Wednesday, December 26, 2018

it Starts With a Birthstone - Albums of the Year 2016

I've been doing these countdowns for three years now. Here's the first. From the year that Bowie died.



By no means definitive. It was just records from 2016 I like and I made the order up as I was counting down to Bowie. Plenty of good and some great stuff missing. It was a dreadful year for music deaths; a wonderful one for new music; a bewildering one for the world!


1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Regina Spektor - Remember Us To Life
4. The Avalanches - Wildflower
5. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
6. Kacy & Clayton - Strange Country
7. Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
8. Sunflower Bean - Human Ceremony
9. Nap Eyes - Though Rock Fish Scale
10. Lambchop - FLOTUS
11. The Moles - Tonight's Music
12. Agnes Obel - Citizen Of Glass
13. Fantastic Negrito - The Last Days of Oakland
14. Warehouse - super low
15. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
16. Helado Negro - Private Energy
17. Eerie Wanda - Hum
18. Childish Gambino - "Awaken My Love!"
19. Kikagaku Moyo - House In The Tall Grass
20. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
21. Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
22. Big Thief - Masterpiece
23. Black Marble - It's Immaterial
24. Nothing - Tired Of Tomorrow
25. Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
26. Allah-Las - Calico Review
27. TOY - Clear Shot
28. Wilco - Schmilco
29. Omni - Deluxe
30. Chris Cohen - As If Apart
31. Exploded View - Exploded View
32. Goat - Requiem
33. De La Soul - And The Anonymous Nobody
34. Lawrenca Arabia - Absolute Truth
35. Fumaca Preta - Impuros Fanaticos
36. Public Access TV - Never Enough
37. The Coathangers - Nosebleed Weekend
38. Teleman - Brilliant Sanity
39. Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve - The Soft Bounce
40. Papooz - Green Juice
41. Cool Ghouls - Animal Races
42. Eleanor Friedberger - New View
43. Alex Cameron - Jumping The Shark
44. Angel Olsen - My Woman
45. Holy Wave - Freaks Of Nature
46. Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia
47. Cate Le Bon - Crab Day
48. Steve Gunn - Eyes On The Line
49. Beth Orton - Kidsticks
50. DIIV - Is The Is Are

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