True. Maybe Ghost on Ghost was just Beam's Working on a Dream for me. Ha I do think he's tweaked a lot of what I most loved about those earlier records, though. Everything from the instrumentation to the way he sings is pretty drastically different than it was. I'll be interested to see what direction he goes in for his next album and how I feel about it. I thought he struck a great balance on The Shepherd's Dog. Kiss Each Other Clean is kind of split down the middle between stuff I really love and stuff I don't really like at all.
Cool to see Andy Shauf get a mention. Surprised it didn't get more attention around here. I think I had it just outside of my top 10. Also nice to see Courtney Marie Andrews, Laura Mvula, and the Honeycutters on your list. Going to check out some of the ones I haven't heard yet.
His singing/voice is a bit of an acquired taste no? I've listened to a bit of his stuff and have been meaning to give The Party a serious go but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Yeah this was a year with an insanely deep bench. There are like 45 honorable mentions there, all of whom I'd vouch for. Those 4 you mentioned in particular I really didn't hear enough about.
Yeah his voice definitely takes some getting used to. I think the first time I gave it a chance that may have been what turned me away at first. But then later I came back and really dug into it and spent more time with and read along with the lyrics. After that I couldnt get enough of it.
I heard 300 albums this year and missed all of these? Jeeze. Should I just prioritize them by how you have them ranked? Grab the top few?
Haha I knew you'd like it! I'll go through your list in a little bit when I'm on my laptop, see what I've missed out on.
For sure the top 3 listed there I would think you would enjoy based on other stuff you typically like. I would also guess Big Thief, Cody Jinks, Julia Jacklin, and Becky Warren would be right up your alley. Here lately ive been obsessed with that Alex Cameron record and the one by The Frightnrs so I'll throw those out there too as kind of a wildcard.
Just realized I never posted my list, whoops. Better late than never: 2016 1. Microwave - Much Love 2. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep… 3. Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math 4. Bellows - Fist and Palm 5. Joyce Manor - Cody 6. Pup - The Dream is Over 7. Kamaiyah - A Good Night in the Ghetto 8. Balance and Composure - Light We Made 9. Kevin Devine - Instigator 10. Every Time I Die - Low Teens 11. Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere 12. Noname - Telefone 13. The Hotelier - Goodness 14. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial 15. Posture & The Grizzly - I Am Satan 16. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues 17. Pinegrove - Cardinal 18. LVL UP - Return to Love 19. Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love 20. Carly Rae Jepsen - Side B 21. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got it From Here… 22. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years 23. Owel - Dear Me 24. Mitski - Puberty 2 25. O’Brother - Endless Light 26. For Everest - We Are At Home In The Body 27. Stranger Things - OST 28. Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack 29. Deftones - Gore 30. The Weeknd - Starboy 31. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost 32. Frank Ocean - Blonde 33. Moose Blood - Blush 34. David Bowie - Blackstar 35. From Indian Lakes - Everything Feels Better 36. Martha - Blisters in the Pit of My Heart 37. John K Samson - Winter Wheat 38. American Football - S/T 39. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me 40. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book 41. All Get Out - Nobody Likes a Quitter 42. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry 43. Bon Iver - 22, A Million 44. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition 45. St. Lucia - Matter 46. Catfish and the Bottlemen - The Ride 47. You Blew It! - Abendrot 48. Grouplove - Big Mess 49. SWMRS - Drive North 50. Big Jesus - Oneiric Honorable Mentions: Weezer - White Album, Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death, Saosin - Along the Shadow, Miike Snow - iii, Ceres - Drag it Down on You, Black Foxxes - I'm Not Well, Band of Horses - Why Are You OK, Animal Flag - LP
1. TK from Ling Tosite Sigure - white noise 2. Seiko Oomori - Tokyo Black Hole 3. Lovely Summer-Chan - LSC 4. Akai Ko-en - Jyunjo Randoseru 5. Makura Izumi - Identity 6. Mika Kobayashi - Mika Type I 7. Aimer - daydream 8. Kinoko Teikoku - Ai no Yukue 9. amazarashi - sekai shusoku 2116 10. BABYMETAL - Metal Resistance 11. BiSH - KiLLER BiSH 12. Perfume - Cosmic Explorer 13. Galileo Galilei - Sea and the Darkness 14. Charan-Po-Rantan - Onna no 46 Pun 15. Negicco - Tea For Three 16. Nogizaka46 - Sorezore no Isu 17. Cicada - Farewell 18. Takahiro Kido - The New World 19. En mo Takenawa - Yuigon Zakura 20. Daughter - Not to disappear 21. Utada Hikaru - Fantome 22. Majiko - Magic 23. Kie Katagi - Serendipity 24. Gesu no Kiwami Otome. - Ryoseibai 25. Lucky Tapes - Cigarette & Alcohol 26. jizue - story 27. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it 28. For Tracy Hyde - Film Bleu 29. never young beach - fam fam 30. REOL - Sigma 31. The Oral Cigarettes - Fixion 32. [Alexandros] - Exist! 33. RADWIMPS - Human Bloom 34. a crow is white - back to the future 35. Alisa Takigawa - at film. 36. Especia - CARTA 37. amiinA - Avalon 38. SHISHAMO - SHISHAMO 3 39. MONO - Requiem For Hell 40. Mirei Touyama - My Way 41. Hello Sleepwalkers - Planless Perfection 42. Sumire Uesaka - 20 Seiki no Gyakushu 43. Momoiro Clover Z - Hakkin no Yoake & Amaranthus 44. Fukurouzu - datte, atashitachi evergreen 45. fraqsea - Star Cocktail 46. Dempagumi.inc - GOGO DEMPA 47. Zenbu Kimi no Seida. - Yamikawa IMRAD 48. Silent Siren - S 49. Sonoko Inoue - Hello 50. SCANDAL - Yellow others I liked: BiS - brand new idol society 2 Three Primary Colors - Rainbow Tree YEN TOWN BAND - Diverse Journey Veltpunch - the newest joke RADWIMPS - Your Name. Tim Hecker - Love Streams The Dirty Nil - higher power fhana - what a wonderful world line Owel - Dear Me chelmico - chelmico Adam Green - Aladdin Sora Amamiya - Various Blue Hanae - Show Girl touch my secret - Nil Star Guitar - here and there BiSH - Fake Metal Jacket 04 Limited Sazabys - eureka BILLIE IDLE - bi bi bi bi bi Kana Nishino - Just LOVE Shiggy Jr. - all about pop Sayaka Yamamoto - Rainbow Atsuko Maeda - Selfish Tancred - out of the garden The Naked And Famous - Simple Forms LITE - Cubic EP / mini album: 1. JYOCHO - a prayer in vain 2. Wednesday Campanella - UMA 3. tricot - KABUKU EP 4. TK from Ling Tosite Sigure - Secret Sensation 5. BAND-MAID - brand new maid 6. You`ll Melt More! - we are a rock festival 7. Megumi Wata - Blindman 8. Takahiro Kido - Insido-Out Tokyo 9. OYASUMI HOLOGRAM - ... 10. Oyasumi Hologram - 2 11. KiWi - The scene of ordinary 12. Red Velvet - The Velvet 13. the fin. - Through the deep 14. SHE IS SUMMER - Lovely Frustration EP 15. androp - Blue 16. Lee Ayur - Sou Vol.1
Periphery - Periphery 3: Select Difficulty Norma Jean - Polar Similar Deftones - Gore Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere Russian Circles - Guidance Filter - Crazy Eyes Saosin - Along The Shadow
This is my full ranked list of every 2016 release I listened to: 1. Tegan and Sara - Love You to Death 2. Angel Olsen - My Woman 3. Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life 4. Beyoncé - Lemonade 5. Lucy Dacus - No Burden 6. Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing 7. La La Land Soundtrack 8. Fear of Men - Fall Forever 9. Nice As Fuck (NAF) - Nice As Fuck 10. Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack 11. Shura - Nothing’s Real 12. The Hotelier - Goodness 13. Kevin Devine - Instigator 14. D.A.R.K - Science Agrees 15. Wilco - Schmilco 16. Laura Gibson - Empire Builder 17. Ladyhawke - Wild Things 18. Ingrid Michaelson - It Doesn't Have to Make Sense 19. The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset 20. Against Me! - Shapeshift with Me 21. Mitski - Puberty 2 22. Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math 23. Alicia Keys - Here 24. Rihanna - Anti 25. Florist - The Birds Outside Sang 26. David Bazan - Blanco 27. Brian Fallon - Painkillers 28. Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues 29. American Football - American Football 30. Lawrence - Breakfast 31. Bat For Lashes - The Bride 32. Into It. Over It. - Standards 33. Owen - The King of Whys 34. Bon Iver - 22, A Million 35. Dressy Bessy - Kingsized 36. Solange - A Seat at the Table 37. Chris Staples - Golden Age 38. Sia - This Is Acting 39. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project 40. Balance and Composure - Light We Made 41. Violent Femmes - We Can Do Anything 42. Blink-182 - California 43. Relient K - Air for Free 44. Two Tongues - Two Didn't quite hit my usual goal of 50. I continue to be in awe of those of you who manage to listen to hundreds of new releases each year.