Rolling Favorite Tracks + Albums 2016

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