Best Albums Of 2016

might try and start posting more on here again. Here's a Best Albums of 2016 list to start with:-

Uxo- s/t
King - We Are King
Drose - Boy Man Machine
Tortoise - The Catastrophist
Mrs Magician - Bermuda
Vektor - Terminal Redux
Julianna Barwick - Will
Wormed - Krigshu
Destroyer 666 - Wildfire
Belbury Poly - New Ways Out
Pye Corner Audio - Stasis
Steve Adamyk Band - Graceland
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Black Stabat Mater
Hammers Of Misfortune - Dead Revolution
Jakob Bro - Streams
LVL UP - Return To Love
Multicult - Position Remote
Godstopper - Who Tries Anymore
Wolfert Brederode Trio - Black Ice
Steve Adamyk Band - Graceland
Krallice - Prelapsarian
Mary Halvorson Octet - Away With You
Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire
Connections - Midnight Run
Tycho - Epoch

20 Best Records Of 2015 So Far...

Holly Herndon - Platform (bandcamp)
Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer (bandcamp)
Warm Soda - Symbolic Dream
Gruesome - Savage Land (bandcamp)
Dick Diver - Melbourne, Florida (bandcamp)
Mikal Cronin - MCIII
Nudity - Asronomicon (bandcamp)
Toro Y Moi - What For?
Pile - You're Better Than This (bandcamp)
California X - Nights In The Dark (bandcamp)
Viet Cong - s/t
Cloud Rat - Qliphoth (bandcamp)
John Carpenter - Lost Themes (bandcamp)
Personal Best - Arnos Vale (bandcamp)
Jam City - Dream A Garden
Cherubs - 2 Ynfynyty (bandcamp)
Upsilon Acrux - Sun Square Dialect (bandcamp)
Nidia Minaj - Danger (bandcamp)
Drug Church - Swell (bandcamp)
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire

Bavarian Fire Drill - British Space Programme (Milgram Records - ambient synth)

A new Bavarian Fire Drill EP. More ambient synth gurgle. Loosely based around the history of the British Space Programme. An interesting short piece about that is here - http://lapsedhistorian.com/an-empire-of-stars/.

Personal Best - The Lovin' EP

90s indie rock/tuneful punk stuff. Kind of that Superchunk/Wrens thing. Been listening to this loads since i saw them a few months back. Really good stuff. Finally available digitally. Well worth your cash.

The Good Wife - Love Songs

Thankfully The Good Wife managed to tolerate each other's company in the studio long enough to make an album before they split. It's sleazy noise rock stuff along the lines of Pissed Jeans, Jesus Lizard and Cows etc. They did a great 7" on Super Fi records. No vinyl for this jsut a free download on bandcamp

Remote - Starving Blaze And Hollow Shades

Coalesce meets Deathspell Omega?

Absolute savagery. Nasty noisey chatoic metallic hardcore stuff. Glorious stuff.

Impureza - EP 2013

A fusion of flamenco and 'brutal' tech death metal. o_O

Red Death - 2014 demo

Crossover-tastic.

Might be slightly more on the hardcore side as some of the riffs remind me something like Knife Fight. Still plenty of wailing guitar solos and thrashing and moshing though.

Definitely kind of Power Trip quality rather than that post-Municipal Waste trend.

Fela Kuti's entire discography on bandcamp

Fela Kuti's entire discography has been put on bandcamp

Bona fide classic.

Sithu Aye - Pulse

"Happy progressive metal" is the self description. It's awesome instrumental tech widdle stuff done by a physics student in his bedroom. Seriously, when people moan about how easy access to home recording has made music worse show them this. Then punch them in the face. Metaphorically of course. Violence isn't very happy or progressive. Maybe make widdly guitar hand gestures at them provocatively.