2016 Album of the Year nominations

[Rpeg]

albums few or no people have mentioned, maybe:

 

Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future

Moderat - III

Dimitri Grimm - Perlissop EP

Convextion - 2845

 

but yes, all that elseq stuff too.

[ganus]

 

 

young thug - jeffery

lol wut. I mean, I like the cover art, but I would love to hear why this is in your top 2

one of my favs asswell, the beats are shithot and thugger is a beast!!

every track is great, just listen to it

I already did... pretty sure it sounds the same as every other YT release, & stopped listening because misogyny

[Ivan Ooze]

 

 

 

young thug - jeffery

lol wut. I mean, I like the cover art, but I would love to hear why this is in your top 2

one of my favs asswell, the beats are shithot and thugger is a beast!!

every track is great, just listen to it

I already did... pretty sure it sounds the same as every other YT release, & stopped listening because misogyny

just

it's the best thing he released so far and just gets better with repeated listens

my wife also enjoys the album very much sooo  

[AWW]

Dave Ball • Jon Savage - Photosynthesis ----- WOW!
Petar Dundov - At The Turn Of Equilibrium -----not his best, but still made the list
No. Inc. ‎– G​@​ng5ta ----- Check it out now
Blancmange - Commuter 23 -----THEE BEST ALBUM OF 2016 BY FAR!!!
Jonathan Coleclough, Bass Communion, Colin Potter - Jonathan Coleclough, Bass Communion, Colin Potter
Clark - The Last Panthers ----- soundtrack, sounds like a soundtrack, but decent nonetheless
Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger ----- Classic, smiley face
Depatterning - The Dimmed Homestead ----- curious, artwork keeps me coming back to this oddity
Colder - Many Colours (2015) ----- FANTASTIC

Atom™ - Texturen II ----- Cool cool cool
Covenant - The Blinding Dark (Deluxe) ----- Best value for money release 2016!!
Trentemøller - Fixion ----- get your GOTH? fix on!!
Factory Floor - 25 25 ----- Perhaps too cool & sophisticated, yeah right...

UnicaZürn - Omegapavilion ----- First cassette I have bought since 1987!!

Minor Victories - Minor Victories ----- Real Grower!!
Marsheaux - A Broken Frame Instrumental ----- covers album without voices, DANCE CLASSIC A#1!!
Nurse With Wound - Dark Fat - Not their best, just made the list by an extra layer of fat

Nurse With Wound - Astrophytum ----- Just made the list, almost, sentimental reasons perhaps, but ain't that just music for you.
Fennesz - Mahler Remix ----- Just made the list, that one track just pushed it over the line
RADIOHEAD, A Moon Shaped Pool ----- I like.

Black Marble – It’s Immaterial ----- I love home made

Boy Harsher – Yr Body Is Nothing ----- new this week, growing on me, or wearing me down!?

A lot of what I heard this year were old releases I was playing catch up on...

A lot of eagerly awaited releases did not make the list...

[AWW]

albums few or no people have mentioned, maybe:

 

Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future

 

Me too, forget to mention, an excellent album indeed

[Guest]

so much stuff; haven't even listened to a third of the things in most lists on the last pages...

off the top of my head... ehhh....

 

aelseq

Death Grips

Renick Bell EP

.errr....

new Demdike Stare sounds good but only listened once so far

 

looking up things....

 

Foodman - Ez Minzoku

Sote - Hardcore Sounds from Tehran

SHXCHXSetc...... SsSs....

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[psn]

Music released in 2016 that was enjoyed at some or many points:

 

D.D Dumbo - Utopia Defeated
Field Music - Commontime
Dinosaur Jr. - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Autechre - elseq 1-5
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Heorge Garrison - Shortridge EP
Frank Ocean - Endless
Frank Ocean - Blond
Bölzer - Hero
Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP
Stian Westerhus - Amputation
Jega - 1995
Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
MNLTH - MNLTH102
Rolando Simmons - Yuo're Life
Rolando Simmons - Human Touch
Rolando Simmons - Bridgeland Part I & II
Trackermatte - Ná
Patronen C&D
Virus - Memento Collider

[manmower]

Alain Pierre - Jan Zonder Vrees

Autechre ‎– elseq 1–5

Eefje De Visser - Nachtlicht

Hiroshi Watanabe - Multiverse

Huerco S. - For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)

Ibrahim Alfa - Hidden By The Leaves

Nomad Ninja - Avond Sluimer

Skee Mask - Shred

The Pilotwings - Les Portes Du Brionnais

[manmower]

Oh and Four Tet - Randoms, if that qualifies.

[d-a-m-o]

Autechre : Elseq 1-5

Aphex twin : Cheetah 

Hiele : Ritmische bezinning

Renick Bell : Empty lake

Lanark Artefax : Glasz

Nil Hartman : Ellipses

Aleksi Perala : Colundi Sequence Level 16

Rian treanor : pattern damage

[KovalainenFanBoy]

Animal Collective - Painting With

Deakin - Sleep Cycle

 

couple early 2016 releases I forgot

[doublename]

Remember - Welcome to Axico Industries

KONX-OM-PAX - Caramel

[perunamuusi]

EODS

[jules]

and swans. how did i forget about that?

 

album is insane

[usagi]

I'm ashamed to say I haven't even sat down with it yet. bah.

[dr lopez]

omar-s rules

[Candiru]

Blood Incantation - Starspawn

 

Anderson Paak - Malibu

[ghOsty]

2016 has been a great year musically... Here's some of my favs

Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid

Alcest - Kodama
Andy Stott - Too Many Voices
Ash Koosha - I AKA I

A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...
Autechre - Elseq

Biosphere - Departed Glories

Blood Incantaion - Starspawn

The Body - No One Deserves Happiness

The Caretaker (Leyland Kirby) -  Everywhere At The End Of Time

Clark - The Last Panthers OST
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibit

David Bowie - Blackstar

Deftones - Gore
Elusive - Textures

Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

Fogh Depot - Turmalinturm

Gost - Non Paradisi

Graves At Sea - The Curse That Is

Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed
JK Flesh - Rise Above

Kassem Mosse - Disclosure

Ka - Honor Killed The Samurai

Khemmis - Hunted

Loscil - Monument Builders
Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun

Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason

Mndsgn - Body Wash

Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä

Pantha Du Prince - The Triad
Patten - Psi
Plaid - The Digging Rememdy
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Red Fang - Only Ghosts
Revocation - Great Is Our Sin
Roly Porter - Third Law

Samiyam - Animals Have Feelings

Schoolboy Q - Blank Face
Surgeon - From Furthest Known Objects

Survive - RR77349

Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis

Vanilla - Origin
Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music

Youth Code - Commitment To Complications
Zeal & Ardor - Devil Is Fine
2814 - Rain Temple

[ghOsty]

Additions:

 

Dalek - Asphalt For Eden

Dalhous - Composite Moods Vol. 1

Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
 

[Sally Vingoe]

autechre - elseq

aphex twin - cheetah ep

angel olsen - my woman

holy fuck - congrats

rival consoles - night melody

radiohead - a moon shaped pool

king gizzard and the lizard wizard - nonagon infinity

parquet courts - human performance

roosevelt - roosevelt

flock of dimes - if you see me, say yes

wye oak - tween

 

 

angel olsen - my woman

[usagi]

Dalek - Asphalt For Eden

 

I really, really wish this was longer.

[flacid]

Elseq - eastre will be looked back on as a highly significant piece of music. 

 

Danny Brown, Kanye West albums were good but lacked the spark of Old and Yeezus. 

 

And that's about it for 2016. 

[granty]

The Digging Remedy - Plaid

Solar Dream Reel - Phono Ghosts 

Anagrams - Stephen Steinbrink 

Earthlight - Horizon Fire

Lone - Levitate

Paraworld - Ex-Terrestrial

 

Haven't listened to nearly enough new music this year.

[KovalainenFanBoy]

special "musical achievement" or somethin like that award to Kanye's bleached asshole line

[joshuatxuk]

 

Dalek - Asphalt For Eden

 

I really, really wish this was longer.

 

 

Me too. I listed it on the EPs, should have put it here.

 

Also really dug these I heard today:

 

Mala - Mirrors

Flock of Dimes - If You See Me, Say Yes