Best New Album of 2016

Been a pretty amazing year overall for new shoegaze type music, last year too. But back to the present, just released today on Deep Space Recordings, this one sounds very good so far, lots of shimmer, gonna be a blissed out Christmas around my place ... Tears Run Rings ‘In Surges’ LP | Deep Space Recordings »



DS005 Tears Run Rings ‘In Surges’ LP

500 pressed; 200 BLUE/WHITE MIX/300 ICY BLUE

Release date: 12/2/2016

 

Best I've heard, and bought in 2016 Karfagen - Spektra

 

Have you heard the new The New Lines LP yet?

 

No, but listening to a song from the new record now, you guys just have too much obscure band knowledge, this is very cool, and even though quite a bit different from his other band Lake Ruth, you're probably gonna cost me some more money ... title is a little unfortunate since the Honeydogs already used it earlier this year ...

Brooklyn’s austere, baroque The New Lines are back with their third album, Love and Cannibalism, which is out Friday, December 2 via Feral Child. With Hewson Chen’s other band, Lake Ruth, also mining krautrock and Broadcast-y territory, he takes The New Lines in a more jangly pop direction a la The Byrds, or maybe The Clientele, though he hasn’t put the harpsichord and analog synths in storage just yet. Lyrically, the record was concieved as “a series of vignettes concerning a child mourning the death of a companion; the child’s fantasy about reviving the dead; and a series of hallucinogenic visions on religious strife and the order of the universe resulting from the child’s nascent forays into the occult.” We’re premiering a stream of the whole album and you can listen, and watch the video for “Weatherman’s Apology,” below.



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Curious if anyone else gave this a listen besides @manicpopthrill, it's starting to sound really nice to me after a few listens. Streamed it a couple times via Spotify and then downloaded the flac through their bandcamp. High quality music, and sounds very nice too, pretty good dynamics too with DR9. Classy release all around.

 

The newest Childish Gambino is a game changer....out goes the rap and in comes the funk.



@Gaslight @ralphb @Davey

 

Unless something better comes out in the next few weeks...

Rolling Stones Blue & Lonesome

 

I'm going to go through this thread, see what I missed.

Kudos to Davey, lots of interesting suggestions.

 

THE MARCUS KING BAND....eponymous, second album, tremendous potential only slightly more so than Davy Knowles, based on Three Miles From Avalon

 

Completely agree. It's not my absolute #1 for this year but it's way up there. Totally welcome late 2016 surprise.

 

Even though she currently resides in my hometown, her songwriting and talent are world-class.


And her latest album is her best one yet.


Lydia Loveless Real

 

I hate, loathe and despise country music but this gets my pic after listening to it all day.

 

damning with Praise?
Were you forced to listen to it and you have no choice as you have been brain-washed?
Or do you really like it?

 

I really like it. I don't know why. It knocked Radiohead and Bowie out of my top for the year.

 

Is it because the cover photo?
Now, I suppose I will go give a listen.

 

My favourite this year is Ruins by Wolf People

 

Just paste the URL.

Edit: funny, it shows up in the quote but not the original post.

 

Odd, it shows up in the original post on my screen. BTW, I did paste the URL.

 

Wow, color me intrigued. Because of your post I may now have to look into this. I would never (and I do mean NEVER), have given this one a chance otherwise.

 

In the original post on my PC, I see an HTML iframe. In my phone now, I see the video. Very odd

 

Yeah, I have this one sinking in right now. Plus I just tuned into that earlier Damien Jurado offering + that Kate Bush live album.

I need to quit my job and just listen to music all day long....is there a way to do that?

 

Yea, that's a really good one, probably in my top 10 too, made mention with the same song in another thread just a few days ago, kinda hard to classify, maybe call it a stoner-psych-folk-prog concept album ... I need new music in my life. Help me please »

 

thanks for the rec. gave it a try but it didn't work for me. i do like your 2 and 3 though.

 

big fan of this band and side (1) blows me away. best of the year for me. possibly the weirdest video ever made though