Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Favorite Songs of 2016

A whole lot of excellent music floating around out there this year, and i'm sure i missed a ton of it. Anyway, here are 105 (a completely arbitrary number) songs in no particular order that did their absolute best to make this year not quite so shitty.

1. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me
2. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People...
3. Run the Jewels - 2100
4. S U R V I V E - Wardenclyffe
5. Solange - Cranes in the Sky

6. Federale - All the Colours of the Dark
7. Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - Are You Lost in the World Like Me?
8. Temples - Certainty
9. Ashtray Navigations - Spay Two
10. Kim Gordon - Murdered Out

11. Danny Brown (with Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Earl Sweatshirt) - Really Doe
12. Carly Rae Jespsen - Higher
13. Molly Burch - Downhearted
14. Blood Orange - Augustine
15. Las Kellies - Summer Breeze

16. Hazel English - I'm Fine
17. Chromatics - Dear Tommy
18. The Body - Prescience
19. Thee Oh Sees - The Axis
20. Frankie and The Witch Fingers - Get Down

21. Whitney - Red Moon
22. Dent May - Face Down in the Gutter of Your Love
23. Cassius (with Cat Power) - Feel Like Me
24. Blanck Mass - D7-D5
25. Julee Cruise - Animal

26. Drugdealer (with Weyes Blood) - Suddenly
27. The Saxophones - If You're on the Water
28. Preoccupations - Degraded
29. Cloud Cover - Cannibalism
30. Ultimate Painting - Set Me Free

31. Negative Gemini - Don't Worry Bout the Fuck I'm Doing
32. Still Corners - Lost Boys
33. Bernardino Femminielli - Plaisirs Americains
34. MOONKNIGHT - The Tsirku
35. The Wytches - Who Rides?

36. Merchandise - Flower of Sex
37. Zeal and Ardor - Devil Is Fine
38. Psychic Ills - Baby
39. Exploded View - Orlando
40. Father John Misty - Real Love Baby

41. Radiohead - Daydreaming (possibly my favorite of the year...maybe)
42. Brian Eno - I'm Set Free
43. Xeno and Oaklander - Marble
44. DJ Shadow (with Run the Jewels) - Nobody Speak
45. BADBADNOTGOOD - Speaking Gently

46. Parquet Courts - Human Performance
47. SUMAC - Rigid Man
48. Charles Bradley - Changes
49. Black Mountain - Mother of the Sun
50. Bleached - Wednesday Night Melody

51. Car Seat Headrest - Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales
52. Sturgill Simpson - In Bloom
53. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Rings of Saturn
54. Xiu Xiu - Falling
55. Feels - Bird's Eye

56. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - Gamma Knife
57. Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate
58. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
59. Jozef Van Wissem (with Zola Jesus) - Ruins
60. Prince Rama - Your Life in the End

61. Marissa Nadler - Janie in Love
62. Odd Nosdam - Sisters (Boards of Canada remix)
63. A Giant Dog - Sex and Drugs
64. PJ Harvey - The Wheel
65. Weyes Blood - Be Free

66. Troller - Storm Maker (also possibly my favorite of the year...maybe)
67. HAERTS - Eva
68. LUH - I & I
69. Iggy Pop - Sunday
70. Mass Gothic - Soul (or maybe this is my favorite of the year...possibly)

71. Cross Record - Wasp in a Jar
72. David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
73. Frank Ocean - Pink + White
74. Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - The Upside Down
75. ANOHNI - 4 Degrees

76. Astronoid - Up and Atom
77. Pye Corner Audio - Ganzfeld Effect
78. Gonjasufi - Carolyn Shadows
79. Umberto - Awakenings
80. Perturbator (with Hayley Stewart) - Sentient

81. Childish Gambino - Redbone
82. Jenny Hval - Period Piece
83. Kendrick Lamar - Untitled 1
84. Dreamboat - Aftershock / Face to Face
85. M83 - Solitude

86. Minor Victories - A Hundred Ropes
87. Teen Suicide - Alex
88. Cullen Omori - No Big Deal
89. Beach Baby - Bug Eyed and Blonde
90. The Pattern Forms - Don't Le Me Dream

91. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker'
92. Ramin Djawadi - Black Hole Sun
93. Delicate Features - The Sun Tangled in Your Hair
94. Marching Church - Lion's Den
95. Ty Segall and The Muggers - Candy Sam

96. Laure Briard - Je vole
97. Marie Davidson - Naive to the Bone
98. Wojciech Golczewski - She Comes
99. Uniform - Ghosthouse
100. GosT (with Kriistal Ann) - Arise

101. Necro Deathmort - Capsule Sickness
102. Eagulls - My Life in Rewind
103. Huerco S. - Promises of Fertility
104. Kvelertak - Nattesferd
105. Lush - Out of Control

There you go.  If you wanna check any of these song out, that's what the internet is for.  Stay tuned tomorrow for a (much more manageable) list of songs i loved in 2016 that did not come out in 2016.

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