What's been the Best cd / album you have discovered this year 2016?

A relatively new band, who were the support act for a band called Fink, this is their debut album.

Based on your recommendations , I've so far purchased Manu katche... Neighbourhood,  Riverside.. Eye of the soundscape. John Mellencamps greatest hits, and The Pineapple Theif.. Magnolia... 

Many thanks for the recommendations, anymore will be much appreciated... 

Not sure it it was listed Airbag 'The Greatest Show on Earth'...

Adam Zielinski posted:

Not sure it it was listed Airbag 'The Greatest Show on Earth'...

Yes, already have it, absolutely superb album..

Julian Arguelles, Let It Be Told, from Qobuz. African influenced big band jazz.

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Richard Morris posted:

Julian Arguelles, Let It Be Told, from Qobuz. African influenced big band jazz.

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After listening to Arctic Dub Sursumcorda net radio on my 'serve' .This station has been a shot in the arm. Deep electronic soundscapes to jingly vintage Dub workouts. What really gets my attention is when a song is dropped that just seems to encapsulate everything about emotive music that's wrought through a contemporary handle with new processes and sounds.

That this station plays so much songs of this nature, I am at a lost to really describe this type of genre. It is based in New York and as far as I am aware there are no mainstream venues playing out this type of downtempo music. Uniquely underground in a sense yet recognisable.  Some have called it dark wave. Funeralogical.Hauntalogical. Sad even.

Thank you TJ thats a very interesting lead, I'll have to go and explore. 

Yes, all sounds very intriguing,  I will have to do some exploring as well...

Absolutely superb album,  

For me it would have to be Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead. I hear something different almost every time I listen to it - voices, chimes, loops, backward loops, voices and instruments. They paint a real sonic picture that becomes more intricate the more you listen. 

A "new, old" recording that I picked up this year was Dave Brubeck's Time Out on 45rpm vinyl. Didn't realize how good vinyl could sound. 

Lambchop Flotus 

Leonard Cohen 

Excellent album, only discovered during Bristol hifi show back in February.. 

Holmes posted:

Great thread and some home work to do as a result.

I've just edited this ! I made up my mind 

So far... it's Bree Tranter's Another night on Earth, tapping into a subconcious yearning for more early Portishead perhaps...

Very good. I have ordered the vinyl.

Andy

Kamera posted:

Holmes posted:

Great thread and some home work to do as a result.

I've just edited this ! I made up my mind 

So far... it's Bree Tranter's Another night on Earth, tapping into a subconcious yearning for more early Portishead perhaps...

Very good. I have ordered the vinyl.

Andy

I'm going to be ordering the cd...happy days

Ian hunter and the Rant band

Very good.  Recommendation from my precocious young son. 

All Japanese Death Jazz combination of jazz and rap.  Another nice rec from the lad.

Not really my thing but a remarkable effort and I appreciate it.

A lot of fun if you remember these from the radio and a great collection.

This year's selection make me more thankful every day for my commitment to physical media.

Skip posted:

Very good.  Recommendation from my precocious young son. 

All Japanese Death Jazz combination of jazz and rap.  Another nice rec from the lad.

Not really my thing but a remarkable effort and I appreciate it.

A lot of fun if you remember these from the radio and a great collection.

 

This year's selection make me more thankful every day for my commitment to physical media.

 

 

Some very interesting recommendations, will be checking these out...