Music from 2016 that I listened to and liked
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I’ve been making a list of the random albums that I’ve liked each year off and on for the past decade or so. Last year I moved over from Tumblr to Medium, because this is where people go when they want to post ~feelings~ or respond to corporate PR. 2016 has been a weird year for me and the world, but at least there was still good music.
So I present to you (assuming anyone is reading this) a random, but alphabetical, list of the albums that I enjoyed this year:
Angel Olsen — MY WOMAN
Animal Collective — Painting With
ANOHNI — HOPELESSNESS
Black Mountain — IV
Bon Iver — 22, A Million
Chance the Rapper — Coloring Book
David Bowie — Blackstar
Devendra Banhart — Ape in Pink Marble
DIIV — Is the Is Are
Francis and the Lights — Farewell, Starlite!
Gordi — Clever Disguise EP
Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam — I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
Heron Oblivion — Heron Oblivion
James Blake — The Colour In Anything
James Vincent McMorrow — We Move
Karl Blau — Introducing Karl Blau
Kings of Leon — WALLS
Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
Parquet Courts — Human Performance
Pinegrove — Cardinal
PJ Harvey — The Hope Six Demolition Project
Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 3
Sleigh Bells — Jessica Rabbit
St. Paul & The Broken Bones — Sea of Noise
White Denim — Stiff
Whitney — Light Upon the Lake
Wilco — Schmilco
Woods — City Sun Eater in the River of Light
(Note: I didn’t really like Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo overall, but the opening track, “Ultralight Beam,” featuring Chance the Rapper, was one of my favorite songs of the year.)
(Second note: I don’t know why, but I also spent a lot of time listening to Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights, originally released in 2002, this year. It just seemed to make sense a lot of the time.)
