Best New Album of 2016

i may be the only SH.tv member to recommend it but Shugo Tokumaru's latest is as inventive as usual.

 

see above.

and Shugo Tokumaru (トクマルシューゴ) - Lift (Official Music Video) »

 

Drunken post. Apologies to @StarDoG for being a boorish yob instead of politely disagreeing.

 

Never heard of him, but that video is a riot of fun. The only question in my mind is whether I actually want to listen to that music or, as with Jack Conte, just see it.

 

another from the album

and a live set on KEXP to show it's not all studio trickery.
Shugo Tokumaru - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) »

 

agreed.

 

Updated favorites list:

Car Seat Headrest, Teens of Denial
Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool
Andy Shauf, The Party
Angela Olsen, My Woman
Parquet Courts, Human Performance
Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Jack White, Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016

I had Mitski's latest on a previous list, but found myself going back to the two singles and not the majority of the album tracks.

 

Well you like your stuff and others like their stuff. Ain't no rules...

 

I like this quite a bit. Hopefully it will be available on bandcamp soon.

 

1. My Woman-Angel Wilson
2. Black star-David Bowie
3. Emotional Mugger-Ty Seagel
4. Cheap Trick-Boom Zoom Crazy Hello
5. The Ship-Bran Eno
6.Lexicon of Love II-ABC
7. The Monkees-Good Times
8. Bat For Lashes-The Bride
9. Here-Teenage Fanclub
10. It's Too Late To Stop Now Vol. II & III-Van Morrison
11. Your band here (or a new forthcoming release I haven't heard yet)

There are a number of individual songs I like as well for 2016 and will,post them later.

Reissues:

1. Skylarking-XTC
2. The Complete Third-Big Star
3. Live at The Hollywood Bowl-The Beatles
4. Beat-King Crimson
5. Three of a Perfect Pair-King Crimson
6. Mirage-Fleetwood Mac
7. Final Wild Years-The Long Ryders
8.
9.
10. The last three to be updated.

 

Ooh this is good. LC voice is deeper and more ominous than ever, the minimal musical settings are perfect and every song tackles one of the big themes: religion, desire, life and death. Produced by his son Adam it is hauntingly hypnotic music for the troubled 21st century.

 

Absolutely David Bowie - Blackstar

Your own death... as 'ART'!

Pretty outrageous really, in a great way.

 

It would be helpful if, for the less known artists and bands, posters could provide a brief description of what the record they're recommending sounds like

 

The most important work of the year.
Gord Downie's 'The Sacred Path'.

 

That's why I try to post a video or link to bandcamp, soundcloud, etc.

 

Wish it was getting a CD release.

BTW, it's The Secret Path »

 

Celebrate Your Worth, the latest by The Blind Shake has been in pretty steady rotation over here since it came out last week.

Strangely sci-fi, deranged, deconstructed garage rock. For fans of Man or Astroman, Six Finger Satellite, The Oblivians, The Hot Snakes, Rocket from the Crypt, et al. It's put out by Goner Records, which should tell you a lot.

 

There's a new Kula Shaker album out? Morbid curiosity engaged. Not that I have anything against them, rather liked them as far as second-rate Britpop bands went, but I can't possibly imagine a record 20 years on sounding good.

 

Im digging this album right now. Its fun, interesting and catchy. Does some nice synth work to the foreground.

Crying - Beyond The Fleeting Gates

Crying - Premonitory Dream »

 

I'm reserving my final vote. Keeping my fingers crossed we will get another NIN album from Trent. He has hinted at it recently, saying "The year isn't over yet."

 

Dreamless, by Crocodiles, is growing on me nicely. They've traded in the noise rock for synths and atmosphere. Check out "Telepathic Lover"

 

My top 6 favorites so far:

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Pretty Years
Niki & the Dove - Everybody's Heart Is Broken Now
Bon Iver – 22, A Million
Angel Olsen – My Woman
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial

 

Thanks for the good words on this, I may need to give it a go. I actually picked a copy up in my local the other day, but when I read on the store's sticker that they traded in the guitars for synths I was a little unsure - that's what I liked most about their early albums. Glad to hear it's an experiment that worked out.

 

horrible mistake, sorry for that.