Here's a wildly overlooked album I hope some of you will enjoy! Halfway through my list! 2016’s Midyear Best #6: Chairlift
THANK you! I've enjoyed revisiting this album so much that I could imagine it landing higher on my year-end list than it did on my midyear list, hahahaha.
yeah for some reason i haven't really revisited this album too much lately even though i often find myself humming songs from it. listened to "Show U Off" earlier today and didn't remember it being so catchy. Caroline's vocals are so good
That's my favorite song, albeit by a tiny margon. She's nuts. She hits some really unpredictable melodies that never cease to blow me away
I'm still waiting for THE album to be honest. I think I've already listened to more 'really good' albums than last year but unlike last year, I don't think I've heard any great, 10/10 albums yet.
First time actually getting in on a mid-year thread! From what I have actually had time to listen to.... Hotelier - Goodness Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep... Kendrick Lamar - untitled, unmastered Saosin - Along the Shadow Say Anything - I Don't Think It Is PUP - The Dream is Over EP's: Sorority Noise - It Kindly Stopped For Me Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet The Starting Line - Anyways What I need to listen to/listen to more: Pity Sex - White Hot Moon Pinegrove - Cardinal Thrice - TBEITBN Anticipated: Against Me! Brand New Bayside - Vacancy Moose Blood - Blush Two Tongues Wish I had liked more: Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head So much else I have missed this year, hopefully I can catch up in July while there is a lull in releases I am super excited about. 2016 has been good!
Albums 1. Brian Fallon - Painkillers 2. The Hotelier - Goodness 3. YG - Still Brazy 4. Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate 5. God's Hate - Mass Murder 6. Dance Gavin Dance - Tree City Sessions 7. Landscapes - Modern Earth 8. Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death 9. Angel Du$t - Rock The Fuck On Forever 10. Worship This! - Mint 11. The Ship Thieves - No Anchor 12. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 13. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost 14. PUP - The Dream Is Over 15. Hesitation Wounds - Awake For Everything EPs 1. Creeper - The Stranger 2. G.L.O.S.S. - Trans Day Of Revenge 3. Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - Bittersweet 4. Grader - Wholly 5. Cold Years - Mile Marker 6. Terrible Love - Change Nothing 7. Stars Hollow - I'm Really Not That Upset About It 8. Life Moves On - Remedy
I finally finished one of these reviews at a decent hour! Thank you, Sabbath. 2016’s Midyear Best #5: Donovan Woods This is an artist @Craig Manning turned me onto, and he did a review and interview back on AP.net, now hosted on Craig's blog: Closer to the Truth and Further From the Sky: Interview: Donovan Woods (February 10th, 2016)
Two other really good albums that have been severely overlooked but might end up making my top-10 depending on my mood in December: Holy Pinto - Congratulations, & Amarillo Tapes (Young Statues side project) - Vol. 1 & 2. Links for both here: Congratulations, by Holy Pinto amarillo tapes
- The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It - Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost - Blink-182 - California - Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool - Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death - Slow Dakota - The Ascension of Slow Dakota - Basement - Promise Everything - Kanye West - The Life of Pablo - Weezer - The White Album - Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
1. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It 2. White Lung - Paradise 3. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo 4. DIIV - Is the Is Are 5. Wet - Don't You 6. dvsn - Sept. 5th 7. Deftones - Gore 8. Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death 9. Joey Purp - iiiDrops 10. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman 11. Postiljonen - Reverie 12. Future - Purple Reign 13. Beyonce - Lemonade 14. Pity Sex - White Hot Moon 15. Daughter - Not to Disappear 16. Mitski - Puberty 2 17. James Blake - The Colour in Anything 18. O'brother - Endless Light 19. DJDS - Stand Up and Speak 20. Rome Fortune - Jerome Raheem Fortune
I'm pretty behind on a lot of music this year, but these have been my favorites so far: Angel Du$t - Rock the Fuck On Forever Blink-182 - California Brian Fallon - Painkillers Face to Face - Protection The Falcon - Gather Up The Chaps Holy Fever - The Wreckage Ignite - A War Against You letlive. - If I'm the Devil PEARS - Green Star PUP - The Dream Is Over Real Friends - The Home Inside My Head Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
Shadow Of Intent – Primordial (AOTY so far) Fleshgod Apocalypse – King Destroyer 666 – Wildfire Exmortus – Ride Forth Entombed A.D. – Dead Dawn Amon Amarth – Jomsviking She Must Burn – She Must Burn Bradi Cerebri Ectomia – Threads Of Desperation Bombs Of Hades – Death Mask Replica From Ashes To New – Day One Primal Fear – Rulebreaker Toothgrinder – Nocturnal Masquerade Avantasia – Ghostlights Bury Tomorrow – Earthbound Lycus – Chasms Aborted – Termination Redux Skuggsja – Skuggsja Those Poor Bastards – Sing It Ugly Wake – Sowing the Seeds of A Worthless Tomorrow Ripper – Experiment Of Existence Wormed – Krighsu Normandie – Inguz Missouri Quiet – Through The Milleniums Black Cobra – Imperium Simulacra Chthe’ilist – Le Dernier Crepuscule Armageddon Awaits – Freak Show Within Destruction – Void Aborted – Retrogore Hacktivist – Outside The Box In Dying Arms – Original Sin Nucleus – Sentient Desaster – The Oath of an Iron Ritual Inherit Disease – Ephemeral Abnormality – Mechanisms of Omniscience Fallujah – Dreamless Lord Mantis – Nice Teeth Whore Humanity’s Last Breath – Detestor Before I Turn – The Virus Eyes Of The Defiled – Distant Tellings Vredehammer – Violator Xenomorphic Contamination – Colonized From The Inside Brutal Brain Damage – Bang Bang Theory Rebaelliun – The Hell’s Decress Whispered – Metsutan, Songs Of The Void Katalepsy – Gravenous Hour Blade Of Horus – Monumental Massacre CABAL – Purge PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project Beartooth – Aggressive Volbeat – Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie Fleshgore – Denial Of The Scriptures Veil Of Pnath – II Hands Like Houses – Dissonants Embalmer – Emanations From The Crypt And it'll only get bigger with coming releases.
An easy List for me Thrice Modern Baseball Saosin Blink 182 Brian Fallon The Hotellier Pierce the Veil
Thrice Blink-182 Ariana Grande Chairlift You Fail Me Redux (it's that good) Death Grips Kanye (my fav this year by a mile) Anderson .Paak Saosin could've been better but it'd hurt my heart not to mention them.
blogged about mine at parentheseslive.com but here is my list 10. Brian Fallon- Painkillers 9. Modern Baseball- Holy Ghost 8. Weezer- Weezer (White Album) 7. Beyonce- Lemonade 6. The Hotelier- Goodness 5. Pup- The Dream Is Over 4. Pinegrove- Cardinal 3. Chance The Rapper- Coloring Book 2. Thrice-To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 1. The 1975- I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it I already wish I had put Modern Baseball higher.
1. Hotelier - Goodness 2. Deftones - Gore 3. Pinegrove - Cardinal 4. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost 5. 1975 - I like it when you are sleeping, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware 6. Into It. Over It. - Standards 7. Future - EVOL 8. Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack 9. Pity Sex - White Hot Moon 10. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
Today's installment is a big one: a strong AOTY contender since I first heard it in January, although wildly overlooked--I can't say I've seen it on anyone's list in here yet. 2016’s Midyear Best #4: Shearwater Please do yourself a favor and check this band out. It began as the side project of Okkervil River, who I'm excited to say also have an album due out later this year.