Deze keer een uitgebreide lijst omdat het eerste half jaar er nu echt op zit. Er waren voor mij weinig interessante releases geweest in de afgelopen weken, met uitzondering van Bat for Lashes, dus vooral geluisterd naar wat ik al kende. De nummers 1, 2 en 3 komen zeker in de eindlijst van 2016 maar in theorie maken ze allemaal kans daarop met uitzondering van nummer 40. Tot nu toe nog geen 5* albums maar wie weet komt die nog?

1. (1) David Bowie – Blackstar 4,5*
2. (2) Tindersticks – The Waiting Room
3. (5) ABC – The Lexicon of Love II
4. (3) School of Seven Bells – SVIIB
5. (4) Daughter – Not To Disappear
6. (6) Chairlift – Moth
7. (7) Autolux – Pussy’s Dead 4*
8. (9) The Jezabels – Synthia
9. (11) Pet Shop Boys – Super
10. (12) Paul Simon – Stranger to Stranger

11. (8) Wendy James – The Price of the Ticket
12. (xx) Bat for Lashes – The Bride
13. (13) Santana – Santana IV
14. (14) M83 – Junk
15. (10) Air Waves – Parting Glances
16. (24) Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
17. (18) Garbage – Strange Little Birds
18. (15) Gwen Stefani – This Is What the Truth Feels Like
19. (16) De Staat – O
20. (25) iLe – iLevitable

21. (17) Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
22. (30) The Duke Spirit – Kin
23. (19) Suede – Night Thoughts
24. (20) Graham Nash – This Path Tonight
25. (xx) Róisín Murphy – Take Her Up to Monto
26. (21) Yoko Ono – Yes, I’m a Witch Too
27. (37) DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall
28. (22) Paul Young – Good Thing
29. (23) Saul Williams – MartyrLoserKing
30. (38) Tiga – No Fantasy Required

31. (xx) Xenia Rubinos – Black Terry Cat
32. (xx) Radiation City – Synesthetica
33. (26) Tegan and Sara – Love You To Death
34. (xx) The Kills – Ash & Ice
35. (xx) Digitalism – Mirage
36. (xx) Mudcrutch – 2
37. (27) Tanita Tikaram – Closer to the People
38. (xx) Metronomy – Summer 08
39. (28) Fischer-Z – This is My Universe
40. (31) Santigold – 99¢ 3,5*

Net voor mijn vakantie nog even een tussenstand. Conclusie: veel mooi/prachtig materiaal dit jaar, maar ook veel matige albums. Veel 3* en lager. Maar ja, het gaat hier om de toppers van dit jaar.

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool 4,5*
2. David Bowie - Blackstar
3. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
4. Weval - Weval
5. James Blake - The Colour in Anything 4*
6. Ulrika Spacek - The Album Paranoia
7. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
8. Autolux - Pussy's Dead
9. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
10. Kaytranada - 99.9%

Net niet in mijn top-10 (maar albums die wellicht in kracht zullen groeien): King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard, Moderat, I Am Oak, Quilt, BADBADNOTGOOD en Michael Kiwanuka.

Tussenstand: juli

1. Astronoid - Air
2. David Bowie - Blackstar
3. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
4. Swans - The Glowing Man
5. Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
6. Vektor - Terminal Redux
7. Virus - Memento Collider
8. Deftones - Gore
9. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
10. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness

Vooralsnog niet echt een onbetwiste nr. 1, maar wel veel toffe albums.
Favorietjes:

- Khun Narin - II
- Death in Vegas - Transmission
- Radar Men from the Moon - Subversive II: Splendour of the Wicked
- Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker - Cannots
- Mothers - When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired
- Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain
- Bitchin Bajas / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
- Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
- The Body & Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
- Holy Esque - At Hope's Ravine
- Sheer Mag - III

Bubbling under waar misschien meer inzit:
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Deerhoof - The Magic
Roly Porter - Third Law
Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
Suuns - Hold / Still

+ nieuwe Avalanches, Angel Olsen waar ik nog niet zeker over ben.

Dit jaar toch ook veel leuke vrijblijvende 3,5/5 plaatjes die ook gewoon zeer fijn zijn, maar de echte knaller nog niet ontdekt. Wel een 4,5/5 van 31 december 2015; mocht dat tellen (David Thomas Broughton.

1. (1) Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2. (2) Shearwater - Jet Plane And Oxbow
3. (3) David Bowie - Blackstar
4. (-) Airbag - Disconnected
5. (4) PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
6. (5) Tindersticks - The Waiting Room
7. (6) RY X - Dawn
8. (-) The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem
9. (7) Suede - Night Thoughts
10. (8) DeWolff - Roux-Ga-Roux

11. (9) The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect
12. (10) Moonface & Siinai -My Best Human Face
13. (11) Sivert Høyem - Lioness
14. (12) Nothing - Tired Of Tomorrow
15. (13) Villagers - Where Have You Been All My Life?
16. (14) Steven Wilson - 4 1/2
17. (-) The Kills - Ash & Ice
18. (17) Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
19. (15) The Coral - Distance Inbetween
20. (19) DMA's - Hill's End

Een eerste schets van mijn top 10 (alle platen t.e.m. 01/07):

1. James Blake - The Colour in Anything
2. Drake - Views
3. Moderat - III
4. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Yndi Halda - Under Summer
6. Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
7. David Bowie - Blackstar
8. Daughter - Not to Disappear
9. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
10. Savages - Adore Life
11. The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come to Expect
12. Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
13. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
14. DIIV - Is the Is Are
15. Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Colin Stetson - Sorrow
3. Mitski - Puberty 2
4. Vanessa Amara - You're Welcome Here
5. David Bowie - Blackstar
6. Orson Hentschel - Feed the Tape
7. Gold Panda - Good Luck and Do Your Best
8. Tim Hecker - Love Streams
9. Cliff Martinez - The Neon Demon
10. Autechre - elseq 1-5

01. [---] The Void* - Values
02. [01] David Bowie - ★
03. [02] Emitt Rhodes - Rainbow Ends
04. [---] Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
05. [03] Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
06. [---] Jessy Lanza - Oh No
07. [05] Suede - Night Thoughts
08. [04] Anohni - Hopelessness
09. [---] Joe Purdy - Who Will Be Next?
10. [---] NAO - For All We Know

11. [06] The Jayhawks - Paging Mr. Proust
12. [08] Moderat - III
13. [07] Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros
14. [---] Beyoncé - Lemonade
15. [---] James Blake - The Colour in Anything
16. [---] William Tyler - Modern Country
17. [09] Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By
18. [---] Lucinda Williams - The Ghosts of Highway 20
19. [---] William Bell - This Is Where I Live
20. [10] The Jezabels - Synthia

1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
2. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
4. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
5. Mothers - When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
6. James Blake - The Colour in Anything
7. Weval - Weval
8. Ry X - Dawn
9. MMOTHS - Luneworks
10. David Bowie - ★

clubsandwich wat een heerlijk jaar, alhier den lijst met afgevaardigden:

1.David Bowie - ★
2.Colin Stetson - Sorrow
3.Xiu Xiu - Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks
4.PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
5.Swans - The Glowing Man
6.Savages - Adore Life
7.Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
8.Future - Purple Reign
9.M83 - Junk
10.Deftones - Gore

11.Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
12.Rihanna - ANTI
13.Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
14.Roly Porter - Third Law
15.Jesu/Sun Kil Moon - Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
16.DIIV - Is The Is Are
17.Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future
18.Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
19.The Field - The Follower
20.Bat For Lashes - The Bride

21.Kanye West - The Life Of Pablo
22.Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
23.Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP
24.Nonkeen - The Gamble
25.Young Thug - Slime Season 3

(Frank Ocean u bent waarschijnlijk de enige die heer David nog van de eerste plaats kan duwen. Kom d'r maar in!)

Augustus alweer, tijd voor een update:

1. (-) Aesop Rock – The Impossible Kid 4,5*
2. (2) Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
3. (4) Lushlife & CSLSX – Ritualize 4*
4. (1) Deftones – Gore
5. (5) Rihanna – ANTI
6. (6) Underworld – Barbara, Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
7. (-) James Blake - The Colour in Anything
8. (-) Drake - Views
9. (7) Sophia – As We Make Our Way (Unknown Harbours)
10. (8) William Tyler – Modern Country

Update:

01. Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Trance Frendz
02. Moderat - III
03. BadBadNotGood - IV
04. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
05. Tim Hecker - Love Streams
06. Anderson Paak - Malibu
07. Rival Consoles - Night Melody
08. Chance the Rapper - Coloring Book
09. Julianna Barwick - Will
10. Andy Stott - Too Many Voices

Kanshebbers: Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour, Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island II, JAMBINAI - A Hermitage, Nao - For All We Know, Savages Adore Life

1.David Bowie - ★
2.Frank Ocean - Blond
3.Colin Stetson - Sorrow
4.Xiu Xiu - Plays The Music Of Twin Peaks
5.Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things, Vol.1+2
6.PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
7.Swans - The Glowing Man
8.Savages - Adore Life
9.Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
10.Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

1. Big Big Train - Folklore
2. Kent - Då Som Nu För Alltid
3. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
4. Haken - Affinity
5. The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
6. DeWolff - Roux-Ga-Roux
7. Steven Wilson - 4½
8. Joe Bonamassa - Blues of Desperation
9. Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness
10. Daughter - Not to Disappear

Kanshebbers: Marillion - FEAR, Opeth - Sorceress, Alcest - Kodama

Een beetje zo:

01. (01) Anderson .Paak - Malibu
02. (02) Leon Vynehall - Rojus (Designed to Dance)
03. (==) De La Soul - And the Anonymous Nobody
04. (==) Jessy Lanza - Oh No
05. (03) Moderat - III
06. (04) Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour
07. (06) Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit
08. (==) Atmosphere - Fishing Blues
09. (08) The Field - The Follower
10. (==) Africaine 808 - Basar

01. (01) David Bowie – ★
02. (02) Anohni – Hopelessness
03. (03) Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
04. (07) Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
05. (04) RY X – Dawn
06. (05) PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition
07. (06) Suede – Night Thoughts
08. (08) Sivert Høyem - Lioness
09. (09) Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence
10. (10) Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway

11. (11) De Staat – O
12. (12) William Fitzsimmons – The Pittsburgh Collection
13. (13) Eefje de Visser – Nachtlicht
14. (14) Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
15. (15) Låpsley – Long Way Home
16. (16) Radical Face – The Family Tree: The Leaves
17. (17) Sommerhus – Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Love?
18. (18) Kula Shaker – K 2.0
19. (==) Autoheart – I Can Build a Fire
20. (19) Tindersticks – The Waiting Room

Nog een zomermaand met niet al te veel bijzondere releases behalve de nieuwe van Aaron Neville, Y La Bamba en De La Soul. Nog steeds niet aangedurfd om een album 5* te geven wel heel veel 4* uitgedeeld. Een gemengd jaar, minder pieken en meer dalen helaas, maar ook veel goede albums.

1. (1) David Bowie – Blackstar 4,5*
2. (2) Tindersticks – The Waiting Room
3. (3) ABC – The Lexicon of Love II
4. (4) School of Seven Bells – SVIIB
5. (5) Daughter – Not To Disappear
6. (6) Chairlift – Moth
7. (10) Paul Simon – Stranger to Stranger
8. (13) Santana – Santana IV
9. (11) Wendy James – The Price of the Ticket
10. (7) Autolux – Pussy’s Dead 4*

11. (8) The Jezabels – Synthia
12. (9) Pet Shop Boys – Super
13. (12) Bat for Lashes – The Bride
14. (20) iLe – iLevitable
15. (15) Air Waves – Parting Glances
16. (14) M83 – Junk
17. (16) Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
18. (21) Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
19. (31) Xenia Rubinos – Black Terry Cat
20. (17) Garbage – Strange Little Birds
21. (18) Gwen Stefani – This Is What the Truth Feels Like
22. (19) De Staat – O
23. (25) Róisín Murphy – Take Her Up to Monto
24. (27) DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall
25. (22) The Duke Spirit – Kin
26. (29) Saul Williams – MartyrLoserKing
27. (28) Paul Young – Good Thing
28. (32) Radiation City – Synesthetica
29. (23) Suede – Night Thoughts
30. (24) Graham Nash – This Path Tonight
31. (26) Yoko Ono – Yes, I’m a Witch Too
32. (30) Tiga – No Fantasy Required
33. (xx) Aaron Neville – Apache
34. (xx) De La Soul – and the Anonymous Nobody
35. (44) The Prettiots – Funs Cool
36. (xx) Y La Bamba – Ojos del Sol
37. (33) Tegan and Sara – Love You To Death
38. (34) The Kills – Ash & Ice
39. (35) Digitalism – Mirage
40. (36) Mudcrutch – 2

Tussenstand: augustus

1. David Bowie - Blackstar
2. Astronoid - Air
3. Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
4. Blood Incantation - Starspawn
5. Swans - The Glowing Man
6. Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows
7. Vektor - Terminal Redux
8. Virus - Memento Collider
9. Deftones - Gore
10. Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Dope Lemon - Honey Bones
3. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht
4. Ry X - Dawn
5. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
6. Last Shadow Puppets, The - Everything You've Come To Expect
7. Bear's Den - Red Earth & Pouring Rain
8. Whitney - Light Upon The Lake
9. DIIV - Is The Is Are
10. Daughter - Not To Disappear

Update:

1. Bitchin Bajas / Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
2. Rangda - The Heretic's Bargain
3. Laraaji & Sun Araw - Professional Sunflow
4. Orson Hentschel - Feed the Tape
5. Matt Elliott - The Calm Before
6. Space Echo: The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed
7. Jambinai - Hermitage
8. Yorkston / Thorne / Khan - Everything Sacred
9. Ukandanz - Awo
10. Matmos - Ultimate Care II

Nu al een prima lijst!!

1. The Kills - Ash & Ice (2016)
2. Sivert Høyem - Lioness (2016)
3. Grant-Lee Phillips - The Narrows (2016)
4. David Bowie - ★ (2016)
5. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
6. The Veils - Total Depravity (2016)
7. New Model Army - Winter (2016)
8. PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016)
9. Swans - The Glowing Man (2016)
10. Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression (2016)

En dan komen de volgende releases nog uit!!

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (2016)
Pixies - Head Carrier (2016)
The Mission - Another Fall from Grace (2016)
White Lies - Friends (2016)
Wovenhand - Star Treatment (2016)

Wat een geweldig jaar is 2016!!

deric raven
Zo die staat hoog. Telkens als ik hem luister denk ik waarom luister ik deze niet vaker maar is ook niet een album waaraan ik denk als ik even niet weet wat ik moet opzetten. Weinig blijft hangen maar als ik het hoor dan denk ik, ja leuk.

Pixies kijk ik ook wel naar uit

Een top-10 kan ik al geven (17 albums beluisterd waarvan 11 met ten minste 4*).

1. David Bowie - ★ 5*
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate 4,5*
4. Bat for Lashes - The Bride
5. Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
6. Suede - Night Thoughts 4*
7. Santana - Santana IV
8. Volbeat - Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie
9. The Jayhawks - Paging Mr. Proust
10. The Coral - Distance Inbetween

Natuurlijk moet ik nog heel wat albums beluisteren maar het zal erg moeilijk zijn om de eerste 2 van de troon te stoten.

Zeer voorlopige top 10, kan morgen weer anders. Bovendien komen er nog een aantal zeer interessante releases aan. Aantal geluisterde albums, in ieder geval vele honderden.

1. Silke - Strange
2. Nessi Gomes - Diamonds & Demons
3. Courtney Marie Andrews - Honest life
4. Tom Neven - Closer
5. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
6. Melanie de Biasio - Blackened cities
7. The Breath - Carry your kin
8. The Veils - Total depravity
9. David Bowie - Blackstar
10. Jenny Berkel - Pale moon kid

Tweede tussenstand, met nu drie nieuwkomers:

1. The Jezabels - Synthia (1)
2. Moderat - III (7)
3. Eefje de Visser - Nachtlicht (3)
4. Suede - Night Thoughts (2)
5. Steven Wilson - 4 ½ (4)
6. Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts (-)
7. Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat (-)
8. Digitalism - Mirage (5)
9. Izzy Bizu - A Moment of Madness (-)
10. AURORA - All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (8)

1. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Travi$ Scott - Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight
3. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
4. Frank Ocean - Blonde
5. Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
6. Noname - Telefone
7. Deftones - Gore
8. Skepta - Konnichiwa
9. Kaytranada - 99.9%
10. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Alicia's update top 10, 2016
01. David Bowie - ★
02. Steve Jansen - Tender Extinction
03. Wire - Nocturnal Koreans
04. Anderson / Stolt - Invention of Knowledge
05. Feeding Fingers - Attend
06. And Also the Trees - Born Into the Waves
07. IAMX - Everything Is Burning
08. Future Unlimited - Calm Down
09. The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
10. Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts

Overige kandidaten:

Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
Preoccupations - Preoccupations

Update, met een volledig nieuwe top 3:

1. (-) Frank Ocean - Blonde
2. (-) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
3. (-) Angel Olsen - My Woman
4. (1) case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs
5. (4) Suede - Night Thoughts
6. (2) Porches - Pool
7. (7) Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
8. (3) Anohni - Hopelessness
9. (5) Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
10. (6) Beyoncé - Lemonade

01. (01) David Bowie – ★
02. (03) Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
03. (==) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
04. (05) RY X – Dawn
05. (02) Anohni – Hopelessness
06. (04) Michael Kiwanuka – Love & Hate
07. (06) PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition
08. (07) Suede – Night Thoughts
09. (09) Avishai Cohen – Into the Silence
10. (==) The Veils - Total Depravity

11. (13) Eefje de Visser – Nachtlicht
12. (08) Sivert Høyem - Lioness
13. (10) Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway
14. (11) De Staat – O
15. (12) William Fitzsimmons – The Pittsburgh Collection
16. (14) Underworld – Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future
17. (15) Låpsley – Long Way Home
18. (16) Radical Face – The Family Tree: The Leaves
19. (17) Sommerhus – Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Love?
20. (18) Kula Shaker – K 2.0

Snelle stijger!

Alicia's update 2 top 10, 2016

01. David Bowie - ★
02. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
03. Steve Jansen - Tender Extinction
04. Wire - Nocturnal Koreans
05. Anderson / Stolt - Invention of Knowledge
06. And Also the Trees - Born Into the Waves
07. Feeding Fingers - Attend
08.The Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
09. Future Unlimited - Calm Down
10. IAMX - Everything Is Burning

Overige kandidaten:

Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
Paul Simon - Stranger to Stranger
Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Preoccupations - Preoccupations
The Mission - Another Fall from Grace