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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-15 08:19:59
March 15 2017 08:13 GMT
#1
So it took me a while to go over everything I listened to in 2016 again. Overall, I listened to about 350 new albums last year. Pretty productive year, listening wise. These are my 150 favorite (not BEST, mind you, so if I didn't include this or that album it probably didn't make the cut) albums of last year.

* I might add youtube links or descriptions or whatever over the next few days.

lichter's Top 150


  1. FM-84 - "Atlas"


    If this album doesn't make you feel good something is wrong with you. Yes, this was a big synthwave year for me.

  2. Cicada - "Ocean" - bandcamp

    There is something special about this album that I can't quite pin down. I listen to a hell of a lot of instrumental music, and for some reason this really made me feel something.

  3. Kikagaku Moyo - "House in the Tall Grass"


  4. Maria Usbeck - "Amparo" - bandcamp

  5. The Midnight - "Endless Summer"


  6. The Comet is Coming - "Channel the Spirits" - bandcamp

  7. The Gloaming - "2"


    Probably the best folk musicians right now.

  8. Leitbur - "Antique Travelers"
  9. Shura - "Nothing's Real"
  10. Plini - "Handmade Cities"
  11. Imarhan - "Imarhan"
  12. Antonymes - "(For Now We See) Through a Glass Dimly"
  13. Hiss Golden Messenger - "Heart Like A Levee"
  14. M Craft - "Blood Moon"
  15. Akira Kosemura - "MOMENTARY: Memories of the Beginning"
  16. Jessy Lanza - "Oh No"
  17. Christine Ott - "Only Silence Remains"
  18. Mogwai - "Atomic"
  19. Films - "Signs From the Past"
  20. Sarah Neufeld - "The Ridge"
  21. Ital Tek - "Hollowed"
  22. Tim Hecker - "Love Streams"
  23. Fragments - "Imaginary Seas"
  24. Anderson .Paak - "Malibu"
  25. Yumi Zouma - "Yoncalla"
  26. Ian William Craig - "Centres"
  27. Petrels - "Jörð"
  28. Colin Stetson - "Sorrow: A Reimagining Of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony"
  29. Yann Tiersen - "Eusa"
  30. Agnes Obel - "Citizen of Glass"
  31. Carly Rae Jepsen - "E MO TION Side B"
  32. Robert Parker - "Crystal City"
  33. Jherek Bischoff - "Cistern"
  34. Sithu Aye - "Set Course for Andromeda"
  35. Parquet Courts - "Human Performance"
  36. Eagulls - "Ullages"
  37. William Ryan Fitch - "Ill Tides"
  38. Steve Gunn - "Eyes on the Line"
  39. Olafur Arnalds - "Island Songs"
  40. Black Mountain - "IV"
  41. 65daysofstatic - "No Man's Sky: Music for an Infinite Universe"
  42. Hammock - "Everything and Nothing"
  43. GoGo Penguin - "Man Made Object"
  44. Slow Dakota - "The Ascension of Slow Dakota"
  45. Forest Fang - "The Sleepwalker's Ocean"
  46. Morgan Willis - "Miami Calling"
  47. Ben Chatwin - "Heat and Entropy"
  48. King Creosote - "Astronaut Meets Appleman"
  49. Steve Hauschildt - "Strands"
  50. White Lung - "Paradise"
  51. Roger Goula - "Overview Effect"
  52. Cavern of Anti-Matter - "Void Beats / Invocation Trex"
  53. Leonard Cohen - "You Want It Darker"
  54. Boliden - "Landscape and Memory"
  55. Nick Millevoi - "Desertion"
  56. Wildhart - "Shine"
  57. Kedr Lavinskiy - "January Sun"
  58. Andrew Bird - "Are You Serious"
  59. Snarky Puppy - Culcha Vulcha"
  60. Swans - "The Glowing Man"
  61. Memoryhouse - "Soft Hate"
  62. Haley Bonnar - "Impossible Dream"
  63. Fews - "Means"
  64. Julian Lage - "Arclight"
  65. Lapsley - "Long Way Home"
  66. Lorenzo Masotto - "Rule and Case"
  67. Tilman Robinson - "Deer Heart"
  68. Jeff Rosenstock - "WORRY."
  69. Gold Panda - "Good Luck and Do Your Best"
  70. Heron Oblivion - "Heron Oblivion"
  71. Stefano Guzzetti - "Escape (Music For a Ballet)"
  72. Lucy Dacus - "No Burden"
  73. Car Seat Headrest - "Teens of Denial"
  74. The Black Queen - "Fever Daydream"
  75. Noura Mint Seymali - "Arbina"
  76. Gaye Su Aykol - "Hologram Imparatorlugu"
  77. The Hotelier - "Goodness"
  78. Three Trapped Tigers - "Silent Earthling"
  79. Jóhann Jóhannsson - "Orphée"
  80. If These Trees Could Talk - "The Bones of a Dying World"
  81. Ariana Grande - "Dangerous Woman"
  82. Bruno Bavota - "Out Of the Blue"
  83. Kishi Bashi - "Sonderlust"
  84. Fog - "For Good"
  85. Daughter - "Not to Disappear"
  86. Young Magic - "Still Life"
  87. Lights - "Midnight Machines"
  88. Moderat - "III"
  89. Drombeg - "Earthworks"
  90. Wet - "Don't You"
  91. The Cult - "Hidden City"
  92. Hyboid - "Terror of the Universe"
  93. Palmistry - "Pagan"
  94. Mutual Benefit - "Skip A Sinking Stone"
  95. Moonface and Siinai - "My Best Human Face"
  96. Erika Tazawa - "Rhythm of Silence"
  97. Doomsquad - "Total Time"
  98. Holy Fuck - "Congrats"
  99. Waclaw Zimpel - "Lines"
  100. Ryley Walker - "Golden Sings That Have Been Sung"
  101. Dinosaur Jr. - "Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not"
  102. Wang Wen - "岁月鸿沟"
  103. American Football - "American Football"
  104. Loscil - "Monument Builders"
  105. Wolf People - "Ruins"
  106. Waveshaper - "Station Nova"
  107. Jambinai - "A Hermitage"
  108. Stefano Guzzetti - "Leaf"
  109. Iamthemorning - "Lighthouse"
  110. Juliana Barwick - "Will"
  111. Eluvium - "False Readings On"
  112. La Femme - "Mystere"
  113. Celer - "Two Days and One Night"
  114. Mono - "Requiem for Hell"
  115. Oren Ambarchi - "Hubris"
  116. Explosions in the Sky - "The Wilderness"
  117. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Skeleton Tree"
  118. Modern Baseball - "Holy Ghost"
  119. The Album Leaf - "Between Waves"
  120. okamotonoriaki - "Happy Ending"
  121. Samaris - "Black Lights"
  122. Jamie T - "Trick"
  123. World's End Girlfriend - "Last Waltz"
  124. case/lang/veirs - "case/lang/veirs"
  125. Whitney - "Light Upon the Lake"
  126. Mammoth - "Deviations"
  127. Dungen - "Haxan"
  128. The Casket Girls - "The Night Machines"
  129. Beth Orton - "Kidsticks"
  130. Causa Sui - "Return to Sky"
  131. Havenaire - "Tremolo"
  132. Juhani Aaltonen & Iro Haarla - "Kirkastus"
  133. Library Tapes - "Escapism"
  134. Ulrika Spacek - "The Album Paranoia"
  135. Polyenso - "Pure in the Plastic"
  136. Vieux Kante - "The Young Man's Harp"
  137. Mmoths - "Luneworks"
  138. Angel Olson - "My Woman"
  139. Phoria - "Volition"
  140. Wata Igarashi - "Mood of the Machines"
  141. The Dear Hunter - "Act V: Hymns With The Devil In Confessional"
  142. The Coral - "Distance Inbetween"
  143. Frightened Rabbit - "Painting of a Panic Attack"
  144. Culture Abuse - "Peach"
  145. Sunwatchers - "Sunwatchers"
  146. The Veils - "Total Depravity"
  147. Scott Walker - "The Childhood of a Leader OST"
  148. Nite Jewel - "Liquid Cool"
  149. Andy Stott - "Too Many Voices"
  150. John K. Samson - "Winter Wheat"


    Honorable Mentions
  • Dakota Suite + Vampillia - "The Sea is Never Full"
  • Thee Oh Sees - " A Weird Exits"
  • Wrekmeister Harmonies - "Light Falls"
  • White Denim - "Stiff"
  • Umberto - "Alienation"






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Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10337 Posts
March 15 2017 08:52 GMT
#2
No ATCQ? ): RtJ?

In fact, I know only a handful of names on that whole list, lol.
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
March 15 2017 12:02 GMT
#3
Something's wrong with me apparently. I am still not sure why people feel the need to make music that sounds like that. It's not really bad, I just feel the inclusion of the synth sounds ... unneccessarry.
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xpldngmn
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria265 Posts
March 15 2017 12:19 GMT
#4
NRW going strong. Going to give some of those a listen.
Non-native speaker, those prepositions are so hard to know.
munch
Profile Joined July 2014
Mute City2363 Posts
March 15 2017 13:15 GMT
#5
i thought you were ded
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Netherlands30548 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-15 14:39:53
March 15 2017 14:34 GMT
#6
350 new albums in a year woah. How do you even 'find' so many things you'd want to listen to. Do you actively search for them somewhere? Youtube related videos? I really enjoy listening to music but I generally stay close to the well-known ones because well, those are the ones that come by.

When you say 350, do you turn a new album off if you don't like the first two songs? Or is it 350 albums you enjoyed enough to fully listen to them? Either way I'm impressed

Really digging the FM-84
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farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18864 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-15 16:13:19
March 15 2017 16:09 GMT
#7
Good thing you included Ariana Grande.

Do you listen to future at all? It's basically glossier and skippier synth wave, sometimes with a dance emphasis, sometimes not.
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
March 15 2017 21:59 GMT
#8
I have not heard of any of these artists besides Mono and Ariana Grande. I'll give ur top 10 a listen!
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
March 16 2017 01:23 GMT
#9
On March 15 2017 17:52 Jealous wrote:
No ATCQ? ): RtJ?

In fact, I know only a handful of names on that whole list, lol.


I'm not too into hip-hop and rap, hence why this is my favorites, and not "the best" of the year.

On March 15 2017 21:02 opisska wrote:
Something's wrong with me apparently. I am still not sure why people feel the need to make music that sounds like that. It's not really bad, I just feel the inclusion of the synth sounds ... unneccessarry.


synths are the best, accept the synths

On March 15 2017 21:19 xpldngmn wrote:
NRW going strong. Going to give some of those a listen.


only some of these qualify as new retrowave but i think i got the best of 'em. i wasn't that big a fan of the new perturbator

On March 15 2017 22:15 munch wrote:
i thought you were ded


nah

On March 15 2017 23:34 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
350 new albums in a year woah. How do you even 'find' so many things you'd want to listen to. Do you actively search for them somewhere? Youtube related videos? I really enjoy listening to music but I generally stay close to the well-known ones because well, those are the ones that come by.

When you say 350, do you turn a new album off if you don't like the first two songs? Or is it 350 albums you enjoyed enough to fully listen to them? Either way I'm impressed

Really digging the FM-84


i listen to music all day at work, i'm always looking for new music from random recommendations and review sites.

350 is the number or albums i relistened to to make this list. i don't count albums i don't listen top to bottom, or albums i hear one or two songs from and decide i don't like.

On March 16 2017 01:09 farvacola wrote:
Good thing you included Ariana Grande.

Do you listen to future at all? It's basically glossier and skippier synth wave, sometimes with a dance emphasis, sometimes not.


that lady has got pipes

i'm not too big on hip-hop or rap but i do know Future

On March 16 2017 06:59 Chairman Ray wrote:
I have not heard of any of these artists besides Mono and Ariana Grande. I'll give ur top 10 a listen!


most of what i listen to fall under different kinds of instrumental music, so if you like Mono you will probably find something you like here
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farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18864 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-16 01:27:48
March 16 2017 01:25 GMT
#10
haha, not rap, this

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calgar
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States1277 Posts
March 16 2017 02:56 GMT
#11
Synthwave nice! I've been listening to Dynatron, Mega Drive, and Lorn recently.
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10337 Posts
March 16 2017 07:59 GMT
#12
@lichter, I see ^^ Too bad.
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disciple
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
9071 Posts
March 16 2017 19:36 GMT
#13
Atlas is a great album. Found it on the NewRetroWave channel on yt
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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
March 16 2017 21:28 GMT
#14
Man, I need to listen to more music.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33640 Posts
March 17 2017 04:10 GMT
#15
omg there are artists I've heard of on this list :O
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Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3267 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-18 02:01:09
March 18 2017 01:50 GMT
#16
Cool to see you have Plini in your top 10 :D He doesn't quite top AAL for me, but he's the best recent djent artist I've listened to.
Thank you for the list, really liked #2, 3 and 4 so far, gonna listen to more. Always looking for new albums to listen to.

Btw: how do you remember all these albums? Do you take notes/make a plan?

On March 15 2017 21:02 opisska wrote:
Something's wrong with me apparently. I am still not sure why people feel the need to make music that sounds like that. It's not really bad, I just feel the inclusion of the synth sounds ... unneccessarry.

I'm in the same boat.
I actually like synths in the background though. I don't like it when they make up all the music and I can't listen to electric drum machines playing one note repetitively for more than 5 minutes.
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beentheredonethat
Profile Joined May 2016
2934 Posts
March 18 2017 21:19 GMT
#17
do a spotify playlist and publish it eoy
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Profile Joined May 2016
2934 Posts
March 19 2017 16:25 GMT
#18
I just came across this imgur post: http://imgur.com/gallery/czMXM

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aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
March 21 2017 01:04 GMT
#19
how the hell do you genuinely listen to so much music? unless your work is literally you listening to music as opposed to it being in the background while you complete tasks? I have co-workers who are professional music reviewers/journalists who do not get anywhere close to this! very impressive!
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sekalf
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden522 Posts
March 21 2017 19:05 GMT
#20
Atlas is an amazing album!
Really looking forward to his new stuff, there's a new album coming soon afaik
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