Best new / most anticipated albums: 2016
 

This thread is for discussing and announcing new and upcoming albums that are making your 2016 so far. The purpose is not only to nerd out about your favorite new albums, but to assemble a resource guide for those of us who are bored as hell with what's come out so far, and could use some recommendations.

Here's a bit of what's on its way:

Big Ups - Before a Million Universes / March 4 / Exploding in Sound Records


These guys made one of the best noisey post-punk records of 2014 with Eighteen Hours of Static. Their new album sounds, thus far, like home sweet home for folks who grew up with Slint and RODAN and Fugazi and Unwound. Yet there's something about it that saves it from being too derivative. Very much looking forward to the official release.

Listen to "National Parks" on Soundcloud:
Listen to "NATIONAL PARKS" on SoundCloud

FLUME - Skin / Soon, hopefully / Future Classic


Remember this guy? New album is apparently coming any time, but the asshole's pulling a total Kanye and despite having released some excellent singles, there's no goddamn release date yet. Been waiting for this to come through since his self-titled album made waves in 2012.

Listen to "Never be like you" on SoundCloud

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What I've been listening to so far:

Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo *
Not Waving - Animals *
David Bowie - Blackstar *
Anderson Paak - Malibu *
DIIV - Is The Is Are
Knxwledge - Wraptaypes
Future - Evol

(* denotes a particularly high level of quality and/or awesomeness)

that's all I have time for at the moment. Work awaits.

Please contribute to this thread.

KING - We Are KING


Dream&B?? Synthsoul?? Whatever it is, this album is beautiful.

PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

http://pitchfork.com/news/63055-pj-h...ition-project/

Yeah, I'm dying to hear the new PJ.

I'm enjoying it so far, but that album cover looks like it was made in a high shool year book class. Or at a Walgreens, or some shit.

Whose idea was it to smack those placid, dead eyes faces on an old Frutopia bottle design like that anyway?

Holy Fuck - Congrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVYPnLQLOuE

Also curious (but I don't know if they could qualify for this thread, since they're not "surprising" names at all) about the new Mogwai soundtrack and Explosions In The Sky new stuff.

Doesn't have to be surprising. Just say what you're listing to and what you're looking forward to. Maybe some people will be surprised.

Thanks for your input!

(I'm stoked for new Mogwai too. Explosions in the Sky's new album already dropped I think, but I haven't heard it... though I've read a lot of good things about the tracks.)

new Mogwai???

I thought their last album was great.

Yeah man, out soon! It's called ETHER. They just shared the cover art on Facebook or Twitter or something.

New Belly this summer. Yes, "Feed the Tree."

Breeders were rehearsing last year. Not sure what's happening though.

Whoah! See, this is what I'm talking about. I had no idea about either of these things, even though I've been a Breeders and Belly fan forever. Thanks for the intel.

Something to wash away the taste that the Pixies left in my mouth.

Bardo Pond - Regalo II - further compliation of rare songs and singles and most of these are being remastered from the original recordings...I believe it will include the very rare 7" "You Know".

What?!?!?!?! That's so good.

Did see a Twitter post of some studio tape reels with "The Breeders" on it in 2014/15... but then nothing

The Diary:
01 The Introduction
02 The Anthem [ft. Frank and Dank]
03 Fight Club [ft. Nottz and Boogie]
04 The Shining Pt. 1 (Diamonds) [ft. Kenny Wray]
05 The Shining Pt. 2 (Ice)
06 Trucks
07 Gangsta Boogie [ft. Snoop Dogg and Kokane]
08 Drive Me Wild
09 Give Them What They Want
10 The Creep (The O)
11 The Ex [ft. Bilal]
12 So Far
13 Fuck the Police
14 The Diary

I really like the two songs I've recently heard by Nevermen, Mr. Mistake and (especially) Tough Towns and look forward to hearing more from their recently released debut album. There's a fair amount of electronic atmospherics, which usually leaves me cold, but it's more inventive than a lot of that stuff--there's elements of indie rock, reggae and hip hop as well. It's a side project for all three members but I hope they can put a tour together sometime.

Actually it's ATOMIC, ether is one of the tracks "premiered" online ( https://soundcloud.com/rock-action-records/mogwai-u-235 is the first one, ether is around 44:50 in this podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zzcbn#play )

I thought this one and EITS album were both scheduled for release in April, but I might be wrong (not really up to date with news..)

And I'm REAAAALLy enjoyng the latest album by Ulan Bator:

http://ulanbatorband.bandcamp.com/al...abra-new-album

@NR

Is that Jdilla record from the stuff that was found storage joint?

Shit my bad. Damn. It was all "Ether" in my head. Now "Atomic" sounds lame.
Not sure about the EITS.

Holy shit, friends! Pantha Du Prince is dropping a new album this year, his first since 2010's (excellent) Black Noise.

It's called Triad. Here's a handy pull quote:

"Black Noise was very much about me being alone in a small room in Berlin and composing," Weber said in a press release. "The Triad opens the structure to more human ways of interacting, not digitized ways of interacting. It's not about Facebook; it's about meeting up and jamming. I wanted to cut through the digital dust that surrounds us."

This is big news for my electronic music loving brethren out there.

I was going to mention how there was probably no point in mentioning that new Animal Collective album, since their schtick has become intolerable at this point and I'm not the least bit interested in hearing Painting With.

But now I'm mentioning it because I just read my third scathing review of the thing and ... Wow.... I had no idea....

How far the mighty have fallen.
http://thequietus.com/articles/19709...ng-with-review

(Read this review. It's pretty fucking hilarious. Sad, since these guys used to be quite something, and I'd love to hear them mature naturally... in the vein of "Fall Be Kind" maybe, with a more Grateful Dead, folk feel... But that's not happening, and what is happening deserves to be mocked this harshly.)

I still consider myself to be a pretty big "fan" of Animal Collective. I'll give it a spin and let you know what I think

There is only ONE record that will mean anything to me in 2016 and that is deftones Gore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STAR WARS HEADSPACE feat. FlyLo, the criminally underrated Bonobo, Rick Rubin, Röyksopp, Schlomo and my boy Rustie is out now.



Pretty excited... But prepared for disappointment.

Great cover art on that thing. Shades of Deafheaven.

I'll listen to it. I'll tell you this though: it better be fucking amazing, or I'm going on another decade long Deftones break.

Thanks for posting in my thread guys.

Please keep it coming. I've never had a stickied thread before but I want one. So often "new albums" threads get lost, and people end up making 5 of them. Then you want to reference something you saw and it's impossible to find because it's buried in one of 5 buried threads.

I'd like to keep this one active. New music is, like, hella important.

Yoko's Yes I'm a Witch Too came out yesterday.
Haven't listened yet - been too busy with Painting With

Three Trapped Tigers have a new one out in a couple of weeks too

Kim Gordon's new band Glitterbust with Alex Knost from Tomorrows Tulips is releasing their self titled debut in March.

Also, Tomorrows Tulips dropped a pretty good new EP titled Indie Rock Royalty Comb on Jan. 22. Been listening to it a bit. Sounds ... Thurstony.

So Tanya's music biz retirement was less than permanent, and I'm glad. I didn't see Belly the first time around but hopefully I'll get the chance to do so in August or September.

Only tracks that are really grabbing me so far:
Kaskade - C-3P0's Plight
Bonobo - Ghomrassen

First one really kills, but isn't generally my type of electronic music. A little too "rah rah! Let's eat ecstasy and not finish high school" for me, but as far as that banger shit goes it's good. Reminiscent of Hudson Mohawke's more triumphant Lantern tracks, and that was my favorite album of 2015.

Second one is more my kind of thing. Bonobo is excellent. Uses samples to a less immediately powerful effect, but it's a slow burner that has a lot of cool shit going on.

Sometimes I worry it's an actual addiction. It definitely takes away from time I would otherwise be spending on my fucking life. But when my life is in the shitter, I set the music aside. When things are good, I let myself have fun with it.

Fuck me, how did I forget to mention this...

Moderat (Mode Selektor + Apparat, but better than both) is dropping their third album "III" on April 1 via Monkeytown records.



Their last album, II, was one of the best records of 2013, and their debut self titled was one of the most interesting elecronic albums of 2009.

The first single/ep from the album is called "Reminder" and is available on Spotify and iTunes and whatnot.

Fucking stoked for this one. I tell ya, if there ends up being anything new by DJ Koze or the Lips or RDJ this year, it's going to be motherfucking epic!

Ok, the Shlohmo track "Druid Caravan of Smoke" is dope as hell too.

http://youtu.be/enPcZKrq8S8

Anticipating the upcoming release from Wyrding, an excellent project connected to the also-great Kinit Her.

http://youtu.be/4Eu1wrrG12Q

Steve Reich
Reich: Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood (2016)

WHAT A KILLER WEEK FOR MUSIC!

Big Ups - Before a Million Universes (exploding in sound records, 2016) brings the calculated savagery of Slint, RODAN, Shellac, Bitch Magnet and Unwound into the 2010's with extreme bone crushing awesomeness:

Bas - Too High to Riot (dreamville/interscope) is a left field lyrical rap gem, filled with promise and refreshingly non-club ready introspective rap.

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered. (TDE) is the second best hip-hop album of the year from what I can tell. As expected. Check out the Black Hippy does Velvet Underground in demo jam track "untitled 07" and ... well, the rest of the album.

Good stuff indeed.

I need more participation in this thread. Everyone here is a music fan. Why so little interest in giving recommendations and reactions about new releases?

Perfume-Cosmic Explorer.

I hate the album art....and some singles haven't really caught my ear. but I am still looking forward to it. Nakata always got gold.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to EVOLghost again.

Kim Gordon and Alex Knost (Tomorrow's Tulips) = Glitterbust
Self-titled debut now slated for March 18 release





Pitchfork review

(They gave it a 6.8, referred to it as a great noise album. We all know they suck unless they're giving 8-10 scores to the artists we like though anyway ;) )

The best 2016 albums I heard so far

Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
David Bowie - Blackstar
Eleanor Friedberger - New View
Aluk Todolo – Voix
The Body - No One Deserves Happiness
Heron Oblivion - Heron Oblivion
Good Willsmith - Things Our Bodies Used To Have


My wish list:


Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche
Bardo Pond - Acid Guru Pond
Bardo Pond - Regalo II
Blixa Bargeld and Teho Teardo - Nerissimo
Julianna Barwick - Will
Bitchin Bajas and Bonnie Prince Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
The Body and Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
Peter Brötzmann & ICI Ensemble - Beautiful Lies
Cavalier Song - Blezard
Cicada - Farewell
Nels Cline - Lovers
dälek
Dinosaur Jr.
Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus - The Distance
Glenn Jones - Fleeting
Glitterbust - Glitterbust
GNOD - Mirror
Grandaddy - TBA
Steve Gunn
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
Mogwai - Atomic
Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness
Marissa Nadler - Strangers
Neurosis
Nisennenmondai - #N/A
Parquet Courts - Human Performance
Lee Ranaldo
Steve Reich - Mallet Quartet, Sextet, Nagoya Marimbas & Music for Pieces of Wood
Jonathan Richman - Ishkode! Ishkode!
ROVA Channeling Coltrane - Electric Ascension Live
Anoushka Shankar - Land of Gold
Ravi Shankar - In Hollywood, 1971
Colin Stetson - SORROW
Suishou No Fune
Sutcliffe Jugend - The Muse
Swans
Teenage Fanclub
This Patch of Sky
Queen Elephantine - Kala
Wilco
Woods - City Sun Eater
Neil Young - Earth