Albums of 2016

[JohnnyBGoode]

Final (possibly) list

1. Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial
2. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
3. David Bowie : ★
4. Noname: Telefone
5. Pinegrove: Cardinal
6. Emma Pollock: In Search of Harperfield
7. Angel Olsen: My Woman
8. Fruit Bats: Absolute Loser
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
10. Drive-By Truckers: American Band
11. Whitney: Light Upon the Lake
12. Okkervil River: Away
13. Mothers: When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
14. Amber Arcades: Fading Lines
15. Sunflower Bean: Human Ceremony
16. Lucy Dacus: No Burden
17. Julia Jacklin: Don’t Let the Kids Win
18. Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate
19. Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
20. School of Seven Bells: SVIIB
21. Anderson .Paak: Malibu
22. Solange: A Seat at the Table
23. Wilco: Schmilco
24. Christine and the Queens: Chaleur Humaine
25. Neko Case/k.d. lang/Laura Veirs: case/lang/veirs
26. The Avalanches: Wildflower
27. Frank Ocean: Blonde
28. Damien Jurado: Visions of Us On the Land
29. Andrew Bird: Are You Serious
30. Parquet Courts: Human Performance
31. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
32. The Radio Dept.: Running Out of Love
33. Beyond the Wizards Sleeve: The Soft Bounce
34. Billie Marten: Writing of Blues and Yellows
35. Steve Mason: Meet The Humans
36. Mitski: Puberty 2
37. Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor's Guide to Earth
38. The 1975: I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
39. Frankie Cosmos: Next Thing
40. Daughter: Not to Disappear
41. Suede: Night Thoughts
42. Preoccupations: Preoccupations
43. Savages: Adore Life
44. Frightened Rabbit: Painting of a Panic Attack
45. PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project
46. Teenage Fanclub: Here
47. Bat for Lashes: The Bride
48. Teleman: Brilliant Sanity
49. Beyonce: Lemonade
50. Chairlift: Moth

[Jirin]

My end of year game is down to the final four:

David Bowie - Blackstar vs Myrkur - Mausoleum
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered vs Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate

And Blackstar is the only undefeated so if it loses it still stays in and plays in the final.

My 'final' top 20 for poll voting purposes (Unless Blackstar is upset in the game):

1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Winner of Love & Hate / Untitled Unmastered
3. Loser of Love & Hate / Untitled Unmastered
4. Myrkur - Mausoleum
5. The Pines - Above The Prairie
6. Frank Ocean - Blonde
7. Cowtown - Paranormal Romance
8. Savages - Adore Life
9. Underworld - Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
10. Lucinda Williams - The Ghosts Of Highway 20
11. Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
12. D.D Dumbo - Utopia Defeated
13. Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
14. Wild Beasts - Boy King
15. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
16. Ben Harper - Call It What It Is
17. Preoccupations - Preoccupations
18. La Femme - Mystere
19. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
20. The Avalanches - Wildflower

Others:

21. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
22. Jesu - Jesu & Sun Kil Moon
23. Mi And Lau - Four Pair Of Wings
24. Bat For Lashes - The Bride
25. Milk Teeth - Vile Child
26. Yndi Halda - Under Summer
27. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
28. Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness
29. Beyonce - Lemonade
30. Amber Arcades - Fading Lines
31. Ngaiire - Blastoma
32. Yeasayer - Amen and Goodbye
33. St Lenox - Ten Hymns From My American Gothic
34. Kuba Kapsa Ensemble - Vandtraught 4
35. ANOHNI - Hopelessness
36. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
37. Field Music - Commontime
38. Sun Ra & His Interplanetary Arkestra - The Space Age Is Here To Stay
39. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
40. Lambchop - Flotus
41. School of Seven Bells - SVIIB
42. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive
43. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
44. SOS Gunver Ryberg - AFTRYK
45. The Jezabels - Synthia
46. Emma Pollock - In Search Of Harperfield
47. James Blake - The Colour In Anything
48. Vince Staples - Prima Donna
49. Animals as Leaders - The Madness of Many
50. Itel Tek - Hollowed

[sonofsamiam]

My preliminary list, after a ton of recent listening:

1 | David Bowie | Blackstar
2 | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds | Skeleton Tree
3 | A Tribe Called Quest | We Got It from Here…Thank You 4 Your Service
4 | Beyoncé | Lemonade
5 | Jenny Hval | Blood Bitch
6 | Leila Josefowitz / St. Louis Symphony / David Robertson | Adams: Scheherazade.2
7 | Anna Meredith | Varmints
8 | Solange | A Seat at the Table
9 | Bat for Lashes | The Bride
10 | Barbara Hannigan | Abrahamsen: let me tell you
11 | Oranssi Pazuzu | Värähtelijä
12 | M.A.K.U. Soundsystem | Mezcla
13 | Dawn Richard | Redemption
14 | Sean McCann | Music for Public Ensemble
15 | Ceu | Tropix
16 | Radiohead | A Moon Shaped Pool
17 | Danny Brown | Atrocity Exhibition
18 | Elza Soares | A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo (The Woman at the End of the World)
19 | Oren Ambarchi | Hubris
20 | Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer | A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
21 | Frank Ocean | Blonde
22 | Michael Formanek's Ensemble Kolossus | The Distance
23 | Chance the Rapper | Coloring Book
24 | Xenia Rubinos | Black Terry Cat
25 | Waclaw Zimpel | Lines
26 | Metá Metá | MM3
27 | Leonard Cohen | You Want It Darker
28 | Run The Jewels | RTJ3
29 | Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids | We Be All Africans
30 | Kendrick Lamar | untitled unmastered
31 | Zomba Prison Project | I Will Not Stop Singing
32 | Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, and Matthew Garrison | In Movement
33 | Fire! Orchestra | Ritual
34 | Denzel Curry | Imperial
35 | Anoushka Shankar | Land of Gold
36 | The Caretaker | Everywhere at the End of Time
37 | Childish Gambino | Awaken, My Love
38 | Michael Kiwanuka | Love & Hate
39 | Emma Pollock | In Search of Harperfield
40 | Lambchop | FLOTUS
41 | The Avalanches | Wildflower
42 | Blood Orange | Freetown Sound
43 | Sturgill Simpson | A Sailor's Guide to Earth
44 | De La Soul | …And the Anonymous Nobody
45 | case/lang/veirs | case/lang/veirs
46 | Alcest | Kodama
47 | Hieroglyphic Being | The Disco's of Imhotep
48 | Gojira | Magma
49 | The Divine Comedy | Foreverland
50 | Common | Black America Again


Just missed, but given the artists, I consider these mild disappointments:

Swans | The Glowing Man
Kanye West | The Life of Pablo
Babyfather | BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow
PJ Harvey | The Hope Six Demolition Project
Anderson .Paak | Malibu
Kashiwa Daisuke | Program Music II
Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm | Trance Frendz
Scott Walker | The Childhood of a Leader OST
Tim Hecker | Love Streams
Mitski | Puberty 2
James Ferraro | Human Story 3
Graham Lambkin | Community
Nicolas Jaar | Sirens
Aesop Rock | The Impossible Kid
Goat | Requiem
Andy Stott | Too Many Voices
Marissa Nadler | Strangers
Esperanza Spalding | Emily's D+Evolution
Maxwell | blackSUMMERS'night
Angel Olsen | My Woman
ANOHNI | Hopelessness
DJ Shadow | The Mountain Will Fall


Best EPs:

Floating Points | Kuiper
Melanie de Biasio | Blackened Cities
Burial | Young Death


Best Archival, Previously Unreleased:

Julius Eastman | Femenine

[notbrianeno]

Does anyone know when the 2016 albums poll is going to take place?

[DaveC]

Does anyone know when the 2016 albums poll is going to take place?

Checking back, whuntva launched the 2015 albums/songs poll on 1.1.16. So I guess at this stage we are waiting for volunteers to host the poll.