2016 Top 5: 1. O'Brother - Endless Light 2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 3. Pinegrove - Cardinal 4. Pup - The Dream is Over 5. Brian Fallon - Painkillers
I have mostly just used them as ways to go back and see what i used to listen to abs how silly my opinion was. I tried rating and reviewing stuff in the past but it isn't for me. Simply numbering them based off how much I listen to them makes more sense for me. Going back and looking at old lists, there are albums I think I might have listened to once. lol. Not sure if they were placeholders or what.
So far this year I'm liking... Mount Moriah- How to Dance Sturgill Simpson- Sailor's Guide... Frightened Rabbit- Painting of... The Thermals- We Disappear Brian Fallon- Painkillers Mogwai- Atomic Cassino- Bottlenecker Really excited for... Against Me! Avett Bros Menzingers Band of Horses Okkervil River Blink 182 Butch Walker Jimmy Eat World (?) Bleachers (?)
Top 5 Right now 01. Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves - No anchor 02. PUP - The Dream is Over O3. Face to Face - Protection 04. Violent Soho - Waco 05. Belvedere - Revenge of the Fifth But I know new albums by: Dinosaur Jr, Descendents, Iron Chic, Menzingers, and possibly blink will destroy this list.
My top 20 right now, in alphabetical order. Aubrie Sellers - New City Blues Brian Fallon - Painkillers Brothers Osborne - Pawn Shop Charles Kelley - The Driver Donovan Woods - Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled The Hotelier - Goodness Jared Deck - Jared Deck Josh Kelley - New Lane Road Madeline Merlo - Free Soul Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Things That We Are Made Of Michael McDermott - Willow Springs Parker Millsap - The Very Last Day Ryan Beaver - Rx Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - Love Letter for Fire Sarah Jarosz - Undercurrent Sister Hazel - Lighter in the Dark Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth Weezer - The White Album The Wild Feathers - Lonely Is a Lifetime The 1975 - I like it when you sleep And an honorable mention to my favorite EP of the year, Steve Moakler's self-titled.
Thanks brother. Also psyched you dig the Lake Street Dive album. That one just missed my top 20. Is the new Friends in America out yet?
My top 15, not in order: The Hotelier - Goodness Brian Fallon - Painkillers Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate Angel Du$t - Rock The Fuck On Forever Gods Hate - Mass Murder Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere PUP - The Dream Is Over Dance Gavin Dance - Tree City Sessions Creeper - The Stranger Landscapes - Modern Earth Worship This! - Mint Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves - No Anchor Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost Napoleon - Newborn Mind Ducking Punches - Fizzy Brain
Top 20 so far, alphabetical. Easily my favorite list I've ever done, most diverse both through genre as well as gender and race I've probably ever had Anohni - Hopelessness Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman Beyonce - Lemonade Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial Chairlift - Moth Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book Daughter - Not To Disappear DJDS - Stand Up and Speak Florist - The Birds Outside Sang Future - EVOL The Hotelier - Goodness Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo Kevin Gates - Islah Kvelertak - Nattesferd Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp Pinegrove - Cardinal Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan White Lung - Paradise Young Thug - Slime Season 3 The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep...
Nope not yet! Apparently it's all done, just working on marketing and promotion etc. The Be In Love release was an EP from back in February, and then they released a stand-alone single called Flat Tire (I Can Cope) last month. Hopefully the album will be around this year.
Black Peaks - Statues Brian Fallon - Painkillers Creeper - The Stranger (EP) Create To Inspire - Home Is Where The Heart Dies (EP) Daughter - Not To Disappear David Bowie - Blackstar Deftones - Gore Overhead, The Albatross - Learning To Growl Milk Teeth - Vile Child Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool The Hotelier - Goodness Weezer - The White Album
Definitely need to check out the few albums on your list I haven't heard. With the album quoted, did you like this one more than their debut? I loved s/t and it's probably my favorite album I wouldn't have heard otherwise that I've seen rec'd on the site. I really could not get into the new album though, and it's probably my biggest disappointment of the first half.
I actually like this one more than their debut. That album had a few songs that I really loved, but didn't hold my attention that much overall. I think this one is catchier and more charismatic on nearly every level. Feels like a really successful pairing of roots rock and brash Oasis-esque Britpop.
Good list tbh. Going to get the few things I haven't heard on it (DJDS, Florist, Kvelertak, Posture & The Grizzly) so I can feel like I'm sort of caught up.
Florist - The Birds Outside Sang Flume - Skin Flower Hound - Buddy (this is a single not an album, but its my most listened to thing this year....so....) Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing The Hotelier - Goodness I Love Your Life Style - We Go Way Back LUH. - Spirtual Songs For Lovers to Sing Pinegrove - Cardinal Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan Snowroller - Whats the Score? Told Slant - Going By The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep...
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere Brian Fallon - Painkillers Basement - Promise Everything Pity Sex - White Hot Moon Deftones - Gore Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us O'Brother - Endless Light
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth Deftones - Gore Polyphia - Renaissance Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere Basement - Promise Everything Pierce the Veil - Misadventures Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow Saosin - Along the Shadow Pity Sex - White Hot Moon The Hotelier - Goodness PUP - The Dream Is Over Somos - First Day Back Pinegrove - Cardinal O'Brother - Endless Light The 1975 - I love it when you sleep... Into It. Over It. - Standards EPs Protest the Hero - Pacific Myth (completed in 2016) Turnover - Humblest Pleasures Miguel - Rogue Waves
I think Creeper is my favourite release so far this year and it's only five songs! I can't even imagine how I'll react to a full length.
1. Bonzai - Sleepy Hungry EP 2. Daughter - Not To Disappear 3. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book 4. Kiiara - Low Kii Savage EP 5. Lapsley - Long Way Home 6. Leon Vynehall - Rojus (Designed To Dance) 7. Drake - Views 8. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 9. James Blake - The Colour In Anything 10. Rihanna - Anti 11. The Body & Full Of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 12. Anderson.Paak - Malibu 13. Christine & The Queens - Chaleur Humaine 14. Future - EVOL 15. Lone - Levitate 16. A$AP Ferg - Always Strive And Prosper 17. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful, Yet So Unaware Of It 18. Julianna Barwick - Will 19. Jack Garratt - Phase 20. Liss - First EP
Mine too. If they make a full length as good the EPs it will probably be one of my favourite albums ever.