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| Q3 is Pretty Nifty
BEST ALBUMS. OF THE YEAR. SO FAR. YEAH. | | 1 |  | Car Seat Headrest
Teens of Denial
[Indie Rock]
Rating: 4.7/5
Highlights: Fill in the Blank, Vincent, Destroyed By Hippie Powers, Drugs With Friends, Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales, Cosmic Hero, The Ballad of the Costa Concordia
"Fill In The Blank": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_a1hPwXiWw
My Review: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/70788/Car-Seat-Headrest-Teens-of-Denial/ | | 2 |  | James Blake
The Colour in Anything
[Art Pop / Alternative R&B]
Rating: 4.4/5
Highlights: Radio Silence, Love Me In Whatever Way, My Willing Heart, Choose Me, I Need A Forest Fire, Noise Above Our Heads, The Colour In Anything, Two Men Down, Meet You In The Maze
"My Willing Heart": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7goEUHog0Z8 | | 3 |  | Ty Segall
Emotional Mugger
[Garage Rock / Psych Rock]
4.4/5
Highlights: Squealer, California Hills, Breakfast Eggs, Diversion, Mandy Cream, Candy Sam, Squealer Two
"Californian Hills": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZmsQteNwEw
My (outdated) Review: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/69540/Ty-Segall-Emotional-Mugger/ | | 4 |  | David Bowie
Blackstar
[Art Rock / R.I.P. Rock]
4.4/5
Highlights: Blackstar, ‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore, Lazarus, Dollar Days, I Can’t Give Everything Away
"I Can't Give Everything Away": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE1Zcngd3VA | | 5 |  | Stimming
Alpe Lusia
[Tech House]
Rating: 4.35/5
Highlights: Prepare, Pressing Plant, 22 Degree Halo, For My Better Half, Tanz für Drai, Saibot
"Prepare": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kimj3pPScY | | 6 |  | Esperanza Spalding
Emily's D+Evolution
[Neo-Soul / Jazz / Funk]
4.35/5
Highlights: Good Lava, Unconditional Love, Judas, Earth To Heaven, One, Ebony and Ivy, Funk The Fear
"Unconditional Love": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiF9fSeu4Q0
My Review: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/69980/Esperanza-Spalding-Emilys-DEvolution/ | | 7 |  | Weezer
The White Album
[Pop Rock]
Rating: 4.15/5
California Kids, Wind In Our Sail, (Girl We Got A) Good Thing, Do You Want To Get High?, LA Girlz, Jacked Up
"California Kids": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeu0ZubufU | | 8 |  | Sarah Neufeld
The Ridge
[Post-Minimalism]
Rating: 4.1/5
Highlights: The Ridge, The Glow, Chase The Bright And Burning, A Long Awaited Scar, From Our Animal, Where The Light Comes In
"The Ridge": https://soundcloud.com/sarahkneufeld/the-ridge | | 9 |  | The Jezabels
Synthia
[Indie Pop]
Rating: 4.1/5
Highlights: Stand & Deliver, Smile, Come Alive, Pleasure Drive, Flowers In The Attic, Stamina
"Come Alive": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoLWLsO-ApQ | | 10 |  | Anderson .Paak
Malibu
[Neo-Soul / R&B]
Rating: 4/5
Highlights: The Bird, Am I Wrong, Without You, Your Prime, Come Down, Silicon Valley
"The Season / Carry Me / The Waters": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Ka5wiQBEw | | 11 |  | Charles Bradley
Changes
[Soul]
Rating: 4/5
Highlights: Good to be Back Home, Ain’t Gonna Give It Up, Changes, Ain’t It a Sin, Things We Do For Love, Slow Love
"Changes": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi49yirJiEA
My Review: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/70476/Charles-Bradley-Changes/
NOTE: News has come out recently that Bradley has been diagnosed with Stomach Cancer. I just want to use this opportunity to wish him and his loved ones the best. I've heard from many people that he's one of the nicest musicians they've ever met, and he comes across through live performances as someone who loves performing more than anything else. The man is a talent, releasing one of the most passionate soul records to come out this decade with 'Changes', and I'm hoping that he recovers soon. | | 12 |  | Andy Hull
Swiss Army Man OST
[A capella]
Rating: 4/5
Highlights: Intro Song, Cave Ballad, Hank Drinks, When I Think About Mom, Talk To Her, Montage, River Rocket, Goodbye / Hello, Don’t Tell Sarah, Run Down the Mountain, Finale, A Better Way | | 13 |  | Glass Animals
How To Be A Human Being
[Indie Pop / Alternative R&B]
Rating: 4/5
Highlights: Life Itself, Season 2 Episode 3, Pork Soda, Mama’s Gun, The Other Side of Paradise, Poplar St.
"Season 2 Episode 3": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhZXaWYTPoE
My Review: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/71543/Glass-Animals-How-To-Be-A-Human-Being/ | | 14 |  | Leon Vynehall
Rojus
[Deep House]
Rating: 3.95/5
Highlights: Saxony, Paradisea, Blush, Kiburu’s, …There Is You
"Paradisea": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xxraG9fke4 | | 15 |  | Terrace Martin
Velvet Portraits
[Jazz / Funk / Soul]
Rating: 3.9/5
Highlights: Valdez Off Crenshaw, Push, Turkey Taco, Patiently Waiting, Think of you, Mortal Man
"Think of you": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLiRqplwG_U | | 16 |  | Gold Panda
Good Luck And Do Your Best
[Downtempo / Microhouse]
Rating: 3.9/5
Highlights: In My Car, Song For A Dead Friend, I Am Real Punk, Halyards, Time Eater, Your Good Times are Just Beginning
"In My Car": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YVhAILmqyo | | 17 |  | Atlanter
Jewels Of Crime
[Progressive Pop]
Rating: 3.9/5
Highlights: Light, Jewels Of Crime, Let It Fade, Jareeze, Wear The Rag
"Light": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euVeFG28eN8 | | 18 |  | Kishi Bashi
Sonderlust
[Indie Pop / Chamber Pop]
Rating: 3.9/5
Highlights: m’lover, Say Yeah, Ode To My Next Life, Flame On Flame (A Slow Dirge), Honeybody
"Honeybody": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zvfj1XJeis
My Review: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/71703/Kishi-Bashi-Sonderlust/ | | 19 |  | Oddisee
The Odd Tape
[Instrumental Hip Hop]
Rating: 3.85/5
Highlights: Right Side of the Bed, Live from the Drawing Board, On the Table, Born Before Yesterday, Still Sleeping
Full Album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onJycDlJkxA | | 20 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
Nonagon Infinity
[Garage Rock / Psych Rock]
Rating: 3.85/5
Highlights: Robot Stop, Gamma Knife, People-Vultures, Evil Death Roll, Wah Wah
"Robot Stop": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p_Si21ig7c | | 21 |  | The Suffers
The Suffers
[Soul / "Gulf Coast Soul"]
Rating: 3.8/5
Highlights: Midtown, Gwan, Better, Good Day, Giver
"Midtown": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxzj4YZ8NA | | 22 |  | Blood Orange
Freetown Sound
[Synthpop / Synth-funk / R&B]
Rating: 3.75/5
Highlights: Augustine, Best To You, E.V.P., But You, Hands Up, Hadron Collider
"Augustine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXtzcViZPGA | | 23 |  | Matmos
Ultimate Care II
[Musique concrète / Experimental]
Rating: 3.75/5
Highlights: Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2, Excerpt 5, Excerpt 8, Excerpt 9
"Excerpt Eight": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qH-WQUmNQQ | | 24 |  | Chairlift
Moth
[Synthpop / Indie Pop]
Rating: 3.7/5
Highlights: Polymorphing, Romeo, Crying In Public, Moth To The Flame, Show U Off
"Ch-Ching": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWSFlqBOgl8
My Review: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/69690/Chairlift-Moth/ | | 25 |  | Xenia Rubinos
Black Terry Cat
[Alternative Pop]
Rating: 3.7/5
Highlights: Don’t Wanna Be, Mexican Chef, Right?, Lonely Lover, I Won’t Say
"Mexican Chef": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1VAa1HBpM | | 26 |  | Hikrahe
Lily (The Wilt)
[Downtempo]
Rating: 3.65/5
Highlights: Manilla (Counting Nuts), Salmon Arm (Rainbird), Juniper (Motel Wading), Thieves Bleand (Snake Oil), Forest Bathing (Eat You Alive)
Stream & Download: https://solarmasscollective.bandcamp.com/album/lily-the-wilt | | 27 |  | Soda Island
A Trip To Soda Island
[Future Bass / Downtempo]
Rating: 3.65/5
Highlights: Nature Nature, Forest2, Soda Ritual, Reverie, Ghost Naps, Secret Garden, Webs
Stream & Download: https://sodaisland.bandcamp.com/releases | | 28 |  | Dr. Lonnie Smith
Evolution
[Jazz-Funk]
Rating: 3.65/5
Highlights: Play It Back, For Heaven’s Sake, Talk About This, African Suite
"Play It Back": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTWDlpJvB-A | | 29 |  | Thao And The Get Down Stay Down
A Man Alive
[Art Rock / Singer-Songwriter]
Rating: 3.65/5
Highlights: Astonished Man, Nobody Dies, Guts, Millionaire, Meticulous Bird, Hand To God
"Astonished Man": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37yrktde6m0 | | 30 |  | The Drones
Feelin Kinda Free
[Experimental Rock]
3.6/5
Highlights: Taman Shud, Then They Came For Me, To Think That I Once Loved You, Boredom
"Boredom": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xgFy5SWl1Y | | 31 |  | Death Grips
Bottomless Pit
[Experimental Hip Hop]
Rating: 3.6/5
Highlights: Spikes, Eh, Bubbles Buried In This Jungle, Three Bedrooms In A Good Neighborhood, 80808
"Eh": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOJFhKriSH8 | | 32 |  | The Heliocentrics
From the Deep
[Jazz Fusion]
Rating: 3.6/5
Highlights: Discovery, The Pit, Telekinesis, Night and Day, Looking Back, The Gas Bottle, Mass Psychosis
"Night and Day": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81lAsxnD6I | | 33 |  | Deakin
Sleep Cycle
[Psychedelic Folk]
Rating: 3.6/5
Highlights: Golden Chords, Just Am, Footy
"Just Am": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmaJTpJpUiU | | 34 |  | Rihanna
ANTI
[R&B]
Rating: 3.6/5
Highlights: Kiss It Better, Desperado, Love On The Brain, Higher, Close To You
"Kiss It Better (NSFW)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49lY0HqqUVc | | 35 |  | Open Mike Eagle and Paul White
Hella Personal Film Festival
[Alternative Hip Hop]
Rating: 3.55/5
Highlights: Admitting the Endorphin Addiction, Smiling (Quirky Race Doc), Protectors of the Heat, Dive Bar Support Group, Drunk Dreaming
"Smiling (Quirky Race Doc)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQE-BcLTWz0 | | 36 |  | Lust For Youth
Compassion
[Synthpop]
Rating: 3.5/5
Highlights: Limerence, Sudden Ambitions, Better Looking Brother, Tokyo
"Better Looking Brother": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_aGikS0DEk | | 37 |  | BADBADNOTGOOD
IV
[Nu Jazz / Soul]
Rating: 3.5/5
Highlights: Speaking Gently, Time Moves Slowly, Confessions Pt. ll, IV, Cashmere
"Confessions Pt. ll": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfRxeD34unQ | | 38 |  | Bullion
Loop The Loop
[Indietronica]
Rating: 3.45/5
Highlights: Dip Your Foot, My Lar, Never Is The Change, Get to the Heart of It, Peep Hole, FoYoC
"Never Is The Change": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nc5ZsZzMVI | | 39 |  | YG
Still Brazy
[G-Funk / West Coast Hip Hop]
Rating: 3.45/5
Highlights: Don’t Come To LA, Twist My Fingaz, Gimme Got Shot, Bool, Balm & Bollective, FDT, Blacks & Browns
"Don't Come To LA": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsRMABsht-o | | 40 |  | Meilyr Jones
2013
[Chamber Pop]
Rating: 3.4/5
Highlights: How to Recognize a Work of Art, Strange Emotional, Return to Life, Olivia, Featured Artist
"Featured Artist": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhXYd99EzpE | |
wtferrothorn
10.05.16 | badaboom | dbizzles
10.05.16 | Fuck, man. There's so much here I haven't heard. I need to broaden my horizons I suppose. | theacademy
10.05.16 | feet your | wtferrothorn
10.05.16 | : O
you're the best acad | AlexKzillion
10.05.16 | Need to check 1 badly | FullOfSounds
10.05.16 | Dude nice feature, it deserved it | JigglyPDiddy
10.05.16 | Gotta listen to Thao. | Lord(e)Po)))ts
10.05.16 | jiggly bare my children | Lord(e)Po)))ts
10.05.16 | also ferro glad u liked juniper that doesnt seem to be many peoples fav on the alb | wtferrothorn
10.05.16 | Yeah I really like that track, I love your use of those vocal samples. | wtferrothorn
10.05.16 | Emotional Mugger is so underrated it fucking hurts. | wtferrothorn
10.05.16 | 👍 | RadicalEd
10.05.16 | pretty good list. Need to check ty seagall. Check out:
The Hue - Aurora
Faunts - Ostalgia Pt.1
| AsleepInTheBack
10.05.16 | hell yes for 1 | wtferrothorn
10.05.16 | @Ed I've been meaning to get to that The Hue record for so damn long, what I've heard from it has been preeety chill | Artuma
10.05.16 | not too many interesting-looking albums here but nice effort bro | UpwardSpiral
10.05.16 | R.I.P. Rock ..... | Sinternet
10.05.16 | nice you got leon vynehall here
and stimming
you know site needs more deep house + tech house love | rabidfish
10.05.16 | 38 is one of the most unique music i've heard this year... Wish it could take a step further into it, even when i can't put my finger on what it is that makes it so special.
edit: also, soda island is pretty cool. | Thibs
10.05.16 | cool list. check All Human - Teenagers, You Don't Have to Die | YetAnotherBrick
10.06.16 | Sweet list. Nice to see some love for 29 | wtferrothorn
10.06.16 | Thank you, and there are definitely some choice cuts on that record. Meticulous Bird is especially wonderful. |
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