Albums of the Year 2016

Here are my albums of the year 2016 (so far). I would unreservedly recommend the top 20. The remainder, I enjoyed, but it is unlikely that they will receive a lot of repeat plays over the year. Also listed are the reissues of the year, from my perspective.

Rock Pop & Country

  1. Applewood Road – Applewood Road
  2. Leonard Cohen – You Want it Darker
  3. Sturgil Simpson – a Sailor’s Guide to Earth
  4. David Bowie – Blackstar
  5. Kevin Morby – Singing Saw
  6. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
  7. Case / Lang / Viers – Case, Lang & Viers
  8. Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
  9. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
  10. Wilco – Schmilco
  11. Teenage Fanclub – Here
  12. Suede – Night Thoughts
  13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tre
  14. Max Jury – Max Jury
  15. Colvin & Earle – Colvin & Earle
  16. Paul Simon – Stranger to Stranger
  17. Steve Mason – Meet the Humans
  18. Loretta Lynn – Full Circle
  19. Wolf People – Ruins
  20. Michael Kiwanula – Love & Hate

Best Jazz (that I have heard so far) 2016

  1. Tim Garland – One
  2. Dinosaur – Together, As One
  3. E.S.T. Symphony – Symphony
  4. John Scofield – No country for old men
  5. Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, Matthew Garrison – In Movement
  6. Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence
  7. Dr. Lonnie Smith – Evolution
  8. Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau – Nearness (Nonesuch – 555845-1)
  9. Michael Formanek – The Distance
  10. Marius Neset – Snow Melt

I also enjoyed:

  • Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Person A
  • Brian Eno – The Ship
  • Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones – Little Windows
  • The Jayhawks – Paging Mr Proust
  • PJ Harvey – Hope Six Demolition Project
  • Cate Le Bon – Crab Day
  • Turin Brakes – Lost Music
  • Field Music – Commontime
  • Parquet Courts – Human Performance
  • M Ward – More Rain
  • The Coral – Distance InBetween
  • Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
  • Mogwai – Atomic
  • The Gloaming – The Gloaming 2
  • Weezer – White Album
  • Damian Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land
  • Lucinda Williams – ghosts of the highway
  • Chris Forsyth – The Rarity of Experience
  • Eric Clapton – I still do
  • Michael Franti & Spearhead – Soulrocker
  • Emily Jane White – They Moved in the Shadow…
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band – Let Me Get By
  • Lambchop – Flotus
  • Cass McCombs – Mangy Love
  • Julia Jacklin – Don’t Let the Kids Win
  • Drive-By Truckers = American Band
  • Mudcrutch – 2
  • Biffy Clyro – Ellipsis
  • Brigid Mae Power – Brigid Mae Power
  • The Felice Brothers – Life In The Dark
  • Okkervil River – Away
  • Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories
  • Bill Frisell – When You Wish Upon A Star
  • The Monkees – Good Times (surprisingly good)

Soundtrack:

  • Hell or High Water – Nick Cave / Warren Ellis

Reissues :

  • XTC – Skylarking (Ape House – APELPD108)
    [Both the Blu-Ray and the 45rpm vinyl versions]
  • XTC – English Settlement (Ape House – APELPD105)
  • Impulse – 1961-1974 box set (UMA)
  • Roy Harper Stormcock (SFLP001)
  • Black Grape – It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah (Radioactive, Geffen Records – 5373030)
  • Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic (BMG – BMGCATLP77)
  • Steve Earle – Guitar Town, Exit O & The Hard Way
  • John Abercrombie – Timeless (ECM 1047)
  • Pink Floyd – Early Years and Vinyl Reissues
  • Bruce Springsteen – Ties that Bind
  • Terry Reid – The Other Side of the River (Future Days Recordings – FDR 629)
  • The Kinks – Mono Box Set
  • Jack White Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 (Third Man Records – TMR-387)
  • Bert Jansch – Avocet (Earth (13) – EARTHLP010)

 

~ by Pat Neligan on November 25, 2016.

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