BEST OF 2016: (In no order) Sadistik - Salo Sessions EP Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid James Blake - The Color In Anything M83 - Junk ANTICIPATING: Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Lupe Fiasco - Skulls Lupe Fiasco - Roy Run the Jewels - RTJ 3 Gorillaz - TBA Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway Grizzly Bear - TBA Sadistik - TBA Ghostface KIllah & MF DOOM - TBA Bloc Party - TBA Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole - TBA At the Drive-In - TBA Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
You should change that title to 2016, Agent Sideburns. TOP ALBUMS 01 DAVID BOWIE | BLACKSTAR 02 RADIOHEAD | A MOON SHAPED POOL 03 KENDRICK LAMAR | UNTITLED. UNMASTERED. 04 TERRACE MARTIN | VELVET PORTRAITS 05 DEFTONES | GORE 06 HAELOS | FULL CIRCLE 07 PANIC! AT THE DISCO | DEATH OF A BACHELOR 08 ANDERSON .PAAK | MALIBU 09 FALL OF TROY | OK 10 KAWEHI | INTERAKTIV 11 IGGY POP | POST-POP DEPRESSION 12 LIGHTS | MIDNIGHT MACHINES 13 MAYER HAWTHORNE | MAN ABOUT TOWN This was tough to rank after the top 3. It's actually been a pretty good year for music releases... almost like it's making up for how shitty the year has been towards icons.
@Agent - The new Last Shadow Puppets album has been out well over a month and I can confirm its fucking good.
Here's my rankings for some of the albums I've enjoyed so far this year AS OF MAY 10/10 David Bowie - Blackstar (Still the most overall impressive album of 2016 to me) Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (VERY close 2nd, if it wasn't for Bowie's death making Blackstar more than just an album, this would be #1) 9/10 Deftones - Gore James Blake - The Colour in Anything Deakin - Sleep Cycle 8/10 Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered Death Grips - Bottomless Pit Parquet Courts - Human Performance Weezer - The White Album 7/10 Kanye West - The Life of Pablo M83 - Junk LOOKING FORWARD TO Linkin Park - LP7 (If it comes out this year) Lupe Fiasco DROGAS and ROY Run the Jewels - RTJ3 Swans - The Glowing Man
THE BEST The Black Queen - Fever Daydream Death Grips - Bottomless Pit * Haken - Affinity Vektor - Terminal Redux * THE GREAT David Bowie - Blackstar Deftones - Gore * Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered. Obscura - Akróasis Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool * Sioux Falls - Rot Forever Steven Wilson - 4½ THE GOOD Dream Theater - The Astonishing Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust * Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP THE OKAY / DISAPPONTING / BAD Kanye West - The Life of Pablo ANTICIPATING Black Crown Initiate - Selves We Cannot Forgive Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence Flume - Skin Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 Swans - The Glowing Man Thrice - To Be Everywhere is to Be Nowhere The Virginmarys - Divides TOP SONGS OF 2016 The Black Queen - Ice to Never Death Grips - Giving Bad People Good Ideas Deftones - Phantom Bride Haken - Earthrise Kendrick Lamar - untitled 6 Radiohead - Daydreaming Vektor - Pillars of Sand * = New Additions / Ranking Change
Best: Beyoncé - Lemonade Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book Good: James Blake - the Colour in Anything David Bowie - Blackstar Average: Deftones - Gore Kendrick Lamar - untitled. unmastered Death Grips - Bottomless Pit Kanye West - the Life of Pablo Disappointing: M83 - Junk Best Songs: Beyoncé - Formation James Blake - Modern Soul Radiohead - Present Tense Deftones - Phantom Bride (feat. Jerry Cantrell) Kanye West - Ultralight Beam (feat. Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price and the-Dream) David Bowie - Blackstar Chance the Rapper - Blessings
Fixed Oh yeah I heard it and forgot to update it in the list. I found it to be extremely disappointing. No punch at all, unlike the first album.
Really? I thought it was pretty delicate and charming. A bit too same-y, but short enough to be sweet.
Favorite albums of 2016 so far(in no particular order): * Death Grips - Bottomless Pit * Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth * Beyoncé - Lemonade * Weezer - White Album * Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered. * David Bowie – Blackstar * Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid * Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Since I've surpassed my steadfast rule of a Top 10, I'm doing some reorganizing and prettying up. Also before Gibs says anything, in previous lists I did ranking changes and a key. I didn't jack this from you, I'm just bringing it back. TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2016 01 DAVID BOWIE BLACKSTAR 02 RADIOHEAD A MOON SHAPED POOL 03 KENDRICK LAMAR UNTITLED. UNMASTERED. 04 TERRACE MARTIN VELVET PORTRAITS 05 DEFTONES GORE 06 PANIC! AT THE DISCO DEATH OF A BACHELOR^ 07 ANDERSON .PAAK MALIBUv 08 HAELOS FULL CIRCLEv 09 KAWEHI INTERAKTIV 10 IGGY POP POST-POP DEPRESSION GREAT ALBUMS 11 LIGHTS MIDNIGHT MACHINES 12 MAYER HAWTHORNE MAN ABOUT TOWN GOOD ALBUMS 13 THE FALL OF TROY OKv KEY # Signifies a new entry ^ Signifies a rise in ranking v Signifies a drop in ranking
Best: Beyoncé - Lemonade Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book Vektor - Terminal Redux Good: James Blake - the Colour in Anything David Bowie - Blackstar Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman Average: Deftones - Gore Kendrick Lamar - untitled. unmastered Death Grips - Bottomless Pit Kanye West - the Life of Pablo Disappointing: M83 - Junk Best Songs: Beyoncé - Formation James Blake - Modern Soul Radiohead - Present Tense Deftones - Phantom Bride (feat. Jerry Cantrell) Kanye West - Ultralight Beam (feat. Chance the Rapper, Kelly Price and the-Dream) David Bowie - Blackstar Chance the Rapper - Blessings Ariana Grande - Touch it Vektor - LCD (Liquid Crystal Disease)
THE BEST The Black Queen - Fever Daydream Death Grips - Bottomless Pit Haken - Affinity Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool * Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere * Vektor - Terminal Redux THE GREAT Beyoncé - Lemonade * David Bowie - Blackstar Deftones - Gore Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered. Obscura - Akróasis Sioux Falls - Rot Forever Steven Wilson - 4½ THE GOOD Dream Theater - The Astonishing Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP THE OKAY / DISAPPONTING / BAD Drake - Views * Kanye West - The Life of Pablo ANTICIPATING Black Crown Initiate - Selves We Cannot Forgive Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence Flume - Skin Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 3 Swans - The Glowing Man The Virginmarys - Divides TOP SONGS OF 2016 The Black Queen - Ice to Never Death Grips - Giving Bad People Good Ideas Deftones - Phantom Bride Haken - Earthrise Kendrick Lamar - untitled 6 Radiohead - Daydreaming Thrice - Hurricane * Vektor - Pillars of Sand * = New Additions / Ranking Change
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2016 01 DAVID BOWIE BLACKSTAR 02 RADIOHEAD A MOON SHAPED POOL 03 KENDRICK LAMAR UNTITLED. UNMASTERED. 04 TERRACE MARTIN VELVET PORTRAITS 05 DEFTONES GORE 06 PANIC! AT THE DISCO DEATH OF A BACHELOR 07 ANDERSON .PAAK MALIBU 08 CHANCE THE RAPPER COLORING BOOK# 09 HAELOS FULL CIRCLE 10 KAWEHI INTERAKTIV GREAT ALBUMS 11 IGGY POP POST-POP DEPRESSIONv 12 LIGHTS MIDNIGHT MACHINES 13 WEEZER THE WHITE ALBUM# 14 MAYER HAWTHORNE MAN ABOUT TOWN GOOD ALBUMS 15 THE FALL OF TROY OK KEY # Signifies a new entry ^ Signifies a rise in ranking, taking into account new entries v Signifies a drop in ranking, taking into account new entries
★★★ 01 | David Bowie - Blackstar 02 | Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 03 | Moderat - III 04 | Flume - Skin 05 | HAELOS - Full Circle 06 | Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered 07 | James Blake - The Colour In Anything 08 | Deftones - Gore 09 | Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere 10 | Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book ★★ Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun Beacon - Escapements Anderson .Paak - Malibu De Staat - O Poliça - United Crushers M83 - Junk ★ ANTICIPATING Red Hot Chilli Peppers - The Getaway Mogwai - Atomic De La Soul - And The Anonymous Nobody Phantogram - LP 3 Linkin Park - LP 7 Nine Inch Nails - LP 9 (?) Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 The XX - LP 3 Massive Attack - LP 6 Mura Masa - LP 1
Anticipating: Linkin Park-LP7 Metallica-LP10 System Of A Down-don't know honestly, not so likely. Sabaton-The Last Stand Gorillaz-??? Helmet-??? Lady Gaga-LP5 Avenged Sevenfold-??? Nine Inch Nails-??? KоЯn-??? The Dillinger Escape Plan-??? Rick Asley-50 In Flames-TBA †††-???; Chino announced they were working on an album. Black Veil Brides-???; not so interested but whatever Queens of the Stone Age-??? Falling in Reverse-???; not so interested but whatever Green Day-??? Bon Jovi-??? Paramore-??? Of Mice & Men-TBA Papa Roach-??? Deftones-Eros; highly unlikely to be released this year. Limp Bizkit-Stampede of the Disco Elephants Fort Minor-??? Pink Guy's mixtape The Exploited-???; highly unlikely. Tool fans eat yourselves, those guys haven't put out an album cince 2002. Aaaaaand we all know this won't happen in the next 1,000 decades... Tool-??? Great albums: Architects-All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us (each song is a 9 and a 10 but as a whole the album is an 8.5 for me, too repetitive) Deftones-Gore (at first it was a 7, took time to grow on me but once it did, it became even more awesome, 9/10) Lights-Midnight Machines Recode The Subliminal-The Cost of Every Man Good albums: Grip-Pętla Iluzj Killswitch Engage-Incarnate Deuce-Invincible Meh: Beartooth-Agressive Asking Alexandria-The Black POST TO BE EDITED IN THE NEAR FUTURE I will write down the other stuff that I anticipate tomorrow since I don't have time now.
Very sparse year so far with just Christy Moore's album "Lily" (7/10) released. That's gonna change though, there's some heavyweights on the way; Metallica started mixing their 10th album, so that's definitely coming out later this year, possibly around October. Opeth just announce a new album, "Sorceress", which will be released late this year. Russian Circles new album "Guidance" is out August 5th. This is the first song, "Vorel": [video=youtube;VKJVYQtkPnc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKJVYQtkPnc[/video] Scale the Summit's Chris Lethford has a second solo album due this year (islnds - "History of Robots"). Suns of the Tundra are planning some kind of multi-EP or album project, as are Geyser. Still is the writing stages are: Tool (looks highly unlikely they'll get an album out this year, though they might hit the studio by years end), Alice in Chains, LP.
Top Albums of the Year: (Huge update, 21 albums added. * and Bold= new entry) 1. Kanye West- The Life of Pablo 2. Beartooth- Agressive* 3. Red Hot Chili Peppers- The Getaway* 4. Saosin- Along The Shadow* 5. Dierks Bentley- Black* 6. Cole Swindell- You Should Be Here 7. Kendrick Lamar- Untitled, Unmastered 8. Asking Alexandria- The Black 9. Ariana Grande- Dangerous Woman* 10. Daughter- Not to Disappear 11. Kygo- Cloud Nine* 12. Cassadee Pope- Summer* 13. Birdy- Beautiful Lies 14. Keith Urban- Ripcord 15. The Joy Formidable- Hitch* 16. Real Friends- The Home Inside My Head* 17. Flume- Skin* [Some of the features could have been better] 18. Explosions In the Sky- Wilderness 19. The World Alive- Dark Matter 20. The Summer Set- Stories For Monday 21. Pinegrove- Cardinals* 22. Basement- Promise Everything 23. Lacey Sturm- Life Screams 24. Chance The Rapper- Coloring Book* 25. Simple Plan- Taking One For The Team 26. Rouge Wave- Delusions of Grand Fur 27. A Reason to Breathe- An Ocean Inside Me 28. Steven Wilson- 4 1/2 29. Rihanna- ANTI 30. Dan + Shay- Obsessed* 31. I See Stars- Treehouse* 32. Mike Snow- iii 33. Jennifer Nettles- Playing With Fire* 34. Frankie Ballard- El Camino* 35. Blake Shelton- If I'm Honest* 36. Issues- Headspace* 37. Sick Puppies- Fury* 38. Smile Empty Soul- Shapshifter 39. Dire Fire- Two Worlds 40. Like Pacific- Chasing Shadows 41. Peirce The Veil- Misadventures* 42. Angels and Airwaves- Chasing Shadows 43. M83- Junk* Top Songs of the Year: https://open.spotify.com/user/123591090/playlist/5ESD3jYdZ2L7rMjqDyKz3b Special Shoutout to Make Out by Julia Nunes and Dark Necessities by Red Hot Chili Peppers
★★★ 01 | David Bowie - Blackstar 02 | Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 03 | Moderat - III 04 | Red Hot Chilli Peppers - The Getaway 05 | HAELOS - Full Circle 06 | Flume - Skin 07 | Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered 08 | Deftones - Gore 09 | Thrice - To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere 10 | Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book ★★ James Blake - The Colour In Anything Mark Pritchard - Under The Sun Beacon - Escapements Anderson .Paak - Malibu De Staat - O Poliça - United Crushers M83 - Junk ★ ANTICIPATING Mogwai - Atomic De La Soul - And The Anonymous Nobody Phantogram - LP 3 Linkin Park - LP 7 Nine Inch Nails - LP 9 (?) Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 The XX - LP 3 Massive Attack - LP 6 Mura Masa - LP 1
GREAT ALBUMS Ignite - A War Against You Red Hot Chilli Peppers - The Getaway GOOD ALBUMS Turbostaat - Abalonia Massendefekt - Echos OK ALBUMS FJØRT - Kontakt Royal Republic - Weekend Man ANTICIPATING Sum 41 - 13 Voices Billy Talent - Afraid Of Heights