albums del 2016

My list on the front page of the thread is up to 128 releases for 2016 so far. I am going to continue to do this all year.  I want to show how hard it is for me to do a top 10 list, and why mine are usually top 50 or whatever… I get that most people would not even consider listening to that many new albums in a year, let alone less than half a year.  Also I am not including EVERY SINGLE ALBUM.  My iTunes playlist of music released in 2016 is at 5,665 songs (not sure how many albums, i hate how they changed playlist view).

My additions since last update:
Wytch Hazel - Prelude
Skold - the Undoing
the Winstons - the Winstons
Skating Polly - the Big Fit
The Zenith Passage - Solipsist
God's Hate - Mass Murder
Necrot - the Labyrinth
Harley Flanagan  - Cro-Mags
Sri Aurobindo - Psychic Process
Mantar - Ode to the Flame
Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
Green River - 1984 Demos
Spark Master Tape - Silhouette of a Sunkken City
Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
Jacober - Glass Splinter
Ultraklystron - Null Signifier
Surgical Meth Machine - Surgical Meth Machine
Mint Julep - Broke Devotion
Choir Of Young Believers - Grasque
Flasher - S/T
Arsirius - Lvdi Incipiant
Excöriator - The Moaning of Life
Primal Fear - Rule Breaker

killsaly wrote:
My list on the front page of the thread is up to 128 releases for 2016 so far. I am going to continue to do this all year.  I want to show how hard it is for me to do a top 10 list, and why mine are usually top 50 or whatever… 

one the one hand, that's indeed a big list to cull from.

on the other, i say grow a pair and make the cull already ;D  you're asked for a top-10 list and you've got 20 candidates at the moment?  whittle down that list until it's half the size.  whether we've listed to 50 or 500 albums in the past year, we've all heard more than 10 excellent albums.  if you listened to 500, you might need an extra round or two of saying "this album was excellent, but not quite as excellent as these others, so sorry…" but i don't get how it's somehow impossible…

I did not use the word impossible in my post… I said "hard".

thanks for reminding me of that.

but by saying that your top-20 list can't be made into a top-10 list, aren't you saying it's impossible? ;D

whatever, you make whatever kind of list you like, and we'll all enjoy reading it and (hopefully) learn something.

sweetcell wrote:
and we'll all enjoy reading it and (hopefully) learn something.

yes, like Harley Flanagan has new music out

Age of Quarrel was one of my favorite 80s album

Pity Sex - White Hot Moon

Liking this a lot

hutch wrote:
new bowie album blackstar drops jan. 8 (birthday 69).. in retrospect new day was just a bit too sedate and normal for me so I hope this is true although it almost reads made up

I happened to click on page 1 and this was the op and it just made me sad to think we had no idea he was about to die. What a wonderful album to leave with. Definitely going to be my #1 of the year for emotional reasons as much as anything, but its genuinely a great album and I play it all the time and mull.

Relaxer wrote:

hutch wrote:
new bowie album blackstar drops jan. 8 (birthday 69).. in retrospect new day was just a bit too sedate and normal for me so I hope this is true although it almost reads made up

I happened to click on page 1 and this was the op and it just made me sad to think we had no idea he was about to die. What a wonderful album to leave with. Definitely going to be my #1 of the year for emotional reasons as much as anything, but its genuinely a great album and I play it all the time and mull.

does work as mood music while poundin' a random?

Relaxer wrote:
Pity Sex - White Hot Moon

Liking this a lot

They are fun live.

sweetcell wrote:

Relaxer wrote:

hutch wrote:
new bowie album blackstar drops jan. 8 (birthday 69).. in retrospect new day was just a bit too sedate and normal for me so I hope this is true although it almost reads made up

I happened to click on page 1 and this was the op and it just made me sad to think we had no idea he was about to die. What a wonderful album to leave with. Definitely going to be my #1 of the year for emotional reasons as much as anything, but its genuinely a great album and I play it all the time and mull.

does work as mood music while poundin' a random?

Oh yeah, these days I can't even come unless I'm being reminded of my own mortality.

And in this context, the proper word is "rando" you sweet little canadian mouse.

The new Britta Phillips solo album is pretty cool.

Space wrote:
The new Britta Phillips solo album is pretty cool.

I am not a Luna fan, but really dug it. 

Also, how many versions of Landslide do we really need?

I'm surprised Azaghal didn't post about this but he has kind of removed himself lately..


anyways Swans has a new album coming out.. The Glowing Man.. its a 3LP set.. can be ordered from the young gods record site and Gira will sign it

maybe they'll tour for it?

Yes, they are playing 930 Club in July.

new Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Getaway, out June 17.  produced by Producer Danger Mouse, mixed by Nigel Godrich of Radiohead fame.

first single "Dark Necessities" is out: http://www.fuse.tv/2016/05/red-hot-chili-peppers-new-song-dark-necessities-getaway-album

Because we so needed this
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/05/train-led-zeppelin-cover-album

Some new ones I have been digging since my last post a few weeks back (note, no Radiohead on this yet.. I am waiting for the right time to listen to it):

Islands - Taste
The Lees Of Memory - Unnecessary Evil
Horse Lords - Interventions
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
우주소녀 - Would You Like?
Rogue Wave - Delusions of Grand Fur
Purson - Desire's Magic Theatre
White Lung - Paradise
Vendetta Inc. - Blight
ANOHNI - Hopelessness
Sun Ra - In Some Far Place: Roma '77
David Bazan - Blanco
Plague Vendor - BLOODSWEAT
Beverly - The Blue Swell
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Tim Heidecker - In Glendale
Grave Miasma - Endless Pilgrimage
Astronautalis - Cut The Body Loose
nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
Nucleus - Sentient
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Pinkwash - Collective Sigh
Hatebreed - The Concrete Confessional
Head Wound City - A New Wave of Violence
µ-ziq - RY30 Trax

killsaly wrote:
The Lees Of Memory

great band name.

killsaly wrote:
µ-ziq - RY30 Trax

the ry30 is an old-school drum machine (from the 80's?).

Aberystwyth Marine was tight, and RY30 Trax is really good too… I could definitely have seen myself listening to this in 1997 (would have probably been around then that I was starting to experiment with different electronic stuff).. 

sweetcell wrote:

killsaly wrote:
µ-ziq - RY30 Trax

the ry30 is an old-school drum machine (from the 80's?).

http://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/ry30-trax

http://www.factmag.com/2016/05/11/mike-paradinas-%C2%B5-ziq-ry30-trax-planet-mu/

Planet Mu boss Mike Paradinas is releasing another album of archival µ-Ziq material on his label this week.

The tracks on RY30 Trax date from 1995, and were made when Paradinas was recording an album for Warp under his Jake Slazenger alias. According to RA, the album is named after the Yamaha RY30 drum machine Paradinas used at the time.

?They were always intended to belong together as an album and now we?re proud to make them available to you twenty years later,? the label writes.

RY30 Trax is latest in a run of archival material from Paradinas. It started in 2013 with Somerset Avenue Tracks, and continued last year when he released several tracks to SoundCloud recorded when he was 10 years old.

Since then Paradinas has gone further into the µ-Ziq vault, uploading 100 old tracks to SoundCloud last year in the wake of the Aphex Twin track dump, along with a remix of his IDM contemporary?s ?Analogue Bubblebath.?

Most of these tracks have disappeared from SoundCloud, but earlier this year Paradinas released Aberystwyth Marine, a collection of productions made between 1996 and 1998.

sweetcell wrote:

killsaly wrote:
The Lees Of Memory

great band name.

Lees of Memory is a Superdrag side project, and is really good!