Topic: 2016 Rawk Album Of The Year - *** THE RESULTS ARE IN ***

[Alphaville]

You might pop in a bit more often to the year in music thread too - enjoyed reading your list last week! 

Ha!  I can't keep up with that thread.  I'm weirdly averse to new things until I'm suddenly not, usually after fully digesting the stuff I liked from the year before. Also, I'm deeply cynical about the almost constant 'great record' updates (to a fault), especially with new output from bands or artists I like. About nine months into the year, I shed my curmudgeonly carapace and let the new stuff in.

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Also, I'm deeply cynical about the almost constant 'great record' updates

I can start posting when I think a record is dogshit if you like, to balance it up a bit

[Alphaville]

As much as I would love the year in music thread to reflect my frozen, unfeeling heart, I wouldn't want you guys to stop the love-fest on my account

[MOZ]

Great thread and top work from Chip Evans (I changed a couple of mine a week or so before the deadline, so they may not have made ths list).

Glad Bowie won it - some great songwriting and musicianship on that disc. However, it's not an album I can just throw on - more like a special event that has to be planned in advance.

Pleased to find that six of my top 12 featured female singers or female-led bands. Not sure what happened to the overall list to only have one in the top 20. An anomaly I'm sure.

Anyway, it's hard finding time to catch up on everything, may need to organise a few road trips this year.

[redpanic]

Well in Chip, great stuff. Didn't find time to get my list in, just doing this so i can record my year of listening somewhere.

1: Useless Eaters - Relaxing Death
2: Thee Oh Sees - An Odd Entrances
3: Car Seat Head Rest - Teens Of Denial
4:Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
5:Goggs - Goggs
6:Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
7: Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
8:Slowcoaches - Nothing Gives
9: Teenage Fanclub - Here
10: Dinosaur Jr - Give A Glimpse

Notable mentions:

Wytches - All Your Happy Life
Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits
New Model Army - Winter
Cate Le Bon - Crab Day
Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool
Omni - Deluxe
The Blind Shake - Celebrate Your Worth
Pixies - Head Carrier
Bob Mould - Patch The Sky
Angel Olsen - Woman
Bleached - Welcome The World
Josefin Ohrn - Mirage

[jooneyisdagod]

Two Thee Oh Sees efforts in there. You'll fit in well in the music threads mate! Well in.

[martinsquirtle]

Favourite Albums:

1. The Avalanches - Wildflower
2. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
3. Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart
4. LUH - Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing
5. Angel Olsen - My Woman
6. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam - I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
7. Frank Ocean - Blonde
8. Eleanor Friedberger - New View
9. Shura - Nothing's Real
10. Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp

Notable Mentions:
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
The Range - Potential
La Sera - Music For Listening To Music To
Warpaint - Heads Up
How To Dress Well - Care
Beach Slang - A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
Jessy Lanza - Oh No
James Blake - The Colour In Anything
Daughter - Not to Disappear
Emmy the Great - Second Love

Favourite Tracks:
1. The Last Shadow Puppets - Miracle Aligner
2. Martha - Icecream And Sunscreen
3. How to Dress Well - Can't You Tell
4. Blood Orange - Augustine
5. The Avalanches - Sunshine
6. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
7. M83 - Go!
8. Wild Nothing - TV Queen
9. Japanese Breakfast - The Woman That Loves You
10. Eleanor Friedberger - Cathy With The Curly Hair
11. The Range - Florida
12. LUH - Beneath The Concrete
13. Frank Ocean - Self Control
14. La Sera - A Thousand Ways
15. Frankie Cosmos - Fool

Nice one mate, some good tunes in there