2016 Albums of the Year: Honourable Mentions

Well, they say time goes faster as you get older and it's starting to feel that way, for it didn't seem like five minutes ago since I was here penning the very same diatribe for albums which tickled my fancy in 2015. In any case, we're here again and like all robustly assembled conveyor belts, here are twenty albums which just missed the final cut. I could have numbered them from 50 to 31, but I deemed that somewhat inequitable. How's about we call them equal 31st? Honourable mentions as follows:  

Artist: Heron Oblivion

Album: Heron Oblivion

Label: Sub Pop

Favourite Tracks: Oriar, Rama, Your Hollows.

Artist: Sturgill Simpson

Album: A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Label: Atlantic

Favourite Tracks: Breakers Roar, Oh Sarah, Call to Arms.

Artist: Pinegrove

Album: Cardinal

Label: Run For Cover Records

Favourite Tracks: Old Friends, Aphasia, Size of the Moon.

Artist: Joseph Arthur

Album: The Family

Label: True North Records

Favourite Tracks: They Called Him Lightening, Machines of War, You Keep Hanging On.

Artist: Angel Olsen

Album: My Woman
Label: Jagjaguwar

Favourite Tracks: Heart Shaped Face, Sister, Woman.

Artist: Solar Bears

Album: Advancement

Label: Sunday Best

Favourite Tracks: Man Plus, Gravity Calling, Separate from the Arc.

Artist: Haley Bonar

Album: Impossible Dream

Label: Memphis Industries

Favourite Tracks: Hometown, Kismet Kill, I Can Change.

Artist: Spotlights

Album: Tidals

Label: Crowquill Records

Favourite Tracks: The Grower, To the End, Joseph.

Artist: Richmond Fontaine

Album: You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing to Go Back To

Label: DECOR

Favourite Tracks: Wake Up Ray, Don't Skip Out on Me, A Night in the City.

Artist: Marissa Nadler

Album: Strangers

Label: Sacred Bones

Favourite Tracks: Divers of the Dust, Hungry is the Ghost, Janie In Love.

Artist: The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Album: Third World Pyramid

Label: A Recordings

Favourite Tracks: Government Beard, Don't Get Lost, Third World Pyramid.

Artist: Preoccupations

Album: Preoccupations

Label: Jagjaguwar

Favourite Tracks: Anxiety, Memory, Stimulation.

Artist: Cian Nugent

Album: Night Fiction

Label: Woodist

Favourite Tracks: Lost Your Way, Shadows, Year of the Snake.

Artist: LUH

Album: Songs for Lovers to Sing

Label: Mute

Favourite Tracks: Unites, Future Blues, Loyalty, Lament.

Artist: RLYR

Album: Delayer

Label: Magic Bullet

Favourite Tracks: Slipstream Summer, Reconductor, Descent of the Night Bison.

Artist: Purling Hiss

Album: High Bias

Label: Drag City

Favourite Tracks: 3000 AD, Teddy's Servo Motors, Everybody in the USA.

Artist: Sophia

Album: As We Make Our Own

Label: The Flower Shop Recordings

Favourite Tracks: Resisting, Baby, Hold On, It's Easy to be Lonely.

Artist: Cymbals Eat Guitars

Album: Pretty Years

Label: Synderlyn

Favourite Tracks: Dancing Days, Well, Shrine.

Artist: The Warlocks

Album: Songs from the Pal Eclipse

Label: Cleopatra Records

Favourite Tracks: Only You, Easy to Forget, Dance Alone.

Artist: Julianna Barwick

Album: Will

Label: Dead Oceans
Favourite Tracks: Nebula, Big Hollow, See, Know.






Top 30 to drop tomorrow.

By Simon K.