best album 2016 thread

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a lot of amazing music this year.
kanye
car seat headrest
death grips
bowie
paul simon
chance the rapper
bon iver
frank ocean

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Objectively for me the new ATCQ album

>>69492912
I agree

>>69492952
I liked TLOP more than most people did but I wouldn't even put it in the top 5.

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Objectively this

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Top 10 EPOTY

1. Nails - You'll Never B-1 of Us
2. Carly Rae Jepsen - Side B
3. Black Sabbath - The End
4. Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom
5. Die Antwoord - Suck On This
6. Massive Attack - Spirit/Spoils
7. The Wild Now - Tides
8. Krallice - Hyperion
9. Barghest - Teeth split
10. Widower - Unholy Oath

Over about 25 minutes is an LP, I don't care what the artist says. Previously released songs, remixes, etc. can be discounted for time qualification.

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My aoty is graf orlock's crimetraveler

Runnerups
john carpenter - lost themes ii
dangers - the bend in the break
oathbreaker - rheia
jeff rosenstock - worry

>>69494386
THIS ;_;

>>69494419
the spammer is back

>>69494515
what? I just liked the album. is it becoming a meme?

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>>69492912

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This was a sad year.
Top 5 in no order

>Pic Related
>Frank Ocean - Blond(e)
>Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
>Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
>Bowie - Blackstar

>>69494569
>Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
>Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
>Bowie - Blackstar

2016 trilogy of death

>>69494533
>>>/trash/

>>69494622
nah dude it's definitely AOTY lmao

>>69494691
meme music

>>69494708
meme poster

>>69494708
yeah I dont get it either. What I heard added nothing of value to the original but I only checked out a couple songs.

>>69494735
>i don't understand it
>therefore it's a meme

kys

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>>69494691
This was my AOTY until pic related came out

blow me

>>69494747
or you could tell me what it adds of value

>>69494735
It added some super sinister vibes to the soundtrack that go along nicely with the really dark undertones of the show. As a massive Twin Peaks fan I loved it and the new context the music was put in

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Yo wassup

>>69494769
ok but laura palmer's theme for example, wasnt that already sinister?

>>69494890
Yeah I agree it was. But a lot of the other songs on the original soundtrack aren't.
Don't get me wrong, I think the original is much better (it is one of my favorite albums ever), but I loved hearing the songs that I know and love played in a much different, but still good way. That grammar was poor but hopefully you see my point

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>>69494948
>AHHHH FRANK SINATRA
^ worst song of the year

The correct answer OP is pic related

>>69494940
I'll keep going but I just finished laura palmer's theme and thought it was disgusting if not even insulting. It just added a drum metronome and what sounded like pots and pans. wow its fucking nothing

>>69494948
speaking of wow its fucking nothing

>>69494995
Hey yeah I mean I am super biased bc I am such a big fan of the show. It's definitely not for everyone

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This and Nonagon have been on repeat all year for me.

>>69494336
>Objectively for me
Huh?

>>69494419
jesus christ what the fuck is this

>>69495025
yeah I'm gonna abort mission

Have you ever been listening to Pink Room and thought it was great but wished it sucked instead?

>>69495184
Packard's Vibration and Nightsea Wind are the only songs I don't like from it.

Pink Room is bretty gud

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>>69495056
>Nonagon
>Been on repeat

1. >>69492912
2. Tim Hecker - Love Streams
3. Frank Ocean - Blonde
4. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
5. Vektor - Terminal Redux
6. >>69494386
7. Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley
8. >>69494437
9. Wormrot - Voices
10. Sumerlands - s/t

>>69492912
I didn't listen to A Tribe Called Quest's record. I haven't listened to any of their music before.

But out of all the albums I did listen to this year, Blackstar was my favorite.

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If were being honest with ourselves...
Blackstar was also bretty great IMO

>>69495389
ah fuck what look what I've done

>>69494419
>>69495461
>>69492912
also top ten

>>69495461
Nah. It was good, but it's too by the numbers, they weren't trying it on, some of it was dead.

Nonagon was so bad and repetitive. 12 Bar Bruise is much better

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>>69494948
I really could not stand this album aside from If I Was a Folkstar

>>69494386
Too pleb for this record. I listened to it a few times and just can't get into it.

Is there a better Nick Cave record to start with than Skeleton Tree?

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personal favorite. i can't be the only one.

>>69495919
https://www.discogs.com/The-Birthday-Party-Hits/master/20050

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>all these posts and no blonde

bunch of contrarian faggots ITT

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Either Everything Feels Better Now by From Indian Lakes or 22, A Million by Bon Iver.

>>69495919
Murder Ballads
No More Shall We Part
Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Dig Lazarus Dig
all good starting points, work out from which ever one you pick

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been a good year

>>69495780
Oh! Here's your (You)!

>>69496025
Have you heard all the original songs that Wildflower remixes?

>>69496030
But he's right, though.

>>69495461
AOTY

>>69496041
yeah I wanted to make a joke about having nonagon on repeat but I couldnt settle on one. I insist there's a good one in there somewhere though e.g. how do you know when the album starts over?

>>69496036
:^)?

>>69496052
fuck I always forget Grandfeathered came out this year

>>69496063
kill yourself

>>69492952
Life of Pablo is good, but Yeezy lost it. This album looses it's direction to easily, if it had any in the beggining. Maybe in the top 20, but not top 5 of the year.

>>69496041
Naaaah. Not really. The only thing he got right is that Nonagon is repetitive, but as it should be obvious to anyone that that's the fundamental concept of the album, I'm not going to give him any plaudits for that. 12 Bar Bruise is a vastly inferior record on every single level, from concept to execution. I love it, but to say that it's as good as Nonagon Infinity, let alone better, just shows how fucking DadRock this place has become.

>>69496067
Kiddy Pool Dreams is disqualified though because it came out last year on a 10"

>>69496076
whats your aoty

>>69496063
no

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>>69494419
>Two songs in and I already dislike
Meeeeeh

>>69496089
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4

>>69496067
it came out soooooooooo early and easily remained the bar for shoegaze/dream pop for the duration of the year

>>69496090

>>69494336
this one but im not him

>>69496104
yeah I'm a sucker for this style and I couldnt stand it

>>69496116
Did you hear that Cloakroom signed to veteran metal label Relapse

https://cloakroom.bandcamp.com/track/big-world-digital-single

>>69496104
>>69496126

it's ok it's not for everyone

>>69496130
hot damn, I had no idea
& this link to their BC page also informed me of a show in my area next month so good shit anon

Top 3 for me are probably:
Blackstar
A Moon Shaped Pool
Elseq

British domination with black and white album covers

>>69496078
I dunno man, I guess I'm just way more into lofi pop than prog shit. 12 Bar Bruise is my favorite of theirs because of that

>>69496147
oh awesome glad I could help

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>>69496157
>loli pop

>>69496149
>Elseq

spot the hipster

>>69496170
Lofi, not loli, you perv

>>69496172
hey fuck you

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>>69496157
Fair Dos. Just remember pic related.

>>69494419
this is definitely in top 5 for sure

it's an extremely well produced album with a unique innovative sound, with a hint of satire.

>>69496149
Venomous Concept is half British and it came out the same day as Bowie

striking similarity seeing them next to each other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcYeRPtWi7A

Witch In Her Tomb - Meditations
Mortualia - Wild, Wild Misery
Yith - dread
Street Sects - End Position
Swans - The Glowing Man
Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder

in that order. i'm indifferent to everything else i've heard desu.

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Progressive Rock AOTY coming through

>>69496170
nice freudian slip there

have a seat

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>>69496212
>album art

>font

>>69496212
not general? whats your general aoty then?

I feel like this is exactly what the world needs:
Dream Theater is getting a digital board game based off of their latest album The Astonishing
It's in development right now and will be available soon for iOS and Android
as a free download with additional content available as in-app purchases.
Help the princess find her music player and save the kingdom from tyranny!

>>69496172
it's certainly not the person with three incredibly middle-of-the-road obvious choices

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>>69492912

>>69496249
as the poster of >>69496149 I don't know if I should take offense or not

>>69496258
Did you read the Miranda Pitchfork review that just came out? I thought it was really good although I disagree with the score of course.

>>69496262
i mean you clearly don't care about other people seeing you as any sort of individual if you've actually followed music only so closely as to pick those three, so idk if there's any constructive outcome of you being offended

>>69496296
what if I do follow music closely but chose those three because they were in fact the best three albums released this year?

>>69496107
tonbruket>swans desu

>>69496316
I agree. They're both rubbish.

>>69496314
going on r/indieheads to talk very politely about Best New Music is not "following music closely" but feel free to share a last.fm

>>69496212
I love Dream Theater and saw them on tour for this album but man it wan pretty lame imo beyond the some of the cheesy low points DT has had

>>69496344
dude stop projecting holy shit

>>69496236
I fucked up, I think that image was used for a song lel

>>69496241
See, there's too much fucking music to just go "this is the best album of the year regardless of x" when types of music can't be compared, but within their own genres they can.

Prog: Dream Theater - The Astonishing

Hip Hop: between Coloring Book by Chance and Impossible Kid by Aesop Rock

Metal: I enjoyed a number of albums, but Vektor's is elite

Rock: Blackstar by Bowie

RnB: Blond by Frank Ocean

Folk: Stranger to Stranger by Paul Simon

Soul: Awaken My Love by Donald Glover

I could go on

Damn what a year
Kanye
Kendrick
Chance
Beyoncé
Animal Collective
Radiohead
Bowie
Lou Reed
Frank Ocean
Childish Gambino
Views
Death Grips
James Blake

There won't be another year like this one.
Glad that music was good, because the rest of the year was dick

2017 already has me nervous

How can other years even compete?

>>69496465
>Lou Reed
wait wut

>>69496394
>i've been caught
>better use the word projecting poorly

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>>69492912
Step aside cunts.

>>69496465
And that's only half of it
It's been an amazing year for music. I'm going to miss it

>>69496486
fuck I don't know what I was thinking
no idea why i put that there

>literally every week this year /mu/ complains about 2016 being the WORST YEAR EVER
>year-end lists coming out
>/mu/ notices there were about 10 albums they liked from Best New Music
>BEST YEAR EVER!!!

if you had broader horizons you'd realize 2016 has been a pretty standard year for music - enough all-time great albums to make a top 10-15, enough really good albums to round out a top 50 or so, and a bunch of other stuff that was worth a listen or two and helped pass the time between more major releases. just like every year of recorded musical history besides really, really major ones (((like 2015)))

>>69492952

I cant tell if you people are serious or not when you list this. TLOP is fucking garbage, and somehow manages to get worse every time I listen to it.

>>69496541
>besides really, really major ones (((like 2015))
I was sort of agreeing with you but then I realized you were a gigantic pleb

>>69496525
Metallica?
Leonard Cohen?

>>69496525
Iggy Pop?

>>69492912

2gud, 2sad. ;w;

>>69496465
why do people like you come here. You obviously do not belong

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>People consider any album other than this to be AOTY

?

For real though, it's certainly the best hip hop album to be released this year (even though thats not saying much)

ITT: Contrarians

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>>69496465
>Glad that music was good, because the rest of the year was dick
Holy fuck

>>69496706
t. trumpkin

>>69496706
what is literally any of this chart

the ily's - Scum With Boundaries

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Pic related also
>The Glowing Man
>Skeleton Tree
>A Moon Shaped Pool
>ATCQ
>Sunn O)))s live in Russia album

>>69496864
Maybe quit reading Pitchfork? I dunno

>>69496923
but its just getting good again.

They just reviewed Miranda Lambert

I need to update this but this is one I have on me:
1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
3. Street Sects - End Position
4. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Xiu Xiu - Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
6. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
7. Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker
8. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
9. Olga Bell - Tempo
10. Swans - The Glowing Man
11. PJ Harvey - The Hope 6 Demolition Project
12. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
13. King Gizzard - Nonagon Infinity
14. The Body and Full of Hell- Today You Will Ache Like I Ache
15. Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
16. Preoccupations - S/T
17. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
18. Angel Olsen - My Woman
20. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
21. Denzel Curry - Imperial
22. Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
21. Young Thug -Jeffrey

>>69496998
One day you will ache like i ache

>>69496998
yes but what do you think the 22nd best album of this year is

>>69497032
Fuck I didn't even realise that

it's embarrassing if you think the aoty is anything other than jeffery

>>69495966
t h i s
h
i
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It's been a good year to me.

>>69494970
yes it was the worst song on the album but still is runner-up to AOTY

>>69494569
This

In no particular order

KG&TLW - Nonagon Infinity
Glenn Jones - Fleeting
Frank Ocean - Blond
NC&TBS - Skeleton Tree
David Bowie - Blackstar
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Cakes Da Killa - Hedonism
Marching Church - Telling It Like It Is
Noname - Telefone
Jambinai - A Hermitage
Imarhan - Imarhan
Xenia Rubios - Black Terry Cat
Charles Bradley - Changes
Bombino - Azel
Zeal and Ardor - Devil Is Fine

>>69495461
i fell asleep to this. is it meant to do that?

>>69496052
Btfg is 10/10

>>69496442
go on...

>>69497357
You two werent kidding. This things awesome so far.

>>69496212
Is this game any good?

>>69497588
I dont think its out yet

>>69496998
>>69496465
>>69496258
>>69496149
>>69496052
>>69495427
>>69494587
>>69494569
>>69492912
>David Bowie - Blackstar
A lot of people falling for this Diet Bish Bosch meme

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The best is yet to come.

It's coming. Definitely.

No rush, man, take your time.

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>>69497673
>literally you

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Probably Blood Bitch? I don't know I have like a solid top 10 and its hard to choose between them. Jenny Hval is just too spectacular though, and I think BB edges out anything else this year

(Apocalypse, girl was my AOTY of 2015 also, so it would make her work AOTY two years in a row)

>>69496258
>tfw metallica in the top charts again
>tfw metallica will never have the same quality as 30 years ago

>>69495929
Ayy, pretty good album

>>69496500
Some good songs, but so much filler
Goes on for way too long

>>69497505
completely surprised me. blew me away really

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I have to go with this one

>>69496465
you might have leaked the pitchfork list here

what a bunch of hipster trash in this thread

>>69498851
whats your aoty

>>69498851
>hipster trash
wtf I love 2011 now

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>>69498851
haha i know right?! All i like to do is listen to the ole Metallika BOIS while i beat my wife! James Hetfedld Is a machine of man, He can't be stopped. Make Armenia Great AGAIN. MAGA. RED WHITE AND BLUE LAND OF THE FREE.

>>69492912
>>69494537
I mean, sure, Blackstar was great. Probably Bowies best album imo, but nothing will come close to The Glowing Man this year, seeing it live contributed to that. The self-titled track alone is dimensions above Blackstar and everything else this year.

>>69498886
you dont think its just basically spooky church music?

>>69498886
>dies
>Probably Bowies best album imo
:/

>>69498860
Honestly I haven't heard many albums this year so I came here looking for recommendations, but it's always the same shitty 10-15 albums.

It's the first time I come to /mu/ in like 6 months and it reminds me why I don't come here anymore.

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Controversial decision

>>69498913
iunno you sound like a cunt imo, find your own shit

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I've been seeing this album a lot lately. Is this a Jason Aldean style meme? I'm giving it a listen and I'm enjoying it.

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Fight me.

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>>69498886
please gtfo

>>69494948
This is exactly what America needed

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I'll just leave this here

>>69500011
im a massive jeff/bomb/asob/kudrow/-xl fan but this was probably one of his more boring releases. theres not many tracks that call you back to the album and is kind of a one album summary of his career but its all been slightly watered down. i dont blame him, hes been doing this for what like 15 years now? and this is easily his biggest album yet in terms of tours and also in general publicity and most of the listeners are first timers or heard we cool? so props to him but the album really isnt particularly great compared to his catalogue. still i guess compared to everything else this year (specifically rock records) its better than most but by a slim margin

>>69497763
I can't understand this. Have you seen her live? I really don't know how someone could listen to her music or see her live or both and then say, "this is the best thing that humans have released in the last 365 days"

>>69498928
Literally the White Album of country. I keep trying to poke holes in it but I'm not making much progress.

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The clear and obvious choice for album of the year, nothing else has had close to the same impact

>>69500108
I've never listened to Jeff before but this is one of my favorite albums this year. Any suggestions on what to listen to next?

>>69494419
this but completely sincerely

>>69496063
probably one of their worst
Hot Head was good, though.

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found a lot to love this year

>>69496486
>>69496525
fucking loled at this, I don't know why

>>69500268
yes certainly. what aspects of it appealed to you?

>>69500252
Thats exactly why its good - the impact. Had the album been released without any relation to his death, the album would have been ordinary/below average.

If you take the lyrics of Blackstar for example, its clear that Bowie put tons of emotion into showing a message.

>>69496063
This is mine too anon

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Nothing came at all close to me
Dont see it talked about much at all which is sad because it is so sublime
https://soundcloud.com/abc-digital/2-eating-a-heart-out

>>69495427
>Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
That was a great album.

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Obviously

>>69500534
>below average
hell no. people were lauding it for the few days - a week or two - it was leaked before his death was announced. the jazz influence, the singing, the arrangements, that damn sax! it was already being called a stellar album. however, Bowie's demise did propel it to greater heights beyond the stratosphere. i still maintain it's the best album i've heard this year, alongside Cohen's You Want it Darker. i don't understand the praise for Kanye's new one, Death Grips, or Danny Brown.

>>69496025
>Dorisburg
my man

>>69494691
Came here to post this

>>69498986
you're album a shit

>>69496063
Praise yourself

>>69494537
My man, this is my AOTY too

>>69494336
Plebby meme rap..

>>69496201
yes, oh yes, you're right

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>>69492912
Shit was lit

>>69495522
>by the numbers
light kek

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This

>>69496063
AOTY for buttblasting /mu/ tryhards

However Blackstar is musically AOTY

>>69495991
new bon iver sucks yo
the mix is pretty awful
writing is like eh

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I guess my top 5 would be:

1. King Gizzard "Nonagon Infinity"
2. Death Grips "Bottomless Pit"
3. The Murlocs "Young Blindness"
4. Totorro "Come To Mexico"
5. Destroyer 666 "Wildfire"

Also Ty Segall's outputs this year were very good

(pic related, that's me in the D666 - Wildfire booklet, bottom right)

>>69495461
This

>>69498128
This meme has to die.

>>69495919
>>69496016
I would add Tender Prey and Let Love In. I thought No More Shall We Part was a weaker Boatman's Call. Your Funeral My Trial is the best of his early Bad Seeds work.

Check out The Birthday Party if you're into Post-punk, Junkyard is a great album by them.

>>69496077
loses its*

>>69496212
Dream Theater should have disbanded at Systematic Chaos, long before the MP drama and replacement. ridiculous at this point

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>>69494419
It is at least a 8/10. Although, I wouldn't play this around others; rather keep it in my ears. A little ani/mu/ and weeb-y but that's satire from what I know. If people understood the meaning and background of this album then it would be more popular but I guess you people are not patricians.

>>69496627
this. This album is really underrated

>>69492912
10/10
>>69492952
5/10
>>69494336
8/10
>>69494386
8/10
>>69494537
9/10
>>69494569
8/10
>>69494658
5/10
>>69494691
8/10
>>69494948
10/10
>>69495056
9/10
>>69495461
8/10
>>69495966
8/10
>>69496063
9/10
>>69496500
5/10
>>69496627
8/10
>>69496846
9/10
>>69497763
8/10
>>69498986
8/10


My Top 10:

1. The Avalanches - Wildflower
2. David Bowie - Blackstar
3. Swans - The Glowing Man
4. Tim Hecker - Love Streams
5. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
6. Common - Black America Again
7. Deakin - Sleep Cycles
8. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
9. Angel Olsen - My Woman
10. Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone
11. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
12. Clipping - Splendor & Misery
13. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
14. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
15. Animal Collective - Painting With

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1. Sleep Cycle
2. Bottomless Pit
3. Blackstar
4. Wildflower
5. Danny Brown

Didn't care for much else this year

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>>69494882
this

also Atrocity Exhibition

>>69492912
>>69494537
>>69496063
These are the only ones that mattered. I don't care enough about "modern music" to cite anything else except for maybe Sleep Cycles by Deakin and A Moon Shaped Pool.

There's barely any good music past the year 2000, so why even bother talking about AOTYs?

>>69494419
The fact that this is ironically fucking trash doesn't make it any less shit

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>>69504304
I agree but wildflower deserves that too. A band that can disappear for a decade and a half, then return with one of the strongest albums of the year is fascinating to say the least. For example, take Pink Floyd's The Endless River, a band that was so well established could never make an album that lives up to its predecessors.But a band that sort of just lurked in the shadows coming out with an AOTY right after a 16 year hiatus? That's pretty fucking cool.

AOTY is Viva Belgrado- Ulises

>also great
Camp Cope- s/t
Algae Bloom- I Am Everyone I've Ever Met
Crying- Beyond The Fleeting Gales
Tiny Moving Parts- Celebrate
The Hotelier- Goodness
>>69495929
>>69496627
>>69494437

>>69502773
I keep seeing people post this but I have no backstory to it. Is it actually an album?

>>69504673
yes bruh
it's 0.02 by albur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PXxT28Gh1s&t=982s

>>69494882
this, without any doubt

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>>69492912
4/10
>>69494336
8/10
>>69494386
5/10
>>69494419
7/10
>>69494537
8.5/10
>>69494658
3/10
>>69494691
3/10
>>69494754
7.5//10
>>69494882
8/10
>>69494948
7.5/10
>>69495461
8.5/10
>>69495966
6/10
>>69496063
8/10
>>69496627
7/10
>>69498986
6.5/10
>>69500711
4/10
>>69504114
6.5/10

>>69495461
this is one of those albums where i think it's good on some objective level but it just does absolutely nothing for me
songwriting is good but i think they played it too safe, i enjoy it but i would never go out of my way to listen to it again.

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???

>>69494386
>>69495056
these

>>69503846
>top 10 has 15 albums

>>69494386
Holy shit, this one gets it from me
>>69492912
This came really close
>>69494569
>>69495461
>>69504114
These, Painting With and You Want It Darker are all excellent albums as well
It's been quite a year of loss in almost every sense, but in terms of music we've been gifted gems (deaths of artists notwithstanding)

>>69494882
Ayy my man

>>69500446
The whole album in particular.

>>69503846
u just copied fantanos scores lmao

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>>69505105
>blackstar 4/10
explain yourself

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>>69496025
>Thirdorgan - Yagamania
Nice nice

>>69503513
what website is that??

Is Car Rest Headseat actually good, or just another one of those dull adult-contemporary masquerading as "indie" groups?

>>69505105
Pleb

>>69505789
>adult
Nobody over 20 listens to him

>>69501897
>Tender Prey
I just listened to this as my first Nick Cave record, and the production is really bothering me - anyone else have that issue?

>>69505656
not even. we maaay have 3 of the same top 10 albums.

>>69505789
>>69505855

I love Twin Fantasy and I think Will's label output is pretty damn good but then I'm 20. So in a few months I suppose I'll completely drop it all most likely.

>>69505789
He's not good

>>69495056
Album name of pic related?

>>69506098
it's called Reverse Image Search by Google

>>69506124
I'm on mobile ya fucking gimpboy

>>69506300
get a computer

>>69506300
It's the 3 dots next to "anonymous"

>>69492952
Get off this board.

>>69496465
I mean, I like a few of these, but this is one of the most nu-male years possible for music.

>>69494569
>muh looping album

>>69506363
Thanks cowboy

I am gonna give Wildflower a listen thanks Anons and Davids MEMEstar being 10/10 is honestly feeding into his death so its "NOT VALID"
>MFW Jcole might get album AOTY

>>69495966
crop your pic but this

>>69494336

>i hate whites tier

>>69496249
not sure i'd call elseq "middle-of-the-road"

Haven't been on /mu/ much for a while, surprised that people dislike the new Bon Iver so much.
I've never been able to stand his music or understand why people liked it, but the track I heard off the album sounded at least less cloying and than his previous work

>>69506516
>BLACKstar being 10/10 is honestly feeding into his death so its "NOT VALID"
that argument is beyond invalid, mate. so much so it's damn near juvenile. as mentioned above, Blackstar was being lauded even before his death was announced. it really is a spectacular album. best of the year? for some. i see several albums on lists here i found downright terrible. can't really account for musical tastes is my reasoning, so to say one album is greater than another is not really saying much at all. hence, why threads like these are only good for recommendations.

street sects | end position was good.

>>69503846
hahaahahahahah reddit

>>69495966
Nobody is posting it because it's a forgetable album

>>69496706
That Idris Ackamoor record was good stuff.

>>69506749
Seeing them tomorrow

I was gonna ask what the movie samples are from. Although I should check Panic In Needle Park

>>69506516
Make sure to hear all the old songs they're remixing. The Wikipedia list is really good.

>>69506993
They being Avalanches

>>69505772
That pic is not mine. I uploaded a screenshot of foobar playing the album but 4chan changed it to that pic. Idk

>>69505688
It's Bish Bosch for Dummies.

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desu

>>69507403
this t b h

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Sorceress by Opeth was my favorite thid year. It's actually one of my favorite albums of all time, every song on it is fantastic.

>>69496212
>Implying Dream Theater is better than Opeth

fuckin kek

>>69507430
What album this?

>>69496706
Do you have a download of "We are KING"?

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imo

>>69494419
I enjoyed maybe two songs. The rest of it is just...too bass less. It feels tinny and gave me a headache

>>69501793
Out of the stuff I have listened to this year, probably this or that danny brown album.
I also really enjoyed Meliora (yea yea, came out last year, just listened to it this year).

>>69505655
Just listen to I Look Like Shit, his best. imo.

>>69506739
Okay I can see how you can take it that way but everyone has their view on certain albums I just feel its a bit too far to call it a "AOTY" But like you said threads like this are only good for recommendations. I might give it another spin in a year or two.

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Was there really any competition?

>>69500380
I'm >>69496525
I laughed so much about this last night

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probably one of the best singer songwriter albums this year

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>>69492912

>>69505655
yeah i would just work backwards in his discography. make sure to check out his label Quoute Unquote Records, there's a lot of quality releases on there. look into all of his side projects. dont be afraid Goodbye Cool World. theres no way youre gonna read this

>>69496998
fantano pls go

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really? not a single mention of pic related?

it's not even my no1 i'm just shocked nobody else has even brought it up

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fite me

>>69510259
too slow

>>69510285
You're a bitch

>>69495081
I blame public education

The normie levels in this thread are off the fucking charts. Same trash you see on the year-end lists from mainshit publications. Are you all fucking sacks of thoughtless meat that you gravitate towards the same exact albums? Truly sad. Not even joking when I say that 9/10 albums in this thread are total shit

>>69510259
I loved the fuck out of Cilvia Demo but this album was a bit of a disappointment for me.
This album literally made me sleepy.

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>>69510396

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sort of a weak year imo

this is still prob my fav of the year

>>69510528
>sort of a weak year imo
>has heard maybe 1% of all albums released this year and probably only popular ones highlighted by the media
i shiggy diggy

>>69510576
>has heard maybe 1% of all albums released this year
congratulations on describing literally everyone on earth.
There were thousands and thousands of albums released this year

>>69510643
that's my point. How can you say "sort of a weak year" when you've heard a tiny amount of albums? Saying "this is my favorite album from this year that I've heard" is fine but categorizing an entire year's worth of music releases as "weak" is pretty retarded

>>69510682
Did you miss the part where I said 'imo'
Obviously I meant specifically from my point of view you fucking autist.

>>69496258
That Ariana Grande album was garbaggio.

I say this as someone who unironically loved My Everything.

Hot album cover tho at least.

>>69492952
This tbfqh

>>69510703
so by "imo" you meant "from my extremely limited and admittedly retarded point of view" OK, I get it. That's what you meant to say. What you should have said is "I can't be bothered to find any decent music despite that I'm fucking swimming in music finding tools and resources, so it was a weak year for me in the sense that I'm a lazy entitled cunt who likes to make sweeping generalizations about the state of a creative medium I'm clearly unfamiliar with without ever putting forth the effort to try and change my idiotic perspective"

>>69492912
9/10
>>69492952
7.5/10
>>69494754
7/10
>>69495966
10/10
>>69496063
7/10
>>69496212
0/10
>>69496500
7/10
>>69496627
7/10
>>69498986
7/10
>>69500711
8.5/10
>>69505133
6.5/10
>>69510528
8/10 I'M A GOOK

>>69498922
Underrated choice
Not aoty tho

Their singer/guitarist's gear makes me cum

>>69510815
Stay mad about your assumptions buddy. It's a good look.

>>69507972
liked it but really not a contender, very personal but not the same as an AOTY

>>69505789
I'm in my late 20s and I think it's ok.

>>69494419
this is unironically the best pop record in over a decade

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haha just kidding

>>69500356
tv girl
my nigga

>>69495966
Nights is the new Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

love how he went so personal on the album. It's really fucking good.

The Glowing Man is my AOTY tho

>>69501897
>I thought No More Shall We Part was a weaker Boatman's Call
Hm, really? I have to disagree a bit. Would you mind explaining why. Lyrically I think the Boatman's Call wins, but musically No More Shall We Part feels a lot stronger to me.