***Official Album of the Year 2016 Thread***

[Theatre of Trees]

Rough Trade are first out of the traps with their list of the best albums of 2016. Seems like a list of any half listenable indie albums released this year.

https://roughtrade.com/albums-of-the-year

Feel free to add your own top 10 and links to any other similar lists.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Recently purchased Kings Of Leon - The Walls, brilliant.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Let's get the

"There's still two months of the year left" and "it's just a marketing tool for the shop" comments out the way now so we can concentrate on discussing music.

 

[BBassic]

I don't have a top ten but I do have a top 'smattering'

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
The Prettiots - Funs Cool
David Bowie - Blackstar
Whitney - Light Upon The Lake
Shabaka and the Ancestors - Wisdom of Elders
Pillar Point - Marble Mouth

 

[Guinness Boy]

Christ, we're barely in to November. Typical marketing tool.

 

[ForestRowSeagull]

The Rifles - Big Life. A cracker in my opinion

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

No Jive Bunny and The Mastermixers?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'll compose my top 10 and top 10 only.

Think my number 1 will be LUH and Songs For Spiritual Lovers To Sing.
Radiohead certainly in my top 10.
Thee Oh Sees - A Wierd Exits also.
PJ Harvey
Rival Consoles - Howl

That's 5 . Rest to follow.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Joan Shelley - Over and Even
The Duke Spirit - Kin
Daughter - Not To Disappear
Ólafur Arnalds - Island Songs
Kate Rusby - Life in a Paper Boat
Lisa Hannigan - At Swim
Augustines - This Is Your Life

Site is down, ONE of these has to make it

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Thought this year was pretty lame.

My MOR tastes will have Hamilton Leithauser, Car Seat Headrest, Jenny Hval, Nick Cave, Pinegrove, Tim Hecker, Whitney, Angel Olsen, MMoths and Parquet Courts in some formation within the top 10.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Thought this year was pretty lame.

My MOR tastes will have Hamilton Leithauser, Car Seat Headrest, Jenny Hval, Nick Cave, Pinegrove, Tim Hecker, Whitney, Angel Olsen, MMoths and Parquet Courts in some formation within the top 10.

Nick Cave. Of course. How could I forget.

 

[spring hall convert]

Let's get the

"There's still two months of the year left" and "it's just a marketing tool for the shop" comments out the way now so we can concentrate on discussing music.

It is just a marketing tool for the shop though.

 

[spring hall convert]

It's lucky that both the Bowie and Cave records are excellent because they were going to feature highly in these critic lists regardless.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

The Rough Trade website has been taken down

 

[Mellotron]

Bowie - Blackstar

Not that I'm biased.

Notable others

Moderat - III
Radiohead - A Moon-Shaped Pool
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Bowie - Blackstar

Not that I'm biased.

Notable others

Moderat - III
Radiohead - A Moon-Shaped Pool
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

I never realised anyone else liked Moderat. Good call.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Bowie, Blackstar, obiously.

From HT's list I will agree with PJ Harvey and LUH.

Avalanches, Glass Animals, Crystal Castles, Primal Scream.

Avalanches is probably the one I return to most.

 

[Mellotron]

I never realised anyone else liked Moderat. Good call.

Love em. Saw them at Brighton Centre early on this year.

Oh and one more to add;

Douglas Dare - Aforger
FFO - Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Thom Yorke

Need to give Skeleton Tree more of a listen. Also Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker (the song) is stunning.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Resident are launching their 'best of' listing this Friday with a special event at the shop with 10% off top 20. See- nothing to do with marketing!

 

[Machiavelli]

Bowie - Blackstar

Not that I'm biased.

Notable others

Moderat - III
Radiohead - A Moon-Shaped Pool
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

Didn't Moderat III come out a year or even two ago?