Favorites From 2016
Listened to a lot of stuff this year, these are my favorites.
Not ranked except for top 3.
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| 28 |  | White Lung
Paradise
Licks for eternity
Punk
https://whitelung.bandcamp.com/ |
| 27 |  | Hannah Moriah
Rattler's Garden
Check this one Sput, it's real solid
Folk / Singer Songwriter
https://hannahmoriah.bandcamp.com/album/rattlers-garden |
| 26 |  | Touche Amore
Stage Four
Post Hardcore
https://toucheamore.bandcamp.com/album/stage-four |
| 25 |  | Tim Hecker
Love Streams
Ambient / Drone / Electronic
https://timhecker.bandcamp.com/album/love-streams |
| 24 |  | Swans
The Glowing Man
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK ... oh, wrong album
https://swans.bandcamp.com/album/the-glowing-man |
| 23 |  | Suffocate For Fuck Sake
In My Blood
Punk / Screamo / Post Rock
https://suffocateforfucksake.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-blood |
| 22 |  | Russian Circles
Guidance
Post Rock / Post Metal
https://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/album/guidance |
| 21 |  | Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
AKA The sad dad band |
| 20 |  | Nine of Swords
You Will Never Die
Awesome hardcore with absolutely vicious female vox. Needs more love around these parts.
Hardcore / Punk / RIP IT
https://thenineofswords.bandcamp.com/album/you-will-never-die |
| 19 |  | Muscle and Marrow
Love
Beautiful doomy rock
https://muscleandmarrow.bandcamp.com/album/love-2 |
| 18 |  | Melt Yourself Down
Last Evenings on Earth
World / Jazz / Punk
https://meltyourselfdown.bandcamp.com/album/last-evenings-on-earth |
| 17 |  | Marissa Nadler
Strangers
Great live show
Indie / Folk
https://marissanadler.bandcamp.com/album/strangers |
| 16 |  | Mamiffer
The World Unseen
Ambient
https://mamiffer.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-unseen |
| 15 |  | Living Hour
Living Hour
Shoegaze / Dream Pop
https://thehours.bandcamp.com/album/living-hour-2 |
| 14 |  | The Hotelier
Goodness
Indie / Post Hardcore
https://thehotelier.bandcamp.com/album/goodness |
| 13 |  | Horse Lords
Interventions
If Philip Glass wrote a math rock album, it might sound like this
Math / Jazz
https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/interventions |
| 12 |  | Frameworks
Smother
Post Hardcore
https://frameworks.bandcamp.com/album/smother |
| 11 |  | Fire!
She Sleeps, She Sleeps
Howling sax
Jazz |
| 10 |  | Emma Ruth Rundle
Marked For Death
Folk / Shoegaze
https://emmaruthrundle.bandcamp.com/album/marked-for-death |
| 9 |  | Doprah
Wasting
Needs more love
Trip Hop / Dream Pop
https://doprah.bandcamp.com/album/wasting |
| 8 |  | Death Grips
Bottomless Pit
BLO BLO BLO BLO BLO OOOOHHHH NO
Noise / Electronic / Punk / Rap |
| 7 |  | Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas
Mariner
All hail J.C.
Post Metal
https://cultoflunaofsweden.bandcamp.com/album/mariner |
| 6 |  | Crystal Castles
Amnesty (I)
Electronic / Experimental / Dance |
| 5 |  | Boyfrndz
Impulse
Grooves all night
Post Hardcore / Psychadelic / Art Rock
https://boyfrndz.bandcamp.com/album/impulse |
| 4 |  | Bloody Knives
I Will Cut Out Your Heart for This
Frigid
Noise Rock / Post Punk
https://saintmarierecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-will-cut-your-heart-out-for-this |
| 3 |  | Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Nom De Guerre Cabal
I'm gonna lump the 12 albums Omar put out this year into my #3 spot.
The first 12 albums in the Ipecac series are of mixed quality, as is all of Omars solo output, but the batting average this year was really high. These albums cover such a huge stylistic range, from Volta demos that never were (Aranas en la Sombra) to left-field vintage pop gems (Corazones/Umbrella Mistress) to insane future punk (Nom De Guerre Cabal), that the occasional dud (looking at you, Infinity Drips) does little to diminish this incredibly diverse, accomplished series. It's been an incredible year for die hard ORL fans, and with 12 more albums coming in 2017, the ride is only half over. What a time to be alive.
Art Rock / Electronic / Pop / Punk / Dance / Audio Garbage
https://orlprojects.bandcamp.com/ |
| 2 |  | Wreck and Reference
Indifferent Rivers Romance End
Not for everyone, but their genre eclecticism is still yielding wild results.
Solid as ever, and a killer live show to boot.
Post Punk / Electronic / Industrial / Metal
https://wreckandreference.bandcamp.com/album/indifferent-rivers-romance-end-2 |
| 1 |  | SUMAC
What One Becomes
I love ISIS as much as anyone, but this is the best thing Turner has ever done. Composition, performance, production, it's all incredible. Cannot wait to see what comes next.
AOTY for me.
Experimental / Sludge Metal / GET WRECKED
https://sumac.bandcamp.com/album/what-one-becomes |
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