Exo's 2016 Album Dump
 

This is my favorite time of year. Every music blog/site/critic is publishing their best of the year lists which means I get to rake in all the unknown sh*t that flew over my head over the course of the year. It's very exciting. This thread is not going to be a review thread as I generally suck at expressing my opinion on music through words. I've just never really been able to get past the "You should check this out it's good. Why? Because...uhhhh...it is." phase. I'll still post my personal top list in the Best of 2016 thread but this is going to be where I dump all the interesting sh*t that just can't comprise that list unless I make it a top 100.

Plus, sometimes I don't feel like reading something. I just want to listen to the album. This is a thread for that. Straight to the point.

So, yeah. Here we go.

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Melanie de Biasio - Blackened Cities EP



Released May 20
[Jazzy Post Rock]

Track 1. Blackened Cities

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Oren Ambarchi - Hubris



Released November 10th
[Experimental Rock/Electronic]

Track 1. Hubris (Part 1)
Track 2. Hubris (Part 2)
Track 3. Hubris (Part 3)

Nice, Oren Ambarchi is some good stuff. Behold was one of my favourites for 2015.

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Stu Hunter - The Migration



Released January 7th
[Jazz Bop]

Track 1. Dawn Chorus
Track 2. Eagle Fish
Track 3. Revelation
Track 4. Twelve Stages of Freedom
Track 5. Requiem for Belief
Track 6. The River at Dusk
Track 7. Goodnight My Love
Track 8. Mdu Moonshine
Track 9. Land of Gypsies

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Mammal Hands - Floa



Released May 26th
[Jazz/Contemporary Classical]

Track 1. Quiet Fire
Track 2. Hillum
Track 3. Hourglass
Track 4. Think Anything
Track 5. In The Treetops
Track 6. The Eyes that Saw the Mountain
Track 7. Kudu
Track 8. The Falling Dream
Track 9. Shift

Yeah I've been listening to him a bunch lately. This new one is hypnotic.

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ANOHNI - Hopelessness



Released May 6th
[Electronic Synthpop]

Track 1. Drone Bomb Me
Track 2. 4 Degrees
Track 3. Watch Me
Track 4. Execution
Track 5. I Don't Love You Anymore
Track 6. Obama
Track 7. Violent Me
Track 8. Why Did You Separate Me From the Earth
Track 9. Crisis
Track 10. Hopelessness
Track 11. Marrow

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Bill Laurance - Aftersun



Release March 4th
[Jazz/Electronic]

Track 1. SOTI
Track 2. The Pines
Track 3. Time to Run
Track 4. Madeline
Track 5. Bullet
Track 6. Aftersun
Track 7. First Light
Track 8. Golden Hour
Track 9. A Blaze

If you like Snarky Puppy you'd like this.

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Africaine 808 - Basar



Released February 19th
[Funky Electronica/Jazz/Synthbass]

Track 1. The Awakening
Track 2. Ngoni
Track 3. Language of the Bass
Track 4. Nation
Track 5. Ready for Something New
Track 6. Basar
Track 7. Rhythm is All You Can Dance
Track 8. Crawfish Got Soul
Track 9. Balla Balla
Track 10. Yes We Can
Track 11. Fallen From the Stars
Track 12. The Lord is a Woman
Track 13. Tummy Tummy