[Closed] The best albums of 2016

Beano.

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Autechre - elseq 1-5
Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Balazs Pandi - An Untroublesome Defencelessness
The Body - No-one Deserves Happiness
Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Die Antwoord - Mount Ninji and the Nice Time Kid
Phurpa - Teachings of Eastern Traditions
Black Merlin - Hipnotik Tradisi

Ask me tomorrow, different list...

Steve Mason - Meet the Humans

The Busted reunion album

Awesome the annual who can list the most obscure band time has finally come around 🙂

Scotroutes wins. [/thread]

Kill The Wolf - B. Dolan
Room To Breathe - Andy Cooper (Ugly Duckling) and it's free
Ruminations - Conor Oberst
The Boy Who Died Wolf - Highly Suspect
We Move - James Vincent McMorrow
Singing Saw - Kevin Morby
Love & Hate - Michael Kiwanuka
A Sailors Guide To Earth - Sturgill Simpson
The Allergies - As We Do Our Thing
We Got It From Here - A Tribe Called Quest

Sadly,for me,the best album was Gillian Welchs Boots No 1 Revival.

Only others I can remember coming out this year was the Mothers and Angel Olsen ones... 😳

Beano

Aye, your old enough to remember Clapton....

+1 for firestarter

+1 for A Tribe Called Quest - 'We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service'.

Can't stop listening to it

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I clearly need to listen to more than R6, as until jamj1974's post, I didn't recognise a single band.
As the ones I was going to mention have been posted already by funkmasterp & Jamie, I'll add just:
Frank Ocean - Blonde

I didn't recognise a single band.

You're not meant to - they'd cease to be awesome and amazing if anyone had heard about them! 😉

😀 Ah; so it's a game of bogus or bonus - fake bands?

Cate Le Bon - Crab Day.

fin25 - Member
Scotroutes wins. [/thread]

That's two of us then. Probably one more album sold than any other listed on this thread.

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the-muffin-man - Member
I didn't recognise a single band.
You're not meant to - they'd cease to be awesome and amazing if anyone had heard about them! 😉

You're not meant to - they'd cease to be awesome and amazing if anyone had heard about them!

That's why I provided links to stores where you can listen to mp3 samples rather than dry list of just names 🙂

I was just showing off how awesome I am. Never even listened to half my list, just overheard some guy in shoreditch say they were cool.

In reality, I listen exclusively to East 17.

For me, it's a toss-up between:

- Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas: mariner,

and

- Drive by Truckers: American Band.

Will I lose points if I say Radiohead?
Will I get them back if I say Wolfpeople?

There's a points system?

Hasn't Joe Cocker got a new one out?

Will I lose points if I say Radiohead?

Of course not. A Moon Shaped Pool was a great album.

Die Antwoord

Fun fact. Noone who says Die Antwoord actually listens to Die Antwoord, due to them sounding like Die Antwoord.

Noone who says Die Antwoord actually listens to Die Antwoord, due to them sounding like Die Antwoord.

Me and my wife (who loves them) are the exception that proves the rule.

Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
Not easy listening but I've become quite addicted to it.

These Norwegians have been doing it for me this year

Kvelertak - Nattesferd

sample track Berserkr, just ridiculous chord progressions and guitarmanship, whatever that is. Gets to 2:35 and it takes you somewhere else entirely. Superb live too.

Oh, and has anyone been listening to Goat? Read a review of a live show and I'm keen to check them out.

There are probably others I can't think of right now, but this should do it.

Sad City - Shapes in Formation
Lawrence - Yoyogi Park
Beacon - Escapements
Ital Tek - Hollowed
James K - PET
Jessie Lanza - Oh No
James Blake - The Colour In Anything
Weval
Youandewan - There Is No Right Time
Patten - ?
Prince OF Denmark - 8
Suuns - Hold Still
Bjarki - Lefthanded Fuqs
Tobacco - Sweatbox Dynasty
Mmoths - Luneworks
Mndsgn - Body Wash

Right. I'm obviously so old and out of the loop that I Googled a good handful of those to check you weren't making them all up. Have not heard of ONE of those acts. Now will get pissed and listen to a sample of each just to confirm they're are all awful and that music is every bit as dead as I'm a fogey.

To the answer - the best albums of 2016 are:

(Distant sarcastic voices say 'thanks Grandad)

Me and my wife (who loves them) are the exception that proves the rule.

You're lying.....or ironic hipsters.

You're lying

She cried when they pulled out of Bangface weekender in 2012. She actually cried.

I saw die antwoord at reading this year. I thought they were good, but I didn't realise they weren't a comedy act.
There were a lot of people there that seemed to enjoy them though, so you and mrs fin25 aren't alone.

Oh, and has anyone been listening to Goat?

Not seen them live, but I've listened to Requiem quite a bit this year. It's a great album.

Got a recommendation from a friend last night. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial. First listen points to a cracking album.

There were a lot of people there that seemed to enjoy them though, so you and mrs fin25 aren't alone.

Enjoying them 'ironically'.

I like Die Antwoord because they make me laugh. I also like them because a certain section of pseudo intellectual music fans keep waiting for them to drop some world changing, genre defining album and have been clinging on to them for years waiting for it to come. Then they come out with another album of dick jokes and all the same people just don't know whether to laugh or cry. Top level musical trolls.

I've got 6 of the albums in the OP's list 🙂
2 of them are in my list, which I havent got round to trimming down yet. I apologise in advance for looking for music that is new and interesting and therefore deemed "obscure" by those less interested.
Actually, Radiohead [i]might[/i] be in there.

Re: Die Antwoord - I really liked their first few albums, but they've gone completely shit.

Die Antwoord - I really liked their first few albums, but they've gone completely shit.

Liked their early stuff did you?

Hipster!

😆

Re: Die Antwoord - I really liked their first few albums, but they've gone completely shit.

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Gits! 👿

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The Range - Potential
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Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Clipping - Splendor & Misery
Nicholas Jaar - Sirens
Frisco - System Killer
Weval - Weval
Suuns - Hold/Still
Tricky - Skilled Mechanics
18+ Collect
Holy **** - Congrats
James K - Pet
Jeremiah Jae - A Cold Night

Really good year, I reckon. I liked Beyonce's album too 🙂
Trentemoller's was probably biggest disappointment, cos it was just a New Order/Cure covers album.

[i]Oh, and has anyone been listening to Goat?[/i]

Yeah, that was good. Great live too.

That Danny brown album is excellent.

Forgot one!
[url= https://nevermen-ipecac.bandcamp.com/ ]Nevermen - Nevermen[/url]

Was released in January - Mike Patton (you know him), Adam Drucker (Dose One) and Babatunde Adebimpe (TV on the Radio)

This wasn't on the official album, but is superb (and free, I think)

Nevermen good too.
Has famous man in the group.
Cannot be hipster.

You'd have to have a stick up your arse not to find at least some of this funny.

Or is it just me?

Needless to say, some rudeness.

Funny yeah. They are a bit of a novelty act, maybe that's the problem.

Total novelty, it just never wore off for me, still love them.

Total novelty, it just never wore off for me, still love them.

No you don't. Not really.

No you don't. Not really.

😆

8)

As an aside, one of my first exposure to Die Antwoord was at one of Adam Buxton's Bug shows at the BFI.

Moderately amusing.

And you can take that to the bank, you muffin factory!

😀

That is the best 7 minutes of YouTube in history.

Sorry OP, derailed your thread a bit here, err...

Beyonce - Lemonade

(Seriously, it's really good)

I've never really clicked with any records this year, I'm starting to think it's my streaming habits, I'll listen to something, love it for a weekend then move on, then about 2 weeks later have forgotten all about it, when you had a CD sitting around you'd at least chuck it back in and let it grow on you.

Just been going through the OP's list, maybe I'll leave Cult of Luna for a few days, loving this Ital record though, wasn't on Spotify when I read the review when it came out, that Mmoths record went the way of the above, I'll go back in for a listen to that.

Saw Suuns a few times live this year, great band

If i had to pick one I'd go for the last Tribe record, really liking that.

I'm going to third A Moon Shaped Pool. Really very good.

A very definite late winner. The Frightnrs.

How jolly

I completely forgot about Lisa Hannigan.

Now, her being part of the Damien Rice band (or whatever) had completely passed me by and I heard this track playing in HMV and 'just had to ask' who/what it was...

I went home and googled it, saw DR and thought..... shit.

Later on I was back in HMV and looking for something to new to buy, remembered I'd quite liked that track and (forgetting about DR) bought it. Hey, I like it... 😆

I'm also quite liking the Agnes Obel Citizen of Glass cd...

I do like the Antonio Sanchez album, as well as the Meridan Suite, also by him and I was surprised to find myself like the Beyoncé album .Some of the stuff coming out by Rag,n bone man , " human " and " wolves " are both pretty cool , haven't heard of most of the rest

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Georgia Ruth - Fossil Scale
9bach - Anian
Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass
Bob Mould - Patch The Sky
Pixies - Head Carrier
Colvin & Earle
David Bowie - ?
Kate Bush - Before The Dawn

No one has suggested the new Goatwhore record yet, strange me thinks.

Whitney 'Light Upon The Lake' 😀

I am really liking that Causa Sui - good call Malvern Rider.

Mine would be Anchorsong-Ceremonial. I have a big list but for once I have managed to whittle it down to one....it has had the most plays anyway.

+1 for Leonard C - You want it darker.

Trembling Bells - Wide Majestic Aire

She cried when they pulled out of Bangface

Good name for a band.

Anyway schrickvr6, I seem to have killed a v good thread. Just wanted to say that Junior Boys album's a great recommendation.

Fliptrix - Patterns Of Escapism

This is the title track

Stiff by White Denim

Architects - all our gods have abandoned us
Protest the hero - Pacific Myth

Although I might be in a minority on here (no I'm not being obscure for the sake of it :wink:)

Another shout out for Agnes Obel.
She's just frickin great.

Blackstar
Moon Shaped Pool
This is your Life (Augustines)

My 3 faves of the year.
MSP is a stunning album, I'm not a particular Radiohead fanboi, but I loved it on first spin and it genuinely gets better every time.

Lazarus and Blackstar are 2 incredible moments on what IMO is standing up as one of Bowies best ever albums. A staggering acheivement for a 68 year old.

Late entry: Margaret Glaspy Emotions & Math. Only heard it a week ago, been playing pretty much non-stop since...