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We're half way through the year!! Congrats on making it this far, I hope you've reached your goals and your year is going well so far, I wish you good fortune for the rest of it as well. Anyways, let's talk about what we loved and hated this year musically! Lots of good stuff, lots of bad stuff, and we're only getting started. So let's get talking

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I haven't preordered nearly as much as last year, but all these albums were solid. 

 

  • After The Burial - Dig Deep
  • Can't Swim - Death Deserves A Name
  • La Dispute - Tiny Dots
  • Like Pacific - Distant Like You Asked
  • Napoleon - Newborn Mind
  • Northlane / In Hearts Wake - Equinox 
  • River Oaks - River Oaks

Still waiting on new Capsize, Bad Omens and A Day To Remember.So far Capsize and Napoleon are looking like my favorites 

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I'll bite.

 

Favourites:

Pinegrove - Cardinal (so far my #1, others not ranked)

Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Shotgun Jimmie - Field of Trampolines

Hotelier - Goodness

Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter

Pup - The Dream Is Over

Mike Adams at His Honest Weight - Casino Drone

 

will probably think of others and edit later...

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Off the top of my head (some aren't out yet, but its the hype for me),

The Killers- Hot Fuss (repress)

The Fray- How To Save A Life (repress)

La Dispute- Thirteen (in the merch sub)

Modern Baseball- Holy Ghost

Billy Talent- Afraid of Heights

Sum 41- Name not released yet (to my knowledge)

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Favorites of the year in no order:

 

Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book

Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow

PUP- the Dream is Over

Brian Fallon - Painkillers

Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

Weezer - the White Album

Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost

Posture and the Grizzly - I am Satan

Thrice - To be Everywhere is to be Nowhere

Saosin - Along the Shadow

 

Probably haven't been truly disappointed in a release this year.

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These are my favorite albums so far, in no particular order

 

Thrice -TBEITBN

Rare Futures - This is Your Brain on Love

Vinnie Caruana - Survivor's Guilt

Gates - Parallel Lives

Astronoid - Air

O'Brother - Endless Light

Nothing - ToT

 

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Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Arc
Aluk Todolo – Voix
Arctic – Arctic
Black Cobra – Imperium Simulacra
Chthe'ilist – Le Dernier Crepuscule
Cobalt – Slow Forever
Conan – Revengance
Cough – Still They Pray
Deadsmoke – S/T
Earthless/Harsh Toke – Acid Crusher/Mount Swan
Graf Orlock – Crime Traveler
Graves At Sea – The Curse That Is

Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
Intet – Demo
King Buffalo – Orion
Kvelertak – Nattesferd
Like Rats – II
Lycus – Chasms
Magic Circle - Journey Blind
Mondo Drag – Occulation of Light

Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
Sea of Bones – Silent Transmissions
Seven Sisters of Sleep – Ezekial’s Hag
Sinister Haze – Laid Low in the Dust of Death
Sumac – What One Becomes
Sunnata – Zorya
The Body/Full of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
Tombs – All Empires Fall
UXO – UXO
Verdun – The Eternal Drift’s Canticles
Wake – Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow
Wo Fat – The Midnight Cometh

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My list: (god there have been so many good records this year)

 

1. Nothing – Tired Of Tomorrow

Posture & The Grizzly – I Am Satan

Into It. Over It. – Standards

Basement – Promise Everything

Tiny Moving Parts – Celebrate

Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost

Not Waving – Animals

Saosin – Along The Shadow

Pity Sex – White Hot Moon

Pinegrove – Cardinal

Real Friends – The Home Inside My Head

Dæphne – Full Circle

 

Records which I love but have yet to place on the list (too new, need to listen more, haven't got the vinyl in, etc...)

 

Deer Leap – Impermanence

Elvis Depressedly – Holo Pleasures / California Dreamin'

Gates – Parallel Lives

Half Hearted Hero – Isn't Real

The Hotelier – Goodness

Orior – Strange Beauty

Rare Futures (HBSB) – This Is Your Brain On Love

Told Slant – Going By

 

Records which I am really really excited for:

 

Anthony Green – Pixie Queen

Converge – You Fail Me Redux

Droughts – Stay Behind

Frameworks – Smother

Suis La Lune / Shirokuma – Split LP

You Blew It! – LP3

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13 minutes ago, double d said:

most noticeable releases in no particular order:

Nothing

Diiv

Wild Nothing

Yumi Zouma

Porches. 

El Huervo

Teen Suicide

The Hotelier  

 

hip hop/rap:

Kanye

Chance

Lil Yachty 

Yung Lean 

Why did you separate rap and hip hop into a diffrent category? (Not dissing or anything just curious)

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LPs:

Brain Fallon - Painkillers
The Falcon - Gather Up The Chaps
Tiny  Moving Parts - Celebrate
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Diarrhea Planet - Turn To Gold
Pkew Pkew Pkew - S/T

Looks Mexico - Uniola

 

EPs:
Boy On Guitar - Split w/Chase Huglin
Tender Defender - S/T

 

Stuff I'm really looking forward to hearing:
Blink 182 - California
Signals Midwest - At This Age
Menzingers - After the Party
Masked Intruder - Love And Other Crimes EP

Dikembe - Hail Something

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Haven't been paying too much attention to new albums, but:

 

Further Out - Basement

Gore - Deftones

To be Everywhere is to be Nowhere - Thrice

Views - Drake

Awake for Everything - Hesitation Wounds 

 

Really looking forward to new Touché (believe it was rumored to be released this year, but I heard this a while back) and hopefully some new All Shall Perish. 

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in no order....

 

Sunk - s/t cassette

Intensive Care - Pay Pig cassette

Fucking Invincible - I Hate Myself And Want You To Die 7"

Private Room - Life Com 7"

Mean Jeans - Nite Vision 7" 

Glitter - Joy Of A Toy 7"

Desperate Fix - Death Kick Life's Ass 7"

Framtid - The Horrific Visions 7"

Gino And The Goons - Love & Hate 7"

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc 12"

The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 2xLP

Backslider - Motherfucker LP

Foster Care - Sterilization LP

Sissy Spacek - Disfathom LP

Absolute Power - s/t LP 

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So far my favorites have been:

 

Teen Suicide - It's The Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir The Honeypot

Deftones - Gore 

Twenty88 - Twenty88

Kendrick Lamar - Untitled, Unmastered

Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo

 

Only disappointment this year was Drake - Views.

Still need to hear a couple of albums that were dropped this year.

 

My anticipated albums for the rest of this year are:

YG - Still Brazy

Schoolboy Q - Blankface LP

G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Winter

Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate

The Bouncing Souls - Simplicity 

Gojira - Magma

Meshuggah - ???

Opeth - Sorceress

Metallica - ???

Edit: Apparently the Gorillaz album got pushed back to 2017 :(

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Released so far:

 

Anchor & Braille - "Songs For The Late Night Drive Home"

Lacey Sturm - "Life Screams"

Tyson Motsenbocker - "Letters To Lost Loves"

 

Highly anticipating and/or hoping will be good:

 

Artifex Pereo - TBA

Destroy The Runner - TBA (EP)

The Devil Wears Prada - TBA

Fit For A King - TBA

Forevermore - "Integral"

Memphis May Fire - TBA

Norma Jean - "Polar Similar"

Oh, Sleeper - "Bloodied/Unbowed"

Silent Planet - "Everything Was Sound"

Skillet - "Unleashed" (not too impressed with singles released so far though :/ )

To Speak Of Wolves - TBA (EP?)

Wolves At The Gate - TBA

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Albums that have slayed:

Miserable - Uncontrollable
Lyenn - Slow Healer (sadly CD only so far)

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Se Delan - Drifter

*Frightened Rabbit - A Painting Of A Panic Attack (*missed this one out and I'm ashamed of that)
British Theatre - Mastery (hopefully the vinyl lands this year)

Albums that have been OK:

Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere

Albums that are yet to come:

Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis
Martin Grech - Hush Mortal Core (Likely to be put back to 2017 I imagine)
USA Nails - LP3 (Not yet titled but these guys work fast)
Wreck & Reference - Indifferent Rivers Romance End
Oathbreaker - LP3 (hopefully before the end of the year)
Palehorse - Looking Wet In Public

Albums that have disappointed:

Deftones - Gore (HYPE>actual result)
 

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Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

nothing - Tired of Tomorrow

The 1975 - I like it when you...

Weezer - Weezer (The White Album)

 

Those are the only 4 that I've listened to consistently. Honestly, a few disappointments this year: Basement and The Hotelier. They didn't grip me like I hoped they would. Still plenty of time left though.

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On 2016-06-15 at 0:42 AM, Kurazz said:

Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner

David Bowie - Blackstar

I agree with these two albums.

 

Adding:

The Rolling Stones - Totally Stripped

The Sonics - Live at Easy Street

The Doors - Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The first perfomance

 

Might get in there:

Deftones - Gore

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