I had no idea about that until I read some promo right before the EP was released. I saw a video a few weeks ago of him making his Opry debut. It's awesome that he's finding a new level of success as a songwriter and performer. I always thought he had the talent deserving of a much wider audience.
1. SWMRS - Drive North 2. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost 3. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate 4. Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head 5. Weezer - The White Album Sorry, Rihanna
I feel like more and more of these people who find their first success writing songs for other artists are going to start finding success in their own right. Glad he seems to be on that path.
1. The Hotelier - Goodness 2. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo 2.5 Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years 3. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool 4. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book 5. Pinegrove – Cardinal 6. M83 - Junk 7. Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death 8. Weezer – Weezer (The White Album) 9. Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost 10. David Bazan – Blanco Top half is very solid, the bottom half waivers but I'm sure the second half of 2016 will pick up and it'll be as tough as always to narrow the year down to 10 releases come December
I was kind of meh on it at first, but I'm seeing them in two weeks so I wanted to listen to it a lot. It really grew on me, it's probably a top 5 thrice record for me now. Once I realized that stay with me was about a post apocalyptic romance I realized there was a lot more to the record than I originally thought.
Twin Peaks - Down in Heaven Kaytranada - 99.9% M83 - Junk The 1975 - if you're on this website you know this albums name Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book Koi Child - Koi Child Rihanna - ANTI PUP - The Dream is Dead Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto Probably my top ten in some unarranged order
My year has been consumed by only a few albums: Brian Fallon - Painkillers and Georgia EP Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack Arliss Nancy - Greater Divides Dustin Kensrue - Thoughts that Float on a Different Blood Mudcrutch - 2 Albums that weren't released this year but I've been spending a ton of time with: Brand New - Daisy Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues Whiskeytown - Pneumonia Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Southern Accents Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse Coasta - Sunzal EP
No particular order The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere Saosin - Along The Shadow Basement - Promise Everything The Word Alive - Dark Matter Dance Gavin Dance - Tree City Sessions Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor Somos - First Day Back Deftones - Gore Hands Like Houses - Dissonants Issues - Headspace Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness Normandie - Inguz The Hotelier - Goodness Dowsing - Okay Pinegrove - Cardinal Anchor & Braille - Songs For The Late Night Drive Home Weezer - The White Album Into It. Over It. - Standards Brian Fallon - Painkillers Vinnie Caruana - Survivor's Guilt Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost Rarity - I Couldn't Be Weaker
Not a lot has been on my radar lately. So far: 1. Pinegrove 2. The 1975 3. The Hotelier 4. PUP 5. Modern Baseball
Adding If These Trees Could Talk - The Bones of a Dying World and Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us to my list.
no order Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor Chairlift - Moth Pinegrove - Cardinal Somos - First Day Back BRAZA - BRAZA The 1975 - I like it when you sleep... Shields - How Can We Fix This? Galileo Galilei - Sea and the Darkness Mahmundi - Mahmundi The Hotelier - Goodness EPs: Turnover - Humblest Pleasures Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet The Starting Line - Anyways TWIABP - Long Live Happy Birthday Fióti - Gente Bonita
No order...yet. Too much good music this year. Beyoncé-Lemonade Kanye West-The Life of Pablo Chance the Rapper-Coloring Book Kendrick Lamar-Untitled Demos White Lung-Paradise (More people need to listen to this) Explosions in the Sky-The Wilderness Pity Sex-White Hot Moon The Hotelier-Goodness Nothing-Tired of Tomorrow Anohni-Hopelessness DIIV-Is the Is Are
I've checked out quite a bit of music from this year (well, relative to how much I generally get into around this time for the past few years). That said, not much has stood out for me yet. Maybe some of the records that I've gotten in the past month or so will end up appealing to me more, maybe some stuff that I was digging earlier in the year but ended up not having much staying power will return with a vengeance, but as of now I'd say that I really like a lot of stuff from this year, but don't really love anything. In terms of just sheer rotation I think my favourite so far this year is The Falcon's Gather Up the Chaps. I've been playing it pretty consistently since I first checked it out. Compare that with Brian Fallon's Painkillers, Kendrick's untitled unmastered, or Sam Means' 10 Songs which I was listening to a lot earlier in the year but haven't given much time to the past couple months. Same goes for The Life of Pablo and even Lemonade and Chance's Coloring Book - lots of plays when they first came out, followed by a quick drop-off.
The 1975 Thrice O'Brother Basement Saosin Architects We Are Scientists gates Young Thug Hands Like Houses Catfish and the Bottlemen Say Anything St. Lucia
Probably my favorite half-year of music ever? I think I listened to and loved more albums the past 5+ months than I did all of 2015. 1. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere 2. Pinegrove - Cardinal 3. O'Brother - Endless Light 4. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo 5. Future - EVOL 6. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book 7. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 8. Young Thug - Slime Season 3 9. The Hotelier - Goodness 10. Deftones - Gore Other shit I liked: YG - Still Brazy Sumac - What One Becomes Gates - Parallel Lines Daughter - Not to Disappear Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth Young Thug - I'm Up PUP - The Dream Is Over Saosin - Along the Shadow (most likely to rise) Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered. DJDS - Stand Up and Speak
Favorite songs of 2016 so far: The Hotelier - "Soft Animal" . . . YG - "Twist My Fingaz" Pinegrove - "New Friends" Thrice - "Hurricane" Young Thug - "F Cancer", "Drippin'" Daughter - "New Ways" Kanye West - "Ultralight Beam", "Highlights" Future - "Lil Haiti Baby" Radiohead - "Daydreaming" Sturgill Simpson - "Sea Stories"
No order, I'm still behind on a lot of music, if anyone has suggestions based on this list let me know! Pinegrove- Cardinal The Hotelier- Goodness Angel Du$t- Rock The Fuck On Forever Modern Baseball- Holy Ghost Like Pacific- Distant Like You Asked Basement- Promise Everything Kanye West- TLOP Panic At The Disco- Death of A Bachelor Chance The Rapper- Coloring Book Turnover- Humblest Pleasure (not really an album but still great songs) Lost Souls-Get Lost (once again not an album but great songs)
brian fallon - painkillers the hotelier - goodness face to face - protection nothing - tired of tomorrow weezer - the white album the so so glos - kamikaze pup - the dream is over modern baseball - holy ghost mean jeans - tight new dimension EDIT: car seat headrest - teens of denial
Pinegrove is probably my AOTY. I've spun that the most. Hotelier is great, Chance is great and surprisingly I've come back to Weezer a lot. Others I enjoyed: Hinds Bowie Future DJDS The 1975 Postiljonen Kendrick Anderson .Paak ANOHNI James Blake Radiohead I really haven't even given a lot of them on the list too many listens. I need to get in my new music grind, threw a bunch of albums on Apple Music today so we'll see what sticks out