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Charles Bradley -- Changes

(can't see this one dropping from the top spot for me this year)

 

Radiohead -- A Moon Shaped Pool

 

Hatebreed -- The Concrete Confessional

 

Kanye West -- The Life of Pablo

 

 

 

these are the only albums that have grabbed me for multiple listens this year

 

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The 2016 so far for me:

1. Dalek "Asphalt For Eden" - man how I hate hip-hop music... but this is just sick good.

2. Harm Done "Abuse/Abused" - best power-violence this year. You can always count on France.

3. Jesu_Sun Kil Moon "S/T" - most touching album ever. Waiting for concert in Wroclaw.

4. Daughter "Not To Disappear" - just beautiful, can not resist.

5. Graf Orlock "Crime Traveler" - "Hey shithead"... this is pure hate. Waiting for a concert in Berlin.

6. Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm "Trance Frendz" - so quiet as music can be.

7. Cult Of Luna and Julie Christmas "Mariner" - post rock is long dead... well Julie proved it can still be alive.

8. The Body "No One Deserves Happiness" - how I love head stomps.

9. Amenra "Alive" - this is just perfect... and Tool cover is killing me every time I listen to it.

10. Radiohead "A Moon Shaped Pool" - yeah, everybody whine at some point. Me too.

11. Tim Hecker "Love Streams" - music from another dimension. Tim is just from out of space.

12. William Ryan Fritch "New Words For Old Wounds" - mesmerizing music. When I'm out on the bike in the woods... it's like heaven.

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Albums:

Yndi Halda - Under Summer

Nothing - Tired Of Tomorrow

Pity Sex - White Hot Moon

Pinegrove - Cardinal

CocoRosie - Heartache City

 

EPS:

Self Defense Family - Superior

Self Defense Family - The Power Does Not Work In The Presence Of Nonbelievers 

Self Defense Family/Null - We'll All Be Reunited Under The Ground

 

Honorable Mentions:

Coathangers - Nosebleed Weekend

Tortoise - The Catastrophist

Turnover - Humblest Pleasures

TWIABP - Long Live Happy Birthday

 

 

 

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Belvedere - The Revenge of the Fifth
David Bowie - Blackstar 
Deftones - Gore

Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
Face to Face - Protection
Look Mexico - Uniola
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
Plow United - Three
PUP - The Dream Is Over
SUMAC - What One Becomes

 

I have a feeling I left a few out, but there is still time. I am looking forward to that new Dag Nasty EP and the Descendents and Bouncing Souls albums too. Fingers crossed that new Crusades album will be completed too.
 

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On 6/16/2016 at 9:55 AM, Snaggle Von Swift said:

Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow

Pity Sex - White Hot Moon

Brian Fallon - Painkillers

Vinnie Caruana - Survivor's Guilt

Maren Moris - Hero

Frightened Rabbit - Painting Of A Panic Attack

Need to add:
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp

this album is fantastic.

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letlive. - If I'm The Devil...
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley
The Hotelier - Goodness
Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo

Deftones - Gore

 

There should be a couple more on this list like Death Grips, Radiohead, and Swans.  But I've only listened to new Death Grips and Radiohead once (waiting on my vinyl copies to listen again), and I haven't gotten a chance to listen to new Swans yet.

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Based on number of plays, these are the ones I keep listening to very often.

 

Daughter - Not To Disappear

Starflyer 59 - Slow (Their best in years!)

Bat For Lashes - The Bride

The Kills - Ash & Ice

Nothing - Tired Of Tomorrow

Operators - Blue Wave

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Tancred - Out Of The Garden

TW Walsh - Fruitless Research

David Bazan - Blanco

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I usually can't put these lists in order. This time I could. These are the only albums I've really cared much about so far that have come out/arrived. (I'm waiting on that new ITTCT)

 

Weezer - White

Ancient Warlocks 2

Case/Lang/Veirs

Egypt - Endless Flight

Minor Victories

Vektor - Terminal Redux

Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow

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David Bowie - Blackstar (straight to my All-time Top 20 albums list)

Showbread - Showbread is Showdead

Weezer - White

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Salakapakka Sound System / Sodadosa - Split EP

PUP - The Dream is Over

Nails - You Will Never be One of Us

The Body and Full of Hell  - One Day You will Ache like I Ache

Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

Deakin - Sleep Cycle

The Hotelier - Goodness

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Top 3

 

Throwing Snow - Axioms

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

Radiohead - AMSP

 

Others

 

Anderson Paak - Malibu

Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP

Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia

Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness

Deftones - Gore

Parquet Courts - Human Performance

Sumac - What One Becomes

JAMBINAI - A Hermitage

The Field - The Follower

 

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Rob Crow's Gloomy Place - You're Doomed. Be Nice. 

Parquet Courts - Human Performance 

Suuns - Hold/Still

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial 

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

DIIV - Is the Is Are 

Sioux Falls - Rot Forever

Big Ups - Before a Million Universes

Autolux - Pussy's Dead

Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger

Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow 

And Also the Trees - Born Into the Waves 

The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Monolith of Phobos

Washer - Here Comes Washer

Autechre - elseq (still haven't gotten through the whole thing)

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Pretty sure my top will be Not Blood Paint - Believing is Believing, but I'm eager to see what else follows it in my top ten.
Prob the new Periphery and that Napoleon was good. Digging DIIV and need to check out the new Tortoise some more along with Lennon/Claypool. Love Primus, but it hasn't grabbed me yet. Pretty sure I'll dig the new Twelve Foot Ninja and as much as I love Aesop Rock, not sure it will make a splash for me. Some songs (Kirby in particular) were too sing-songy, but we'll see.

Also digging the new Modern Baseball, Casket Girls and TW Walsh. Excited to hear the new Tobacco and Dust Moth once those arrive in the mail.

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So far:

 

Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas - Mariner (probably my AOTY for the moment, it was totally unexpected since I've never really listened to any cult of luna record before. Besides, the final part of Chevron make me think about Mellon Collie era Smashing Pumpkins..is it just me?)

Astronoid - Air (as uplifting as metal can get)

 

Cobalt - Slow Forever (I had great expectations for this since Gin is one of my favourite metal records...and I wasn't let down. A relentless, crushing album. Erik Wunder is THE MAN).

Thrice - TBSITBN (another great comeback)

The Hotelier - Goodness (I loved Home and at first I was a bit disappointed by this one, but it grew a lot since the first listen and it keeps getting better)

Big Thief - Masterpiece (some of the best songs of the year: the band has something in their sound that makes me think of  Grant Lee Buffalo)

Psalm Zero - Stranger to Violence (as a fan of Extra Life, Charlie Looker's peculiar singing and metal I can't but LOVE this record)

The Body - No One deserves Happiness (the body never disappoints, but this might be their best)

Weezer - White Album (Weezer? In 2016?? Really??? Fuck yes.)

Dalek - Asphalt for Eden

Deftones - Gore

Silvayne - Wistful

Say Anything - I don't think it is

Ed Tullett - Fiancèe

Owen - the King of Whys

Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow

Sophia - As We Make Our Way

 

Stuff I'm liking but I haven't listened to enough yet:

Sumac

Oranssi Pazuzu

Radiohead

Wreck and Reference

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