Best Albums of 2016

OccultHawk · 11-27-2017, 11:54 AM

Get your dog and come over <3

OccultHawk · 02-11-2018, 09:04 AM

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I haven't been logged on to this site for a year or half a year - I don't even remember!

My top whatever of 2016:

1. Céu - Tropix
2. Stam1na - Elokuutio
3. Suzanne Vega - Lover, Beloved. Songs from an Evening with Carson McMullers
4. Olga Bell - Tempo
5. Bent Knee - Say So
6. Sinistro - Semente
7. Camila Meza - Traces
8. Arc Iris - Moon Saloon
9. PJ Harvey - the Hope Six Demolition Project
10. The Agonist - Five
11. Be'Lakor - Vessels
12. Eths - Ankaa
13. Faun Fables - Born of the Sun
14. Fiona Brice - Postcards From
15. Ihsahn - Arktis
16. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
17. Megadeth - Dystopia
18. Kate Bush - Before the Dawn
19. Katie Gately - Color

Would you please write a review of Color by Katie Gately my my Freak Fighter journal?

~~MicShazam~~ · 02-11-2018, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Would you please write a review of Color by Katie Gately my my Freak Fighter journal?

I don't think I'm very good at writing reviews, but I'll do it if you want me to. I really need to go back and listen to that album some more anyway.

OccultHawk · 02-11-2018, 12:10 PM

Thanks

OccultHawk · 05-15-2018, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Alright. F*ck this. I'm doing the list. I'll be finding new albums from this year for the next 8 months so let's get this over with while it's still relevant. I hate numerical ranking so these will be broken down into categories with a best of the best section. I'm including EPs. Here we go.

Exo's Best of 2016 Pile

Albums I loved that will bite your face off

Show Me the Body - Body War
Swans - The Glowing Man
Gorguts - Pleiades Dust
Krallice - Hyperion
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
JAMBINAI - A Hermitage
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Oathbreaker - Rheia
Swain - The Long Dark Blue
Creepoid - Burner
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
Street Sects - End Position
Animals as Leaders - The Madness of Many

Hip Hop/Pop

Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Anderson Paak. - Malibu
Chance The Rapper - Coloring book
L'Orange - The Life and Death of Scenery
Noname - Telefone
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
RY X - Dawn
Kweku Collins - Nat Love
KAYTRANADA - 99%
ANOHNI - HOPELESSNESS
Dälek - Asphalt for Eden
A Tribe Called Quest - We got from Here...Thank You 4 Your service
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3
Mounika - Seagulls

Jazz and stuff that sounds Jazzy

Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus
Sarathy Korwar - Day to Day
Logan Richardson - Shift
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
Saib - Around the World
Mammal Hands - Floa
Papadosio - Pattern Integrities
Neil Cowley Trio - Spacebound Apes
Stu Hunter - The Migration
Donny McCaslin - Beyond Now

Solo Artists of all genres

Mick Harvey - Delirium Tremens
Esmé Patterson - We Were Wild
Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
David Bowie - Black Star
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN
Keaton Henson - Kindly Now
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
Ash Koosha - I AKA I
William Tyler - Modern Country
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked For Death
Mitski - Puberty 2
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
Nick Waterhouse - Never Twice
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
Jherek Biscoff - Cistern
Brian Eno - The Ship

Everything else that was awesome that didn't fit into the four sections above

Big Thief - Masterpiece
DIIV - Is the Is Are
The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free
Flamingosis - Pleasure Palette
Imarhan - Imarhan
Kayo Dot - Plastic House On Base Of Sky
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
The Most - At Once
Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Stage Kids - Intra Mental
Camp Cope - Camp Cope
Mothers - When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Plush - Please
Living Hour - Living Hour
Magic Shoppe - Wonderland
The Derevolutions - I Feel a Goo World
The Men - At Most
Touché Amoré - Stage Four

Okay. I think that's all. I may have missed one or two. Oh well. It's done. For those of you who think that's way too much and want a top 5, here you go. No order. These are my five favorite albums of the year.

Jherek Biscoff - Cistern
David Bowie - Black Star
Swans - The Glowing Man
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities

Are you sure about Mammal Hands? I’m just listening to it for 2016 in review for Freak Fighter and... I think this is terrible. Are you willing to stand behind this choice or do you think maybe you just never really listened to it very closely? Not picking a fight just checking.

**Exo** · 05-15-2018, 05:06 PM

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Are you sure about Mammal Hands? I’m just listening to it for 2016 in review for Freak Fighter and... I think this is terrible. Are you willing to stand behind this choice or do you think maybe you just never really listened to it very closely? Not picking a fight just checking.

Nah dude. I dig that kind of stuff. Nothing particularly groundbreaking here. Rhythmic jazz that is almost orchestral in a cinematic way with winds and piano. Listen to these two tracks and tell me if they're different from Mammal Hands. I think they're very similar and I dig that sound.

OccultHawk · 05-15-2018, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Nah dude. I dig that kind of stuff. Nothing particularly groundbreaking here. Rhythmic jazz that is almost orchestral in a cinematic way with winds and piano. Listen to these two tracks and tell me if they're different from Mammal Hands. I think they're very similar and I dig that sound.

Both of those sound good. Maybe I was just feeling salty this morning.

OccultHawk · 12-24-2018, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Blank.

My top 5 for the year.

Chevelle - The North Corridor
Zao - The Well-intentioned Virus
Opeth - Sorceress
Korn - The Surrenity Of Suffering
Brant Bjork - Tao of the Devil

Please review Opeth - Sorceress on Freak Fighter

HowardThomas · 02-11-2019, 10:30 PM

Nice, the list is pretty connecting to me. I own each one of this album and all these music albums are simply amazing.

ziggywas · 02-15-2019, 11:42 AM

i have a best of 2016. here it is:

top 3
aesop rock - the impossible kid
iggy pop-post pop depression.
Mark Ernestus ndagga rhythm force

and then:

radiohead
fews-means
a tribe called quest
and jesus and mary chain.

ps i also have a favorite 2016 music video:
dj shadow+RTJ nobody speak

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HowardThomas Groupie Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 20	Nice, the list is pretty connecting to me. I own each one of this album and all these music albums are simply amazing.

02-15-2019, 11:42 AM	#310 (permalink)
ziggywas Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 289	i have a best of 2016. here it is: top 3 aesop rock - the impossible kid iggy pop-post pop depression. Mark Ernestus ndagga rhythm force and then: radiohead fews-means a tribe called quest and jesus and mary chain. ps i also have a favorite 2016 music video: dj shadow+RTJ nobody speak