The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2016 - Pitchfork choice
 

Aphex Twin-Cheetah
Autechre-elseq 1
The Avalanches-Wildflower
Marie Davidson-Adieux Au Dancefloor
Beatrice Dillon/Rupert Clervaux-Two Changes
DJ Earl-Open Your Eyes
Nicolas Jaar-Sirens
Jubilee-After Hours
Kornél Kovács-The Bells
Mndsgn-Body Wash
Moodymann-DJ-Kicks
Motion Graphics-Motion Graphics
Mr. Fingers-Outer Acid EP
Nite-Funk-Nite-Funk
The Range-Potential
Omar S-The Best
Shy Layers-Shy Layers
Studio OST-Scenes 2012-2015
Various Artists-DJ Koze Presents Pampa Vol. 1
Leon Vynehall-Rojus

I personally heard only 3 albums from the list, but all was great. Hope anybody will find some good music too.

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Only heard these but they are indeed great.

I stopped paying attention to Pitchfork when I learned that they go back and edit their reviews and ratings to look like they were always ahead of the current.

wait, actually? i know they re-review sometimes and change scores, but do you mean like they actively do this without telling people?

I don't know to what degree they still do it, since they're under a bigger spotlight now, but they've deleted and edited reviews in the past. E.g., UNKLE's Psyence Fiction was initially given a 9.8 and that review went missing. They also panned Belle & Sebastian's The Boy with the Arab Strap (0.8) in a review that has disappeared. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea originally received a. 8.7 but now its a 10. There are a couple of others I've forgotten where the initial review was mediocre, then after the album exploded the review was bumped up.

My understanding of their current process is that every album gets a bunch of reviews and a range of ratings from their writers, then Pitchfork picks the Pitchforkiest review and runs with that.

Huh. I stopped reading their reviews awhile ago because I'm so lazy I would rather listen to some review an album on YouTube, but that's still kind of upsetting.

p4k's tastes rarely align with my own, but I've listened to very little from this year so is there anything from this list that is "must hear" material?

I'd say that the Autechre and Avalanches releases are.

mine though:

1. Shpongle - Are you Shpongled?
2. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
3. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
4. Hallucinogen - Twisted
5. World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
6. Gridlock - Formless
7. Enzyme X - Component 1/2
8. Biosphere - Cirque
9. Biosphere - Shenzhou
10. Gridlock - Formless
11. Orphx - Insurgent Flows
12. Phutureprimitive - Kinetik
13. Two Lone Swordsmen - The Fifth Mission (Return to the Flightpath Estate)
14. The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
15. Vibrasphere - Archipelago
16. Phutureprimitive - Sub Conscious
17 . Texas Faggot - Petoman's Peflett
18. Tipper - Relish the Trough
19. The Mystery of the Yeti - The Mystery of the Yeti
20. Muslimgauze - Mullah Said

plot twist: I misunderstood

yeah Autechre and Aphex Twin were the two that I recognized and figured id enjoy. Have never been a giant fan of the Avalanches first record, and heard this one was worse so I never bothered.

2016 feels like it's been going on for decades.

remember 1841? those were the days

Way to kill my joke.

You might like the Jaar album.

way to handle male genitals

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Aphex Twin and The Avalanches were among the loudest come-backs of the year, the latter didn't impress me. Among these 20 releases I'd strongly recommend Nicolas Jaar. Also if you like house music don't miss out on Omar S-The Best and Various Artists-DJ Koze Presents Pampa Vol. 1, both enjoyable records.

As for P4k reviews their quality often appeared questionable to me, and with what Paedantic Basterd said about them post-editing the texts they don't deserve much credit. Still this web-site can be useful to get the notion of what's trending.

No Adventure Club or Deadmau5?

Sad.