Top 100 Albums of 2016

  • (short and sweet and to the point; culled from listening to 828 releases—at time of publishing—from 2016. ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be drastically different, but you have to lock ’em in sometime.)


Honorable Mention

BJ the Chicago Kid – In My Mind; Opeth – Sorceress; She Is We – War; The 1975 – I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it; Ed Harcourt – Furnaces; J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only; Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are; Against the Current – In Our Bones; Tall Heights – Neptune; The Lumineers – Cleopatra; Lissie – My Wild West; Thrice – To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere; Green Day – Revolution Radio; Santigold – 99 Cents; D.D Dumbo – Utopia Defeated; Wild Nothing – Life of Pause; The Weeknd – Starboy; Phantogram – Three; Band of Skulls – By Default; Joseph – I’m Alone, No You’re Not; Messa – Belfry; Local Natives – Sunlit Youth; Corinne Bailey Rae – The Heart Speaks in Whispers; Peter Bjorn and John – Breakin’ Point; HONNE – Warm On a Cold Night.


Top 100

#100

Above Water
by
Gibbz

#99

Muzik
by
Delorean

#98

Lonely Is a Lifetime
by
The Wild Feathers

#97

iii
by
Miike Snow

#96

Let Them Eat Chaos
by
Kate Tempest

#95

Good Will Prevail
by
GRiZ

#94

Blackstar
by
David Bowie

#93

Everything You’ve Come To Expect
by
The Last Shadow Puppets

#92

I Remember
by
AlunaGeorge

#91

A Coliseum Complex Museum
by
The Besnard Lakes

#90

What I’m Feelin’
by
Anthony Hamilton

#89

Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’
by
Kid Cudi

#88

Painting of a Panic Attack
by
Frightened Rabbit

#87

Blossoms
by
Blossoms

#86

Brighter Future
by
Big Gigantic

#85

A Moon Shaped Pool
by
Radiohead

#84

Act V: Hymns with the Devil
in Confessional

by
The Dear Hunter

#83

Love You to Death
by
Tegan and Sara

#82

Khalifa
by
Wiz Khalifa

#81

Lost Property
by
Turin Brakes

#80

Fitz and the Tantrums
by
Fitz and the Tantrums

#79

WALLS
by
Kings of Leon

#78

Friends
by
White Lies

#77

Run the Jewels 3
by
Run the Jewels

#76

Tween
by
Wye Oak

#75

A/B
by
Kaleo

#74

Curve of the Earth
by
Mystery Jets

#73

Royal Blues
by
Dragonette

#72

Coloring Book
by
Chance the Rapper

#71

Dreamland
by
Wild Belle

#70

Junk
by
M83

#69

Cloud Nine
by
Kygo

#68

Love Letter for Fire
by
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop

#67

Believe In the Kingdom
by
King Arthur

#66

Cashmere
by
Swet Shop Boys

#65

Night Thoughts
by
Suede

#64

All My Demons
Greeting Me as a Friend

by
AURORA

#63

Majid Jordan
by
Majid Jordan

#62

Amen & Goodbye
by
Yeasayer

#61

DARKNESS AND LIGHT
by
John Legend

#60

Eternally Even
by
Jim James

#59

Stranger Things
by
Yuck

#58

American Appetite
by
Harriet

#57

Two Vines
by
Empire of the Sun

#56

Your Wilderness
by
The Pineapple Thief

#55

Georgica Pond
by
Johnnyswim

#54

Signs of Light
by
The Head and the Heart

#53

ANTI
by
Rihanna

#52

X-Communicate
by
Kristin Kontrol

#51

Hymns
by
Bloc Party

#50

Queen Alone
by
Lady Wray

#49

On My One
by
Jake Bugg

#48

Real Emotion
by
Paper Route

#47

Ashes
by
Illenium

#46

Every Now & Then
by
Jagwar Ma

#45

Stay Together
by
Kaiser Chiefs

#44

The Love That Remains
by
Savoir Adore

#43

High
by
Jarryd James

#42

Cut and Paste
by
Oscar

#41

Don’t You
by
Wet

#40

United Crushers
by
Poliça

#39

Being No One, Going Nowhere
by
STRFKR

#38

Wild World
by
Bastille

#37

Farewell, Starlite!
by
Francis and the Lights

#36

Need Your Light
by
Ra Ra Riot

#35

Simple Forms
by
The Naked and Famous

#34

Moth
by
Chairlift

#33

Oh My My
by
OneRepublic

#32

22, A Million
by
Bon Iver

#31

Matter
by
St. Lucia

#30

Conscious
by
Broods

#29

The Colorist & Emilíana Torrini
by
The Colorist &
Emilíana Torrini

#28

Beautiful Lies
by
Birdy

#27

“Awaken, My Love!”
by
Childish Gambino

#26

Woman
by
Justice

#25

Not to Disappear
by
Daughter

#24

Love & Desire
by
Myzica

#23

Love & Hate
by
Michael Kiwanuka

#22

Synthia
by
The Jezabels

#21

A Moment of Madness
by
Izzy Bizu

#20

Jessica Rabbit
by
Sleigh Bells

#19

Trágame Tierra
by
Big Black Delta

#18

For Evelyn
by
Hannah Georgas

#17

Thick As Thieves
by
The Temper Trap

#16

Ocean By Ocean
by
The Boxer Rebellion

#15

We Move
by
James Vincent McMorrow

#14

Jet Plane and Oxbow
by
Shearwater

#13

Wild Things
by
Ladyhawke

#12

Red Earth & Pouring Rain
by
Bear’s Den

#11

SVIIB
by
School of Seven Bells

#10

Love Gloom
by
Night Riots

#09

Badu
by
Bear Mountain

#08

A Seat at the Table
by
Solange

#07

Nomads
by
No Wyld

#06

All I Need
by
Foxes

#05

Caught In Still Life
by
Vaults

#04

Full Circle
by
HÆLOS

#03

This Is Acting
by
Sia

#02

Då som nu för alltid
by
Kent

#01

Sonderlust by Kishi Bashi


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