Music-Drop Magazine

Angel Olsen entered 2016 with an image of a well-respected indie folk artist, she leaves the year with the album, My Woman, and a neurotic art pop sound. Angel Olsen has been a curious artist over the past few years, she first sprung up as a vocalist for Bonnie Prince Billy and she began to find acclaim thanks to the lo-fi indie folk Burn Your Fire For No Witness  in 2014. However none of those things even sound like they are something the artist who made My Woman would have done. My Woman has no pretenses of nostalgia like Burn Your Fire For No Witness  did and it’s as far from folk as possible unless Angel becomes a death metal artist that is. The album covert for Angel Olsen's third studio album. If there was a song that most embodies the album’s infectious sound it would be Shut Up Kiss Me, which is, not coincidentally, the best song on the record. While the lyrics of the song leave a lot to be desired the simple chorus is infectious leaving it ...

As far as music goes I’m a pretty bias sort. I have my preferences and the music I listen to often is contained within those preferences. I like alternative rock with a lot of guitar, sometimes I try the new releases of artists I like (Typically critically acclaimed artists) but I am very dependent on publication’s tastes, and I do follow several reviewers who I know share my tastes. This sometimes means I don’t listen to some of the more obvious albums of a year so that’s why I’m doing this, to rectify my issue and listen to what could be considered representative of 2016’s sound. So I decided to look at 20 sources of the best album of the year, add them all up, do a little aggregate, and churn out a top 20. Then I want to listen to those 20 albums, give them my personal opinions while laying them out in a fashion that makes them easy for the reader/listener to access. Iggy Pop's best album since The Idiot just missed out on the top 20. The lists I chose wer...