moodymann mix was pretty great.

Car Seat Headrest is proof that Payola extends to many critics as well. Ridiculously bland and forgettable

i'm not into his music either but isn't the guy sorta well known for gradually building up his following via self-released albums on bandcamp

50,000 bandcampers can't be wrong

My thirty favorite singles.

cupcakke - cum cake
big thief - masterpiece
young thug - my name is jefferey
mitski - puberty 2
lucy dacus - no burden
rae sremmurd - sremmlife 2
kyle hall - from joy
project pablo - beaubien dream ep
khotin - baikal acid
tommy awards - sessions ii
whitney - light upon the lake
wussy - forever sounds
sheer mag - iii
leon vynehall - rojus
kevin gates - islah
ezale & dj fresh - tonite show
noname - telefone
chance the rapper - coloring book

i feel like i'm forgetting a lot of stuff tho, just took a cursory scroll thru my downloads and wrote down the stuff that jumped out

Love your Big Thief call-out, flopson. Loving that album. An album for the half dozen or so guitar-focused indie rock fans here. Reminds me of a mix between Courtney Barnett and Laura Gibson (for those interested in that style of music).

Car Seat Headrest is proof that Payola extends to many critics as well. Ridiculously bland and forgettable

― beamish13

i thought car seat headrest is rock music. isn't rock music supposed to be bland and forgettable?

Nominate your Favorite Tracks + Albums 2016 itt: ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

"Wow, that Mndsgn album is pretty good, jon123?"

Yes, it's absolutely wonderful. Reminds me of a cross between Junior Boys and Neon Indian. I urge everybody to shell out for it.

Sold.

Tracks:

Benedikt Frey - Out Of Here (Roman Flügel Cosmic Disco Drama Rework)
Bjorn Torske - Fuglekongen
Call Super - Nervous Sex Traffic
Dan Wainwright - Kabila Ngoma (Felix Dickinson Remix)
Dedication - Let Me Rock You
DJ Sotofett - Current 82 (12 Mix)
Earth Trax X Newborn Jr. - Sax Track
Earth Trax X Newborn Jr. - Flute Track
Emmanuelle - Italove
Emmanuelle - L'Uomo d'Affari
Fantastic Man - Fittin' & Turnin'
Fantastic Man - Galactic Ecstasy
Florian Kupfer - Elle
Harvey Sutherland - Bravado
Harvey Sutherland - Priestess
Igor Tipura - Dwams (Lauer Remix)
Lindstrom - Closing Shot
Mark Barrott - Cascades
Olin - People Fix
Omar-S - Sky Train (Chattanooga, TN-Mix)
Peggy Gou - Six O Six
Powder - Afrorgan
Prins Thomas - C (I:Cube Remix)
Psycho Radio vs LC Anderson- Bad Reputation (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi remix)
Nebraska - Khan's Bargain (Tom Noble Remix)
The Saint Petersburg Disco Spin Club - Neva Liv U
Sfire - Sfire 2 (Jamie Patton Remix)
Spike - Sometimes (Sexican Version) (Justin Van Der Volgen Remix)
Sultan Shakes - Interstellar Love (Young Marco's Trybal Dubb)
Unknown Artist - Better
Willie Burns & Tom Noble - Candid Fireworks (Tom Noble Remix)
Yoshinori Hayashi - Waterwheel Scenery (DJ Sotofett's Dubcurve fix-mix feat. Osaruxo)

Albums:

Bartosz Krucynski - Baltic Beat
Body-san ‎- Shining The Money Ball
Bookworms - Xenophone
CFCF - On Vacation
Crooked Man - Crooked Man
Dan Lissvik - Midnight
deep88 - The Black Album
D.K. - Island of Dreams
Dorisburg - Irrbloss
Floorplan - Victorious
Fred P - Sound Destination
Huerco S. - For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Kaseem Mosse - Disclosure
LNS - Maligne Range
Lord of the Isles - In Waves
Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island 2
Mind Lotion - Altitude Attitudes
Mood Hut - Snaker 007
Moscoman - A Shot in the Light
Nico Motte - Life Goes On If You Are Lucky
Omar S - The Best
The Pilotwings - Les Portos Du Brionnais
Prince of Denmark - 8
Prins Emanuel - Arbete/Fritid
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Psychemagik - Ritual Chants
Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
Roman Fluegel - All the Right Noises
Smith & Mudd - Gorthleck
SW. - untitled
Telephones - Vibe Telemetry
Tommy Awards - Sessions II
Various Artists - Disco Mantras
Various Artists - Sky Girl
Virginia - Fierce for the Night
Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
Wilson Tanner - 69
Wolf Mueller & Cass. - The Sound of Glades

EPs:

Andras - House of Dad
Antenna - Primavera
Convextion - Acido 22
Don't DJ - Authentic Exoticism
DJ Python - ¡Estéreo Bomba! Vol. 1
DJ Sonikku - Secret Island
DJ Wave - Above the Clouds
DJ Zozi - Mellow Vibe
Earth Boys - Feel The Rhythm
Ex-Terrestrial - Paraworld
Fantastic Man - Galactic Ecstasy
Globex - Inversia
Inoue Shirabe ‎– Achromatic Illusion
Jayda G - Jaydaisms
Jayda G - Sixth Spirit Of The Bay
Lnrdcroy - Ooze City
LNS - Heliacal Rising
Mark Seven - The Fatal Flaw in Disco
Mr. Fingers - Outer Acid
Mr TC - Surf and Destroy
Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot
Orson Wells - Missin' U
Ponzu Island - Ponzu Beach
Project Pablo - Priorities
Project Pablo - One For Some
R Wong - Life Principles
Samo DJ - Kicked Out of Everywhere
Sven Weisemann - Interlace Jitter
Suzanne Kraft - DJ-Safety
The System - The System EP
Toby Tobias - A Room for Babaette
Tolouse Low Trax - Rushing Into Water
UMFANG - Riffs
Various Artists - My House Is Not Your House II
Waffles - Waffles 003
Willow - Workshop 23

Kassem Mosse - Disclosure*

what's the deal with EPs this year? is this normally a thing bc i feel like it hasn't been in the past and this year every one has an EP list they're circulating.

^^^ Bjorn Torske - Fuglekongen

love this!

i could've made lists of EPs for the past several years but i was too lazy. i'm not sure why i decided to go ahead with it this year.

Dedication - Let Me Rock You

*clapping emoji*

Albums:

Vanishing Twin - Choose Your Own Adventure
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Emiliana Torrini - The Colorist & Emiliana Torrini (live)
Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beats\Invocation Trex
Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up To Monto
Cate Le Bon - Crab Day
Warpaint - Heads Up
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To The Earth
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Mica Levi/Oliver Coates - Remain Calm
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Until The Hunter
Katie Gately - Color
Angel Olsen - My Woman
The Pattern Forms - Peel Away The Ivy
Beyonce - Lemonade
David Bowie - Blackstar
Radio Dept - Running Out of Love
Esperanza Spalding - Emilys D+evolution
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Marissa Nadler - Stranger

EPs:

Melodies Echo Chamber - From Pink They Fell Into Blue

Oh and that Lapsley/DJ KOZE "Operator" single is wonderful

Really feeling that Sky Girl mix. I checked it out earlier in the year, but didn't really click with me until now.

what's the deal with EPs this year? is this normally a thing bc i feel like it hasn't been in the past and this year every one has an EP list they're circulating.

― Mordy

i've just been listening to more eps lately myself. when i was younger eps seemed like a niche format for tracks that weren't good enough to put on an album proper, but lately there's some perception that music doesn't need to be either three or 45 minutes to be worth listening to.

i've just been lumping them in with albums this year, though. something like gorguts' "pleiades dust"- so it's 33 minutes and, what, an album is 35? not worth differentiating.

Some less-hyped albums I really loved this year:

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
Shearwater - Jet Plane & Oxbow
Field Music - Commontime
Ultimate Painting - Dusk
Saba - Bucket List Project
Big Thief - Masterpiece
Ultimate Painting - Dusk
Dinosaur Jr. - Give A Glimpse of What You Got

Also:

Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits

karl - your picks are top notch.

yeah karl's post has become my listening for the rest of the month

That DJ Wave release is dope.

Really feeling that Sky Girl mix. I checked it out earlier in the year, but didn't really click with me until now.

― MikoMcha, Saturday, December 17, 2016 12:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is top 5 for me

I think the You're Me releases would make a fine addition to karl's list, esp to round out the Vancouver sounds.

Stuck between deciding on their 1080p album and the Isla tape, both were great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=822jL7Q4GKo

That DJ Wave release is dope.

― MikoMcha, Monday, December 19, 2016 12:52 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol @ this miyazaki sample

glad you guys like my list. looking forward to checking out You're Me

the sky girl comp is sooooo good. some other really good comps this year:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Midnite-Spares/release/8898464
https://www.discogs.com/Various-La-Torre-Volumen-Uno/master/1059191

and psychemagik's huge three disc ritual chants

that La Torre compilation is really good, I've played it a lot more than Mark Barrott's own albums

karl did you hear the copenhagen comp on music for dreams? probably one of my favorite releases this year

no, i need to hear it. i liked the one from last year

ok, here's my 2016 faves list to date. still not sure which of these i'm going to wind up picking as my noms!

albums/eps:

king - we are king
david bowie - blackstar
oranssi pazuzu - varahtelija
solange - a seat at the table
laura mvula - the dreaming room
gesu no kiwami otome - ryoseibai
kaitlyn aurelia smith - ears
melanie de biasio - blackened cities
van der graaf generator - do not disturb
floating points - kuiper
bob drake - arx pilosa
lume - cf371/xabregas 10
katie gately - color
emma ruth rundle - marked for death
beyonce - lemonade
noura mint seymali - arbina
v/a - typical girls
shabaka and the ancestors - wisdom of elders
metafive - metahalf
oddisee - the odd tape
bookworms - xenophobe
dalek - asphalt for eden
maxwell - blacksummers'night
aziza brahim - abbar el hamada
hieroglyphic being - the disco's of imhotep
leonard cohen - you want it darker
meta meta - mm3
sote - hardcore sounds from tehran
norteno 4.5 - vole, sone, y la ame
pun collins - circa 2061
glintshake - s/t
vnutrennee sgoranie - sebyaboyazn
nicolas jaar - sirens
the comet is coming - channel the spirits
exploded view - s/t
jakub simanky - face to face against american primitivism in eastern europe vol. 1
alexander obhukov - concerto for synthesizer & sequencer
josefin ohrn & the liberation - mirage
the frightnrs - nothing more to say
moor mother - fetish bones
laura cannell - simultaneous flight movement
ichicko aoba - mahoroboshiya
yndi halda - under summer
steve lehman - selebeyone
jack o the clock - repetitions of the old city
logan richardson - shift
the winstons - s/t
behold the arctopus - cognitive emancipation
comet control - center of the maze
home - falling into place
the cosmic range - new latitudes
la femme - mystere
jute gyte - funereal like a life in wait (split w/ecferus)
psychic lemon - s/t
khun narin - ii
lenguas largas - abba daddy
pedro soler & gaspar claus - al viento
mary lattimore - at the dam
clipping - splendor & misery
schoolboy q - blank face
tamer abu ghazaleh - thulth
euglossine - canopy stories
bent knee - say so
free salamander exhibit - undestroyed
goat - requiem
jute gyte - perdurance
ukandanz - awo
mile me deaf - the run
radiohead - a moon shaped pool
mukqs - walkthrough
thor and friends - s/t
decorum - vail
james chance & the contortions - the flesh is weak
alsarah & the nubatones - manara
jiboia - masala
vapors of morphine - a new low
test pattern - final transmission

tracks:

wednesday campanella - aladdin
tricot - blue habit
metafive - chemical
red velvet - russian roulette
nv - kata
linafornia - rargroovs
laura mvula - phenomenal woman
krallice - hyperion
jodie abacus - i'll be that friend
the veldt - in a quiet room
freescha - what in the rad
equiknoxx - porridge should be brown not green
decorum - near gone
boyboy - boy
avalon emerson - the frontier
solange - cranes in the sky
a tribe called quest - the space program
markus sommer - fucked up dinosauri
mega bog - 192014
rangda - to melt the moon
waclaw zimpel - lines
fantastic man - galactic ecstacy

nv - kata is such an odd little song, i like it

The albums I anticipate nominating and voting for in the EOY:

ГШ (Glintshake) - ОЭЩ МАГЗИУ (Moscow post punk)
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile - Continuum (Zurich minimal jazz)
LAM - LAM (Wacław Zimpel's minimal jazz trio)
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death (gothic confessional songwriter)
Katie Gately - Color
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
Metá Metá - MM3 (Sao Paulo post-punk)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
King - We Are KING
65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (outstanding game soundtrack)
Wacław Zimpel - Lines
GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object
Wardruna - Runaljod – Ragnarok (Nordic dark folk)
Autechre - elseq 1–5
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Until the Hunter (comfort brooding music)
Shura - Nothing's Real
LOTTO - Elite Feline (Warsaw spaghetti Western Necks)
Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body
Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings on Earth
Classixx - Faraway Reach
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate

I keep going back to that Nik Bärtsch's Mobile one, it's completely awesome.

The NV album is pretty cool. "Kata" is great. Also discovered she's in "ГШ (Glintshake)," whichh Brace just posted. I need to listen to them.

lamp, which volume were you referring to?

30 favourite records, chosen for the radio show I run. 14 made it into our year-end episode: https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-23-december-2016-best-of-2016

75 Dollar Bill – WOOD/METAL/PLASTIC/PATTERN/RHYTHM/ROCK (Thin Wrist)
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service (Epic)
Babyfather – “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow (Hyperdub)
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
El Yunque – Baskenland (Stabwaf)
Equiknoxx – Bird Sound Power (DDS)
Foodman – Ez Minzoku (Orange Milk)
Form a Log/Moth Cock – Split LP (Hausu Mountain)
Frank Ocean – Blonde
Ignatz – The Drain (Kraak)

Alain Pierre – Jan Zonder Vrees OST (Stroom)
Julius Eastman – Femenine (Frozen Reeds)
Kaitlyn Auriela Smith – EARS (Western Vinyl)
Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo (Def Jam)
Koen Holtkamp – Voice Model (Umor Rex)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Mute)
Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina (Glitterbeat Records)
Puce Mary – The Spiral (Posh Isolation)
Rangda – The Heretics Bargain (Drag City)
Razen – Endryhmes (Kraak)

Rick Parker / Li Daiguo – Free World Music
Sarah Davachi – Dominions (Jaz)
Seekersinternational – LoversDedicationStation ‎(Bokeh Versions)/ RaggaPreservationSociety (Diskotopia)
Solange – A Seat at the Table (Saint)
The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Bes (Nawa Recordings)
V/A – Mambos Levis D’Outro Mundo ‎(Principe)
V/A – Space Echo (Analog Africa)
Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks (Cuneiform)
Washington Phillips – Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams (Dust-to-Digital)
Yves De Mey – Drawn With Shadow Pens (Spectrum Spools) / Sendai – Ground And Figure (Editions Mego)

My list: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/155149428462/2016-music

My list: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/best-albums-of-2016-2/

Another 33: favourite albums and EPs heard since my post itt on 29th July.

D∆WN - Redemption
Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol.13: Sunergy
Beyoncé - Lemonade
Adrian Younge - The Electronique Void: Black Noise
Britney Spears - Glory
The Pattern Forms - Peel Away The Ivy
The Hardy Tree - Through Passages of Time
The Bongolian - Moog Maximus
Plaid - The Digging Remedy
Tinashe - Nightride
Oval - Popp
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop - Love Letter For Fire
Noname - Telefone
Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation
Machinedrum - Human Energy
kiiara - low kii savage
Fantasia - The Definition Of…
Jean-Michel Jarre - Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Hyuna - A’wesome
Vanishing Twin - Choose Your Own Adventure
Natalie Beredze - Guliagava
Marit Larsen - Joni Was Right Part II
Emma Pollock - In Search of Harperfield
Hologram Teen - Marsangst
Solange - A Seat At The Table
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte / I + J + K
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
Bridgit Mendler - Nemesis
Rubin Steiner - Vive l'electricité de la pensée humaine
Izzie Gibbs - Jutsu

I cobbled together a list that looks like this (my ILM ballot may resemble it, or it may not)

THE BEST ALBUMS:
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Kelsey Waldon - I've Got a Way
Noname - Telefone
Beyoncé - Lemonade
Mitski - Puberty 2
Miranda Lee Richards - Echoes of the Dreamtime
Sidibe - You Got the Luck
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
David Bowie - Blackstar
Anohni - Hopelessness
Blaue Blume - Syzygy
Jordan Rakei - Cloak

THE REST:
Shura - Nothing's Real
Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night
Lydia Loveless - Real
Basia Bulat - Good Advice
The Cactus Blossoms - You're Dreaming
Pr0files - Jurassic Technologie
Yohuna - Patientness
Suede - Night Thoughts

THE BEST TRACK:
Sam Trump ft. Add-2 - "Brother" (https://youtu.be/UWpxnPhHzik)

THE REST:
Beyoncé - "All Night"
Empress Of - "Woman Is a Word"
Barli - "Insignificunts"
Nao - "Girlfriend"
Fantasia - "No Time For It"
Mitski - "Your Best American Girl"
Babaganouj - "Would You Like Me"
Charly Bliss - "Ruby"

Blurbed my 20 favorite songs, fwiw: http://bigtakeover.com/top-ten/Geoffrey-Stueven-170102

Shauf's "To You" is the new "new slang"

as it tends to do, this thread kinda broke me. anyways, i reformed and then finalized this playlist in belated and laborious fashion.

ILM's Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist