Category: BEST OF 2016
MAGNET’s #15 Album Of 2016: Angel Olsen’s “My Woman”
Angel Olsen has one of those voices. She can belt her songs out, but her control is excellent. This is
MAGNET’s #16 Album Of 2016: The Avalanches’ “Wildflower”
If Happy Mondays were Antipodean rather than Mancunian and plied their wares using turntables and samplers rather than spaced-out guitars,
MAGNET’s #17 Album Of 2016: Bon Iver’s “22, A Million”
Justin Vernon is widely beloved for constructing heartfelt pastorals, but on 22, A Million, the artist radically altered the blueprint.
MAGNET’s #18 Album Of 2016: Parquet Courts’ “Human Performance”
Parquet Courts are the nation’s finest indie-rock band by a very old-guard measure. They churn out quality releases at the
MAGNET’s #19 Album Of 2016: Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam’s “I Had A Dream That You Were Mine”
In food-and-wine pairings, you either go with (congruent) or against (complementary). The same can be said of duos, and Paul
MAGNET’s #20 Album Of 2016: Bob Mould’s “Patch The Sky”
“Will the earthquakes shake our cottage to the ground?/Hear the silence, there’ll be no one left around,” snarls Bob Mould
MAGNET’s #21 Album Of 2016: Wilco’s “Schmilco”
Wilco’s Star Wars wasn’t just MAGNET’s 2015 album of the year; it was also a surprising soft reboot. After a
MAGNET’s #22 Album Of 2016: Nada Surf’s “You Know Who You Are”
Nada Surf songwriter Matthew Caws tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, and relationships remain a recurring theme on
MAGNET’s #23 Album Of 2016: Bird Of Youth’s “Get Off”
Beth Wawerna wrote the songs on Get Off during one of the most trying periods of her life. She was
MAGNET’s #24 Album Of 2016: ANOHNI’s “Hopelessness”
2016 was a good year for protest records, and none was more bitter or more beautiful than Hopelessness. It’s a
MAGNET’s #25 Album Of 2016: Flock Of Dimes’ “If You See Me, Say Yes”
It’s tempting to view this Flock Of Dimes release party as the genre-neutral ground where Jenn Wasner’s worlds collide: the