Best Albums of 2016
 

Alright MB, here we are in June already, and as the official half way point in the year, I think it's time we share our favourite releases from the first half of 2016. This is a good way to catch up on anything that some of us may have missed throughout what has (in my opinion) been a pretty decent year for music releases so far. I'll go ahead and kick it off with my top 10 from the first 6 months of the year.

10. Entropia - Ufonaut
9. Rome Fortune - Jerome Raheem Fortune
8. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
7. Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
6. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
5. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
4. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Vektor - Terminal Redux
1. David Bowie - Blackstar

Nice list. Let's see what others will say.

I've been waiting for this thread! :)

Off the top of my head, my tops are (in no particular order):

Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Adele - 25
David Bowie - Blackstar
Mutual Benefit - Skip a Sinking Stone
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Mogwai - Atomic
Animal Collective - Painting With
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
Grimes- Halfaxa
Chairlift - Moth

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
Matos - Ultimate Care II
David Bowie (rip) - Blackstar
Average Joey - Next Exit // Rest Neglected

Next month's gonna be pretty big, though, with Swans, The Kills and Nails dropping.

I have a very strong feeling both the new Swans and Nails albums will end up in my top 10 of the year. Everything released from both groups in terms of singles and teasers have been fantastic, not to mention they both have incredible catalogues up to this point in their career.

A cursory list until I remember other good things.

The Pop Group - The Boy Whose Head Exploded
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Noosefiller - Noosefiller/PKWST
Open Mic Eagle and Paul White - Hella Personal Film Festival
Chthe'ilist - Le dernier crépuscule
The Gerogerigegege - Monei Hai
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Paul Jebansaam - Continuum

No 10/10s yet but:

1. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
2. Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
3. David Bowie - Blackstar
4. Museum Mouth - Popcorn Fish Guinea Pig
5. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
6. Daydream Society - Avulsion
7. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
8. Deakin - Sleep Cycle
9. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
10. Big Ups - Before a Million Universes

personally i feel this has been an amazing year for music so far....and i agree that the new Swans album will likely be my number one....especially since it is the final album with their current line up...as it stands now my list would look like this

1. UXO - UXO
2. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
3. Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
4. Lost Salt Blood Purges - Only the Youngest Grave
5. Conan - Revengence
6. Tacocat - Lost Time
7. Jastreb - Orient and Occident
8. Mark Korven - The Witch
9. Dernière Volonté - Prie pour moi
10. Aluk Todolo - Voix
11. Youth Code - Commitment to Complications

the Youth Code and Aluk Todolo are really a tie....i seriously could not decide between the two albums

Top 5 EPs

1. Rome - Coriolan
2. The Sad Bastard Book Club - And the Sirens Sang of a Time When There Were No Foghorns
3. Lush - Blind Spot
4. Chelsea Wolfe - Hypnos / Flame
5. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc

Great list bob. The only albums I'm familiar with are those by The Body, Xiu Xiu and the OST for The VVitch, all of which I loved.

UXO and Tacocat have been in my queue for quite some time now, so I think it's about time I finally give them a listen!

This stuff is hard nowadays for me since being banned from RYM. I'll post mine later. But I'll be downloading quite a lot of them.

You got banned for good? Wow. Now I'll never get to know the best white men in music :(

Yeah. I called the admins fascists and pointed out their hypocrisy in the "comment" section after they banned me for a week. I returned to find myself permanently banned. I'm sure the irony was lost on them.

Maybe calling people fascist is something they don't really like. Just a guess.

That's lame. I wasn't very active on RYM aside from just rating albums, but you were one of the few people who seemed to always have quality lists and you always came through with the bangers too.

R.I.P dude

Fascist

*bans Qwertyy*

Yeah. The echo chamber strong on that site.

Fascists.

So this is a bit premature considering all the travelling I've done and being busy as ****. I don't think I can rank at the moment but these are the albums that first popped into my head.

David Bowie - Black star
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
Rob Crowes Gloomy Place - You're Doomed. Be Nice
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
Snarky Puppy - Culcha Vulcha
Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia
DIIV - Is The Is Are
Right Hand Left Hand - S/T
Yndi Halda - Under Summer
The Fall of Troy - OK
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
Swans - The Glowing Man

DIIV's Is the Is Are is in my queue. I have high hopes for it. I love Oshin.

Is it a temp ban?

Take this as a grain of salt, because I didn't like Oshin either, but I thought Is the Is Are sucked a big fat one.

LOL

Thanks for the input. :)

Nope.

Top 10 or so (everything 8/10 or higher)

1) Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2) Teen Suicide - It's The Big Joyous Celebration, Let's Stir The Honeypot
3) The Gerogerigegege - 燃えない灰
4) Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
5) Tim Hecker - Love Streams
6) Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
7) Ricky Eat Acid - am i happy, singing_
8) Lost Salt Blood Purges - Only The Youngest Grave
9) pilotredsun - Achievement
10) Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
11) David Bowie - Blackstar
12) Daydream Society - Avulsion
13) FJF - Songs In The Key Of Lime
14) Zon - Mount Gaash
15)Lost Salt Blood Purges / Volcanic Queen -Movements Viewed Through a Variety of Lenses

^Didn't like Bottomless Pit?

Really liked it actually, it's my number 16 for the year. Might go higher with a few more listens. Nothing's gonna top NOTM in my eyes.

Yeah NOTM is my favourite too, but Bottomless Pit is hella on point.

:(

10. David Bowie - Blackstar
9. Entropia - Ufonaut
8. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
7. Rome Fortune - Jerome Raheem Fortune
6. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
5. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
4. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
2. Vektor - Terminal Redux
1. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

there. fixed it.

^ you've got taste kid, that's for sure.

who are you calling a kid, you just had your prom

And you didn't even show up as my date, bitch.

i would have if you lived somewhere nice that wasn't canada :love:

Bottomless Pit's the biggest disappointment of the last few years.

^Bottomless Pit is one of the best records in DG's discography.

what

why

its so good

what didn't you like about it?

Baby Metal -Metal Resistance

The Black Queen -Fever Daydream

Deftones -GORE

Pleistocene-Space trap ep

Potential Badboy-Drum and bass arena 2016

Yung Lean - Warlord

Charles Bradley - Changes
Wild Nothing - Life Of Pause
Parquet Courts - Human Performance
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered
Bo-Keys - Heartaches By The Number