This is part of Creative Loafing Tampa's new issue, The Year In Music. See and listen to the rest of our top albums here.
New Roman Times, Return to Where You Belong (New Granada Records) This brief collection of the year’s best music is intentionally devoid of local releases and the last-minute stuff that popped up last week (*cough* Trent Reznor), but New Roman Times’ surprise LP is the lone exception. While it’s technically not local music, the nine-track album of indie rock (comprised of shelved tracks that were supposed to make up the follow-up to the band’s 2009 LP, On The Sleeve) is a welcome note from an Austin, Texas band (signed to Tampa’s New Granada records) that left us hanging more than half a decade ago. —Ray Roa
This article appears in Dec 22-29, 2016.