2016—Your Top 5 Albums

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  1. pedalhead

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    So hard to choose just five so I've cheated and included a longer list...

    Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée
    Philippe Besombes – Anthology
    The Avalanches - Wildflower
    David Bowie - Blackstar
    Emma Pollock - In Search of Harperfield
    Weezer - White Album
    King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
    Whitney - Light Upon The Lake
    Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
    Andy Shauf - The Party
    PUP - The Dream Is Over
    Mitski - Puberty 2
    Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - The Soft Bounce
    Laura Mvula - The Dreaming Room
    Submotion Orchestra - Colour Theory
    BadBadNotGood - IV
    Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
    Anderson/Stolt - Invention of Knowledge
    Gogo Penguin - Man Made Object
    Steven Wilson - 4 1/2
    ANOHNI – Hopelessness
    Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City
    Russian Circles - Guidance
    King Creosote - Astronaut Meets Appleman
    COMBAT! COMBAT!
    Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
    Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
    The Radio Dept. - Running Out of Love
    Reed & Caroline - Buchla And Singing
    The Orb - COW / Chill Out, World!

    Top five with a gun to my head...

    Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée
    Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - The Soft Bounce
    King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
    Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
    King Creosote - Astronaut Meets Appleman
     
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    This is a tough one, and it really depends on mood and day of the week... these keep coming up, though

    In no particular order:

    Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
    Floating Points - Elaenia (blatantly cheating, 2015, but I kept forgetting to listen until 2016 and played it to death)
    David Bowie - Blackstar
    Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
    DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall

    (Edited, I know.. I keep changing my mind)
     
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    My favorites from 2016:

    1. Beady Belle - On My Own
    2. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
    3. Stevie Nimmo - Sky Won't Fall
    4. Various - Autour de Chet
    5. Fahir Atakoglu - Live At Umbria Jazz
     
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    I don't rank my favorite albums of each year, I just list the ones that resonate with me. Normally I would do this in alphabetical order, but Bowie is my all time favorite musical artist so in his honor he gets listed first:

    David Bowie - Blackstar
    ANOHNI - Hopelessness
    Beyonce - Lemonade
    Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
    Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee
    Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
    Run The Jewels - 3
    Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow
    Solange - A Seat at the Table
    A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
    White Lung - Paradise
     
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    2016 releases (definitely fav but in no particular order):
    Alcest- Kodama
    Frost*- Falling Satellites
    Hiromi- Spark
    Skylar Gudasz- Oleander
    La Sera- Music For Listening To Music To

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    (nearly on the above list)
    Joe Bonamassa- Blues Of Desperation
    Frank Zappa- Little Dots
     
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    Rock:
    bon iver - 22, a million
    radiohead- moon shaped
    dinosaur jr- give a glimpse

    Electronica/ambient:
    Loess- Popcosin
    bvdub- a thousands words
    Johann johannsson- orphee
    kettel- wingtip
    Burial- YOUNG DEATH / NIGHTMARKET
    36- the infinity room
     
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    Is the Burial album something you recommend? I love his dark grooves that gently insert stories when you do not expect them.
     
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    if you like burial, you will like his 2016 ep. he release very few stuff every year, but what he release is always quality!
     
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    8 months later... none of my picks are on the previous posts, but I think they're great.

    John Ellis - Evolution: Seed & Streams
    BADBADNOTGOOD - IV
    Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
    Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stoke
    Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
     
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    Very nice thread! Thank you.
    Any more albums recommendations, specially ambient and electronic?
    Cheers
     
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    Ambient 1: Music for Airports - eno
    Lifeforms - FSOL
    A Rainbow in Curved Air- Terry Riley
    Rain- Kevin Braheny and Tim Clark
    Dehli 9 - Tosca
    Soma- Steve Roach and Robert Rich

    EDIT: OOpps didn't see the 2016 part, sorry!
     
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    Having a hard time remembering all the albums from last year so I can't say definitively but here are some that I've continued to listen to a lot from '16:

    Tycho - Epoch
    Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée
    Caamp - Caamp
    Macy Gray - Stripped
    Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow
     
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    im cheating

    Flaty - New Suggestions
    Shinichi Atobe - World
    Prince of Denmark - 8
    Jessie Lanza - Oh No
    Matmos - Ultimate Care II
    Convextion - 2845
    Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
    Aleksi Perala - The Colundi Sequence Vol 1
    Low Jack - Lighthouse Stories
    Roly Porter - Third Law
    Pan Sonic - Atomin Paluu
    Objekt - Kern Vol 3.
     
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    Yung BAE- BAE 2
    Plaid- the digging remedy
    FSOL- Environment 6.5 and 6
    Steve Hauschildt- strands
    Kim Brown- Wisdom is a dancer
    all india radio- the slow light
    helios- Remembrance
    Moderat- 3
    Kuedo- slow knife
    Lone- levitate
    Ryuichi Sakamoto- The revenant
    Loscil- Monument Builders
    yagya- stars and dust
    Machine drum- human energy
    A Winged Victory For The Sullen- Iris
    Ital tek- hollowed
    Andy stott- too many voices
    floating spirits- Luv ep
    Ólafur Arnalds- Island songs
    Kiyoko- the horo files
    Floating points- Kuiper
    dom and roland- Last Refuge of a Scoundrel
    Near the Parenthesis- Helical
    tim hecker- love streames
    Trentemøller- Fixion
    Casion Versus Japan- Frozen Geometry
    Huerco s- For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
    Purl- Evighet
    Matmos - Ultimate Care II
    EOD- EOD whole series is awesome
    Pan Sonic - Atomin Paluu
    Tycho - Epoch
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith- Ears
    Rolando simmons- Yuo're Life
    Aphex Twin- cheetah
    Enigma- the fall of a rebel angel
    maps and diagrams- delta
    Sasha- scene delete
    Aleksi Perala - The Colundi Sequence Vol 1

    Slow Meadow - Slow Meadow was great, but it was 2015
     
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    Oh ok, then he had some singles in 2016 that were nice... Palemote, etc..
     
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    yeah, love this guy (slow meadow)
     

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