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
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.
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.
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
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