Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2016

So, what's your AOTY 2016?

Wild Nothing - Reichpop

The last time I heard from them they sounded like jangle rock band. This one is the first track from the new album and it sounds closer to afro-pop (maybe it's just the polyrhythms), haven't heard anything else from this album yet. So far, so good.

Charlie Hilton - 100 Million
This was technically released online a few weeks ago but the album drops this month so I'm considering it a 2016 release. She's a former member of band Blouse, song features Mac DeMarco on guitar and vocals and was produced by Woods' Jarvis Taveniere... it sounds exactly like you imagine it sounds considering the people involved. I'm getting a VU's Loaded vibe from this song, which means I love it.

I suppose I'll be updating on a spotify playlist anything that I find interesting and purge every now and then like last year: https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/7IUyyJbFUQ9r8kxQar0Cwr

Rolling Favorite Tracks 2016 Thread Spotify Playlist
^ will be updating in early February.

Nicholas Krgovich - The Place Goes Quiet
https://soundcloud.com/tin-angel-records/nicholas-krgovich-the-place-goes-quiet

Laura Mvula ft. Nile Rodgers - Overcome
Fantasia - No Time For It
Pr0files - Life a Knife
Anderson .Paak - Come Down
Sizzy Rocket - Need SomebodyJehnny Beth & Julian Casablancas - Boy/Girl (actually from December, but I'm counting it as a 2016 discovery)

If you're so inclined, here is my 2016 spotify playlist. Follow now if you like. I'll be updating it every few days throughout the year: https://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/6nWMPae5bYBiIQ0g1O5UKD

My tracks playlist is still close to empty: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/0xBziinqg5kf9KiKSSR2Rb
My albums playlist really is empty: https://open.spotify.com/user/seandalai/playlist/6CKAljX8QIlFaKzCBN62bx

i found this when i missed my stop, its not out yet though

http://www.juno.co.uk/miniflashplayer/SF595356-01-01-02.mp3

my first on-repeat jam of the year is: Shearwater - Quiet Americans

I'm really looking forward to Pr0files - Jurassic Technologie. The measured, glacial Italo the "Get it Up" was such a good look last year. Thanks for the heads up.

Also loved that pr0files song johnny.

For Paak i've chosen the bird song but it's a fine album.

You all need to listen to the new single by Sampa the Great.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FwGtxcFvrgg

https://m.soundcloud.com/sampa-tembo/blue-boss
Riyl: Tribe called quest, Lauryn Hill and Badu?

New Massive Attack Ep sounds great on first listen.

Bigging up the new Daughter and Fat White Family albums

I feel like I've been buying albums by people I know I like (Tindersticks, Bonnie Prince Billy and so on). Any suggestions for a *new* artist I might enjoy? Below are my tracks of the year compilations for the last two years (as a bit of direction as to what I like).

2015

1. King Creosote - You Just Want
2. Spheruleus and friends - To Us Thy Memory Can Never Be Lost
3. Moon Ate The Dark - Bashy
4. Visionary Hours - Reaches Into Silence
5. Richard Skelton - Canis, Lynx, Ursus: Awake, Arise, Reclaim
6. Olli Aarni - Pohjoistuuli
7. Nils Frahm & Olafur Arnalds - 23:52
8. Roisin Murphy - House of Glass
9. Espen Eriksen Trio - Gravity
10. Aiden Moffat - Any Other Mirror
11. Father John Misty - I Went To The Store One Day

2014

1. Richard Skelton - Carr
2. Memory Drawings - There Is No Perfect Place
3. British Sea Power - Heroines of the Cliff
4. Hildur Gudnadottir - Saman
5. Jon Hopkins - Immunity (Asleep Version)
6. S Carey - Glass/Film
7. Lewis - Like To See You Again
8. Susanna/Jenny Hval - I Have Walked This Body
9. Lapland - Unwise
10. King Creosote - For One Night Only
11. Douglas Dare - Swim
12. Kiasmos - Looped
13. Gus Gus - Obnoxiously Sexual
14. Bracken - We Put The Pop In Unpopular
15. Hauschka - Elisabeth Bay
16. Hiss Golden Messenger - Saturday's Song

Maybe you're already familiar with those but this is mostly based on the neo-classical stuff:

Otto A. Totland
Lubomyr Melnyk
Takeshi Nishimoto

Although if you were only looking for 2016 stuff in that vein, I got nothing

Djh: from 2016 so far I can reccomend the Whitney album. Only first songNo Woman is on spotify.

Also from past years check out Colleen, Grouper, Benoit Pioulard. Looking at that list makes me think you might like them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGKN6qiDqnk

Kidnap Kid - Birds That Fly

is nice. Don't want to describe it in case god forbid I use the wrong house sub-genre, but it's one of his more straightforwardly house tracks (compared to the more sui generis things he was doing a few years back that I like even more).

Thanks for the suggestions.

I have (and like) the recent(ish) Otto A. Totland album. I like Melnyk - but haven't heard the most recent one (I thought someone might buy it me for Xmas and then forgot about it). Takeshi Nishimoto seems to be in the "sounds nice; need to stop buying stuff like this" category. I've a curious number of Colleen albums but haven't kept up.

Not sure about Whitney though if anyone wants an Oxford meet up where we drink beer and throw axes/smoke bombs, that'd be cool.

Pioulard's Noyaux is doing the trick, right now ...

new Surgeon album is rad

btw djh, if you're not already familiar with that website you might want to check out Headphone Commute

Thanks moans. I'm aware of it but its not a site I spend a lot of time at (my loss, perhaps?)

playlist is updated.

ILM's Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

real stand-out albums so far

king - we are king
katy b - honey
kyle hall - from joy
brothers osborne - pawn shop

I was blasting out that Kyle Hall one earlier, it is really bright and joyful + it makes me yearn for summer.

January Favorites (includes albums from the future)

Roly Porter - Third Law
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Naðra - Allir vegir til glötunar
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
Bloodiest - Bloodiest
Moongazing Hare - Wild Nothing
Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
Stranded Horse - Luxe

10 Favorite January Songs:

Sampa the Great - Blue Boss
Massive Attack - Dead Editors
Charlie Hilton - 100 Million
Pr0files - like a knife
David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
Anderson Paak - The Bird
Whitney - No Woman
AlunaGeorge - I'm In Control (feat. Popcaan)
Cross Record - Lemon
Casey Mecija - Palms Lose

Roly Porter record is some wonderfully tense space ambient

Aside from Bowie and KING, my favourite January 2016 album release is Adrian Younge's Something About April II. It helps obviously that Laetitia Sadier is all over it, but the whole thing is worth your attention.

Step Beyond
Hands of God
Ready to Love

Other tracks faves new to Spotify in January:

Sia - "Reaper"
Margaret Berger - "Apologize"
AURORA - "Conqueror"
Anna Meredith - "R-Type"
Brandy Clark - "Girl Next Door"
Stabat Stable - "You're In My Chair"
Dawn Richard - "Not Above That"

Kanye West - Real Friends sounds real good ASS JOB to me

And here I thought the one with the ass job was his wife.

Courtesy of the Shambhala thread, the first track of the year that I'm truly digging:

L.A. Girlfriend - Little Do I Know

That sounds great!

After discovering this song this morning, I've had it on a loop in my headphones for a very, very long time and I'm nowhere near being tired of it. Have to add it to my list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1E7vu9gMv8

Lex Allen ft. WebsterX - Cream and Sugar

20x February highlights (tracks)

Cavern of Anti-Matter - Tardis Cymbals
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Blowing My Nose Under Close Observation
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Hi-hats Bring The Hiss
Adrian Younge - La Ballade (Instrumental)
Elton John - Guilty Pleasure
Zayn - Pillowtalk
Benjamin Schoos - Une fille en or
Anna Wise - Precious Possession
Only Girl - Young Blood
Basia Bulat - Someday Soon
C. Duncan - A Year Or So
K. Michelle - Mindful
K. Michelle - Time
Nao - Fool To Love
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Existence in the Unfurling
Tweet - Dadada…Struggle
Giorgio Tuma feat. Laetitia Sadier - Maude Hope
Tinie Tempah feat. Zara Larsson - Girls Like
School of Seven Bells - Music Takes Me
Keren Ann - Where Did You Go?

Prince Rama: Xtreme Now

I have never heard about them before, but this album is ridiculously good, a very strange and catchy mixture of styles - electro-pop, psych, even new age sometimes. So far clearly my favourite album in 2016.

There are only 4 tracks on Spotify so far, the album comes on 4 March: http://www.stereogum.com/1861912/stream-prince-rama-xtreme-now-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

10 Favorite February Songs

Animal Collective - Golden Gal
Cat Clyde - Mama said
CFCF - Pleasure Center
Eleanor Friedberger - Never is a long time
Jim-E Stack - Deadstream
Kedr Livanskiy - Razrushitelniy Krug (Destructive Cycle)
Kidnap Kid - Birds that Fly
Moderat - Reminder
Pantha Du Prince - Winter Hymn
Rihanna - Work

Previously released songs I loved and finally received an official release:

Beady Belle - When My Anger Starts to Cry (Moodymann edit)
Shura - Touch
KING - The Greatest
Jamie XX & Four Tet - Seesaw (club version)
Wet - You're the best

Recent albums I rate:

CFCF - On Vacation
The Gloaming - 2
Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
12z - Trembling Air
Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
Promise and the Monster - Feed the Fire
France Jobin - Singulum
V/A - Gqom Oh! The Sound of Durban Volume 1

PJ Harvey - The Wheel

I used to listen to so many albums, maybe 100 per year... nowadays I don't have enough time or the right mood to sit down and listen.

It's a brief list but here's the list of albums I've loved in the past two months, not enough for a top 10 and technically KING is a compilation, Anna Homler a reissue from 1985 and Livanskiy an EP...

Anna Homler & Steve Moshier - Breadwoman & Other Tales
Animal Collective - Painting With
Anderson Paak - Malibu
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
KING - We are King
Kedr Livanskiy - January Sun
Wacław Zimpel - Lines
Good WIllsmith - Things Our Bodies Used to Have
David Bowie - Blackstar

Some ilxors might enjoy my albums list far better than my songs list, I usually go for more "world creating" experiments in albums and easy stuff on singles.

playlist is updated.

Rolling Favorite Tracks 2016 Thread Spotify Playlist

Yield from the first bimester:

King - We Are KING (spotify) Dreampop & 80s influenced R&B trio
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB (spotify) RIP Ben
Sarah Neufeld - The Ridge (spotify) electric violin post-minimal dreampop
GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object (spotify) dance inspired jazz trio
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered (spotify) The Русский Стандарт of shoegaze
Wacław Zimpel - Lines (spotify, youtube) wind improv over Tangerine Dream
The Jezabels - Synthia (spotify) grower, well-realized melting pot of 80s & 90s pops
Chairlift - Moth (spotify) uneven, stretched between clever R&B production and a yodel-Sade.

EPs
Moro - San Benito (bandcamp) Elysia Crampton fans, take note
Ninos du Brasil - Para araras (spotify) more acidic/driving batucada techno

Singles
Allie X - "Old Habits Die Hard" (spotify) Chvrches fans, take note
Melt Yourself Down - "Dot to Dot" (youtube, spotify) industrio-Nubian morsel
The Jezabels - "Pleasure Drive" (youtube, spotify) meticulous & horny, the chorus a bit coitus interruptus
Kill J - "Trickle Trickle" (youtube, spotify) If Grimes did R&B
Riton - "Rinse & Repeat" (feat. Kah-Lo) (youtube, spotify) narcotized dance exhortation
Lucius - "Something About You" (youtube, spotify) Motown new-wave
Choir of Young Believers - "Perfect Estocada" (youtube, spotify) ghostly pants entry
Nicole Millar - "Tremble" (youtube, spotify) nails the slow build
Jessy Lanza - "It Means I Love You" (youtube, spotify) goes Shaangan

Isn't that Riton song from past year? I remember hearing it last summer.

The Riton had releases in December and February. I don't get out much, so its all new to me.

This snuck onto iTunes and streaming services last week while I wasn't looking: the B-side of the forthcoming debut single by the brilliant Let's Eat Grandma, Sink. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Ah yes that list has some that I forgot and loved!

Car Seat Headrest, Kanye and Frank Ocean get my vote for most overrated albums this year tho

Brigid Mae Power - s/t
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings
David Bowie - Blackstar
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Big Thief - Masterpiece
Lucy Ducas - No Burden
Mitski - Puberty 2
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
Underworld - Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
SubRosa - For This We Fought the Battle of the Ages
Moodymann - DJ Kicks

Yeah, that Moodymann mix was pretty great.

Car Seat Headrest is proof that Payola extends to many critics as well. Ridiculously bland and forgettable

i'm not into his music either but isn't the guy sorta well known for gradually building up his following via self-released albums on bandcamp

50,000 bandcampers can't be wrong

My thirty favorite singles.

cupcakke - cum cake
big thief - masterpiece
young thug - my name is jefferey
mitski - puberty 2
lucy dacus - no burden
rae sremmurd - sremmlife 2
kyle hall - from joy
project pablo - beaubien dream ep
khotin - baikal acid
tommy awards - sessions ii
whitney - light upon the lake
wussy - forever sounds
sheer mag - iii
leon vynehall - rojus
kevin gates - islah
ezale & dj fresh - tonite show
noname - telefone
chance the rapper - coloring book

i feel like i'm forgetting a lot of stuff tho, just took a cursory scroll thru my downloads and wrote down the stuff that jumped out

Love your Big Thief call-out, flopson. Loving that album. An album for the half dozen or so guitar-focused indie rock fans here. Reminds me of a mix between Courtney Barnett and Laura Gibson (for those interested in that style of music).

Car Seat Headrest is proof that Payola extends to many critics as well. Ridiculously bland and forgettable

― beamish13

i thought car seat headrest is rock music. isn't rock music supposed to be bland and forgettable?

Nominate your Favorite Tracks + Albums 2016 itt: ILM's 2016 End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD

"Wow, that Mndsgn album is pretty good, jon123?"

Yes, it's absolutely wonderful. Reminds me of a cross between Junior Boys and Neon Indian. I urge everybody to shell out for it.

Sold.

Tracks:

Benedikt Frey - Out Of Here (Roman Flügel Cosmic Disco Drama Rework)
Bjorn Torske - Fuglekongen
Call Super - Nervous Sex Traffic
Dan Wainwright - Kabila Ngoma (Felix Dickinson Remix)
Dedication - Let Me Rock You
DJ Sotofett - Current 82 (12 Mix)
Earth Trax X Newborn Jr. - Sax Track
Earth Trax X Newborn Jr. - Flute Track
Emmanuelle - Italove
Emmanuelle - L'Uomo d'Affari
Fantastic Man - Fittin' & Turnin'
Fantastic Man - Galactic Ecstasy
Florian Kupfer - Elle
Harvey Sutherland - Bravado
Harvey Sutherland - Priestess
Igor Tipura - Dwams (Lauer Remix)
Lindstrom - Closing Shot
Mark Barrott - Cascades
Olin - People Fix
Omar-S - Sky Train (Chattanooga, TN-Mix)
Peggy Gou - Six O Six
Powder - Afrorgan
Prins Thomas - C (I:Cube Remix)
Psycho Radio vs LC Anderson- Bad Reputation (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi remix)
Nebraska - Khan's Bargain (Tom Noble Remix)
The Saint Petersburg Disco Spin Club - Neva Liv U
Sfire - Sfire 2 (Jamie Patton Remix)
Spike - Sometimes (Sexican Version) (Justin Van Der Volgen Remix)
Sultan Shakes - Interstellar Love (Young Marco's Trybal Dubb)
Unknown Artist - Better
Willie Burns & Tom Noble - Candid Fireworks (Tom Noble Remix)
Yoshinori Hayashi - Waterwheel Scenery (DJ Sotofett's Dubcurve fix-mix feat. Osaruxo)

Albums:

Bartosz Krucynski - Baltic Beat
Body-san ‎- Shining The Money Ball
Bookworms - Xenophone
CFCF - On Vacation
Crooked Man - Crooked Man
Dan Lissvik - Midnight
deep88 - The Black Album
D.K. - Island of Dreams
Dorisburg - Irrbloss
Floorplan - Victorious
Fred P - Sound Destination
Huerco S. - For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Kaseem Mosse - Disclosure
LNS - Maligne Range
Lord of the Isles - In Waves
Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island 2
Mind Lotion - Altitude Attitudes
Mood Hut - Snaker 007
Moscoman - A Shot in the Light
Nico Motte - Life Goes On If You Are Lucky
Omar S - The Best
The Pilotwings - Les Portos Du Brionnais
Prince of Denmark - 8
Prins Emanuel - Arbete/Fritid
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Psychemagik - Ritual Chants
Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
Roman Fluegel - All the Right Noises
Smith & Mudd - Gorthleck
SW. - untitled
Telephones - Vibe Telemetry
Tommy Awards - Sessions II
Various Artists - Disco Mantras
Various Artists - Sky Girl
Virginia - Fierce for the Night
Will Long/DJ Sprinkles - Long Trax
Wilson Tanner - 69
Wolf Mueller & Cass. - The Sound of Glades

EPs:

Andras - House of Dad
Antenna - Primavera
Convextion - Acido 22
Don't DJ - Authentic Exoticism
DJ Python - ¡Estéreo Bomba! Vol. 1
DJ Sonikku - Secret Island
DJ Wave - Above the Clouds
DJ Zozi - Mellow Vibe
Earth Boys - Feel The Rhythm
Ex-Terrestrial - Paraworld
Fantastic Man - Galactic Ecstasy
Globex - Inversia
Inoue Shirabe ‎– Achromatic Illusion
Jayda G - Jaydaisms
Jayda G - Sixth Spirit Of The Bay
Lnrdcroy - Ooze City
LNS - Heliacal Rising
Mark Seven - The Fatal Flaw in Disco
Mr. Fingers - Outer Acid
Mr TC - Surf and Destroy
Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot
Orson Wells - Missin' U
Ponzu Island - Ponzu Beach
Project Pablo - Priorities
Project Pablo - One For Some
R Wong - Life Principles
Samo DJ - Kicked Out of Everywhere
Sven Weisemann - Interlace Jitter
Suzanne Kraft - DJ-Safety
The System - The System EP
Toby Tobias - A Room for Babaette
Tolouse Low Trax - Rushing Into Water
UMFANG - Riffs
Various Artists - My House Is Not Your House II
Waffles - Waffles 003
Willow - Workshop 23

Kassem Mosse - Disclosure*

what's the deal with EPs this year? is this normally a thing bc i feel like it hasn't been in the past and this year every one has an EP list they're circulating.

^^^ Bjorn Torske - Fuglekongen

love this!

i could've made lists of EPs for the past several years but i was too lazy. i'm not sure why i decided to go ahead with it this year.

Dedication - Let Me Rock You

*clapping emoji*

Albums:

Vanishing Twin - Choose Your Own Adventure
Solange - A Seat at the Table
Emiliana Torrini - The Colorist & Emiliana Torrini (live)
Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beats\Invocation Trex
Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up To Monto
Cate Le Bon - Crab Day
Warpaint - Heads Up
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat To The Earth
Dawn Richard - Redemption
Mica Levi/Oliver Coates - Remain Calm
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Until The Hunter
Katie Gately - Color
Angel Olsen - My Woman
The Pattern Forms - Peel Away The Ivy
Beyonce - Lemonade
David Bowie - Blackstar
Radio Dept - Running Out of Love
Esperanza Spalding - Emilys D+evolution
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Marissa Nadler - Stranger

EPs:

Melodies Echo Chamber - From Pink They Fell Into Blue

Oh and that Lapsley/DJ KOZE "Operator" single is wonderful

Really feeling that Sky Girl mix. I checked it out earlier in the year, but didn't really click with me until now.

what's the deal with EPs this year? is this normally a thing bc i feel like it hasn't been in the past and this year every one has an EP list they're circulating.

― Mordy

i've just been listening to more eps lately myself. when i was younger eps seemed like a niche format for tracks that weren't good enough to put on an album proper, but lately there's some perception that music doesn't need to be either three or 45 minutes to be worth listening to.

i've just been lumping them in with albums this year, though. something like gorguts' "pleiades dust"- so it's 33 minutes and, what, an album is 35? not worth differentiating.

Some less-hyped albums I really loved this year:

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
Shearwater - Jet Plane & Oxbow
Field Music - Commontime
Ultimate Painting - Dusk
Saba - Bucket List Project
Big Thief - Masterpiece
Ultimate Painting - Dusk
Dinosaur Jr. - Give A Glimpse of What You Got

Also:

Terrace Martin - Velvet Portraits

karl - your picks are top notch.

yeah karl's post has become my listening for the rest of the month

That DJ Wave release is dope.

Really feeling that Sky Girl mix. I checked it out earlier in the year, but didn't really click with me until now.

― MikoMcha, Saturday, December 17, 2016 12:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is top 5 for me

I think the You're Me releases would make a fine addition to karl's list, esp to round out the Vancouver sounds.

Stuck between deciding on their 1080p album and the Isla tape, both were great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=822jL7Q4GKo

That DJ Wave release is dope.

― MikoMcha, Monday, December 19, 2016 12:52 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol @ this miyazaki sample

glad you guys like my list. looking forward to checking out You're Me

the sky girl comp is sooooo good. some other really good comps this year:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Midnite-Spares/release/8898464
https://www.discogs.com/Various-La-Torre-Volumen-Uno/master/1059191

and psychemagik's huge three disc ritual chants

that La Torre compilation is really good, I've played it a lot more than Mark Barrott's own albums

karl did you hear the copenhagen comp on music for dreams? probably one of my favorite releases this year

no, i need to hear it. i liked the one from last year

ok, here's my 2016 faves list to date. still not sure which of these i'm going to wind up picking as my noms!

albums/eps:

king - we are king
david bowie - blackstar
oranssi pazuzu - varahtelija
solange - a seat at the table
laura mvula - the dreaming room
gesu no kiwami otome - ryoseibai
kaitlyn aurelia smith - ears
melanie de biasio - blackened cities
van der graaf generator - do not disturb
floating points - kuiper
bob drake - arx pilosa
lume - cf371/xabregas 10
katie gately - color
emma ruth rundle - marked for death
beyonce - lemonade
noura mint seymali - arbina
v/a - typical girls
shabaka and the ancestors - wisdom of elders
metafive - metahalf
oddisee - the odd tape
bookworms - xenophobe
dalek - asphalt for eden
maxwell - blacksummers'night
aziza brahim - abbar el hamada
hieroglyphic being - the disco's of imhotep
leonard cohen - you want it darker
meta meta - mm3
sote - hardcore sounds from tehran
norteno 4.5 - vole, sone, y la ame
pun collins - circa 2061
glintshake - s/t
vnutrennee sgoranie - sebyaboyazn
nicolas jaar - sirens
the comet is coming - channel the spirits
exploded view - s/t
jakub simanky - face to face against american primitivism in eastern europe vol. 1
alexander obhukov - concerto for synthesizer & sequencer
josefin ohrn & the liberation - mirage
the frightnrs - nothing more to say
moor mother - fetish bones
laura cannell - simultaneous flight movement
ichicko aoba - mahoroboshiya
yndi halda - under summer
steve lehman - selebeyone
jack o the clock - repetitions of the old city
logan richardson - shift
the winstons - s/t
behold the arctopus - cognitive emancipation
comet control - center of the maze
home - falling into place
the cosmic range - new latitudes
la femme - mystere
jute gyte - funereal like a life in wait (split w/ecferus)
psychic lemon - s/t
khun narin - ii
lenguas largas - abba daddy
pedro soler & gaspar claus - al viento
mary lattimore - at the dam
clipping - splendor & misery
schoolboy q - blank face
tamer abu ghazaleh - thulth
euglossine - canopy stories
bent knee - say so
free salamander exhibit - undestroyed
goat - requiem
jute gyte - perdurance
ukandanz - awo
mile me deaf - the run
radiohead - a moon shaped pool
mukqs - walkthrough
thor and friends - s/t
decorum - vail
james chance & the contortions - the flesh is weak
alsarah & the nubatones - manara
jiboia - masala
vapors of morphine - a new low
test pattern - final transmission

tracks:

wednesday campanella - aladdin
tricot - blue habit
metafive - chemical
red velvet - russian roulette
nv - kata
linafornia - rargroovs
laura mvula - phenomenal woman
krallice - hyperion
jodie abacus - i'll be that friend
the veldt - in a quiet room
freescha - what in the rad
equiknoxx - porridge should be brown not green
decorum - near gone
boyboy - boy
avalon emerson - the frontier
solange - cranes in the sky
a tribe called quest - the space program
markus sommer - fucked up dinosauri
mega bog - 192014
rangda - to melt the moon
waclaw zimpel - lines
fantastic man - galactic ecstacy

nv - kata is such an odd little song, i like it

The albums I anticipate nominating and voting for in the EOY:

ГШ (Glintshake) - ОЭЩ МАГЗИУ (Moscow post punk)
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile - Continuum (Zurich minimal jazz)
LAM - LAM (Wacław Zimpel's minimal jazz trio)
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked for Death (gothic confessional songwriter)
Katie Gately - Color
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
Metá Metá - MM3 (Sao Paulo post-punk)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
King - We Are KING
65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe (outstanding game soundtrack)
Wacław Zimpel - Lines
GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object
Wardruna - Runaljod – Ragnarok (Nordic dark folk)
Autechre - elseq 1–5
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Until the Hunter (comfort brooding music)
Shura - Nothing's Real
LOTTO - Elite Feline (Warsaw spaghetti Western Necks)
Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body
Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings on Earth
Classixx - Faraway Reach
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate

I keep going back to that Nik Bärtsch's Mobile one, it's completely awesome.

The NV album is pretty cool. "Kata" is great. Also discovered she's in "ГШ (Glintshake)," whichh Brace just posted. I need to listen to them.

lamp, which volume were you referring to?

30 favourite records, chosen for the radio show I run. 14 made it into our year-end episode: https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-23-december-2016-best-of-2016

75 Dollar Bill – WOOD/METAL/PLASTIC/PATTERN/RHYTHM/ROCK (Thin Wrist)
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service (Epic)
Babyfather – “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow (Hyperdub)
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
El Yunque – Baskenland (Stabwaf)
Equiknoxx – Bird Sound Power (DDS)
Foodman – Ez Minzoku (Orange Milk)
Form a Log/Moth Cock – Split LP (Hausu Mountain)
Frank Ocean – Blonde
Ignatz – The Drain (Kraak)

Alain Pierre – Jan Zonder Vrees OST (Stroom)
Julius Eastman – Femenine (Frozen Reeds)
Kaitlyn Auriela Smith – EARS (Western Vinyl)
Kanye West – The Life Of Pablo (Def Jam)
Koen Holtkamp – Voice Model (Umor Rex)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Mute)
Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina (Glitterbeat Records)
Puce Mary – The Spiral (Posh Isolation)
Rangda – The Heretics Bargain (Drag City)
Razen – Endryhmes (Kraak)

Rick Parker / Li Daiguo – Free World Music
Sarah Davachi – Dominions (Jaz)
Seekersinternational – LoversDedicationStation ‎(Bokeh Versions)/ RaggaPreservationSociety (Diskotopia)
Solange – A Seat at the Table (Saint)
The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Bes (Nawa Recordings)
V/A – Mambos Levis D’Outro Mundo ‎(Principe)
V/A – Space Echo (Analog Africa)
Wadada Leo Smith – America’s National Parks (Cuneiform)
Washington Phillips – Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams (Dust-to-Digital)
Yves De Mey – Drawn With Shadow Pens (Spectrum Spools) / Sendai – Ground And Figure (Editions Mego)

My list: http://cancatervation.tumblr.com/post/155149428462/2016-music

My list: https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/best-albums-of-2016-2/

Another 33: favourite albums and EPs heard since my post itt on 29th July.

D∆WN - Redemption
Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol.13: Sunergy
Beyoncé - Lemonade
Adrian Younge - The Electronique Void: Black Noise
Britney Spears - Glory
The Pattern Forms - Peel Away The Ivy
The Hardy Tree - Through Passages of Time
The Bongolian - Moog Maximus
Plaid - The Digging Remedy
Tinashe - Nightride
Oval - Popp
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop - Love Letter For Fire
Noname - Telefone
Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
Kero Kero Bonito - Bonito Generation
Machinedrum - Human Energy
kiiara - low kii savage
Fantasia - The Definition Of…
Jean-Michel Jarre - Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise
Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
Hyuna - A’wesome
Vanishing Twin - Choose Your Own Adventure
Natalie Beredze - Guliagava
Marit Larsen - Joni Was Right Part II
Emma Pollock - In Search of Harperfield
Hologram Teen - Marsangst
Solange - A Seat At The Table
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte / I + J + K
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
Bridgit Mendler - Nemesis
Rubin Steiner - Vive l'electricité de la pensée humaine
Izzie Gibbs - Jutsu

I cobbled together a list that looks like this (my ILM ballot may resemble it, or it may not)

THE BEST ALBUMS:
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Kelsey Waldon - I've Got a Way
Noname - Telefone
Beyoncé - Lemonade
Mitski - Puberty 2
Miranda Lee Richards - Echoes of the Dreamtime
Sidibe - You Got the Luck
Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
David Bowie - Blackstar
Anohni - Hopelessness
Blaue Blume - Syzygy
Jordan Rakei - Cloak

THE REST:
Shura - Nothing's Real
Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night
Lydia Loveless - Real
Basia Bulat - Good Advice
The Cactus Blossoms - You're Dreaming
Pr0files - Jurassic Technologie
Yohuna - Patientness
Suede - Night Thoughts

THE BEST TRACK:
Sam Trump ft. Add-2 - "Brother" (https://youtu.be/UWpxnPhHzik)

THE REST:
Beyoncé - "All Night"
Empress Of - "Woman Is a Word"
Barli - "Insignificunts"
Nao - "Girlfriend"
Fantasia - "No Time For It"
Mitski - "Your Best American Girl"
Babaganouj - "Would You Like Me"
Charly Bliss - "Ruby"

Blurbed my 20 favorite songs, fwiw: http://bigtakeover.com/top-ten/Geoffrey-Stueven-170102

Shauf's "To You" is the new "new slang"

as it tends to do, this thread kinda broke me. anyways, i reformed and then finalized this playlist in belated and laborious fashion.

ILM's Rolling Favorite Tracks Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist