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    My favorite releases of 2016.

    So glad the porn spam is gone and thought I'd give this a shot and see if anyone still visits and/or cares.

    In no particular order, here are my top 10 for the year, although Car Seat Headrest is my likely favorite, at least today:

    Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

    Pinegrove - Cardinal

    Bon Iver - 22, A Million

    Mitski - A Puperty 2

    Car Seat Headrest - Teen of Denial

    Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee

    Kevin Morby - Singing Saw

    Whitney - Light Upon the Lake

    The Hotelier - Goodness

    The 1975 - I Like it When you Sleep... (this one might be a stretch but it is, indeed, infectious).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swish View Post
    So glad the porn spam is gone and thought I'd give this a shot and see if anyone still visits and/or cares.
    Porn spam, eh? Guess I missed that, but I'll pretend to care and post some of my favorites too

    Just kidding, nice list of albums there Swish, I like some of those too, but my stab at 2016 favorites of the year went something kinda like this ... I'm just gonna concentrate on the indie pop/rock albums, because those are the ones that I listened to most, roughly in order of my favoriteness, though there were some great major label releases this year, no doubt about that ...

    Indie Pop/Rock Top 10
    The Early Years - II
    Virginia Wing - Forward Constant Motion (and Rhonda EP)
    Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation - Mirage
    Lake Ruth - Actual Entity
    Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked For Death
    Wolf People - Ruins
    Lola Colt - Twist Through The Fire
    Oskar's Drum - A Cathedral of Hands
    Richmond Fontaine - You Can't Go Back ...
    Exploded View - Exploded View

    Best EPs that would probably be in top 10 if full length of same quality
    Califone - Insect Courage
    Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities

    Best majors not considered for top 10
    PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
    David Bowie - Blackstar
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
    Brian Eno - The Ship

    Best live album
    Dead Skeletons - Live in Berlin (2013)

    Best split album
    Presents for Sally / 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - An Arms Reach Away / Darkness Inside (shoegaze)

    Best reissues
    Richmond Fontaine - Thirteen Cities (Complete Arizona Sessions) (first vinyl issue)
    Blue Mountain - Dog Days (first vinyl issue)
    Bowery Electric - Beat (big favorite from 1996, finally reissued on vinyl from Kranky)

    Best albums that I just couldn't fit in my top 10, but already regret

    Limiñanas - Malamore
    Wovenhand - Star Treatment
    Mitski - Puberty 2
    Angel Olsen - My Woman
    Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee

    And a bunch of very cool shimmering shoegaze and dream pop that I wouldn't want to be without for long, especially the first couple
    Dead Horse One - Season of Mist
    Tears Run Rings - In Surges
    The Lucid Dream - Compulsion Songs
    Flyying Colours - Mindfullness
    The Orange Drop - Stoned In Love
    Newmoon - Space

    BTW Swish, I think you would love The Early Years record, kind of a mix of New Order and Brian Eno at times, with some nice kosmische elements, some shoegaze/dream pop, post-punk/post- rock, just really well put together and a pretty great batch of songs, same with Josefin Ohrn, they really harken back to the golden motoriffic kosmische days of bands like Can and Neu! and Cluster and the rest, great stuff. The Oskar's Drum was a big surprise too. And for fans of Broadcast and the late Trish Keenan, the Lake Ruth album is great! I got the vinyl, but came with a 24/96 bandcamp download too, and really sounds pretty nice, kind of 60s vintage baroque pop, but brought into the new world, like with Broadcast and Stereolab. Very good record.



    If anyone is interested or can even see that there is a post here (this site is barely working anymore), below are some youtube links for my top 10 ...

    The Early Years "Fluxus" from II
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sByEvbutt54

    Virginia Wing "ESP Offline" from Forward Constant Motion
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVkwK7VE6pQ

    Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation "Rushing Through My Mind" from Mirage
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZAQSLy-bHc

    Lake Ruth "The Only One Who Knows" from Actual Entity
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WzOqdOMYCI

    Emma Ruth Rundle "Heaven" from Marked For Death
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHJoJpXUPKE

    Wolf People "Kingfisher" from Ruins
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhXBzDe4_ig

    Lola Colt "Twist Through The Fire" from Twist Through The Fire
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHgD7h-u0Bk

    Oskar's Drum "Arms of the Dark" from A Cathedral of Hands
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKU2ennwWus

    Richmond Fontaine "I Can't Black It out If I Wake up and Remember" from You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing to Go Back To
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aouJILrDcz4

    Exploded View "Lark Descending" from Exploded View
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHHaKmonFRk

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    Just a bump to see if I can post a reply and to see if it shows up in the number of replies since my last post didn't, this site seems to be kind of broken now, lots of database errors and login/logout problems, etc. Guess it's been abandoned, just the occasional tumbleweed blowing through, the call of the lonely whippoorwill ... even the ghosts have moved on.

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    Yeah, someone told me (on Facebook) that you replied, otherwise I wouldn't have known. It still shows zero replies.

    As for the porn spam, it was on nearly every thread. Fall Girl contacted the owners of the site and told them about it, and they took care of it (finally).
    I call my bathroom Jim instead of John so I can tell people that I go to the Jim first thing every morning.

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