The Format - If Work Permits The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep Against Me! - Searching For A Former Clarity Midtown - So Long As We Keep Our Bodies Numb We're Safe
Meshuggah - Sum Isaiah Rashad - Shot You Down. Chance The Rapper - Everything's Good Oddisee - Outro Flow.
"Walkaways" - Counting Crows Such a short but sweet ending to a great, dynamic record. I feel like I can never listen to that song just once. So much feeling packed into 1:12..
It's already been mentioned, but Holly Wood Died is definitely my favorite album closer. Also, really love "Skyscraper" on Touche Amore's new album.
Off the top of my head: Anberlin - *fin Andrew Peterson - Don't You Want to Thank Someone Bon Iver - re: stacks Copeland - In Her Arms You Will Never Starve Julien Baker - Go Home Mew - Louise Louisa mewithoutYou - In a Sweater Poorly Knit Relient K - When I Go Down Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul Thrice - Red Sky It's funny. There are four Sufjan Stevens albums I prefer over The Age of Adz but "Impossible Soul" is still a freakishly good closer.
This year's best album closers so far: Modern Baseball -- Just Another Face The Hotelier -- End of Reel Kanye West -- St Pablo Chance the Rapper -- Blessings II Saosin -- Control and the Urge to Pray Radiohead -- True Love Waits Beyonce -- Formation Not yet including: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Green Day Jimmy Eat World Butch Walker Bon Iver And others I haven't heard/heard enough
I don't really think of that as a closer because Kanye refers to everything after "Frank's Track" as bonus songs. So technically "Wolves" is the closest thing to a closer on that album imo
I didn't know that, although if I could re-sequence the album I'd close with Wolves (if St Pablo wasn't an option). That said, No More Friends in LA is one of the strongest tracks on the album and I can't relegate it to 'bonus track' status in my mind. The other tracks after Wolves/Frank's Track fit that criteria though. Also if you consider Frank's Track to end the real album, damn that's a great run of songs to close out the record.
Just a random list of my favorites in no particular order: La Dispute - Objects in Space (Rooms of the House 2014) Jimmy Eat World - Goodbye Sky Harbor (Clarity 1999) Death Cab For Cutie - A Lack Of Color (Transatlanticism 2003) Thursday - Where the Circle Ends (Waiting 1999) Green Day - Macy's Day Parade (Warning 2000) mewithoutYou - The Cure For Pain ([A->B] Life 2002) slint - Good Morning, Captain (spiderland 1991) Drenge - Fuckabout (Drenge 2013)
I was listening to the Sparrow and Friends album stream, the closing song on it could easily be a lost Copeland song. Aaron Marsh sounds amazing. So that would be up there as one of my favourite closing songs of 2016 now.
First one that sprang into mind for me is The Wonderful Future by Our Lady Peace (although, I think any closer from Clumsy to Spiritual Machines could be considered as favourite closers imo) Other closers for me are: Take It or Leave it by The Strokes Admit It!!! by Say Anythng Trippin' the Life Fantastic and Love Me a Good Microcosm by Weatherbox Forever Halloween by The Maine (2 spooky) Into the Airwaves - Jack's Mannequin Dendron - The Hotelier
"Dusk and Summer" is my favorite Dashboard album and I really wanted to say "Heaven Here," but then I remembered they tacked "Vindicated" onto the end of the album. Not nearly as good of a closing track IMO. To me the record ends after HH haha