Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2016

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.

I love that Waclaw Zimpel album a lot, will be checking out his earlier works.

https://youtu.be/a8QMDNK9-kI

μ-Ziq - Aberystwyth Marine - full album (2016)

February/March favs:

Matt Elliott - The Calm Before
Ulaan Passerine - The Great Unwiding
Mary Lattimore - At the Dam
Dreamboat - Dreamboat
Good Willsmith - Things Our Bodies Used To Have
Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain
Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion
Paul Jebanasam - Continuum

Haven't heard the full new Willie Rosario album yet, but this track from it is first rate:

Willie Rosario - Ya No Eres Nada

From the last few weeks, enjoying these albums a lot:

Anenon - Petrol
Night Moves - Pennied Days
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
Steve Mason - Meet the Humans
Underworld - Barbara Barbara, we face a shiny future

marc baron - carnets

Playlist is updated through March.

Rolling Favorite Tracks 2016 Thread Spotify Playlist

(Please note that due to the snowballing onerousness of trying to backtrack and update the entire thread stem to stern, I'm only updating entries made since March 1 to this particular playlist. I'll do a clean sweep at the end of the year to mop up anything that got added to catalogue later. If there's a track that you think really needs immediate inclusion, bring it back up again onthread and it'll get added in the next month of housekeeping.)

Does that mean I shouldn't post my March faves list until 1 April?

post em when you got em! this is all just playlist stuff.

I'm overdue for an update here. With Spotify links!

Florio - Want You
Savages- Adore
case/lang/veirs - Atomic Number
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate
Baauer ft. M.I.A. & G-Dragon - Temple
PJ Harvey - The Community of Hope
Wussy - She's Killed Hundreds
Beyonce - Sorry

April keepers:

Jazz, Cosmic, Heavy Kraut
Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers
Our Solar System - In Time

Melancholic, Sad Folk, Goth-ish
And Also the Trees - Born Into the Waves
Marissa Nadler - Strangers

Experimental-ish
Mamiffer - The World Unseen
Colin Stetson - Sorrow - A Reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony

Guitar wanderings
Gaspar Claus & Pedro Soler - Al Viento
Western Skies Motel - Settlers

Psychedelic rock, Dreamy
Mars Red Sky - Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul)
Yeti Lane - L'aurore

Metal
Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night

Rock for driving around in the countryside
Steve Gunn - Eyes on the Line

(I'd say it was a pretty good month)

Here's my running list on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/lists/Favorites-of-2016/269401

Playlist is updated through April.

Rolling Favorite Tracks 2016 Thread Spotify Playlist

Also Beyonce's "Daddy Lessons" is setting the bar for best song of the year for me right now.

Suuns Hold/Still which I've been patiently waiting for for three years is out, and is great/difficult/challenging.

Tidal link: http://s3-web.tidal.com/us/store/artist/3783691

please be the guy who does the same thing i'm doing it but does it on tidal and we both scrupulously step around each other with rare passive aggressive hints of the seething anger just below the surface

Someone else will have to do that. Glad to see Suuns getting some attention elsewhere!

So far this year has been fruitful. Stuff that's latched on for repeated listens:

Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
Odd Nosdam - Sisters (BoC remix too!!!)
Pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered
Sound of Ceres - Nostalgia for Infinity
Ital Tek - Hollowed
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
dälek - Asphalt for Eden
Brian Eno - The Ship

Singles - only one:
Lindstrøm - Closing Shot

Denzel Curry - Imperial
Parquet Courts - Human Performance

Full Crate Ft. Gia Koka - Son Of A Gun

Another Man's Woman - TEEN

My singles:

1. Alex Anwandter – Siempre Es Viernes En Mi Corazón
2. Maxwell – Lake By the Ocean
3. Rihanna – Kiss It Better
4. Brandy Clark – Girl Next Door
5. BTS – Run
6. Corinne Bailey Rae – Been to the Moon
7. Eric Church – Record Year
8. Azealia Banks – Can’t Do It Like Me
9. Jason Derulo – If It Ain’t Love
10. Katy B & Chris Lorenzo – I Wanna Be
11. TT the Artist & Snappy Jit – Dig
12. Grimes – Kill V. Maim
13. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled 02 06.23.2014.
14. Tegan and Sara – Boyfriend
15. Mannie Fresh ft. Juvenile & Tunechi – Hate
16. Clare Dunn – Tuxedo
17. Ladies’ Code – Galaxy
18. Taemin – Press Your Number
19. Mamamoo – Taller Than You
20. Prince Royce – Culpa al Corazón
21. Riton ft. Kah-lo – Rinse & Repeat
22. Pet Shop Boys – The Pop Kids
23. Ulises Hadjis ft. Gepe – Movimiento
24. Mamamoo – Taller Than You
25. Kevin Gates – 2 Phones
26. Jeremih – Oui
27. Erykah Badu – Phone Down
28. Esperanza Spalding – Good Lava
29. Morning Musume ’15 – Tsumetai Kaze to Kataomoi
30. Chloe x Halle – Drop

Radiohead - Burn the Witch

:D

Oohhh did they review Phone Down on TSJ? I should look that up

albums so far

1. Beyoncé, Lemonade
2. King, We Are King
3. K. Michelle, More Issues Than Vogue
4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Ears
5. Cardi B, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1
6. Anohni, Hopelessness
7. Tweet, Charlene
8. Brothers Osborne, Pawn Shop
9. Yemi Alade, Mama Africa
10. Skepta, Konnichiwa
11. Corinne Bailey Rae, The Heart Speaks In Whispers
12. Kyle Hall, From Joy
13. Katy B, Honey
14. Stereociti, Lost Land
15. Ricky Blaze, Conquer The Moment
16. Kevin Gates, Islah
17. Cassy, Donna
18. School Of Seven Bells, SVIIB
19. Kamaiyah, A Good Night In The Ghetto
20. Aubrie Sellers, New City Blues

Favorite 10 March/ 10 April songs - sounds like some sort of a party playlist

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - Meticulous Bird
NVDES - The Other Side
Still Corners - Horses At Night
Kenton Slash Demon - TT
Lindstrom - Closing Shot
Mr. Fingers - Qwazars
Leon Vynehall - Saxony
Sofi Tukker - Hey Lion
David August - JBY
Justin Jay - What Do You Want
A. K. Paul - Landcruisin'
Manila Killa - All Thats Left (The M Machine remix)
Maria Usbeck - Moai Y Yo
HONNE - Someone that loves you
Snoh Aalegra - Under the Influence
Fujiya & Miyagi - Serotonin Rushes
Death in the Afternoon - We Don't Have to go out tonight
Carmody - Skin
Deakin - Golden Chords
Damien Jurado - Lon Bella

Drake - Too Good (feat. Rihanna)

has also been making the rounds but that one's for May, there's no Drake in the playlist so far I'm terribly sorry.

record makers france is pretty cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNvye72Cpx0

A. K. Paul - Landcruisin'

yessssssssssssssss

MELANIE DE BIASIO - BLACKENED CITIES

that is all

That Melanie De Biasio is amazing. Tell me more.

i enjoyed it as well

New Melanie De Biasio is amazing - Lynch noir meets In a Silent Way. Oh and for those who want to know more, she's a Belgian jazz singer. Previous album, No Deal, is well worth checking out. Was thinking of starting a thread.

i *loved* no deal, look forward to hearing the new 'un

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