Your Top X Albums of 2016

[shadowplay]

^^^

Truthfully with the list thing, I just can't narrow it down, I keep thinking of records I forgot and I can still think of some even as I type this and the list was ridiculous.

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LOL same here. Just wayyy too many good stuff to list down.

bollocks to the both of you, just do it!!! it doesn't have to be perfect or 100% accurate, I already want to change mine but I'm willing to let it go, let it out and be what it is in that moment. DO ET!!

I can't fucking do it, so here's the long list that looks like advanced mental illness and since I've been in an awful conference call for hours I've linked most of it (not that anyone will click any of them ).

Faten Kanaan - The Botanist & The Archaeologist
Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini: Devotional Songs
Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It’s Like
Biosphere - Departed Glories
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Mirage
Colder - The Rain and Goodbye(two albums)
Roly Porter - Third Law
Housebound Demigod
Equiknoxx - Bird Sound Power
Kemper Norton - Toll
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Raime - Tooth
Samuel Kerridge - Fatal Light Attraction
The Rattler Proxy - Vertebrata
Jon Keliehor - The Beginning Of Time
Wolf People - Ruins
Ela Orleans - Circles Of Upper And Lower Hell
Dungen - Haxan
Raime - Tooth
The New lines - love and cannibalism
Pattern Forms - Peel Away The Ivy
Hintermass - The Apple Tree
The Memory Band - A Fair Field
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Still Corners - Dead Blue
Vanishing Twin - Choose Your Own Adventure
Tissø Lake - Paths to the Foss
The Hardy Tree - Through Passages Of Time
Demdike Stare — Wonderland
Wrangler - White Glue
Ectoplasm Girls - New Feeling Comes
Andy Stott - To Many Voices
Croatian Amor - Love Means Taking Action
Ian William Craig - Centres
Thomas Köner - Tiento de la Luz
C Duncan - The Midnight Sun
Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch
Trentemøller - Fixion
Sam Kidel - Disruptive Music
Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up to Monto
Szun Waves - At Sacred Walls
Marie Davidson — Adieux Au Dancefloor
Gazelle Twin - Fleshed Out
Cindytalk ‎– The Labyrinth Of The Straight Line
Shirley Collins — Lodestar
The Duke St Workshop with Laurence R Harvey Tales of HP Lovecraft
Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Susanna - Triangle
Hannah Peel - Awake But Always Dreaming
Lou Rhodes - theyesandeye
Suzanne Ciani Buchla Concerts 1975
GNOD - Mirror
Be - One
And Also The Trees - Born Into the Waves
GNOD & Anthony Child - Behond the LIds
Muslimgauze - Ali Zarin
Tongues of Light (Andy Votel and Demdie Stare)- Channelled Messages at the end of History
Terminal Cheesecake - Dandelion Sauce Of The Ancients
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Green Graves
David Toop - Entities Inertias Faint Beings
TOMAGA - The Shape of the Dance
GOAT - Requiem
Katie Gately - Color
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
2814 - Rain Temple
Jóhann Jóhannsson with Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - End of Summer
Beyond the Wizards Sleeve - The Soft Bounce (and the related 12's)
Head Technician - Zones
Not Waving - Animals
Shinichi Atobe -World
Death In Vegas - Transmission
The Colorist & Emiliana Torrini
Blackhill Transmitter
Julianna Barwick - Will
Clark - Last Panthers OST
Surgeon - From Farthest Known Objects
Rhododendron ‎– One
The Pattern Forms - Peel Away The Ivy
Anthony Child - Songs from the Maui Jungle Vol 2
Autarkic - Can You Pass The Knife
Deux Filles ‎– Space & Time



Notable 12's

VoX LoW - The Hunt
Lena Platonos - Red Axes Remixes ‎
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani - FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
Ancestral Voices -Night of Visions Remixed, Pt. 2
In Aeternam Vale feat Anneq - Je Ai Dissous
Optimo Trax 024 - José Manuel - Safari EP
Pye Corner Audio / Dalhous Run for the Shadows EP
Borusiade - Feelings Of Entropy
Happy Meals - Fruit Juice
Ninos Du Brasil - Para Araras
Pussy Mothers - No.1 E.P
Powell - Jonny [ft. Jonny]
Ali Renault - Keeper Of The Seven Keys
Yula Kasp - Ocean Blues EP
Perc & Passarella Death - Temperature is Rising
Mater Suspiria Vision - Antropophagus (The Giallo Disco Remixes)
C.A.R. / Red Axes - Caraxes
Porter Ricks - Shadowboat
John Foxx - He's A Liquid (official covers)
YALLY (Raime) — Burnt
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation / Gnoomes – Repetitions EP
Various Artists - So Low Remixes
MICACHU — Taz and May
Cavern of Anti Matter - Void Versions
Kirlian Camera - News (Room 506 Edit
Emika - Flashback EP
TCP - The Dynamic Energy Moscoman edit
Ancient Methods - German Love
The Soft Moon - Deeper Remixed
In the Mouth of the Wolf (Ancient Methods & Cindytalk) S/t
Wolfsheim — The Sparrows And The Nightingales (Ancient Methods 'Ode To The Night' Remix)
Death In Vegas - Consequences Of Love (Chris and Cosey Remix)
The Rattler Proxy - Oscillation
Zanias - To the Core
Ancestral Voices - Old Earth Voodoo
My Disco - Severe remixes
Grebenstein - Strong, Proud and Superior.
Michele Mininni - Hyper Martino
Snow Ghosts - Husk
Khidja ‎– El Fadaa
Imarhan (Moscoman Remix)
Wolfgang Voigt & Deepchord Present Peter Michael Hamel ‎– Colours Of Time (Re-Interpreted)
SØS Gunver Ryberg - AFTRYK
Grantby - The Beast System
Clock DVA - Neoteric
The Assistant - Gristleizer
DVA Damas - Clear Cut

Sevens
Barry Woolnough ‎– Great Father Spirit In The Sky
Lake Ruth - The Inconsolable Jean-Claude
Symmetry - Yes
Listening Center - Then It Was Now
Carla dal Forno — Fast Moving Cars
Don Cherry & Jon Appleton - Don & Jon
Beautify Junkyards ‎– Other Voices 08
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill - Silent Night (moomins)
Alan Parker - One Summer ‎‎
Poeme Electronique - Don't Run
Facit - Vaxdockan
Antoni Maiovvi -Seasons In Hell
The Duke St Workshop ‎– Scuro Estivo
Patience - The Church
Burial -Young Death
The Limiñanas - Garden of love
Couteau Latex - Hostile Environment


Archive*

Chi - CHI - The Original Recordings
Delia Derbyshire / Elsa Stansfield: Circle of Light
Various Artists — So Low - Mixed by Optimo
TCP- TCP
Λένα Πλάτωνος ‎– Μάσκες Ηλίου (Lena Platonos – Sun Masks)
The Visitors - Poets End
The Tapes - Selected Works 1982​-​1992
The Lines - Hull Down
Devon Folklore Tapes Vol. IV - Rituals & Practices ‎
Devon Folklore Tapes V - Ornithology
Graeme Miller & Steve Shill - The Moomins
The Polytechnic Youth Label "They Make No Say" | 45s on 3
Bruce Langhorn - The Hired Hand OST
John Foxx - The Complete Cathedral Oceans
Various Artists [url=http://www.juno.co.uk/products/british- ... 619066-01/]British Cassette-Culture: Recordings 1975-1984
Vivien Goldman - Resolutionary (Songs 1979-1982) just to get it all in the one place
Patrick Cowley & Candida Royalle - Candida Cosmica



not including stuff like theGAS box and that sort of thing I was just buying as a set.

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[shadowplay]

Crystal Desert: Black Summer
https://crystaldesert.bandcamp.com/ (this may be of interest to Mr. Shadowplay and anyone that enjoys a hint of goth in their post-punk)
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It's a bit rocky for me but the thought is much appreciated. It's kinda betwixt Only Theatre of Pain and Shotgun Wedding.

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[nanamour]

Applause to Fakeplasticdreams and Shadowplay for some seriously comprehensive compilation--I don't have much new to add but if I really flagellate myself into paring it down my list to 15...er, 17 (what I haven't seen mentioned yet is linked):

Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It's Like
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Ears
Faten Kanaan - The Botanist & The Archaeologist
Demdike Stare - Wonderland
Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards - Wreck His Days
Trentemoller - Fixion
David Bowie - Blackstar
Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm - Trance Frendz technically 2015 but the LP came out in 2016
Death in Vegas - Transmission
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Hannah Peel - Awake But Always Dreaming
Cian Nugent - Night Fiction
Wolf People - Ruins
Troller - Graphic local pick
Dungen - Haxan
G.H. - Screaming Demon Pickups
Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger : might not've quite made the list until I experienced the live madness and something in me head really clicked (or broke)

For once I think naming a standout favorite album might be a possible task...Faten Kanaan - The Botanist & The Archaeologist is that good--one foot in the crystalline minimalist sphere, the other in a courtly neoclassical baroquewave alternate future.

I didn't end up with many of those smaller black discs this year, but my favorite 7" was easily Carla Dal Forno - Fast Moving Cars

[shadowplay]

For once I think naming a standout favorite album might be a possible task...Faten Kanaan - The Botanist & The Archaeologist is that good--one foot in the crystalline minimalist sphere, the other in a courtly neoclassical baroquewave alternate future.

You know I can't really argue with that, it's just a brilliant record.

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[mezcalhead]

Have a look at; Thomas Köner - Tiento de la Luz

Cheers, I picked up the other Köner you recommended a while back and liked it, so will do.

[shadowplay]

Have a look at; Thomas Köner - Tiento de la Luz

Cheers, I picked up the other Köner you recommended a while back and liked it, so will do.

I'm sure I mentioned Koner's project with Andy Mellwig, Porter Ricks. They did a new 12' for the first time in 17 years and IMO it was a bit of a triumphant return, especially the bees.

A1 Shadow Boat

B1 Bay Rouge

B2 Harbour Chart

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[electric12]

The ones I remember are:

Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion
Wolf People - Ruins
Cory Hanson - The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo
Goat - Requiem
Steve Hillage - Searching For The Spark
Black Mountain - IV
Neil Young - Peace Trail

[MechaBulletBill]

Cory Hanson - The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo

I haven't heard this yet and I don't know why

[electric12]

Cory Hanson - The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo

I haven't heard this yet and I don't know why

Have to admit I heard a song off it on the radio first. It's a very good album

I should also add Neil Young's 'Peace Trail' to my list.

[shadowplay]

^^^

I thought you might have been into the Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation album.

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[electric12]

^^^

I thought you might have been into the Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation album.

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I'll have to give it a listen, although I wasn't struck on them when I saw them supporting Goat. Mind, that could've been the mix... the actual noise they were making seemed quite good!

[shadowplay]

Weyes Blood - Front row seat to earth
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I loved all the other Weyes Blood records but I've struggled with that one, it's a bit AOR and I lack the requisite grounding I think to get into it.

I was thinking that anyone who likes Weyes Blood (or even Bat for Lashes or Julia Holter which might be the closest comparison) might enjoy the Susanna (Wallumrød) album 'Triangle' (She often records as Susanna and the Magical Orchestra ). It's fairly sprawling but so much of it's terrific. She flits between real Laurel Canyon Joni Mitchell type stuff and incredible multi tracked cosmic hymnals. The record's not got the press traction that her erswhile collaborator Jenny Hval's Blood Bitch album has (one that surprised me by it's omission in this thread) but it's worthy of anyone attention IMO. Beautiful album from a singer with a voice that's like something from mythology.

There's no stream of the whole thing that I can find but it looks to be on Spotify.

Some random tracks;

Susanna 'Burning Sea'

Susanna 'Texture Within'

Susanna 'Sacred Revolution'

Susanna 'Hole'

Susanna 'In The Need Of A Shepherd'

Susanna 'Ebb And Flow'

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[SempreSami]

Cate le Bon - Crab Day