Best of 2016…So Far

Another amazing year in music despite an absurd election, and pretty much global nuttiness….lest great albums pop up.

These are in no real order (well yeah alphabetical, but I do rank just some emphasis on listen frequency)

Remember I do not post live albums, soundtracks, various artist compilations or reissues and e.p.s, though the list would be triple.

Happy listening and feel free to post comments, missed hits, “are you kidding me’s” and remember listen to more music than you watch tv.

Looking forward to 2017 with new beck, surfer blood and maybe just maybe a Siouxsie record.

* so worth it

** listening to over and over and over

*** mind-blowingly aweseom…just love it!

 

9bach - anian  *

adrian younge - Adrian Younge Presents Something About April II  ***

adult books - Running from the Blows** 

angel olsen - My Woman  **

bacao rhythm & steel band - 55  *

banks & steelz - Anything But Words  ***

barry adamson - Know Where to Run  ***

bear mountain - Badu  *

beat, featuring ranking roger - Bounce **

ben harper & the innocent criminals - Call It What It Is  *

beth orton - Kidsticks  *

bettie serveert - Damaged Good  *

beverly - The Blue Swell  **

black market karma - Animal Jive  *

black mountain - IV  **

blktop project- Concrete Jungle  ***

blue rodeo - 1000 Arms **

bob mould - Patch the Sky  **

bob weir - Blue Mountain  *

bongolian - Moog Maximus  ***

britta phillips - Luck or Magic  ***

bruce foxton - smash the clock  **

car seat headrest - Teens Of Denial  **

catfish and the bottlemen - The Ride *

cats eyes - Treasure House  ***

causa sui - Return to Sky  *

charles bradley - Changes  **

charlie faye & the fayettes - Charlie Faye & the Fayettes** 

claypool lennon delirium - Monolith of Phobos **

communist daughter - The Cracks That Built the Wall  **

cool ghouls - Animal Races  **

coral - Distance Inbetween  ***

crocodiles - Dreamless  *

damien jurado - Visions of Us On the Land  *

damien jurado & richard swift - Other People's Songs vol.1  ***

david bowie - Blackstar  ***

de la soul - and the Anonymous Nobody…**

dean ween group - The Deaner Album  *

death in vegas – Transmission *

devendra banhart - Ape in Pink Marble  *

die antwoord - Suck on This  *

dinosaur jr - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not  **

diiv - Is The Is Are* 

divine comedy - Foreverland  *

doug tuttle - It Calls On Me  ***

dr. robert - Out There  **

drugdealer - The End Of Comedy  *

dunes - Bitter Charm  *

eagulls – Ullages **

ed harcourt - Furnaces  **

elle belle - Wako Gumbo  ***

eztv - High in Place  **

family silver -. electric blend  ***

flock of dimes - If You See Me Say Yes  *

flowers - Everybody's Dying to Meet You  **

frankie cosmos - Next Thing  **

gemma ray - The Exodus Suite  *

grant lee phillips - The Narrows  **

gringo star - The Sides and In Between  *

growlers - City Club  *

grumbling fur – FurFour **

guided by voices - Please Be Honest  *

gum - Flash in the Pan  *

haley bonar - Impossible Dream  *

hamilton leithauser + rostam - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine  **

heavy - Hurt & The Merciless  **

high llamas - Here Come the Rattling Trees  *

his clancyness - Isolation Culture  *

holy sons - In the Garden  *

hurry - Guided Mediation  *

iggy pop - Post Pop Depression **

jake bugg - On My One  ***

james - Girl At The End Of The World *

jayhawks - Paging Mr. Proust **

jeff beck - Loud Hailer  **

jeff rosenstock - WORRY** 

jezabels - Synthia   *

john doe - The Westerner  *

karma To burn - Moutain Czar  *

kate tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos***

 kestrels - Kestrels  *

kid congo & the pink monkey birds - La Araña Es La Vida *

kills - Ash & Ice  *

king gizzard and the lizard wizard - Nonagon Infinity  **

kula shaker - K2.0  **

la sera - Music for Listening to Music To  **

lambchop - Flotus  *

last shadow puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect   ***

lee fields and the expressions - Special Night  *

leonard cohen - You Want It Darker  *

living end - Shift  **

loch lomond - Pens From Spain  *

lvl up - Return to Love  *

madness - Can't Touch Us Now  **

marching band - Heart Jewel *

maria taylor - In the Next Life  ***

martha wainwright - Goodnight City  *

matt berry - The Small Hours  ***

michael kiwanuka - Love & Hate  **

mick harvey - Delirium Tremens  **

misty miller - The Whole Family Is Worried  *

moby & the void pacific choir - These Systems Are Failing  **

mogwai - Atomic *

monster truck - Sittin' Heavy **

moon hooch - Red Sky  *

motorpsycho - Here Be Monsters  *

nada surf - You Know Who You Are  *

nick cave & the bad seeds - Skeleton Tree  *

nina diaz - The Beat Is Dead  *

nouvelle vague - I Could Be Happy  *

omar rodriguez-lopez - Umbrella Mistress **

pack a.d. - Positive Thinking** 

parquet courts - Human Performance *

pascal pinon - Sundur  *

peter doherty - Hamburg Demonstrations  *

pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered  **

pity sex - white hot moon *

pj harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project  **

pony girl - Foreign Life  *

pretenders - Alone  **

primal scream - Chasmosis  ***

purson - Desire's Magic Theatre  **

quantic and flowering inferno - 1000 Watts *

quilt - Plaza  **

radio dept. - Running out of Love *

radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool **

regina spektor - Remember Us To Life  *

rev rev rev - Des fleurs magiques bourdonnaient *

robert pollard - Of Course You Are  **

ryley walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung  *

sea pinks - Soft Days  **

shana falana - Here Comes the Wave  **

shivas - Better Off Dead  *

snarky puppy - Family Dinner Volume 2  *

snoop dogg - coolaid  *

society - All That We've Become  ***

soul hooligan - Music Like Dirt  *

soul snatchers - Where Y'at  *

st. paul & the broken bones - Sea of Noise  *

stan ridgway and pietra wexstun - Priestess Of The Promised Land **

sturgill simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth  **

suede - Night Thoughts  **

sunflower bean - Human Ceremony *

susan - Never Enough  *

tacocat - Lost Time  *

teenage fanclub - Here  ***

terry malts - Lost at the Party  *

thee oh sees - An Odd Entrances  *

tindersticks - the waiting room  ***

toy - clear shot  *

tragically hip - Man Machine Poem  **

travis - Everything At Once  **

trembling bells - Wide Majestic Aire  *

tribe called quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service **

tricky - Skilled Mechanics  *

tuns - TUNS **

ty segall - Emotional Mugger **

unloved - Guilty of Love  ***

wax tailor - By Any Beats Necessary  *

white denim - Stiff  *

wolfmother - Victorious  **

woods - City Sun Eater In the River of Light  *

zane drake - American Venus  **