2016 Mid-Year Album Lists Thread • Page 2

1. Cardinal - Pinegrove
2. To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere - Thrice
3. Painkillers - Brian Fallon
4. Dissonants - Hands Like Houses
5. Painting of a Panic Attack - Frightened Rabbit
6. Promise Everything - Basement
7. A Sailor's Guide to the Earth - Sturgill Simpson
8. A Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
9. Goodness - The Hotelier
10. The Life Of Pablo - Kanye West
11. Stay Away - Young and Heartless
12. Bachelorette Party - Cold Collective
13. White Hot Moon - Pity Sex
14. Cleopatra - The Lumineers
15. Views - Drake
16. First Day Back - Somos
17. Endless Light - O'Brother
18. Standards - Into It. Over It.
19. Death of a Bachelor - Panic! at the Disco

Albums Yet To Be Placed:
The Dream Is Over - PUP
The Very Last Day - Parker Millsap
Coloring Book - Chance the Rapper

 

Honestly I don't know yet what mine would be. Maybe "Holy Ghost" by Modern Baseball or "Inguz" by Normandie. I also have enjoyed the new records by Tiny Moving Parts, Real Friends, and Hands Like Houses. I expect Silent Planet, Relient k, and blink-182 to be on my top lists by the end of the year.

 

some excellent albums:

Blithe Field - Face Always Towards the Sun
Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
Drake - Views
The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free
The Hotelier - Goodness
Into It. Over It. - Standards
jesu / Sun Kil Moon - s/t
Kal Marks - Life Is Alright, Everybody Dies
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
Lil Uzi Vert - vs. the World
Oranssi Pazuzu - Varahtelija
Pantha Du Prince - The Triad
Parquet Courts - Human Performance
Paul Jebanasam - Continuum
Poppy Nogood - Music for Mourning
Secret Boyfriend - Memory Care Unit
Self Defense Family - Superior
Sicko Mobb - Super Saiyan vol. 3
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Tim Hecker - Love Streams

I still need to listen to Autechre, Beyoncé, Andy Stott, James Blake (only one listen so far), Xiu Xiu, the Field, etc

 

1. Overhead, The Albatross - Learning to Growl
2. Everything else can fuck off

 

Hmm. No order.

Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
Young Thug - Slime Season 3
The Hotelier - Goodness
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Future - Purple Reign
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

EDIT: Had to replace EVOL with Purple Reign.

 

Getting a bunch of neat stuff to look into, keep it going, guys!

 

Make sure you check out WRITER - Principle Web. If you like it, their first full length, Brotherface, is one of my favorite albums.

 

Edit 7-5-16:

2016 List
1. The Hotelier - Goodness
2. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
3. The 1975 - ILIWYS
4. blink-182 - California
5. Pinegrove - Cardinal
6. PUP - The Dream Is Over
7. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
8. Weezer - Weezer (White Album)
9. Into It. Over It. - Standards
10. O' Brother - Endless Light

Favorite Discoveries
1. Quiet Company - We Are All Where We Belong
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy
3. Jimmy Eat World - Futures
4. Microwave - Stovall
5. Thrice - Beggars

Honorable Mentions: Teen Suicide, Pity Sex, Camp Cope, Sioux Falls, Thrice, Told Slant, and Radiohead

Most Anticipated: Brand New, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Yellowcard, Sum 41, and Bayside

 

Panic! At The Disco - Death of A Bachelor
Say Anything - I Don't Think It Is
Yo Gotti - The Art of Hustle
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
Weezer - The White Album
Deftones - Gore
MAX - Hell's Kitchen Angel
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
Andy Black - The Shadow Side
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
The Hotelier - Goodness
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
PUP - The Dream Is Over

Top EP's:
Angels & Airwaves - Chasing Shadows
Day Wave - Hard To Read
Tokyo Police Club - Melon Collie And The Infinite Madness, Pt. 1

Most Anticipated: blink-182; Sum 41; Paws; Vampire Weekend (?); The All-American Rejects; Good Charlotte; Dashboard Confessional

 

the 1975 - ILWYS
Pinegrove - Cardinal
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
David Bowie - Black Star
Chance - Coloring Book
Kanye - Pablo

crazy how many albums I love this year (especially the top 3) and most of my fav artist still have albums out this year (Miniature Tigers)

 

Re-edited the OP to better reflect things. Lots of good stuff in here, it just might tack on an extra 10-20 albums on my list before the end of June.

 

All unordered, but the top three is without a doubt:

Kanye
Beyonce
Radiohead

The rest:

Rihanna
Hotelier
Future (EVOL)
Mitski
James Blake
Chance the Rapper
Car Seat Headrest

 

1. The Hotelier - Goodness
2. Loner Chic - Year of the Goth
3. Infinity Crush - unreleased songs and demos
4. Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
5. Panoramic/Talk, Tired Thanatoid - Split
6. Sioux Falls - Rot Forever
7. Pinegrove - Cardinal

+ more i need to listen to

 

i usually only do a top 5 or top 10 at the midway point but i have so much good stuff i don't know if i can leave it like that
maybe i'll do a preliminary list tomorrow

 

The albums I have enjoyed thus far

Kanye West- The Life of Pablo
Chance the Rapper- Coloring Book
Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool
Beyonce- Lemonade
Sturgill Simpson- A Sailors Guide to Earth
Pinegrove- Cardinal
Car Seat Headrest- Teens of Denial
The Hotelier- Goodness
PUP- The Dream is Over
David Bowie- Blackstar
Weezer- The White Album

 

I've got no idea what my list is, even at this point in the year, but I'm glad to see Pablo on so many lists. It seems like a divisive album for a lot of fans.

 

i love all of the car seat headrest love

 

Goodness
Moon shaped Pool
TBEITBN
Along the Shadow
Cardinal

 

Hastily thrown together snapshot of what a list would look like for me right now.

1. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
2. The Hotelier - Goodness
3. Babymetal - Metal Resistance
4. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
5. Chance the Rapper - Colouring Book
6. Chairlift - Moth
7. Rihanna - Anti
8. Saosin - Along the Shadow
9. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
10. Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor
11. Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
12. Pinegrove - Cardinal
13. David Bowie - Blackstar
14. Beyonce - Lemonade
15. Haley Reinhart - Better

 

why no ratings? just use it for the lists?

 

Haven't really put any thought into this at all yet. But right now off the top of my head, Weezer is my AOTY.

 

The Hotelier
Pinegrove
The 1975
Kanye
Deftones
Brian Fallon
Chance
Weezer
Death Grips
Beyonce
Thrice
Radiohead

I imagine Bayside, The Menzingers, Cymbals Eat Guitars, and Brand New will fuck that up a bit.

 

Like number grades? What reason is there for that? If i like an album, i put it on the list. If i don't like an album, i don't put it on the list.

 

I think he's just wondering why you don't rate the albums as well as doing the lists. Like giving them ratings out of 5 stars since that's the main thing the site's usually used for, ha.

 

Just a top 10 for now

PUP - The Dream is Over
Pierce the Veil - Misadventures
Killswitch Engage - Incarnate
Rihanna - Anti
Kanye - TLOP
Cilver - Not the End of the World
Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head
Against the Current - In Our Bones
Stories Untold - Can't Go Home
A$AP Ferg - Always Strive and Prosper