Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Ian’s picks:
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
DANNY BROWN
Atrocity Exhibition
RADIOHEAD
A Moon Shaped Pool
DEATH GRIPS
Bottomless Pit
BEYONCE
Lemonade
SCOTT WALKER
The Childhood Of A Leader Soundtrack
EXPLODED VIEW
Exploded View
BRIAN ENO
The Ship
TIM HECKER
Love Streams
PARQUET COURTS
Human Performance
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Catherine’s picks:
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
Skeleton Tree
THOMAS PAUL
Singalongs
THE JAYHAWKS
Paging Mr. Proust
PARQUET COURTS
Human Performance
SFM-STEVE FULTON MUSIC
Eponym
KARL BLAU
Introducing Karl Blau
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
HOPE SANDOVAL AND THE WARM INVENTIONS
Until The Hunter
JESSE DAYTON
The Revealer
1. Idaho Ho Ho Vol. 7, Various Artists
2. Hardwired … To Self-Destruct, Metallica
3. You Want It Darker, Leonard Cohen
4. The Impossible Kid, Aesop Rock
5. We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service, A Tribe Called Quest
6. Eponym, SFM-Steve Fulton Music
7. Signs of Light, The Head and the Heart
8. Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg, Gillian Welch
9. The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert, Bob Dylan
10. 22, A Million, Bon Iver
Here’s a quick look at the bright and shiny new releases this week at The Record Exchange:
CD
Rolling Stones – Blue and Lonesome (deluxe edition available)
Childish Gambino – Awaken My Love
Kate Bush – Before the Dawn
Bob Dylan – The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert
Various Artists – Hamilton Mixtape
The Clean – Getaway
John Legend – Darkness and Light
Bob Marley – The Legend Live Santa Barbara County Bowl
Pete Rock and Smoke DZA – Don’t Smoke Rock
James Arthur – Back from the Edge
Heart – Live at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Peter Doherty – Hamburg Demonstrations
Avenged Sevenfold – Best of 2005-2013
Richard Swift and Damien Jurado – Other People’s Songs Vol. 1
UB40 – Unplugged
Ennio Morricone – Morricone 60
Vinnie Paz – The Essential Collabo Collection Vol. 1 and 2
Jedi Mind Tricks – The Best of Jus Allah
Jedi Mind Tricks – The Best of Stoupe
Discharge – Decontrol: The Singles
Discharge – Why
GBH – City Baby’s Revenge
GBH – Punk Singles 1981-84
Alison Moyet – Alf
Night Ranger – 35 Years and a Night in Chicago
Salty Dog – Every Dog Has Its Day
Kane Brown – Kane Brown
G-Mo Skee – My Filthy Spirit Bomb
VINYL
Rolling Stones – Blue and Lonesome
Beck – Odelay
Beck – Sea Change
Beck – Guero
Kate Bush – Before the Dawn
Eilen Jewell – Boundary County
Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time
Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage
The Clean – Getaway
Run-DMC – Raising Hell
OutKast – ATLiens
Stevie Wonder – Talking Book
Madonna – American Life
Madonna – Music
M.I.A. – AIM
Boston – Boston
Enya – Shepherd Moons
Kelsey Lu – Church
The Magnetic Fields – Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees
Saint Motel – Saintmotelevision
Richard Swift and Damien Jurado – Other People’s Songs Vol. 1
Peter Doherty – Hamburg Demonstrations
Telefon Tel Aviv – Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Kyle Morton – What Will Destroy You
Keith Urban – Fuse
Keith Urban – Golden Road
DVD/BLU-RAY
Heart – Live at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra DVD and Blu-ray
Various Artists – The T.A.M.I. Show/The Big T.N.T. Show Blu-ray
Various Artists – The Big T.N.T. Show DVD
1. Hardwired … To Self-Destruct, Metallica
2. We Got It From Here … Thank You 4 Your Service, A Tribe Called Quest
3. The Impossible Kid, Aesop Rock
4. You Want It Darker, Leonard Cohen
5. Eponym, SFM-Steve Fulton Music
6. 57th and 9th, Sting
7. The Weight of These Wings, Miranda Lambert
8. Live at the Hollywood Bowl, The Beatles
9. 24K Magic, Bruno Mars
10. Walls, Kings of Leon