Post-rock Listeners’ Choice 2016: Best Releases of the Year & Best New Acts | FULL LIST OF NOMINEES

It’s that time of the year again. For the fifth time, in collaboration with Arctic Drones magazine, we’re pleased to announce our annual polls to let our community vote for their favorite releases and newcomers to the scene.



To be nominated for the “Best Releases of the Year”, an artist must have released music between December 15, 2015 and December 12, 2016. Albums coming out after December 12, 2016 will be considered for nomination in next year’s awards.

In order for a band or musician to be nominated for the “Best New Acts”, they must have released their debut during this past year.

This year’s polls will be launched on Monday, December 12. Voting will end on Friday, December 16.

The link to the polls will be shared on Post-rock Facebook page:

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You will be able to select up to 20 choices for the best releases, and 5 for the best new acts.



As in last year, the results will be unveiled in a list format in Arctic Drones magazine in late December (Top 50 for the best releases and top 10 for the best new acts).

Check out the following links from last year to see what poll results will look like:

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Listed below are the nominees this year for both categories.





BEST RELEASES OF THE YEAR | Nominees

1. 1 Mile North – Awakened By Decay

2. 417.3 – 34

3. 52 Commercial Road – Remote Control

4. 65daysofstatic – No Man’s Sky: Music For An Infinite Universe

5. 8mm Orchestra – 8mm Orchestra

6. A New Silent Corporation – Odyssea

7. A Nice Day For An Earthquake – Seasons

8. A Sudden Burst Of Colour – Ambivalence

9. Across Waters – A House Not Built With Hands

10. After Osmosis – What Do You See When You Dream?

11. Alaskan – End

12. Alcest – Kodama

13. Alinda – Why Do You Twinkle

14. All India Radio – The Slow Light

15. All Shall Be Well – GEELZWART

16. All You’ve Seen – Translucence

17. A.M. Feelgood – Wisteria Trail

18. Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-A Plăcut – Susurul Râurilor Care Curg În Jos, Sau În Sus, Depinde Cum Te Uiți

19. Amiina – Fantomas

20. Ana Never – Long Turning

21. Anesthesia – An Infinite Winter, Vol. III: Neptune

22. ANIZVARA – ANIZVARA

23. Antier – De La Quimera, El Dolor

24. Arcade Messiah – Revolver

25. Arcadia Repeats – Human.Intelligence

26. Arctic Zelda – Involution

27. Artificial Waves – Heavy. Deep. Sad. Ironic.

28. As Seas Exhale – Voyager

29. Athletics – When To Run, Where To Hide

30. Atsuko Chiba – The Memory Empire

31. Au Revoir – Veles

32. Aura Form – Vesica Pisces

33. Autumn Creatures & Old Sport – Split

34. Bateleur – Bateleur

35. Be They Will Become/Stationaries – Split EP

36. Black Cloud – Sundogs

37. Black Hill & Heklaa – Rivers & Shores

38. Blueneck – The Outpost

39. Bombardier – Liminality

40. Bossk – Audio Noir

41. Build And Release – Build And Release

42. Calls – Refloating

43. Capillaries – Kenopsia (Side A)

44. Captains Of Sea And War – Remote

45. Caspian – Castles High, Marble Bright

46. Charun – STIGE

47. CHOK TOW Nation – CHOK TOW Nation

48. Ciempies – Nostalgia

49. City Of The Lost – Colors Fade Me In

50. Cleft – Wrong

51. Coastlands – To Be Found

52. Coconut Cluster – Brighter Days

53. Code I – Although We May Fall

54. Code I – Phosphenia

55. Cœur – Horizons

56. Cold, Cold Heart – How The Other Half Live And Die

57. Consciousness Removal Project – Tides Of Blood Pt. 2

58. Coronal Mass Ejection – Coronal Mass Ejection

59. Covarrubias – Covarrubias

60. Crippled Black Phoenix – Bronze

61. Crosta – I

62. Cult Of Luna & Julie Christmas – Mariner

63. Da Voile – Leere

64. Dan Caine & Musicformessier – Timelessness

65. Dankalia – A Timeless View

66. Davijius – Un Viaje

67. Daybringer – Parallellism

68. Dead Sea Apes – Soy Dios

69. Death & Rebirth – Taijitu

70. December – Alpha And Omega

71. Degraey – Chrysalis

72. Detroit Hills – Memory

73. Dialects – Audiotree Live

74. Distance – Second Coming

75. Downy – No Title 6

76. Droste – Droste EP

77. Duski – Duski

78. Echodrome – Leaving Trails

79. Echoes Of Silence – The Silence

80. Ef & Tiny Fingers – Vāyu EP

81. El Altar Del Holocausto – El Altar Del Holocausto

82. El Hombre Trajeado – Fast Diagonal

83. El Lenguaje Como Obstáculo – I

84. Elephant & Centipede – Coils

85. Endless Dive – Endless Dive

86. Enemies – Valuables

87. Envoys – Bliss

88. Erydan – The Arc

89. Esben And The Witch – Older Terrors

90. Explosions In The Sky – The Wilderness

91. Fake Designers – Silent Revolution

92. Falcon Arrow – Cities Of Gold

93. Falconio – Features

94. Fall Of Messiah – Empty Colors

95. Far Behind The Sun – Transmission

96. Farfetch’d – Southern Skies Motel

97. Feather Child – Inner Self Absence

98. Feroces – Juliette

99. First Day On Mars – Silence And Distance

100. Fjord – Portrait For A Reflection

101. Flash The Readies – Kayos

102. Floating In Space – The Edge Of The Light

103. Fobia Inc. – Astral Seasons

104. Format – Empyrée

105. Fourteen Nights At Sea – Acres / No Capital

106. From Mountains – From Mountains

107. From Oceans To Autumn – Asleep At Sea-Ether

108. Fuchsen – Invenustus

109. FVNERALS – Wounds

110. Gates – Parallel Lives

111. Gather Your Quiet – Seven Years Without The Sun

112. Ghosts Of Sailors At Sea – Red Sky Morning

113. Glasgow Coma Scale – Enter Oblivion

114. Go Run Donkey Hot! – Summerth

115. Goodbye, Kings – Vento

116. Goodbye, Titan – Daedalus

117. Grito – Swamp Thing

118. Grottos – Grottos EP

119. Hadoken – Hadoken

120. Hammock – Everything And Nothing

121. Harborlights – Under The Spreading Chestnut Tree

122. HEGY – 80 Miles Out & 6 Feet Under

123. Hello Porkins – A Vegetable Of Sounds

124. Hiboux – Night Flights

125. Hoggs Bison – Dog Party Call

126. Hors Sujet – Déclin

127. Horst – Never Two Without Three

128. I Like Trains – A Divorce Before Marriage

129. I Will Fight With Lions – Sun Breaks

130. I Will Kill Chita – Cargo Cult

131. If These Trees Could Talk – The Bones Of A Dying World

132. Immanu El – Hibernation

133. Imploding Stars – Mizar & Alcor - From Earth To The Universe

134. In Light Of – Little Treasures

135. Indignu [Lat.] – Ophelia

136. Infinity Shred – Long Distance

137. Irtifakaybediyoruz! – Lala

138. Iteration – Moving Along X-Axis

139. Isahi – Separate But Coexisting

140. Islnds – History Of Robots

141. Iwantsummer – Milena

142. Jambinai – A Hermitage

143. Jardín De La Croix – Circadia

144. Jaundone – Jaundone

145. Jet Plane – Pipe Dream

146. Jizue – Story

147. John Bassett – Aperture

148. John, The Void – II

149. Jordaan – Theoretic

150. Junii – Animated Sun EP

151. Kalouv – Planar Sobre O Invisível

152. Kepzelt Varos – Köd

153. Khaldera – Alteration

154. KHARA – There Were Heroes Amongst Us

155. Kid Ikarus – Playback Dreams

156. Kokomo – Monochrome Noise Love

157. Kovlo – Timelapse

158. Krobak – Nightbound

159. La Red Bullet – Origin Of Seeds

160. Labirinto – Gehenna

161. Larsen – Of Grog Vim

162. Late Night Venture – Pilots / Greetings

163. Les Discrets - Virée Nocturne

164. Lint – Then They Came For Us

165. Liquido Di Morte – II

166. LITE – Cubic

167. LITE & Mouse On The Keys – Split

168. Living Under Drones – Living Under Drones

169. Long Distance Calling – Trips

170. Longlake – Alaska

171. Lost In Kiev – Nuit Noire

172. Luckily I’m The Hunter – Novageist

173. Madebygrey – #Grief

174. Mainland Divide – Province Of The Mind

175. Malämmar – Vendetta

176. Mantis – Mantis II

177. Mardemarmo – Mardemarmo

178. Medussa – 100 Millones De Años

179. Memoirs Of A Secret Empire – Vertigo

180. Meniscus – Refractions

181. Minoria – Electrify

182. Moanaa – Passage

183. Moise – Molokai

184. Mogwai – Atomic

185. Mokadelic – Chronicles

186. Molecules To Minds – Ascent Into Insignificance

187. Molloy – Malone Dies

188. Mono – Requiem For Hell

189. Monograf – Horde

190. Moons Eat Stars – Exile

191. Morir Soñando – Entre La Rabia Y La Frustración

192. Morning Mode – Short Story.

193. Morphinist – Giants

194. Mothra – Decision Process

195. Mountain – Evolve

196. Mouth Of The Architect – Path Of Eight

197. Moving Structures – Awake

198. Mr Dog The Bear – Sharks And Butterflies

199. Muñeco – Teoría Del Cielo

200. Musgravite – Musgravite

201. Mustard Gas And Roses – Becoming

202. Mutesite – Re:Start

203. Myriad Drone – Demo EP

204. Naat – Naat

205. Nadja – The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun, Nor Carved With A Knife

206. Nebulae Come Sweet – It Is Not The Night That Covers You

207. Neila – Tronos Ardiendo

208. Neurosis – Fires Within Fires

209. No Grave Like The Sea – Estelle

210. Noir Reva – Nuance

211. North – Light The Way

212. NYOS – Nature

213. Obscure Sphinx – Epitaphs

214. Oddarrang – Agartha

215. ODDHUMS – The Inception

216. Often The Thinker – Better Part of Vice

217. Ohne-Ká And The Burning River – Tree Lines And Birth Rights

218. Old Seas / Young Mountains – Vanishing Lights

219. Old Solar – SPEAK

220. Oldernar – All Four Waves

221. One For Apocalypse – UMBRA

222. Oort Cloud – Oort Cloud

223. Origami JP – 車窓から(Trains) EP

224. ORSO – Primi Piatti

225. Other Mountains – Glassell EP

226. Our Smallest Adventures – The Quiet Terror Of Being Alive

227. Out Of Sight – It’s Time EP

228. Overhead, The Albatross – Learning To Growl

229. OVUM – Nostalgia

230. Partholon – Follow Me Through Body

231. People As Places As People – For The Time Being

232. Pettersson – Rift And Seam

233. Phantom Winter – Sundown Pleasures

234. Pg.Lost – Versus

235. Plog – Charon

236. Phonopsia – Again And Again

237. Poly-Math – Melencolia

238. Pray For Sound – Everything Is Beautiful

239. Random Forest – Panoramic

240. Ranges – The Gods Of The Copybook Headings

241. Ravena – Laocoön

242. Release The Long Ships – Holocene

243. Retrograde Motion – Here On Earth

244. RLYR – Delayer

245. Rue Des Cascades – Odes To Love, Flames To Paris

246. Russian Circles – Guidance

247. Saar – Sol

248. Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet – Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet

249. Sannhet – Young Death

250. Science Against Spheric Silence – Layers

251. Sea Hero – Graustark

252. Seas Of Years – The Ever Shifting Fields

253. Seeming Emptiness – Heavy Rain

254. Seeress – Many Worlds

255. Senzafine – Macchina Spirituale

256. Seven Nines And Tens – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Slums

257. SHINIGAMI – The Green EP

258. Shipwreck Karpathos – Bring Down The Sky

259. Show Me A Dinosaur – Show Me A Dinosaur

260. Showpony – Arrow Smith

261. Signal From Europa – Dusty Monuments

262. Signal Hill – Alturas

263. Sioum – Yet Further

264. Sixth Minor – Amygdalae

265. Sky Flying By – Similis

266. Skylines – Faithful By Night

267. Sleep Dealer – Aurora

268. Somniferous – The Non-Somniac

269. Somniferous – Friend To The Fall

270. Sonnöv – Caballo Perdedor

271. Sow – Route Of Migratory

272. Speaker Gain Teardrop – Cluster Migration

273. Sphaeras – Sun Seeker

274. Spiral – Bullets

275. Springfield – Tides

276. Spruce Trap – The Wise Prefer To Perish

277. Square Peg Round Hole – Juniper

278. Standing In The Colour – Singularity

279. Star Of Heaven – Vinter 2015

280. Stars As Lights – Constellations

281. Stems – Severance

282. Steve Strong – Ghost Writing For Kano

283. Suffocate For Fuck Sake – In My Blood

284. Sumac – What One Becomes

285. Summer Effect – Afterlife

286. Summit – The Winds That Forestall Thy Return

287. Sunset Wrecks – Salvaged

288. Surya – Apocalypse A.D.

289. Swans – The Glowing Man

290. Swirrl – Desolated Panorama

291. Syberia – Resiliency

292. Te’ – 『閾』

293. Temples – Ladəs

294. Tenaya – Wanderlust

295. Tfvsjs – 在 Zoi

296. That Deafening Silence – The Next Side

297. The Azure Vault – The Trials Of Aleksander Black

298. The Basement Paintings – Mystic

299. The Day We Left Earth – To The Shores

300. The Earth & Me – The Earth & Me

301. The Ever Living – The Ever Living

302. The Great Cold – The Great Cold

303. The Great Went – Youneedityougotit

304. The Ills – Ornamental Or Mental

305. The Impala – The Gods Keep Us On The Ground

306. The Last Day Of Winter – Bears

307. The Lunch – Doin’ Stuff

308. The Mercury Program – New Myths

309. The Nest Itself – EP2

310. The New Geometry – The New Geometry EP

311. The Orchid – Apogee, Perigee

312. The Random Monsters – We Pretend It’s All Right

313. The Seraphim Project – Journeys & Destinations

314. The Seven Mile Journey – Templates For Mimesis

315. The Silence Of A Whisper – Rebirth

316. Thisquietarmy – The New Testament

317. Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthlings

318. Thrones – Transparency

319. Thunderclaw – Thunderclaw

320. Tides From Nebula – Safehaven

321. Tired Taped Machine – Sunshine, Maybe

322. Tomoreaux – At Peace, Overlook

323. Tom’s Story – Tom’s Story

324. Tomydeepestego – TMDE

325. TONE – Antares

326. Tortoise – The Catastrophist

327. Totorro – Come To Mexico

328. Tölva – Wide Shot

329. Trna – Lose Yourself To Find Peace

330. Troika – My Brain Is A Receiver

331. Trucitate – A New World

332. Turedure Narinishi Amagumo – Syozo EP

333. Ulan Bator – Abracadabra

334. Ursa Bardo – Ursa Bardo

335. Valerinne – Monumenta

336. Vasa – Burst Open

337. VIRTA – Hurmos

338. Visceral Skies – Wormhole Karma

339. Viva Belgrado – Ulises

340. Volkan – Volkan

341. Vy Pole – Woven Trail

342. Wanderlust – REVIXERIT

343. Wang Wen – Sweet Home, Go!

344. Way 98 – Comienzos De Otoño

345. We Deserve This – Danger! Danger! Danger!

346. We Were Heading North – We Were Heading North

347. Wichita – The Following

348. Windmills By The Ocean – The Gahste EP

349. Windsor Airlift – The Moon’s House

350. Wings Of The Isang – Stream Of Consciousness

351. Wolfredt – Neverno

352. World’s End Girlfriend – Last Waltz

353. Wrekmeister Harmonies – Light Falls

354. Yet To See A Yeti – Speakeasy My Friend

355. Yndi Halda – Under Summer

356. Yong Belar – Menular EP

357. Your Protected – Kings Of Summer

358. Ze’ev – Kismet



BEST NEW ACTS | Nominees

1. Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut: aflmsmp.bandcamp.com

2. ANIZVARA: anizvara.bandcamp.com

3. Antier: antier.bandcamp.com

4. Arcadia Repeats: arcadiarepeatsofficial.bandcamp.com

5. Build And Release: buildandrelease.bandcamp.com

6. Calls: calls.bandcamp.com

7. CHOK TOW Nation: choktownation.bandcamp.com

8. Coconut Cluster: coconutcluster.bandcamp.com

9. Cœur: coeursounds.bandcamp.com

10. Cold, Cold Heart: cold-cold-heart.bandcamp.com

11. Coronal Mass Ejection: cmebandofficial.bandcamp.com

12. Covarrubias: covarrubias.bandcamp.com

13. Davijius: davijius.bandcamp.com

14. Death & Rebirth: deathandrebirthofficial.bandcamp.com

15. Degraey: degraey.bandcamp.com

16. Distance: distance-rus.bandcamp.com

17. Droste: drosteband.bandcamp.com

18. Duski: duskimusic.co.uk

19. El Lenguaje Como Obstáculo: elco.bandcamp.com

20. Elephant & Centipede: elephantcentipede.bandcamp.com

21. Endless Dive: endlessdive.bandcamp.com

22. Falconio: falconio.bandcamp.com

23. Far Behind the Sun: fbts.bandcamp.com

24. Feather Child: featherchild.bandcamp.com

25. Feroces: soundcloud.com/f-roces-band

26. Floating In Space: deepelmdigital.com/album/the-edge-of-the-light

27. Fobia Inc.: soundcloud.com/fobiainc

28. Format: formatmusique.bandcamp.com

29. From Mountains: frommountains.bandcamp.com

30. Gather Your Quiet: gatheryourquiet.bandcamp.com

31. Go Run Donkey Hot!: gorundonkeyhot.bandcamp.com

32. Grito: gritoficial.bandcamp.com

33. HEGY: hegy.bandcamp.com

34. Hello Porkins: helloporkins.bandcamp.com

35. Hiboux: hibouxband.bandcamp.com

36. Hoggs Bison: hoggsbison.bandcamp.com

37. In Light Of: inlightof.bandcamp.com

38. I Will Fight With Lions: iwillfightwithlions.bandcamp.com

39. Islnds: islnds.bandcamp.com

40. Irtifakaybediyoruz!: soundcloud.com/ikband/sets/lala

41. JaunDone: jaundone.bandcamp.com

42. Junii: junii1.bandcamp.com

43. KHARA: khara.bandcamp.com

44. Living Under Drones: livingunderdrones.bandcamp.com

45. Luckily I’m The Hunter: luckilyimthehunter.bandcamp.com

46. Malämmar: malammar.bandcamp.com

47. Mantis: mantisbe.bandcamp.com

48. Mardemarmo: mardemarmo.bandcamp.com

49. Minoria: minoriamusic.bandcamp.com

50. Moise: moise1.bandcamp.com

51. Molecules To Minds: moleculestominds.com

52. Monograf: soundcloud.com/monograf

53. Morir Soñando: morirsonnando.bandcamp.com

54. Morning Mode: morningmode.bandcamp.com

55. Mothra: mothrasound.bandcamp.com

56. Mountain: mountainband.bandcamp.com

57. Moving Structures: movingstructures.bandcamp.com

58. Musgravite: musgravite.bandcamp.com

59. Mutesite: mutesite.bandcamp.com

60. Myriad Drone: myriaddrone.bandcamp.com

61. Naat: naat.bandcamp.com

62. Nebulae Come Sweet: nebulaecomesweet.bandcamp.com

63. No Grave Like The Sea: nogravemusic.com

64. Noir Reva: noirreva.bandcamp.com

65. ODDHUMS: oddhums.bandcamp.com

66. Old Solar: oldsolarmusic.bandcamp.com

67. Oldernar: oldernar.bandcamp.com

68. ORSO: orsoband.bandcamp.com

69. Partholon: partholonian.bandcamp.com

70. People As Places As People: peopleasplacesaspeople.bandcamp.com

71. Ravena: ravena.bandcamp.com

72. Retrograde Motion: retrogrademotion.bandcamp.com

73. RLYR: magicbulletrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rlyr-delayer

74. Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet: sagorsomledermotslutet.bandcamp.com

75. Shinigami: shinigamiofficial.com/music

76. Shipwreck Karpathos: shipwreckkarpathos.bandcamp.com

77. Somniferous: somniferous.bandcamp.com

78. Star Of Heaven: starofheaven.bandcamp.com

79. Surya: surya-band.bandcamp.com

80. Swirrl: swirrl.bandcamp.com

81. Tenaya: tenaya.bandcamp.com

82. That Deafening Silence: thatdeafeningsilence.bandcamp.com

83. The Azure Vault: theazurevault.bandcamp.com

84. The Earth & Me: theearthandme.bandcamp.com

85. The Ever Living: theeverliving.bandcamp.com

86. The Great Cold: thegreatcold.bandcamp.com

87. The Last Day Of Winter: thelastdayofwinter.bandcamp.com

88. The New Geometry: thenewgeometry.bandcamp.com

89. Thrones: throneswi.bandcamp.com

90. Thunderclaw: thunderclaw.bandcamp.com

91. Tomoreaux: tomoreaux.bandcamp.com

92. Tölva: tolvaband.bandcamp.com

93. Volkan: volkan.bandcamp.com

94. Way 98: way-98.bandcamp.com

95. We Were Heading North: wewereheadingnorth.bandcamp.com

96. Ze’ev: zeev.bandcamp.com



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