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January 2016 resumé

This is no top ten list, it is just a bunch of records I've heard, that were released this month. Not the ones I've heard this month, but ones that were RELEASED this month. Therefore, as the time goes, I'll be adding more items on the list, since I listen to stuff constantly. By the way, the names occasionally written under the comments are titles of songs that I recommend. If there are none written, it's either because I didn't like enough of them or because I can't point out a highlight. And now a score guide: 10/9 - 5; 8 - 4.5; 7 - 4; 6 - 3.5/3; 5 - 2.5; 4 - 2; 3 - 1.5; 2/1 - 1‎
1Krallice
Hyperion


I think they just threw in everything that they already had from their previous albums. Just some leftovers mixed in together. 6/10
2Mechanimal
Delta Pi Delta


The vocals on this thing, when they're not almost whispering, thery're simply unimpressive. Not that they're bad, but just passable. And on top of that some very sterile electronic music that will make you yawn. 5/10
3David Bowie
Blackstar


I think whatever I'll say about this has already been said. It's just a great album. Bowie's swan song that presents his life as one big performance and this is the closing act. 8/10

Blackstar, Lazarus, Sue (Or In The Season Of Crime), Girl Loves Me
4The Lion's Daughter
Existence Is Horror


Probably the only negative thing is that some songs just end immediately after a great build up. Outside of that, it's great. 8/10
5Anderson .Paak
Malibu


Slick-Swagger stylish and damn catchy...and it's also very possible that I'll be jamming this thing till the end of the year twice as much as I am now. 7/10
6Full of Hell
Amber Mote In The Black Vault


ghraaaaaaaaaaaaagh 7/10
7Villagers
Where Have You Been All My Life?


It's always nice to hear some well written and well performed Indie Folk. 7/10

Memoir
8The Order Of Elijah
War at Heart


Another Christian-Metal, Hooray! 4/10
9Grizfolk
Waking Up the Giants


Another Americana-Pop, Hooray! 5/10
10Hinds
Leave Me Alone


Another "We're young and can do whatever we want" Rock album, Hooray! 5/10
11Daughter
Not to Disappear


Another lifeless wannabe-depressive Pop, hooray! 5/10
12Mystery Jets
Curve Of The Earth


Although it is definitely listenable, here and there appear some simplistic and uninteresting Indie cliches. And unfortunately that "here and there" thing happens quite a lot. But when it doesn't it's pretty likeable. 6/10
13Panic! At the Disco
Death of a Bachelor


It seems to me that the band just sat around for hours on each song and threw in every single idea, no matter how bad, and then just pasted it all together and slapped on a record. 4/10
14Soda
Without A Head


"Psst, mate, woujalike somthin' punky, mate?" 6/10
15Bloodiest
Bloodiest


I don't really know what to say about this one. It's good. Even great. It has amazing atmosphere, great instrumentation and well sang vocals. Give it a listen. (Just remember that a song Condition features some kind of underworked Isaac Albeniz cover or something...it really sounded like guitar version of Asturias with like a half less chords) 8/10
16Lycus
Chasms


Screw it, this is going to be MY funeral soundtrack. 8/10
17Savages
Adore Life


For every entirely good track in here, there's always one more or less expendable one. 6/10
18LSD and the Search for God
Heaven Is a Place


I do understand what they were going for with that slightly underproduced sound, I guess it was supposed to be something like a psychedelic throwback to the roots of the genre, but at times it just bended in together and sounded like a noise. Outside of that, it's pretty good. It's short and it's on Bandcamp, so check it out. 6/10
19Nadra
Allir vegir til glötunar


Look, I get that the singer's trying his best and hell, he's probably way better than most singers in the genre, but I just couldn't get rid off the feeling that his vocals sound like some drunk guy vomiting. 6/10
20Ulver
ATGCLVLSSCAP


Oh, look who's now doing Ambient Drone Post-Rock with a lot of build-up and no actual pay-off. 6/10
21Chairlift
Moth


Sometimes catchy, sometimes sweet, but almost always boring. 4/10
22Pop. 1280
Paradise


This thing will drag you in and won't let until you play it again and again for like a dozen times. (Plus, it may be possible that I'm too big of a Industrial Post-Punk fan) 9/10

USS ISS, Chromidia, Phantom Freighter, Pyramids On Mars, The Last Undertaker
23Songs For Walter
Songs For Walter


Possibly the most soulful and personal album this month. Besides the lyrics I also liked a lot the acoustics that are oftenly replaced with these Lo-Fi noisy guitars. 8/10

Tougher Than A Soldier's Boots, Dunkirk, The Joint World Record Holders
24Shearwater
Jet Plane and Oxbow


I feel quite bad for Shearwater. They keep on releasing good Pop-Rock albums, but people just don't give a damn. I honestly don't really remember a single Shearwater album that was really underwhelming. I mean, they do have better ones and worse ones (like Fellow Travelers, but that's a covers album, so it's understandible that it's not going to be a killer), but for the most part, it's solid and listenable. 7/10
25The Besnard Lakes
A Coliseum Complex Museum


"Waiter, can I have five hits in the head with a sharp object, please? Thank you." 4/10
26Atlanter
Jewels Of Crime


The guitars are sometimes very good and the tunes are alright. 7/10
27De Rosa
Weem


Well, it definitely is a nice listen, but I don't see a whole lot of people enjoying it for the most part. It's something like The Wedding Present and such. Just very soft, easy and pretty. 7/10
28Aidan Knight
Each Other


Meh, it's okay. 6/10
29NZCA Lines
Infinite Summer


A lot of nice beats and catchy Dancepop melodies. Although I did expect something a tiny bit more experimental after that intro. Just felt like it builds up to something different. 7/10
30Megadeth
Dystopia


It seems to me that bands like Megadeth and such (ones that are insanely old now) should just pack it up and stop making music. Enjoy being legends of the genre while you still can, before you destroy it with another album like this. It's obvious that you're already tired and out of breath. If you just leave the biz, we won't judge you. Don't do THIS to yourselves, guys. 3/10
31Suede
Night Thoughts


Ah, so nice to have you back, guys. We missed you. 7/10
32The Anchoress
Confessions of a Romance Novelist


What an atrocious mess. Though it does have its moments and I think it was made in a good spirit, but basically everything on here is just bland mediocre and lifeless. The music is as plain as it can get, you won't remember the tune, even if you'll put it on repeat several times, the vocals that at times sound like some Southern-States white trash talk, and if not that then they have absolutely no range, when thesy clearly should with that kind of music that is pushed to us. Maybe only the lyrics are occasionally passable, surprisingly enough, their melodrama goes well with the album title. This record is just poison. 3/10
33Steven Wilson
4 1/2


This thing just jumps all over the place. At times it is Prog-Rock, then some kind of overproduced Garage Rock, then Indie Rock, then Pop-Rock, and then back to Prog-Rock. Not to mention, those interludes that sound as if they were supposed to be in a Symphonic Metal opera. Plus, Wilson's vocals just do nothing for me. But it does have its moments. Some instrumentation is pretty solid. Some lyrics are alright. But for the most part, it is quite a bore. 5/10
34Ty Segall
Emotional Mugger


It seems to me like Ty Segall just said "Screw it, we don't need a studio to make an album, let's go to my garage like in the old days." 7/10
35Dream Theater
The Astonishing


Jeez, when will those overblown Power-Metal operas end? Hopefully soon... 3/10
36Avantasia
Ghostlights


...or not. Hey, did I already say I'm sorry? 7/10
37Spektr
The Art To Disappear


A musical equivalent of a slaughterhouse. 8/10
38Florist (NY)
The Birds Outside Sang


The lyrics are sweet, the music is nice and comforting and it's even well produced, but the vocals just do nothing for me. And sometimes a spoken word kicks in! At moments like these it's hard to sit through. 4/10
39Money
Suicide Songs


I really hoped that I'll get very suicidal after this. What was I thinking about? The album itself was really good though. 7/10

I'm Not Here, You Look Like A Sad Painting On Both Sides Of The Sky, Hopeless World, I'll Be The Night, All My Life
40Turin Brakes
Lost Property


Nah, I still like the Outbursts more. 6/10
41Tindersticks
The Waiting Room


I usually tend to dislike things that make me fall asleep, but this is the nicest way to do so. 7/10
42Bleib Modern
Vale Of Tears


Pretty decent Post-Punk that is if not all that much memorable, at least engaging. 6/10
43Moro (ARG)
San Benito


This is some mesmerising and really psychopathic IDM that I surprisingly ejoyed a lot. I am usually not good with this kind of Electronica, but this EP just gripped me with its addictive beats and noisy production. 7/10
44Olof Melander
The Path


As I said (or wrote) above, I am not all that good with Electronica, so by the time that this record comes to its end I was just tired. Dreaded out and tired. But I do appreciate some of the tracks and for the most part I can see folks enjoying it, but probably not in its entirety. 6/10
45Blithe Field
Face Always Towards the Sun


The most beautiful conceptual electronic blank space. 7/10
46Coldair
The Provider


This is some genuinely good stuff. Atmospheric and with a whole lot of nice beats and tunes...and the vocals are okay, and the lyrics too. 7/10
47Get Well Soon
Love


Possibly the most magnetic and entertaining Folk-Rock album this month (and so far this year aswell). 8/10

It's a Tender Maze, It's a Catalogue, It's Love, Marienbad
48Sea Tongue
Vol. I


A whimsical trip into obscurity that sounds like a remastered version of a 16bit video game soundtrack. 6/10
49Wall
Wall


Let's hope that this bland, dull and obnoxious EP was just an honest mistake, because I do see them becoming something like a female version of Praquet Courts and such, but it need a lot of improvements (jeez, they couldn't even come up with semi-decent endings for the songs). 5/10
50Bloc Party
Hymns


That's the curse of a successful debut album. Everybody will expect the same greatness from you, but that is almost impossible, seeing that Bloc Party's debut was Silent Alarm. Easily one of the greatest Danceunk albums ever. And I honestly don't think that Bloc Party have ever released a really underwhelming album. They were always solid and steady. But they were not Silent Alarm, therefore they can't possibly be praised. I fell the same way about this. 6/10
51Nico Motte
Life Goes On If You Are Lucky


Meh...5/10
52Alaskalana
Costra/Cumbre


Though definitely more cohesive that its follow-up, Costra/Cumbre still has a lot of unexplored potential. The production could have been louder (especially on the drums). And it might be better if the album was themed around that weird riff from the second track. Just maybe a little reimagined each time it pops up. 6/10
53Nyck Caution
22


Nyck's teaser EP to his much more compelling Mixtape. Or the other way around, if you thought his Mixtape was too boring. 6/10
54Lifeless (RUS)
Lines


Very atmospheric and yet very superficious as well. Though I liked it for the most part, I can't say that I appreciate the stale drum pasting on the background at the very least. Besides from that, it is quite good listen. 6/10
55Litchi
Edukalì


This album has a couple of interesting moments, but absence of any distinct ideas, and possibly worst production I've heard this year. 3/10
56Grieved
Grieved


Still looking for a brutal Metal record that does not slow down even for a second? 8/10

Fogbound, Drain, Shattered
57Basement
Promise Everything


Ever wanted that Emo-Pop-Punk from the 90s and early 00s to come back? Me neither. 5/10
58Saul Williams
MartyrLoserKing


Possibly and probably the best Hip-Hop album this year (sorry, Aesop). The most powerful lyricism and delivery with fantastic music and production. 8/10

Groundwork, Ashes, Think Like They Book Say, The Noise Came From Here, Homes/Drones/Poems/Drums
59Lost Salt Blood Purges
Only the Youngest Grave


Maybe it's just me, but this is easily the most boring thing I've heard this year. 3/10
60Abbath
Abbath


Hail the cliché! 6/10
61Tortoise
The Catastrophist


Eeeeeh, I¨'m not feeling it right now, I'm sorry. 5/10
62Eefje de Visser
Nachtlicht


A lot of heavenly dreaminess and hreghereghjehehje. 7/10

Mee, Wakker, Staan
63Lemaitre
1749


I was ready for hating on this album and pronounce it yet another lifeless adult contemporary pop shite. But the reality is different. This is indeed a catchy and well put together EP with more than just some glitzy beats to show off with. 7/10

Stepping Stone, Not Too Late
64Witchcraft
Nucleus


A tortured demonic record with heartbreaking music. The riffs are crafted so perfectly and thair heavy sound sets up the whole fantasque and surreal atmosphere. An although the record is over an hour long (!), most of the tracks on here absolutely justify the lenght. 8/10

Malstroem, The Outcast, Nucleus, To Trascend Bitterness
65The Mute Gods
Do Nothing till You Hear from Me


A collection of generic and harmless Prog-Rock ballads. 5/10
66No Fun
Photocopier Waltz


JESUSFUCKINGBITCHWHATTHEFUCKISTHIS???!!! DO NO, YOU HEAR ME, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE LISTEN TO THIS THIS!. Or at least not in headphones on high volume. Your ears will thank me later. Heatedleadanalplug/10
67Swan Valley Heights
Swan Valley Heights


Is it just me or did this bore to death anyone else? 5/10
68Cursed Earth
Enslaved By The Insignificant


An album full of brutal, amazingly played and well produced short metal tracks, of which unfortunately only a very few stick to mind. Besides, I don't really care for the vocals much, to be honest. And despite all the things I listed above, at the end of the day each song does come off pretty samey. 6/10

Degenerate, Nostrum, Vae Mortis
69PeeWee Longway
Mr. Blue Benjamin


I'm not really getting the 4.1 rating here at Sputnikmusic (at the time I listened to it). This album just couldn't raise any enthusiasm in me, unfortunately. I tried, I really did. The beats are alright, the flow is mostly good and the lines are...well, as far as the Hip-Hop lyricism nowadays goes, it's okay too. It just doesn't come together very well for me. 6/10
70DUST (Brooklyn-NY)
Agony Planet


Who of you read Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles (or Stanislaw Lem's Star Diaries) and thought that if it was way more twisted and disturbing, it could have been better? Well, that's exactly what you get on here. This is some sort of alien habits encyclopedia nad it's definitely not the prettiest one. 7/10
71Big Dust
Big Dust


Pretty solid Electrorock record that may not challenge you in any way, but at least it will entertain while it lasts. 6/10
72Brutus (NL)
Murwgebeukt


Brutally brutal brutality. Brutus will brutalise you and then brute you to a point of a brutal brutality. But seriously now, this album is fantasticly performed, but it all comes together into something incredibly annoying, though I know some people like it this way. Besides, I hated the drum production, I sounded autotuned a little. 5/10
P.S.: I know it probably doesn't deserve 5
73Forndom
Daura Dura


This album is beautifully magnetic and Folkloristic masterpiece, and also anything but metal. 6/10
74Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters
Midwest Heart/Southern Blues


Some swift retro Country that you might think is fantastic if you are already a huge Country fan. If not, all those similarly preformed rapid tunes might bore you a little. 6/10
75Gravitsapa
Radio Free Vulgata


For as hilariously oddball the instrumentation is, the occasional vocals are a bit wasteful. They could have just gone with the music alone and left the vocals out. And the songs are almost all disappointingly short. 6/10

Ghola Tleilaxu, Our Home Antarctica, Under The Poltva
76Nonsun
Black Snow Desert


The same as every single other Drone Metal album (apparently), this thing is unbelievably long. So long that your ass will grow into the chair you're sitting on before you could finish the album. But for the fairness sake, this is probably one of the better Drone albums out there, or at least one of the better played ones, definitely. It's just sooooo long! (but then again, what did I expect from a Drone album) 6/10
77Gang
Animalia / Breath Before Death


A heavy two-track with some bloodpumping hooks and a lot of potential in the future, but with slightly offputting vocals. 7/10
78Witchhelm
Jötunn


This thing is hardly any good. At best, it sounds like an amateurish band with very little previous experience putting out their demo that is surprisingly better than your average demos. 5/10
79Porches.
Pool


Imagine drinking a cold, oversugared tea. 5/10
80Villainy
Villainy II: Dim


This album has a lot of potential and heaviness to it. Unfortunately, sometimes it overstays its welcome a little on the longer tracks. 6/10

A Familiar Wind, Nebulous Chasm, Valley, Herschapen
81Coutoux
Reign of Terror


A highly infectious thing, but beware, there's a very narrow line between infectious and sickening. 6/10
82Fire!
She Sleeps, She Sleeps


Who knew that you could find comfort in distortion. 7/10
83Half Japanese
Perfect


It started off decently, but with every other track it just went lower and lower an lower nad lowr nda lrewwo nd lorelwo nale lddoewwewr...5/10
84Arms (FL)
Blackout


And then they ask why so few people like Math Rock these days. 4/10
85Promise and the Monster
Feed The Fire


"Alright, let's see. We need more female-falsetto-lead Folk music with assorted instrumentation. This year, there is already Marissa Nadler, Julia Holter, Julianna Barwick, Sylvaine, Eefje de Visser and a bunch of others. Yep, there needs to be more!" 6/10
86Baaba Maal
The Traveller


I always feel bad trying to look critically at this sort of music, because I obviously understand jackshit about it. But this album, despite all of its fantastic instrumentatal approach and exotic vibe, did not grab me almost at all. 6/10
87Ketzer
Starless


What the hell's up with those vocals on this already half-assed album? 5/10
88Exumer
The Raging Tides


Thrash Metal powerhouse! Though I does follow a handful of genre clichés (infectious shifting guitar solo, cringeworthy lyrics, clean but harsh vocals), but you just can't deny the fact that it sound fantastic. 7/10
89Desert Colossus
Desert colossus


A heavy handed Stoner Rock that will hardly challenge you. 6/10
90Astolfo Sulla Luna
Ψ²


I have no idea what the lyrics are, but I sincerely hope that they are simple desriptions of various mathematical equations. 6/10
91Brimstone Coven
Black Magic


I can totally see this working perfectly, but at this point it just doesn't. The music sounds roughly stagnant and the really memorably voiced vocals are a bit drowned on the background. 6/10

Black Unicorn, As We Fall
92Borknagar
Winter Thrice


I do see the hype behind this album, but neither of the vocal forms presented on here sat well with me. The screeching was a little underwhelming and the clean singing didn't go along with the music a lot of the times. 6/10
93Rome Hero Foxes
For When You're Falling Backwards


Another typical tingle tangel Proggy Indie burnout. 5/10
94Nevermen
Nevermen


A collaboration that was a dream to happen and an album that was a nightmare to tear you apart. 6/10
95Garrett Klahn
Garrett Klahn


Each song starts off pretty mediocre and without much promising progression, but it all mostly eventually manages to find its way to something more or less decent. 6/10
96Eliot Sumner
Information


Eliot Sumner manages to put together such an album, where every song get a fair portion of brilliancy. Every length is justified and every melody is progressed. But probably the strongest part of the album is the mere catchyness of the songs. They really stick to your mind for a long time. And maybe that's just my inner catchy-pop-tune lover speaking, but I don't care. My only issue is that the second part of the album gets a little liter, but that's not a big problem. 8/10
P.S.: In a way it sounds a bit like that Brodka album.

Information, After Dark, Halfway To Hell, I Followed You Home, Say Anything You Want, Species
97POP ETC
Souvenir


Look at that sweet, cool album art. Yeah, it's way more interesting than the album itself. 4/10
98Coasts
Coasts (LP)


"Kids, this is the story of how I stopped respecting Synthpop..." 3/10
99Black Tusk
Pillars of Ash


Kvelertak+Baroness+any other Sludge Metal band you could think of that John Baizley laid his hands on. 7/10

Blood On Your Knees, Born of Strife
100Santigold
99¢


Santigold manages tries to convince her listeners that she's all cool and smooth, but in reality this album doesn't so anything else than throwing irritating and forgettable Pop/Hip-Hop tunes at us, ones that only parasite on Santigold's past success. 5/10
101Roam
Backbone


So painfully typical 90s Pop-Punk that will barely interest anyone. We didn't ask for it. 5/10
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