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!
adrian younge - Adrian Younge Presents Something About April II ***
adult books - Running from the Blows**
bacao rhythm & steel band - 55 *
banks & steelz - Anything But Words ***
barry adamson - Know Where to Run ***
beat, featuring ranking roger - Bounce **
ben harper & the innocent criminals - Call It What It Is *
bettie serveert - Damaged Good *
black market karma - Animal Jive *
blktop project- Concrete Jungle ***
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 ***
charlie faye & the fayettes - Charlie Faye & the Fayettes**
claypool lennon delirium - Monolith of Phobos **
communist daughter - The Cracks That Built the Wall **
coral - Distance Inbetween ***
damien jurado - Visions of Us On the Land *
damien jurado & richard swift - Other People's Songs vol.1 ***
de la soul - and the Anonymous Nobody…**
dean ween group - The Deaner Album *
death in vegas – Transmission *
devendra banhart - Ape in Pink Marble *
dinosaur jr - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not **
doug tuttle - It Calls On Me ***
drugdealer - The End Of Comedy *
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 *
guided by voices - Please Be Honest *
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 *
iggy pop - Post Pop Depression **
james - Girl At The End Of The World *
jayhawks - Paging Mr. Proust **
karma To burn - Moutain Czar *
kate tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos***
kid congo & the pink monkey birds - La Araña Es La Vida *
king gizzard and the lizard wizard - Nonagon Infinity **
la sera - Music for Listening to Music To **
last shadow puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect ***
lee fields and the expressions - Special Night *
leonard cohen - You Want It Darker *
loch lomond - Pens From Spain *
madness - Can't Touch Us Now **
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 **
monster truck - Sittin' Heavy **
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 *
peter doherty - Hamburg Demonstrations *
pinkshinyultrablast - Grandfeathered **
pj harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project **
purson - Desire's Magic Theatre **
quantic and flowering inferno - 1000 Watts *
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 *
shana falana - Here Comes the Wave **
snarky puppy - Family Dinner Volume 2 *
society - All That We've Become ***
soul hooligan - Music Like Dirt *
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 **
sunflower bean - Human Ceremony *
terry malts - Lost at the Party *
thee oh sees - An Odd Entrances *
tindersticks - the waiting room ***
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 **
ty segall - Emotional Mugger **
wax tailor - By Any Beats Necessary *