We're All Gonna Die, Dawes: Well, it's the best Dawes record I think I've ever listened to. Also, when's the last time a punk band dropped a harmonica solo in one of their songs ("Yuckies")?
I'm too old to love punk, but bands like this make me want to embrace it more. This LP barely cracks 30 minutes, like any punk record worth its salt, but I like what's going on here. Peach, Culture Abuse: Took me by surprise, but some great, active guitar sounds, a drummer who knows what he's doing and a breeze of a listen. Highlights: "All Night," and the instrumentation and production on "Finish Line/Down." There are parts of this album I only want to hear during the day ("Same Drugs") and others that work best around midnight ("Smoke Break"). Coloring Book, Chance the Rapper: Gospel sounds, colorful feel. Why Are You OK, Band of Horses: Not quite on the level of the first three tremendous records, but it's a big return after the confusing and forgettable Mirage Rock. The Rick Rubin pairing didn't necessarily work, maybe? Interesting ideas here, but I can't stay this ranks as a top-five Avetts effort. Then track two, "Mama I Don't Believe," brings us back to familiar territory. True Sadness, Avett Brothers: Within the first five seconds it sounds like a different album from any previous Avett Brothers record. Standouts: "FloriDada," "The Burglars," "Spilling Guts." This band is constantly just throwing a bunch of aural color in the air and seeing what patterns come to be when they all land. Painting With, Animal Collective: Delightfully weird. I haven't heard his other stuff, which is apparently more aggressive, but I'm going to dig in soon. Some scanty sounds and mellow throughout, with the occasional passionate push. Spacedust & Ocean Views, Anders Osborne: Only got to this in the past two weeks. Honorable mentions (Or: Albums I liked but didn’t love) I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it, The 1975.Critically praised records that I couldn’t connect withĭisappointing or inconsistent or underwhelming releases That's what makes music so fun to talk about. As always, this is entirely from my perspective. If you want reasons why those records are where they are, I get into it on the podcast. The Hope Six Demolition Project, PJ HarveyĪs for the albums I did listen to, I'm first going to just list out the ones that didn't make my favorites list. Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional, The Dear Hunter Skeleton Tree, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds So here are albums I don't discuss on the podcast, records that were either well-regarded on year-end lists or are LPs I'm personally still eager to listen to, but haven't found the time just yet: With that in mind, some thoughts on what I thought was a good-not-great year for music.Īs prelude to the list, I feel compelled to mention that I still did not have time to listen to a number or records in full, if at all. But now we're here, and 2016 is still fresh in mind. This season in college basketball has been relentlessly fun and busy (plus, being a father to a toddler), so that caused a waylay to posting this. On Mirage Rock, though, the South Carolina quintet takes a page out of The Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street playbook and heads to L.A.’s Sunset Sound studios, enlisting 70-year-old.OK, so it's more than two weeks late, but that's the real world for you.
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