It’s the end of the year! And though 2016 was a brutal year for many reasons, there was a bunch of really good music that came out. And, as I do almost every year, here is a list of 20 albums that stayed with me throughout the year. The usual caveats apply: I’m not a professional music critic, I’m just a music geek; and because I don’t work for a music publication, I’m not inundated with records to review. So these 20 are my own, the ones that accompanied me on my travels, the ones I listened to while writing, while reading, or while wandering around.<\/p>\n
20. Andrew Bird.\u00a0Are You Serious. It’s the end of the year! And though 2016 was a brutal year for many reasons, there was a bunch of really good music that came out. And, as I do almost every year, here is a list of 20 albums that stayed with me throughout the year. The usual caveats apply: I’m not a … Continue reading My 2016 Music List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaqueravasquez.com\/dir\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em>Key rola, “Roma Fade.”
\n19. Metronomy.\u00a0Summer 08.
\n<\/em>Key rola, “Night Owl.”
\n18. The Julie Ruin.\u00a0Hit Reset<\/em>.
\nKey rola, “I Decide”
\n17.\u00a0Crystal Castles.\u00a0Amnesty<\/em>.
\nKey rola, “Concrete.”
\n16. \u00a0El Perro del Mar.\u00a0KoKoro<\/em>.
\nKey rola, “Kouign-Amman”
\n15. Beyonc\u00e9.\u00a0Lemonade<\/em>.
\nKey rola, “Don’t Hurt Yourself”
\n14. Leonard Cohen.\u00a0You Want it Darker<\/em>.
\nKey rola, “On the Level.”
\n13. David Bowie.\u00a0Blackstar.<\/em>
\nKey rola, “Girl Loves Me.”
\n12.\u00a0Wilco.\u00a0Schmilco<\/em>.
\nKey rola, “If I Ever Was a Child.”
\n11.\u00a0Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.\u00a0Skeleton Tree<\/em>.
\nKey rola, “Skeleton Key.”
\n10.\u00a0Savages. Adore.
\n<\/em>Key rola,\u00a0“Adore.”
\n9. \u00a0Fews.\u00a0Means.
\n<\/em>Key rola, “III”
\n8. Pixies.\u00a0Head Carrier<\/em>.
\nKey rola, “All I Think About Now.”
\n7. Johan Johannsson.\u00a0Arrival<\/em> (soundtrack).
\nKey rola, “Hammers and Nails”
\n6. M.I.A.\u00a0AIM.
\n<\/em>Key rolas, “Visa,” “Borders”
\n5. Angel Olsen.\u00a0My Woman<\/em>.
\nKey rolas, “Intern,” “Never Be Mine,” “Shut Up, Kiss Me”
\n4.\u00a0Preoccupations.\u00a0Preoccupations<\/em>.
\nKey rolas, “Anxiety,” “Memory, “Degraded,” “Fever”
\n3. Lydia Loveless.\u00a0Real<\/em>.
\nKey rolas, “Clumps,” “Longer,” “Out on Love,” “Bilbao”
\n2. Radiohead.\u00a0A Moon Shaped Pool.
\n<\/em>Key rolas, “Ful Stop,” “Burn the Witch, “True Love Waits,” “Daydreaming.”
\n1. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam. I Had a Dream That You Were Mine<\/em>.
\nKey rolas: all of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"