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

Bill Laurance is a real champ. I'll be talking about him on my top 25 thread when the honorable mentions section comes around. :thumb:

Yeah man. I was hooked when I heard his first album "Flint".

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Kewuku Collins - Nat Love



Released April 8th
[Hip Hop]

Track 1. Nat's Intro
Track 2. Stupid Rose
Track 3. Vanilla Skies
Track 4. Ego Killed Romance
Track 5. Everever (Oasis)
Track 6. Ghost
Track 7. Death of a Salesman.
Track 8. 1:30, Curbside
Track 9. The Outsiders
Track 10. The Last
Track 11. The Rain That Wouldn't Save

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Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp



Released April 1st
[lo-fi Indie Pop]

Track 1. In Heaven
Track 2. The Woman That Love You
Track 3. Rugged Country
Track 4. Everybody Wants to Love You
Track 5. Psychpomp
Track 6. Jane ***
Track 7. Heft
Track 8. Moon on the Bath
Track 9. Triple 7

Second half album is so different from the first. It's breathtaking.

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Mothers - When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired



Released February 26th
[Multi-Genre Indie/Alternative]

(Deluxe Edition Tracks)
Track 1. Too Small for Eyes
Track 2. It Hurts Until It Doesn't
Track 3. Copper Mines
Track 4. Nesting Behavior
Track 5. Lockjaw
Track 6. Blood-Letting
Track 7. Burden of Proof
Track 8. Hold Your Own Hand
Track 9. Accessory Cloud
Track 10. Paradise at Last
Track 11. Easy as Possible
Track 12. Get Around
Track 13. Mother and Wife

This is AOTY kind of stuff right here.

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Camp Cope - Camp Cope


^Tracks are out of order

Released April 22nd
[Indie/Alternative/Garage]

Track 1. Done
Track 2. Flesh and Electricity
Track 3. West Side Story
Track 4. Lost (Season Four)
Track 5. Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams
Track 6. Trepidation
Track 7. Stove Lighter
Track 8. Song for Charlie

One of my favorites from this year. Will definitely be on my list.

You know, I often feel like this too. Sometimes it's really hard to put into words how you feel about an album. You can listen to one and really love it, but how to communicate that to others? I often have trouble finding the words to translate my feelings about certain albums to others, so you're certainly not alone in that regard.

I'm gonna need to check out every album in here.

Expletives help.

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Mica Levi & Oliver Coates - Remain Calm



Released November 25th
[Experimental Electronica/Classical]

Track 1. Pre-Barok
Track 2. Bless Our Toes
Track 3. Dolphins Climb Onto Shore for The First Time
Track 4. Schoolhouse
Track 5. Dragon in the Mist
Track 6. I'll Keep Going
Track 7. Xhill Stepping
Track 8. Fight in the Men's Toilets
Track 9. Barok Main
Track 10. Country H
Track 11. New Wren Kitch
Track 12. Say Goodbye to Everyone
Track 13. Mob of Waters

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Ash Koosha - I AKA I



Released April 1
[Electronica/Glitch]

Track 1. Ote
Track 2. Feather
Track 3. Eluded
Track 4. In Line
Track 5. Mudafossil
Track 6. Hex
Track 7. Ooh Uhh
Track 8. Biutiful
Track 9. Full Moon
Track 10. Make it Fast
Track 11. Shah
Track 12. Snow
Track 13. Growl
Track 14. Too Many
Track 15. Needs

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Jherek Bischoff - Cistern



Released July 15
[Modern Classical/Alternative]

Track 1. Automatism
Track 2. Closer to Closure
Track 3. Cas(s)iopeia
Track 4. Headless
Track 5. Lemon
Track 6. Attuna
Track 7. The Wolf
Track 8. Cistern
Track 9. The Sea's Son

Welp. This is making my top list for sure. Holy sh*t. Fans of Godspeed You! Black Emperor would LOVE this. It never gets too loud or chaotic like GY!BE but it's still layered and beautiful. Check this sh*t out everybody.

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Ian William Craig - Centres



Released July 13th
[Ambient/Electronic]

Track 1. Contain (Astoria Version)
Track 2. A Single Hope
Track 3. Drifting to Void on All Sides
Track 4. The Nearness
Track 5. Set to Lapse
Track 6. Power Colour Spirit Animal
Track 7. Arrive, Arrive
Track 8. A Circle Without Having to Curve
Track 9. An Ocean You Could Only See
Track 10. Purpose (Is No Country)
Track 11. It Need Not Be Hopeless
Track 12. Innermost
Track 13. Contain (Cedar Version)

I know you said you’re not writing reviews but would you consider writing something up on this record on my Freak Fighter journal. I’m trying to get guest reviews on there.

Yeah I can do that. I'll add it to the list of reviews I have had to write since the dawn of time. Right behind Shaggy 2 Dope.

Actually, I'll probably do this at some point this week.

Look forward to it

Violent J, you nonce. Get the **** to it, bitch. It's been well over a year.

It's hard enough to even look at the cover, much less do a full scale review.

You know there's some part of you that wants to click on it out of morbid curiosity. It's a Psychopathic Records concept album about the Wizard of Oz and smoking weed. It's basically the ultimate artifact of musical stupidity and pop rap sex.

No. And your thread doesn't do much for convincing anybody either.

Then piss off and go listen to your bland hipster bull**** as you hang from your scarf in the closet while the life slowly drains from your beady, beaner eyes.