The forum album of the year polling thread (2016)

1 - Kristin Hersh - Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
2 - Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3 - Cate Le Bon - Crab Day
4 - Deerhoof - The Magic
5 - Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye

  1. Sarah Mary Chadwick - Roses Always Die
  2. David Thomas Broughton - Crippling Lack
  3. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
  4. Abul Mogard - Works
  5. Bracken - High Passes
  1. The Avalanches - Wildflower
  2. Meilyr Jones - 2013
  3. The Kills - Ash & Ice
  4. Ital Tek - Hollowed
  5. Public access TV - Never enough
  1. Holy Fuck - Congrats
  2. Rival Consoles - Night Melody
  3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
  4. Moderat - III
  5. Weval - Weval

Mostly based on stuff I’ve been best able to work to this year.

1 Joyce manor
2 Angel Olsen
3 hotelier
4 parquet courts
5 car seat headrest

  1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
  2. Mogwai - Atomic
  3. Adam Betts - Colossal Squid
  4. Nick Cave - Skeleton Tree
  5. Preoccupations - Preoccupations
  1. Scott Walker - The Childhood of a Leader OST
  2. Lolina - Live in Paris
  3. Cavern of Anti-Matter - Void Beats/Invocation Trex
  4. Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
  5. Carla dal Forno - You Know What it’s Like
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I’m sure this will change over time …

  1. Kanye West - Life of Pablo
  2. David Bowie - Blackstar
  3. Frank Ocean - Blonde
  4. Preoccupations - S/T
  5. Mitski - Puberty 2

So just to confirm, are lists counting up to peoples favourite record or down?

Read the top of the thread! :arrow_up:

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  1. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
  2. The Drones - Feelin’ Kinda Free
  3. Tim Hecker - Love Streams
  4. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
  5. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here…
  1. Sioux Falls* - Rot Forever
  2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
  3. The Hotelier - Goodness
  4. Bon Iver - 22, A Million
  5. Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
  • Just renamed themselves Strange Ranger
  1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
  2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
  3. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
  4. Emmy the Great - Second Love
  5. Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp

1, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
2. Frank Ocean - Blonde
3. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
4. Lambchop - Flotus
5. Ital Tek - Hollowed

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  1. David Bowie - Blackstar
  2. Nick Cave and the Black Seeds - Skeleton Tree
  3. Angel Olsen - My Woman
  4. Hammock - Everything and Nothing
  5. Jessy Lanza - Oh No

Pretty sure of my top 4, lots of other options for my fifth spot (The Drones, Tim Hecker, Juliana Berwick, American Football, Lambchop, Ka)

  1. American Football - LP 2
  2. Bon Iver - 22 A Million
  3. Tape Loop Orchestra - The Invisibles
  4. Julia Jacklin - Don’t Let The Kids Win
  5. Rival Consoles - Night Melody
  1. Gold Panda - Good Luck And Do Your Best
  2. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
  3. Angel Olsen - My Woman
  4. Amber Arcades - Fading Lines
  5. Nap Eyes - Thought Rock Fish Scale

There have been lots of good records this year. Very honourable mentions to Tindersticks, Sioux Falls, Sea Pinks, Whyte Horses and Car Seat Headrest to name but five.

  1. Frank Ocean – Blonde
  2. Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
  3. The Avalanches – Wildflower
  4. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
  5. David Bowie - Blackstar

1: a tribe called quest: ‘we got it from here…’
2: david bowie: ‘blackstar’
3: radiohead: ‘a moon shaped pool’
4: kaytranada: ‘99.9%’
5. badbadnotgood: ‘iv’

  1. Hammock - Everything and Nothing
  2. Second Woman - Second Woman
  3. Shrine - Ordeal 26.04.86
  4. Autechre - Elseq
  5. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid