Best of 2016 (So far)

[Shitty Rambo]

Best of 2016 shows in the feed (includes your disappointments, thanks for the responses!):

 

Pt. 1 - http://tinyurl.com/zsbosnn
Pt. 2 - http://tinyurl.com/jnj476p

[andables]

My AOTY 2016 (non post-rock)

1- The Hotelier – Goodness

2- Owel - Dear Me

3- Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan

4- Gates - Parallel Lives

5- The Avalanches - Wildflower

6- American Football - American Football 2

7- Hurry - Guided Meditation

8- Sioux Falls - Rot Forever

9- Dowsing – Okay

10- Sherwood - Somethings Never Leave You

11- You Blew It! – Abendrot

12- Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

13- From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better Now

14- Signals Midwest - At This Age

15- Deer Leap - Impermanence

16- Animal Flag – LP

17- Boston Manor - Be Nothing

18- Arrows In Her - It Tired Me All The Same

19- Kevin Devine – Intimidator

20- Dikembe - Hail Something

[Brock N Roll]

Not seeing Tiny Moving Parts-Celebrate on a lot of lists saddens me

[Breezus]

So many artists have dropped new shit, I'm still catching up. No particular order (except for the Top 10 maybe):

 

[Shitty Rambo]

17 hours ago, Brock N Roll said:

Not seeing Tiny Moving Parts-Celebrate on a lot of lists saddens me

I liked it a lot, just enjoyed other things more.

[2notepockets]

mine is pretty much numbers 10-5 on this list: http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/11/the-top-10-metal-albums-of-2016/full-post/

Plus Russian Circles - Guidance.

sooo much I haven't had chance to listen to properly yet though Subrosa and Bossk albums to name a couple.

 

[deer]

I actually wrote a list hosted on my website of my top 48 albums for this year. It's long and I could probably just copy-paste the list here without all my writing; regardless, here's that, in case you wanted to read 50 paragraphs of words below images.

 

http://www.cervinedesign.com/records-2016-1/

 

 

[TheGhostOfRandySavage]

8 minutes ago, deer said:

I actually wrote a list hosted on my website of my top 48 albums for this year. It's long and I could probably just copy-paste the list here without all my writing; regardless, here's that, in case you wanted to read 50 paragraphs of words below images.

 

http://www.cervinedesign.com/records-2016-1/

 

 

Top 48? So like...every new album you even remotely enjoyed?

[deer]

Just now, The Ghost of Randy Savage said:

Top 48? So like...every new album you even remotely enjoyed?

I culled it down from a much longer group of albums. This year was really good for music I enjoyed a lot, so I didn't quite want to cut it any further down. I enjoy writing about bands I like.

[diabretic]

EOTY lists are always hard for me for some reason.

1.Touche Amore-Stage Four

2. Nothing-Tired of Tomorrow

3.Pity Sex-White Hot Moon

4.Infinity Crush-Warmth Equation

5.Gouge Away-,dies

6.Pinegrove-Cardinal

7.DGD-Mothership

8.True Love-Heaven's Too Good For Us

9.Knocked Loose-Laugh Tracks

10.Camp Cope-Camp Cope

 

**Edited. Thought of 10. There you have it folks.

Edited December 13, 2016 by diabretic

[THE_James_Champ]

I came up with a list of my top 20 albums, plus top 5 EPs for the year. I even created a spotify playlist to accompany it.

 

 

Albums:
1. The Dear Hunter - Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional
2. Touche Amore - Stage Four
3. Sunndrug - Exit Wounds
4. Astronoid - Air
5. Heavy English - Pop Wasteland
6. OWEL - Dear Me
7. Polyenso - Pure in the Plastic
8. All Get Out - Nobody Likes a Quitter
9. Belle Noire - What it Means to Be
10. Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail
11. Vinnie Caruana - Survivor’s Guilt
12. Greater Pyrenees - Greater Pyrenees
13. Rare Futures - This is Your Brain on Love
14. o'brother - Endless Light
15. Night Verses - Into The Vanishing Light 
16. Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
17. Oh Malô - As We Were 
18. ORBS - Past Life Regression 
19. The Skulx - The Skulx
20. David Bazan - Blanco

EPs: 
1. Mother Kraken - I
2. Adjy - Prelude (.3333)
3. Not A Planet - Smoke Bombs & Cigarettes: The History of Now
4. Steven Wilson - 4 and a Half
5. I the Mighty- Oil in Water

 

 

Edited December 13, 2016 by THE_James_Champ

[One Hundred Fifty-Two]

 

1. Taking back sunday - tidal wave
2. Chance - coloring book
3. Touche amore - stage four
4. Kweku Collins - nat love
5. Blink 182 - California 
6. Jimmy eat world - integrity blues
7. Greensky bluegrass - shouted written down & quoted
8. Letlive- if I'm the devil
9. Brian Fallon - pain killers
10. American Football - lp2

 

This is is what I've come up with. There are still a couple weeks left to change my mind

[NapalmBrain]

1. Pinegrove - Cardinal

2. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry

3. Case/Lang/Veirs

4. Pity Sex - White Hot Moon

5. Yndi Halda - Under Summer

6. Night School - Blush

7. Nothing - Tired Of Tomorrow

8. Coathangers - Nosebleed Weekend

9. Field Mouse - Episodic

10. Tortoise - The Catastrophist

 

Best EP: Self Defense Family "Superior

Favorite reissue purchases: Rachel's "Systems/Layers" and Lush "Origami" boxset

 

[Tommy]

Only proper to re-do this as 2016 comes to a close

[kylekrische]

Favourite Albums 2016:

1.     Big Thief – Masterpiece

2.     Conor Oberst – Ruminations

3.     Kanye West – The Life of Pablo

4.     Joyce Manor – Cody

5.     All Get Out – Nobody Likes a Quitter

6.     Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book

7.     Exalt – The Shape You Took Before the Ache

8.     Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost

9.     M. Ward – More Rain

10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree

 

Biggest Let Downs:

1.     John K. Samson – Winter Wheat

2.     Angel Olsen – My Woman

3.     The Hotelier – Goodness

4.     David Bazan – Blanco

 

Best Podcasts:

1.     Marek vs Wyshynski (hockey)

2.     Revisionist History (history/social critique)

3.     More Perfect (famous supreme court cases)

4.     Puck Soup (hockey)

5.     Risk! (R –rated storytelling)

6.     Crimetown (true crime)

7.     Undone (history/news)

8.     Casefile True Crime (true crime)

9.     Reply All (odd stories from the Internet)

10. Startup (in-depth look at new/controversial businesses)

11. Radiolab (storytelling/science/drama/everything)

12. Joe Rogan Experience (interviews/commentary)

 

Best Shows:

1.     Jason Isbell – Danforth Music Hall

2.     Conor Oberst – Massey Hall

3.     Tallest Man on Earth – Massey Hall

4.     !Attention! record release show – Soybomb

5.     Behemoth – Phoenix Concert Theatre

 

Best Movies:

1.     The Lobster

2.     High-Rise

3.     The Neon Demon

4.     The Hunt for Wilderpeople

5.     Weiner Dog

6.     The Witch

7.     Blue Jay

8.     Tickled

9.     Green Room

10. Anthropoid

 

Best TV Shows:

1.     Easy

2.     Horace and Pete

3.     Silicon Valley

4.     The People vs. OJ Simpson

5.     Broad City

6.     Game of Thrones

7.     The Knick

8.     Stranger Things

[mesi]

@kylekrische Can you elaborate on why the new John K Samson is a big letdown for you? I'm genuinely curious.

 

I feel it could have benefited from cutting a few songs that seem to drag (Carrie Ends The Call, Quiz Night...), but other than that, I really love most of the songs. Those 4 opening songs are just perfect, in my opinion. And this is coming from someone who couldn't really get into Provincial.

[hippielauryn]

 

Here are some of my favorites from this year. Hail the Sun - Culture Scars is without a doubt my #1 AOTY. I can't get enough of it. 

1. Hail the Sun - Culture Scars
2. Sianvar - Stay Lost
3. Polyenso - Pure in the Plastic
4. Artifex Pereo - Passengers
5. Thrice - To Be Everywhere is to be Nowhere
6. The Hotelier - Goodness
7. Deep Sea Diver - Secrets
8. Tancred - Out of the Garden
9. Pup - The Dream Is Over
10. TTNG - Disappointment Island
11. You Blew It! - Abendrot
12. Cardinal - Pinegrove
13. Into It. Over It. - Standards 

[Sidney Crosley]

6 hours ago, kylekrische said:

 

 

Best Shows:

1.     Jason Isbell – Danforth Music Hall

 

Fuck yes. One of the best shows I've seen in years. 

[DecayToDeath]

13 hours ago, NapalmBrain said:

1. Pinegrove - Cardinal

2. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry

3. Case/Lang/Veirs

4. Pity Sex - White Hot Moon

5. Yndi Halda - Under Summer

6. Night School - Blush

7. Nothing - Tired Of Tomorrow

8. Coathangers - Nosebleed Weekend

9. Field Mouse - Episodic

10. Tortoise - The Catastrophist

 

Best EP: Self Defense Family "Superior

Favorite reissue purchases: Rachel's "Systems/Layers" and Lush "Origami" boxset

 

I approve of this list, and that Night School might end up making my list too

[NapalmBrain]

Tribe could push out Tortoise I just haven't spent enough time with it, I made my list from purchases only

[kylekrische]

On December 16, 2016 at 2:48 PM, mesi said:

@kylekrische Can you elaborate on why the new John K Samson is a big letdown for you? I'm genuinely curious.

 

I feel it could have benefited from cutting a few songs that seem to drag (Carrie Ends The Call, Quiz Night...), but other than that, I really love most of the songs. Those 4 opening songs are just perfect, in my opinion. And this is coming from someone who couldn't really get into Provincial.

Biggest critique is it's way too long. If it was 10 songs instead of 15 I think there's a solid record there. It seemed like he had 15 songs, recorded 15 songs and just pressed a record. Songs 1-7 there's cohesion, I'm into it, initially I thought I loved the record because of this tactic. But then you listen more and overtime it gets to Vampire Alberta Blues and I just want to turn it off. I think that's the worst John K./Weakerthans song ever released. VPW 13 Blues I think is awful too, it just seemed like that back half was full of partially formed ideas that they laid down anyways. 

 

This also gets magnified because i think he is one of the best song writers I've been lucky enough to see and listen to, so my bar is high. Every Weakerthans/John K. record has a song for me as well that just blows me away and reminds me of the the power this guy has with a song. On Provincial it was The Last And, it's Left & Leaving, it's The Reasons. This record I felt didn't have that. So when I say it's a let down, I don't mean I hated it. I just expect a lot more than "meh" from anything John K. at this point

[Oblivions]

Top 5

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Angel Olsen - My Woman

Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

Mitski - Puberty 2

Hurry - Guided Meditation

 

Honorable Mentions

Nada Surf - You Know Who You Are

Acid Fast - Last Night on Earth

Yoni & Geti - Testarossa

Kevin Morby - Singing Saw

Weezer - White Album

Happy Diving - Electric Soul Unity

Pfarmers - Our Puram

Wilco - Schmilco

Chris Staples - Golden Age

Dr. Dog - Abandoned Mansion/Psychadelic Swamp

[mesi]

2 hours ago, kylekrische said:

Biggest critique is it's way too long. If it was 10 songs instead of 15 I think there's a solid record there. It seemed like he had 15 songs, recorded 15 songs and just pressed a record. Songs 1-7 there's cohesion, I'm into it, initially I thought I loved the record because of this tactic. But then you listen more and overtime it gets to Vampire Alberta Blues and I just want to turn it off. I think that's the worst John K./Weakerthans song ever released. VPW 13 Blues I think is awful too, it just seemed like that back half was full of partially formed ideas that they laid down anyways. 

 

This also gets magnified because i think he is one of the best song writers I've been lucky enough to see and listen to, so my bar is high. Every Weakerthans/John K. record has a song for me as well that just blows me away and reminds me of the the power this guy has with a song. On Provincial it was The Last And, it's Left & Leaving, it's The Reasons. This record I felt didn't have that. So when I say it's a let down, I don't mean I hated it. I just expect a lot more than "meh" from anything John K. at this point

Thanks for your thorough reply! I  agree with you in the sense that the first half of the record really is way better than the second, so 10 or 11 songs max would definitely have been better. It doesn't really help him that we all hold him to Weakerthans standards, so making a record that is as engaging as any of their albums is quite a difficult task.

[One Hundred Fifty-Two]

The Weeknd and Tycho are creeping into my list. 

 

American football im moving to top 5. 

Edited December 20, 2016 by Tidal Wave

[Tom Delonge's UFO]

I enjoyed these in no particular order:

1. Astronoid - Air
2. Britney Spears - Glory
3. Connor Oberst - Ruminations
4. DEP - Dissociation
5. ETID - Low Teens
6. Frameworks - Smother
7. Joyce Manor - Cody
8. Jackie (Soundtrack)
9. Noname - Telefone
10. Pears - Green Star
11. Solange - A Seat at the Table
12. The Superweaks - Better Heavens
13. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here

 

EP’s

 

1. Dead To Me
2. Turnover