Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year 2016

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published: 8 / 2 / 2017

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Our writers and photographers list their favourite albums and also their favourite gig of the year

CARL BOOKSTEIN 1. Radiohead/Moon Shaped Pool 2. Miranda Lee Richards/Echoes of the Dreamtime 3. Parquet Courts/Human Performance 4. Lucinda Williams/Ghosts of Highway 20 5. David Bowie/Blackstar 6. Wilco/Schmilco 7. Paul Simon/Stranger to Stranger KIMBERLY BRIGHT 1. Lemon Twigs/Do Hollywood 2. Peter Bjorn and John/Breakin' Point 3. Field Music/Commontime 4. Climbing Trees/Borders 5. Last Shadow Puppets/Everything You've Come to Expect 6. Julie Ruin/Hit Reset 7. John Howard/Across the Door Sill 8. Sex Stains/Sex Stains 9. Astronautalis/Cut the Body Loose 10.Nick Worrall/Hero Buffet Gig of the Year: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Cheap Trick andHeart at Klipsch Music Center, Noblesville, Indiana, 17/7/2016 MALCOLM CARTER (In no particular order) 1. Hollie Stephenson/Hollie Stephenson 2. Robberie/Beneath Your City ; As You Sleep 3. Bon Iver/22, A Million 4. Kevin Marby/Singing Saw 5. Hattie Briggs/Young Runaway 6. Dodson and Fogg/Roaming 7. Beyonce/Lemonade 8. Groovy Uncle/Life’s a Gift 9. Lemon Twigs/Do Hollywood 10 Ray Humphries/Nothing to Hide JOHN CLARKSON 1. Madam/Back to the Sea 2. Idiot Son/Stibbington 3. Rapid Results College/In City Light 4. Dream Maps/In Stormy Nights 5. Richmond Fontaine/You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing to Go Back to 6. Vinny Peculiar/Silver Meadows 7. Eastern Swell/One Day, A Flood 8. Black Angel Drifter/Black Angel Drifter 9. Rothko/A Young Fist Curled around a Cinder for a Wager 10.Christine And The Queens/Chaleur Humaine Gig of the Year: Raf and O, St James the Less, London, 22/7/2016 DAN CRESSEY 1. Hamilton Leithauser and Rostam/I Had a Dream that You were Mine 2. Urusei Yatsura/You Are My Urusei Yatsura 3. Goblin Cock/Necronomikonkeykongmicon 4. Slow Club/One Day All Of This Won't Matter Anymore 5. Parquet Courts/Human Performance 6. Deftones/Gore 7. Mykki/Mykki Blanco 8. Ezra Furman/Big Fugitive Life 9. Swet Shop Boys/Cashmere NICKY CREWE (In no particular order) 1. Souad Massi/El Mutakallimun 2. Alasdair Roberts and James Green/Plaint of the Lapwing 3. Various/Wayfaring Strangers, Cosmic American Music 4. Graham Nash/This Path Tonight 5. Goat Roper Rodeo Band/Cosmic Country Blues Gig of the Year: Souad Massi : Merlin Theatre, Sheffield, 11/9/2016 DASTARDLY 1. L A Salami/Dancing with Bad Grammar 2. Julie Anne McCambridge/Nature Makes Amazing Shapes 3. That Will Be Lunch/The Mixtape of Things Gig of the Year: Bob Mould, Brooklyn Bowl, O2, London, 11/2/2016 RICHARD ERNILL (In no particular order) 1. Holiday Crowd/Holiday Crowd 2. Crookes/Lucky Ones 3. Laish/Pendulum Swing 4. Perfect English Weather/Isobar Blues 5. Charlie Tipper Conspiracy/Ten 6. Goon Sax/Up to Anything Gig of the Year: Robert Forster, Deaf Institute, Manchester, 31/5/2016 TONY GAUGHAN (In no particular order) 1. Jackal Trades/Need the Character(s) 2. Filthy Tongues/Jacob’s Ladder 3. Veils/Total Depravity 4. Bread Over Bombs/Bread Over Bombs 5. David Bowie/Blackstar 6. Toy Tin Soldier/Yield 7. Ramones/Ramones: 40th Anniversary Reissue 8. Wonderlux/Christmas Eve 9. Posies/Solid State 10.Steve Ignorant with Paranoid Visions/Now and Then Gig of the Year: Thomas Truax, The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, 12/10/2016 DAVE GOODWIN (In no particular order) 1. Kate Tempest/Let Them Eat Chaos 2. Last Shadow Puppets/Everything You've Come to Expect 3. James/Girl at the End of the World 4. Amber Herd/In Cascade EP 5. Marsheaux/Ath.Lon 6. David Bowie/Blackstar 7. Rationale/Fuel to the fire 8. Bloc Party/Hymns 9. Heavy/Hurt & The Merciless 10.Christine And The Queens/Chaleur Humaine Gig of the Year: Orphan Boy, Spiders Web, Grimsby, 23/7/2016 MARIE HAZELWOOD 1. Last Shadow Puppets/Everything You've Come to Expect Gig of the Year: Last Shadow Puppets, Castlefield Bowl, Manchester, 10/7/2016 KEITH HOW (In no particular order) 1. Darren Hayman/Thankful Villages Vol. 1 2. Richard Moult/Sjorault 3. Toby Hay/Birds 4. Avishai Cohen/Into the Silence 5. Sinikka Langeland/The Magical Fores 6. Concretism/Electricity 7. Max Richter/Sleep 8. Plinth/Wintersong 9. Various/Fractures 10.Ereland Apneseth Trio/Det Andre Rommet Gig of the Year: Stars of the Lid, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, 4/10/2016 BEN HOWARTH 1. The Divine Comedy/Foreverland 2. The Wave Pictures/Bamboo Diner in the Rain 3. Robert Rotifer/Not Your Door 4. Dodson and Fogg/Walk On 5. Case, Lang, VeirsCase, Lang, Veirs 6. Ed Harcourt/Furnaces 7. John Howard/Across the Door Sill 8. Richmond Fontaine/You Can't Go Back if There's Nothing to Go Back to 9. Claire Hastings/Between the River and Railroad 10.Dinosaur Jr/Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Gig of the Year: Otis Gibbs, Green Note, London, 29/9/2016 ADRIAN HUGGINS 1. Bossk/Audio Noir 2. David Bowie/Black Star 3. Conan/Revengeance 4. Darkthrone/Arctic Thunder 5. Ulver/ATGCLVLSSCAP 6. D.D. Dumbo/Utopia Defeated 7. King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard/Nonagon Infinity 8. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard/Y Proffwyd Dwyll 9. Dinosaur Jr/Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not 10.Eagulls/Ullages Gig of the Year: Father John Misty, O2 Academy, Glasgow, 12/5/2016 ADRIAN JANES 1. Morgan Delt/Phase Zero 2. Fantastic Negrito/The Last Days of Oakland 3. Fassine/Dialektik 4. September Girls/Age of Indignation 5. Heart Hearts/Young STEVE KINRADE 1. Leisure Tank/Wetsuit 2. Baltic Fleet/The Dear One 3. Brian Eno/Ship 4. Coral/Distance Between 5. Jherek Bischoff/Cistern Gig of the Year; The Racket, Studio 2, Parr Street, Liverpool, 4/12/2016 RICHARD LEWIS 1. Pinkshinyultrablast/Grandfeathered 2. Radiohead/A Moon Shaped Pool 3. Flyying Colours/Mindfullness 4. Weaves/Weaves 5. Twin Peaks/Down in Heaven 6. Haley Bonar/Impossible Dream 7. Early Years/II 8. Lucid Dream /Compulsion Songs 9. Slow Down Molasses/100% Sunshine 10.She Drew The Gun/Memories of the Future ERICK MERTZ 1, Radiohead/A Moon Shaped Pool 2. Kishi Bashi/Sonderlust 3. Christian Kjellvander/A Village: Natural Light 4. Neaux/ Fall Off the Deep End 5. Xiu Xiu/Plays the Music of Twin Peaks 6. Dylan Carlson/Falling with a Thousand Stars 7. Dalek/Asphalt for Eden 8. Sonny & The Sunsets/Moods Baby Moods 9. Eagulls/Ullages JAMIE ROWLAND 1. Angel Olsen/My Woman 2. Wilco/Schmilco 3. Open Mike Eagle/Hella Personal Film Festival 4. Animal Collective /Painting With 5. Radiohead/A Moon Shaped Pear 6. David Bowie/Black Star 7. Jóhann Jóhannsson/Arrival: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Gig of the Year: Raincoats and Angel Olson, Islington Assembly Hall, London, 3/11/2016 MARK ROWLAND 1. David Bowie /Blackstar 2. Car Seat Headrest/Teens of Denial 3. Pinegrove/Cardinal 4. Angel Olsen/My Woman 5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds/Skeleton Tree 6. Dinosaur Jr/Give a Glimpse of What You Got 7. Frank Ocean/Blonde 8. Wilco/Schmilco 9. Greys/Outer Heaven 10.Big Thief/Masterpiece MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. IX Tab & Hoofus/The Blow Volume 1 2. a.P.A.t.T./FuN wITh MuSIc 3. Fumaça Petra/Impuros Fanáticos 4. Jóhann Jóhannsson/Orphée 5. Konono N° 1 meets Batida/Konono N° 1 meets Batida 6. Inutili/Elves, Red Sprites, Blue Jets 7. Palomica/Petito 8. Prism Tats/Prism Tats 9. Woog Riots/Alan Rusbridger 10.Yama Warashi/Moon Egg DOMINIC SIMPSON 1. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions/Until The Hunter 2. Johann Johannsson/Orphee 3. Mark Pritchard/Under the Sun 4. Anohni - Hopelessness 5. Swans/The Glowing Man Gig of the Year: Stars of the Lid, Barbican Centre, London, 2/10/2016 ANTHONY STRUTT 1. Leonard Cohen/Do You Want It Darker? 2. Ryley Walker. Golden Songs That Have Been Sang 3. Ian McNabb/Respectfully Yours 4. Beth Orton/Kidsticks 5. Gregory Porter/Take to the Alley 6. David Bowie/Black Star 7. Mayflower Madame/Observed in a Dream 8. Bob Dylan/Fallen Angels 9. Dead Skeletons/Live in Berlin 10.Toy/Clear Shot Gig of the Year: Cure, SSE Arena, Wembley, London, 2/12/2016 LISA TOREM (In no particular order) 1. Suzanne Vega/Lover, Beloved: Songs From an Evening with Carson McCullers 2. Simon Townshend/She Asked Me 3. Struts/Everybody Wants 4. James McCartneyThe BlackBerry Train 5. Judy Collins and Ari Hest/Silver Skies Blue 6. Henry Padovani/I Love Today 7. Gang of Four/What Happens Next 8. Beyonce/Lemonade 9. Rihanna/Anti 10.David Bowie/Blackstar Gig of the Year: ARW, Chicago Theatre, 5/11/2016 PAUL WALLER 1. David Bowie/Blackstar 2. Slabdragger/Rise of the Dawncrusher 3. Sir Admiral Cloudsley Shovel/Keep it Greasy! 4. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard/Y Proffwyd Dwyll 5. Kvelertak/Nattesferd 6. Strokes/Future Present Past EP 7. Conan/Revengence 8. BEASTMAKER/BEASTMAKER 9. Bossk/Audio Noir 10.Car Seat Headrest/Teens of Denial DENZIL WATSON 1. Fat White Family/Songs for Our Mothers 2. Theatre of Hate/Kinshi 3. Luke Haines/Smash the System 4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds/Skeleton Tree 5. David Bowie/Black Star 6. Wire/Nocturnal Koreans 7. Violent Femmes/We Can Do Anything 8. Teleman/Brilliant Sanity 9. Slaves/Take Control 10.Last Shadow Puppets/Everything You Have Come to Expect Gig of the Year: Fat White Family, The Plug, Sheffield, 22/2/2016

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