Invoking the ghost of casecandy: The Be(a)st of 2016

[D.o.S.]

OOoooh that is rad.

[casecandy]

Still pretty sparse, I think I got old this year.

Honestly all said and done, looking back on it, the only things that really grabbed me, like, in the this-is-part-of-my-soul-and-I'll-be-buried-with-it sort of way, was Bon Iver.

Some 2016 Thingies Case Candy Listened To

Ratings

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★★★★★
This is the super good shit. Instant classics. Recommended.

★★★★☆
Really good. Maybe not a classic but memorable. Love it.

★★★☆☆
Decent record. Some real bangers on it. Like it a lot, maybe not love it.

★★☆☆☆
Okay at best. Most of the songs are filler. The main problem isn't that it's bad so much as that it's not memorable. Meh.

★☆☆☆☆
Total crap. Few redeeming values. Avoid. Hate it.

★★★★★
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Mac Miller - The Divine Feminine
Young Thug - JEFFERY [Mixtape]

★★★★☆
Black Kirin - National Trauma (黑麒 - 哀郢)
Black Kirin - 箫韶 Xiao Shao
The Body/Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
Boris & Merzbow - Gensho
Brand New - 3 Demos Reworked
Conan - Revengeance
Crystal Surge – VCR朋克
Crystal Surge - Mix 4 AMDISCS
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
G.L.O.S.S. - Trans Day of Revenge [EP]
James Blake - The Colour in Anything
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.
Migos - Cocoon [Single]
Migos feat. Lil Uzi Vert - Bad and Boujee [Single]
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost
Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo
Wreck & Reference - Indifferent Rivers Romance End
Young Thug - Slime Season 3 [Mixtape]

★★★☆☆
Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - We Don't Have Each Other
Brand New - "Mene" b/w "Out of Range" 7"
Brand New - "I Am A Nightmare" 12"
Car Seat Headrest - Teens Of Denial
Frank Ocean - Blonde
GAAP KVLT - Jinn
Ihsahn - Arktis.
Kevin Gates - Islah
Nubiferous - Primevil Forest Hymns
Phurpa - Chöd
Phurpa - Rituals of Bon I
Pity Sex - White Hot Moon
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Savages - Adore Life
Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP
Wintersleep - The Great Detachment
A Year In The Country - The Quietened Bunker

★★☆☆☆

★☆☆☆☆

Looking Forward To Listening To:

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A Tribe Called Quest
Gorguts
Darkthrone
The Hotelier
The World Is A Beautiful Place

I am very unsatisfied with how little music I was able to truly digest in 2016

[Strange Tales]

Did a quick search and apparently I never posted this album which means I'm crazy.

[MechaGodzilla]

New Wolf People album is really really good.

[Eivind August]

Been digging this lately: https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/alb ... in-the-sky
Awesome, dreamy, videogamey fun.

Also, for you nonwegians, you might want to check out the new releases from MOE, Hanne Kolstø, Årabrot and Nag.

[jrmy]

Did a quick search and apparently I never posted this album which means I'm crazy.

I totally slept on checking this album out. Must remedy, immediately.