I am in the middle of making my 2017 list and thought it would be revealing to re-evaluate my 2016 list. If I made it now it would look like this:
#1 Lambchop - Flotus
#2 Angel Olsen - My Woman
#3 David Bowie - Lazarus
#4 Tinashe - Nightride
#5 Preoccupations - Preoccupations
#6 Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
#7 ANHONI - Hopelessness
#8 Parquet Courts - Human Performance
#9 Swans - The Glowing Man
#10 Kevin Morby - Singing Saw
Angel Olsen jumps from 9 to 2. That album in retrospect is much better than I knew then and still gets constant rotations.
Tinashe is straight in at #4 from nowhere. I knew I liked it at the time but didn't know quite how much and felt it was too "pop" to include. I regret that now. I still listen to it weekly. It's a totally different mood than anything else I listen to so when that mood hits I put this on. Tinashe and Banks hit that spot like nothing else.
Danny Brown in at #6 from nowhere too. Again I new I liked it in December but had no idea how much.
Parquet Courts from nowhere at #8 too. I was whelmed by that album at the time but now it sounds like a classic to me. I was whelmed because of how much I loved "Light Up Gold" and this didn't seem as good, and it isn't but it easily fits in this end of year list.
Lamchop is still #1. Nothing will change that. I don't listen to it as often as some of the others because the mood is not something I am craving this year but when I do listen I still love this record.
So what dropped out for those new 3?
LVL UP - Return to Love
Deakin - Sleep Cycle
The Thermals - We Disappear
All good records but in retrospect not albums of the year - just good records from 2016. I think I included Thermals because I listened to it alot in 2016, probably the most infact of any record. And I weighed that too heavily in my placement of it. Yes listens is an important factor but not as much as I gave it.
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