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2016

40 Albums That Melted My Brain In 2016

January 12, 2017 by hyperadmin

  • Air Protection Office – Escaping Distances (Ekar)
  • Autolux – Pussy’s Dead (30th Century)
  • Devendra Barnhart – Ape In Pink Marble (Nonesuch)
  • Juliana Barwick – Will (Dead Oceans)
  • Jherek Bischoff – Cistern (Leaf)
  • Black Marble – It’s Immaterial (Ghostly International)
  • Botany – Deepak Verbena (Western Vinyl)
  • City Yelps – The City Yelps Half Hour (Emotional Response)
  • Chris Cohen – As If Apart (Captured Tracks)
  • Cross Record – Wabi Sabi (Ba Da Bing)
  • Cube – My Cube (Left Hand Path)
  • Essaie Pas – Demain Est Une Autre Nuit (DFA)
  • Exploded View – s/t (Sacred Bones)
  • Gaslamp Killer – Instrumentalepathy (Cuss)
  • The Hecks – s/t (Trouble In Mind)
  • Higher Authorities – Neptune (Domino)
  • Marielle V Jakobsons – Star Core (Thrill Jockey)
  • Damien Jurado – Visions Of Us On The Land (Secretly Canadian)
  • Kikagaku Moyo – House In The Tall Grass (Guruguru Brain)
  • Klaus Johann Grobe – Spagat der Liebe (Trouble In Mind)
  • Mary Lattimore – At The Dam (Ghostly International)
  • Cate Le Bon – Crab Day (Drag City)
  • Lithics – Borrowed Floors (Water Wing)
  • Morgan Delt – Phase Zero (Sub Pop)
  • Naked Lights – On Nature (Castle Face)
  • Nonkeen – The Gamble (R&S)
  • Omni – Deluxe (Trouble In Mind)
  • Plaid – The Digging Remedy (Warp)
  • Powell – Sport (XL)
  • Mark Pritchard – Under The Sun (Warp)
  • Public Memory – Wuthering Drum (Felte)
  • Say No! To Architecture – s/t (Ghosthunter’s Club)
  • Sonny & The Sunsets – Moods Baby Moods (Polyvinyl)
  • Space Dimension Controller – Orange Melamine (Ninja Tune)
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears (Western Vinyl)
  • Takenobu – Reversal (s/r)
  • Thor & Friends – s/t (LM Dupli-Cation)
  • Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty (Ghostly International)
  • Vanishing Twin – Choose Your Own Adventure (Soundway)
  • 10th Letter – The Revenge (Psych Army Intergalactic)

Reissues/Compilations

  • Bocal 5 – Musique Électronique (Dark Entries)
  • Ahmed Malek – Musique Originale De Films (Habibi Funk)
  • Pedro Santos ‎– Krishnanda (Mr. Bongo)
  • Various Artists – (The Microcosm) Visionary Music Of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 (Light In The Attic)
  • Various Artists – Sky Girl (Efficient Space)
  • Various Artists – So-Low (Vinyl Factory)
  • Various Artists – Tanbou Toujou Lou: Meringue, Kompa Kreyol, Vodou Jazz, & Electric Folklore from Haiti 1960 – 1981 (Ostinato)
  • Various Artists – Venezuela 70: Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s (Soundway)

Best Live Performances of 2016

January 12, 2017 by hyperadmin

  • Lupe Fiasco – Mezzanine, 1/20
  • Chicano Batman – The Independent, 1/23
  • FKJ – The Regency Ballroom, 3/26
  • Bombino – The Independent, 4/23
  • Four Tet – Mezzanine, 5/6
  • Gold Panda – The Independent, 8/25
  • Kendrick Lamar – FYF Fest, 8/27
  • LCD Soundsystem – FYF Fest, 8/28
  • Kamasi Washington – Outside Lands, 8/6
  • Fantastic Negrito – Outside Lands, 8/7
  • Shiba San – Symbiosis Gathering, 9/23
  • Hundred Waters – Symbiosis Gathering, 9/25
  • Gaslamp Killer – Symbiosis Gathering, 9/25
  • DJ Shadow – 1015, 9/30
  • James Blake – Fox Theater, 10/17
  • Kishi Bishi – The Filmorek 10/21
  • Samora Pinderhughes – The Way Church, 11/21
  • Rising Appalachia w/ Arouna Diarra, Dustin Thomas – Great American Music Hall 11/26 
  • ESP – Brix 581, 12/23
  • Justice – The Armory, 12/31

Top 20 Songs for 2016 (in no particular order)

January 12, 2017 by hyperadmin

  • Holyesque – “St.” At Hope’s Ravine (Beyond the Frequency)
  • Hinds – “Castigadas En El Granero” Leave Me Alone (Mom + Pop)
  • Coathangers – “Perfume” Nosebleed Weekend (Suicide Squeeze)
  • Parquet Courts – “One Man No City” Human Performance (Rough Trade)
  • Goon Sax – “Boyfriend” Up To Anything (Chapter)
  • Deerhoof – “Plastic Thrills” The Magic (Polyvinyl)
  • Tacocat – “The Internet” Lost Time (Hardly Art)
  • Esme Patterson – “Feel Right” We Were Wild (Grand Jury)
  • Pookie and the Poodlez – “Gonna Make Him Mine Tonight” Young Adult (Southpaw)
  • Mitski – “Your Best American Girl” Puberty 2 (Dead Oceans)
  • Seratones – “Sun” Get Gone (Fat Possum)
  • Sofi Tukker – “Drinkee” Soft Animals (Heavy Roc Music)
  • Weaves – “One More” Weaves (Kanine)
  • Lisa Prank – “Best of Everything” Adult Teen (Father/Daughter)
  • Death By Unga Bunga – “I Wanted Everything” Fight! (Jansen)
  • Heron Oblivion – “Beneath Fields” Heron Oblivion (Subpop)
  • Sneaks – “Tough Luck” Gymnastics (Merge)
  • LVL UP – “Hidden Driver” Return To Love (Sub Pop)
  • Baronial Hall – “Compartment D” Single (soundcloud)
  • Whitney – “No Woman” Light Upon the Lake (Rough Trade)
 

Top 10 Albums Of 2016

January 12, 2017 by hyperadmin

  1. Foodman – Ez Minzoku (Orange Milk)
  2. /f – The Fourth Bully (Psalmus Diuersae)
  3. Babyfather – “BBF” Hosted by DJ Escrow (Hyperdub)
  4. Yves Tumor – Serpent Music (PAN)
  5. James Ferraro – Human Story 3 (SCM-01)
  6. Lolina – Live in Paris (Unknown)
  7. The Nativist – Various Options (Paxico)
  8. Huerco S. – For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also For Those Who Have) (Proibito)
  9. Macula Dog – Why Do You Look Like Your Dog? (Wharf Cat)
  10. Russell E.L. Butler – Visions of the Future (Jacktone)

Favourite Releases of 2016 in alphabetical order

January 10, 2017 by hyperadmin

  • Kristine Barrett – Ancestors (s/r)
  • Jherek Bischoff – Cistern (Leaf)
  • The Body / Full Of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache (Neurot)
  • Shirley Collins – Lodestar (Domino)
  • Common Eider King Eider – Extinction (Cold Spring)
  • Faun Fables – Born of the Sun (Drag City)
  • Fovea Hex – The Salt Garden I (Die Stadt / Janet)
  • Free Salamander Exhibit – Undestroyed  (Web of Mimicry)
  • FRKSE – Desecration Anxiety I  (Auris Apothecary)
  • Henryk Górecki – Symphony No. 4, “Tansman Episodes” (Nonesuch)
  • Kristin Hersh – Wyatt at the Coyote Palace (Omnibus Press)
  • Hypnopazūzu – Create Christ, Sailor Boy (House of Mythology)
  • Marielle V. Jakobsons – Star Core  (Thrill Jockey)
  • Andrew Liles – A Million Infant Breaths (Dirter)
  • Matmos – Ultimate Care II (Thrill Jockey)
  • Mini-Mekons & Robbie Fulks – Jura (Bloodshot)
  • Marissa Nadler – Strangers (Sacred Bones)
  • Sarah Neufeld – The Ridge (Paper Bag)
  • Nurse With Wound – Dark Fat (United Jnana)
  • So Beast – Kira (Time Sensitive Materials)
  • The Stargazer’s Assistant – Remoteness of Light (House of Mythology)
  • Thor & Friends – S/T (LM Duplication)
  • Emily Wells – Promise (Thesis + Instinct)
  • Emily Jane White – They Moved In Shadow All Together (Talitres)
  • Worm Ouroboros – What Graceless Dawn  (Profound Lore)

Favourite Reissues

  • Carla Bozulich – Red Headed Stranger (Folktale)
  • Tor Lundvall – Nature Laughs As Time Slips By  (Dais)
  • Colin Potter – The Scythe (Deep Distance)
  • Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Grand Opening & Closing / …of Natural History / In Glorious Times (Blood Music)

Favourite Small Things

  • Anne Briggs – Four Songs (Fledg’ling Records)
  • Contrastate – True Believer / The 10/40 Window (Dirter)
  • Grouper – Paradise Valley (Yellow Electric)
  • Tele Novella – Heavy Balloon (Yellow Year)

2016 Albums That Rocked Her World In Strict Alphabetical Order

January 9, 2017 by hyperadmin

  • A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here…Thank you 4 your Service (Epic)
  • Acid Arab – Musique de France (Crammed Discs)
  • Laurie Anderson – Heart of a Dog (Nonesuch)
  • Aphex Twin – Cheetah EP (Warp)
  • Julianna Barwick – Will (Dead Oceans)
  • Blood Orange – Freetown Sound (Domino)
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Kobalt)
  • Patrick Cowley – Muscle Up (Dark Entries)
  • De La Soul – And the Anonymous Nobody (AOI)
  • Deerhoof –  The Magic (Polyvinyl)
  • DJ Katapila – Trotro (Awesome Tapes From Africa)
  • Carolina Eyck – Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet  (Butterscotch)
  • Feels – s/t (Castle Face)
  • Flamingods – Majesty (Soundway)
  • Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
  • Julie Ruin – Hit Reset  (Hardly Art)
  • Helen Money – Become Zero (Thrill Jockey)
  • Roy Montgomery – R M H Q: Headquarters (Grapefruit)
  • Moon Hooch – Red Sky  (Hornblow)
  • Tig Notaro – Boyish Girl Interrupted (Secretly Canadian)
  • Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression  (Loma Vista)
  • Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool  (XL)
  • Kurt Stenzel – Jodorowsky’s Dune  (Cinewax)
  • Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty (Ghostly International)
  • Tuxedomoon & Cult With No Name – Blue Velvet Revisited (Crammed Discs)
  • White Lung – Paradise  (Domino)
  • Wrekmeister Harmonies – Light Falls  (Thrill Jockey)
  • V/A – Gays Hate Techno 2.0  (s/r)
  • V/A – The Get Down  (RCA)
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