#6: Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Various Albums released in 2016
Back in July of 2016, Omar Rodriguez Lopez began releasing new albums every other week. To be clear, most of them he had been sitting on for years, recorded in the past... But they had never been released before, except for some repurposed and remixed snippets. For the most part, this was all new material to the world. It all started with one of the best of his hoarded material: 'Sworn Virgins'. When all was said and done, ORL had released thirteen albums worth of material in 2016. And at least half of the albums were really damn good, totally original and unique. He has always been super prolific since Mars Volta was around, but eventually he got burned out on releasing so much material... but he kept going. And 2016 saw the opportunity to flood the world with his eponymous music stylings that had been sitting around on hard drives, because he found the right guy to mix and master it all. And it does sound great, and worth the wait. There is just SO MUCH of it. And it continued into 2017, going all the way up to July, but not quite as often. It is just a ton of material and I haven't even gotten to most of the 2017 stuff yet. Still digesting the best of 2016! Yikes, this is late. But with so much material just from ONE PERSON and whoever he found to jam with, it took a long time to figure out where it belonged, and #6 just feels right I guess. Besides 'Sworn Virgins', my favorites are (in no particular order other than alphabetial) 'Blind Worms, Pious Swine', 'Cell Phone Bikini', 'Infinity Drips', 'Nom De Guerre Cabal', 'Some Need It Lonely', 'Umbrella Mistress', and 'Zapopan'. Now I will attempt to differentiate each of these 8 albums from each other. All tied for #6 on my list I guess:
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