Against The Odds' Best Of 2016
2016 was one hell of a year. A lot of our idols died, and many of our enemies rose to power. Most of the time it was doom and gloom. But 2016 saw the release of many good albums. We heard some great ones too. But very few managed to stand out. From the last album of David Bowie, to the newest ones from Iggy Pop and Nick Cave, to awesome comebacks from NIN, ATCQ and Lush, to exuberant hip-hop, obscure electronica and mellow indie and beyond, 2016 gave us a lot to be happy about. This year we wrote less, but probably listened to a lot more music. Below are the releases both Chris and Anna enjoyed the most. Sit back, put your headphones, and enjoy!
Anna Bo
David Bowie - Blackstar (ISO/ Columbia)
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression (Caroline International)
Nine Inch Nails - Not The Actuals Events (The Null Corporation)
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (XL Recordings)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd)
Savages - Adore Life (Matador)
James Blake - The Color In Anything (Polydor)
Alex Cameron - Jumping The Shark (Secretely Canadian)
Clipping - Splendor & Misery (Sub Pop/ Deathbomb)
Tim Hecker - Love Streams (4AD)
Public Memory - Wuthering Drum (Felte)
Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography (Room 40)
HEXA - Factory Photographs (Room 40)
Biosphere - Departed Glories (Smalltown Supersound)
Benoit Pioulard - The Benoit Pioulard Listening Matter (Kranky)
Surachai - Instinct and Memory (BL_K Noise)
The KVB - Of Desire (Invada Records)
Beak> - Couple In A Hole (Invada Records)
Youth Code - Commitment To Complications (Dais Records)
Planes Mistaken For Stars - Prey (Deathwish Inc.)
Jozef Van Wissem - When Shall This Bright Day Begin (Sacred Bones)
Exploded View - Exploded View (Sacred Bones)
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
Bambara - Swarm (Arrowhawk Records)
Carla Dal Forno - You Know What It's Like (Blackest Ever Black)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS (Western Vinyl)
Body Sculptures - A Body Turns To Eden (Posh Isolation)
Winter Severity Index - Human Taxonomy (Manic Depression Records)
Xeno & Oaklander - Topiary (Ghostly International)
Pleasure Symbols - Pleasure Symbols (Avant! Records)
Soft Kill - Choke (Profound Lore)
Aphex Twin - Cheetah (Warp)
Factory Floor - 25 25 (DFA Records)
Nisennenmondai - #N/A (On-U Sound)
Imarhan - Imarhan (City Slang)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Third World Pyramid ('A' Records)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Before The Flood (Lakeshore Records)
The Weeknd - Starboy
Christian Antonoff
Suede - Night Thoughts
De La Soul - and the Anonymous Nobody
Unreqvited - Disquiet
Merchandise - A Corpse Wired For Sound
Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
Preoccupations -S/T
FM-84 - Atlas
Robert Parker - Crystal City
Eagulls - Ullages
Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
So Pitted - Neo
Lydia Loveless – Real
Touche Amore - Stage Four
CERES - Drag It Down On You
Marietta - As It Were
Somos - First Day Back
Into It. Over It. - Standards
Joyce Manor - Cody
Balance and Composure - Light We Made
Uniform - Ghosthouse EP
A Pregnant Light - Deep Lavender Dreams
The Hotelier - Goodness
Tiny Moving Parts - Celebrate
The Midnight - Endless Summer
Kvelertak - Nattesferd
Baroness - Purple
The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
Homeboy Sandman - Kindness For Weakness
A.F.R.O. - A.F.R.O. POLO
Low Culture - Places To Hide
In Love With A Ghost - Let's Go
Super Unison – Auto
Owen - The Kind Of Whys
Deftones - Gore
Paerish - Semi Finalists
Black Marble - It's Immaterial
Astronoid - Air
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