Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2016

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

Tony Malaby w/ Paloma Recio - Incantation Suite
Chris Abrahams - Fluid to the Influence
Thumbscrew - Convallaria
Jack DeJohnette - In Movement
Steve Khun - At This Time
Eric Revis Trio - Crowded Solitudes
Gregory Porter - Take Me To The Alley

maybe it's just an effect of seeing chris abrahams on calzino's list, but there is a definite the necks-ishness to the melanie de biasio record on first listen

yeah, i like the debiasio too.

not as much as her first album tho.

Enjoying Midday Veil album - SVIIB x Emperor Tomato Ketchup isn't quite the right comparison but it's halfway there.

oh is there a new midday veil

ALBUMS:

Brian Eno - The Ship
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
King - We Are King
Autechre - Elseq
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Prince Rama - Xtreme Now
Pr0files - Jurassic Technology

TRACKS
Fay-Ann Lyons - Hands In The Air
Olatunji - Oh Yay
Hypasounds - Sugar Rush
Nesbeth - My Dream
DJ Marfox - 2685
Alkaline - Champion Boy
Fracture & Deft -I Just
Tifa - Big Bumper

Seiho - Collapse

Enjoying this for now. Mostly ambient, often disjunctive, electronic music with jazzy bits. At times not far from Cornelius. I don't listen to too much music like this, so I don't think I have the right category slots or "sounds like artist x" to describe it.

Couple more albums:

Wrong - Wrong
Seratones - Get Gone

Selma Oxor - Fantasias de Tocador

Managed to list my albums/EPs. Mostly time travel stuff.

* Autechre - Elseq 1–5
* Babyfather - "BBF" Hosted By DJ Escrow
* Carl Gari & Abdulah Miniawy - Darraje EP
* El Yunque - Baskenland
* Foodman - Ez Minzoku
* Form a Log / Moth Cock - Split LP
* Good Willsmith - Things Our Bodies Used To Have
* Ian William Craig - Centres
* Ignatz - The Drain
* Kablam - Furiosa
* Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
* M. Geddes Gengras - Two Variations
* Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
* Rangda - The Heretics Bargain
* Razen - Endryhmes
* Sarah Davachi - Dominions
* Sonic Youth - Spinehead Sessions
* Steve Gunn - Eyes On The Lines
* V/A - Space Echo
* Yearning Kru - Copper Vale

Not so surprisingly the previous list is part of the radio show I'm running. Just uploaded this 'mid-year roundup' show on mixcloud (meaning I can take a summer break): https://www.mixcloud.com/Sterrenplaten/sterrenplaten-24-juni-2016-mid-year-roundup-2016

Thanks to Fat Cat's modern classical offshoot '130701' we had the chance to play a song from Ian William Craig's great 'Centres' and even an unreleased 2005 song of Set Fire To Flames, from the upcoming Eleven Into Fifteen compilation.

Also, show is in Dutch.

TRACKS
Kristin Kontrol - Show Me
Tegan and Sara - U-Turn
Satin Jackets ft. Scavenger Hunt - Feel Good
Usher - Crash

albums in no particular

brian fallon - painkillers
afrobeat makers - nu guinea - the tony allen experiments
kaitlyn aurelia smith - ears
sam beam & jesca hoop - love letter for fire
myrath - legacy
sturgill simpson - a sailor's guide to earth
beth orton - kidsticks
brandy clark - big day in a small town
neko case, k.d. lang, laura veirs - case/lang/veirs
a-wa - habib galbi
sunburst - ave africa: the complete recordings 1973-1976

Selected albums for half a 2016:

A Pleasure - Jream House
KING - We Are KING
Prins Thomas - Principe del Norte
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
The Gloaming - 2
Mary Lattimore - At The Dam
Aziza Brahim - Abbar al Hamada
Khun Narin - 2
Perfume - Cosmic Explorer
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
M83 - Junk
ANOHNI - HOPELESSNESS
Julianna Barwick - Will
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
Kedr Livanskiy - January Sun
Sonido Gallo Negro - Ecos de otro Mundo
V/A - Space Echo (The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed)
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Nite Jewel - Liquid Cool
Big Thief - Masterpiece

My favorite singles so far (Spotify link too).

2nd Khun Narin!

Brad Mehldau Trio - Blues and Ballads
Steven Julien - Fallen
Matthew Halsall - On The Go
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis - Azul Infinito
Rez Abbasi & Junction - Behind The Vibration
Antonio Adolfo - Tropical Infinito

Halftime addenda to our Winter list.

ALBUMS:
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears (spotify) Pastoral Berlin school
Nik Bärtsch's Mobile - Continuum (MODUL 29_14 on YouTube) Zen minimal jazz
Melt Yourself Down - Last Evenings on Earth (spotify) Nubian party punk
LOTTO - Elite Feline (bandcamp) Mantric Western, attn: Necks fans
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution (spotify) Joni + Pastorius redux
Peder Mannerfelt - Controlling Body (spotify) In Andy Stott's hood, ft. Glasser
Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate (spotify) Solid makeover.
Lyra Lynn - Resistor (spotify) Now banjoless and Lynchian.
The Knocks - 55 (spotify) NY Nu-disco pop.
Classixx - Faraway Reach (spotify) LA Nu-disco pop.
Autolux - Pussy's Dead (spotify) Best when Carla sings and chaos deferred.
Hammock - Everything and Nothing (spotify) More wistful postgaze.
Konono N°1 & Batida - Konono Meets Batida (spotify) Mbira churn.
Andy Stott - Too Many Voices (Butterflies on YoutTube) Suffocating ducking still his best idea.
Max Richter - Sleep Remixes (https://play.spotify.com/album/6pBq7xlUDUChkJZmy4jqD0) Fine adjunct when resequenced.

SINGLES:
Soldier's Heart - "Randy" (youtube) Formally perfect 80s earworm
Anohni - "Drone Bomb Me" (spotify) Modern Holiday, dedicated to Barack
Naadia/наадя - "Хорошо" (spoundcloud) Russophone Shambhala
ARO - "Cocaine Style" (youtube, spotify) Wisely avoided Osbourne vices
These Hidden Hands ft. Lucrecia Dalt - "These Moments Dismantled" (youtube, spotify) Hydraulic press little match girl
Shura - "What's It Gonna Be?" (youtube) Move over M83
Ekkah - "Small Talk" (youtube, spotify) 2nd single as consistent as Ronika.
Smerz - "Because" (youtube, spotify) Icy Norwegian R&B house
Christie & the Dream Beats - "Wasn't My Fault" (youtube, spotify) attn: CRJ & Swift fans
Kristin Kontrol - "X-Communicate" (spotify) Album highlight
Phantogram - "You Don't Get Me High Anymore" (youtube, spotify) Solid Shambhala
The Knocks - "Love Me Like That (feat. Carly Rae Jepson)" (spotify) 80s mid-tempo is a good look
White Sea - "Arcadia" (youtube, spotify) a good haunt
Lera Lynn - "Drive" (spotify) upbeat outlier on Lynchian album
La Femme - "Sphynx" (nsfw youtube, spotify) francophone minimal wave

Still want to listen to Pr0files and others upthread.

albums

jacquees x birdman - lost at sea
postiljonen - reverie
majid jordan -s/t
future - evol
rihanna - anti
chance - coloring book
dej loaf - all jokes aside
travis porter - 285
chris brown & OHB - before the trap: nights in tarzana
shura - nothings real
schoolboy q - blank face lp

trax

beyonce - formation; sorry
drake - one dance; 4pm in calabasas; summer 16
french f/ kodak black - lockjaw
50 cent f/ chris brown - im the man remix
dj esco f/ nef the pharoah & casey veggies - stupidly crazy
rihanna - nothing is promised
post malone - 40 funk
dizzie & calvin harris - hype
jeremih - oui
dreezy f/ jeremih - body
the-dream - first time in paris
madeinTYO - uber everywhere
a-wax - always something
james blake - i hope my life
uncle murda f/ french - all the way up remix

autechre - elseq 1-5
aphex twin - cheetah ep
david grubbs - prismrose
linda catlin smith - dirt road
Angharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji - ffansïon | fancies

a new Graham Lambkin album in October, titled 'Community'

the Cheetah ep is really good.

New Connections album is yet another great fake GBV (circa 90s) album. Better than anything Pollard can come up with these days.

Connections - Midnight Run

I've missed that Grubbs had a new one out. What's it like?

five tracks, only one brief track with vocals.. the rest is sort of like Grubbs' circular/spidery/repeating riffing/arpeggios, with loose and nimble drumming (free jazz-like, breezy, secondary to the more pronounced guitar patterns) -- basically Grubbs' guitar and drums (Eli Keszler) with subtle (synthesizer, added afterwards) flourishes/augmentation. Drag City doesn't charge for shipping within the US (for CD), not bad.

playlist is updated.

fave albums:

david bowie - blackstar
radiohead - a moon shaped pool
dexy's - let the record show: dexys do irish and country soul
william tyler - modern country
dorisburg - irrbloss
leon vynehall - rojus
steve gunn - eyes on the lines
king - we are king

Top 10 so far:
Parquet Courts - Human Performance 
BRONCHO - Double Vanity 
Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure
Kvelertak - Nattesferd 
Wrong - Wrong 
Denzel Curry - Imperial 
Blizaro - Cornucopia della morte 
Mitski - Puberty 2 
Seratones - Get Gone 
Horse Lords - Interventions 

self indulgent top 33 LPs and EPs so far:

Cavern of Anti-Matter - void beats/invocation trex
KING - We Are King
Esparanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution
Let’s Eat Grandma - I, Gemini
David Bowie - Blackstar
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
Giorgio Tuma - This Life Denied Me Your Love
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman
Algodón Egipcio - La Confianza Ciega
Margo Price - Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
Adrian Younge - Something About April II
The Dandelion Set - A Thousand Strands (1975-2015)
Shura - Nothing’s Real
Corinne Bailey Rae - The Heart Speaks In Whispers
A$AP Ferg - Always Strive and Prosper
Brandy Clark - Big Day In A Small Town
Brian Eno - The Ship
Anna Wise - The Feminine: Act 1
Lindstrøm - Wingdings
Floorplan - Victorious
Belbury Poly - New Ways Out
Astrobal - Australasie
K. Michelle - More Issues Than Vogue
Gemma Ray - The Exodus Suite
Marit Larsen - Joni Was Right
Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
Mr. Fingers - Outer Acid
DMX Krew - You Exist
Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night
Mýa - Smoove Jones
ABC - The Lexicon of Love II
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered
Cat’s Eyes - Treasure House

thanks Lowell!

Aireene Espiritu - Back Where I Belong
Bobby Avey - Inhuman Wilderness
Sri Hanuraga - To The Universe
Greg Ward - Touch My Beloved's Thought
Objekt - Kern, Vol 3
Jeff Parker - The New Breed
Axel Erotic - In Love With

I forgot this one.

Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family - Beginning of a Memory

iLe - Canibal

(Ironic alt latino sombrero tip to curmudgeon.)

Feels like I've heard loads of good music this year, but there are only a few clear standouts so far:

BONAFIDE CLASSICS:
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
Brian Eno - The Ship

GREAT - NEED TO LISTEN TO MORE:
Yemi Alade - Mama Africa The Diary of an African Woman
Young Thug - Slime Season 3
King - We Are King
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Floorplan - Victorious
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

PROBABLY GOOD BUT NOT LISTENED TO ENOUGH TIMES:
Prince Rama - Xtreme Now
Forteresse - Themes Pour La Rebellion
Polica - United Crushers
Pr0files - Jurassic Technology
Paul Jebanasam - Continuum
Roly Porter - Third Law

I'm sure I've missed a few big ones out...

Marit Larsen - Joni Was Right
Aurora - All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
Mr. Fingers - Outer Acid
DMX Krew - You Exist

"Joni Was Right" must have primed me, because I seriously read the last artist as DMX Knew.

My list.

Whyyyy do you guys like 1975!? Everytime I try to like them they just sound like an INXS tribute band and I don't even like INXS that much. What am I missing!?

I think if they were actually more like INXS, I'd find a reason to like them. But because they mostly sound like Duran Duran, I cannot.

cuz their moves are so raw

rolling and woefully incomplete best-of-2016: https://open.spotify.com/user/1239159458/playlist/2nTGXT3XMyWYVg7W4bcQwj

subtitle: at some point I should probably listen to something other than sviib