Best Records of 2016

BEST Records of 2016
1. DAVID BOWIE “Blackstar”2. LEONARD COHEN “You Want It Darker”3. MITSKI “Puberty 2”4. SWANS “Glowing Man”5. KEVIN MORBY “Singing Saw”6. THEE OH SEES “Weird Exits”7. SAVAGES “Adore Life”8. DEATH GRIPS “Bottomless Pit”9. ANGEL OLSEN “My Woman”10. WARPAINT “Heads Up”


WARPAINT
11. IGGY POP “Post Pop Depression”12. BAT FOR LASHES “The Bride”13. WEYES BLOOD “Front Row Seat to Earth”14. ITASCA “Open To Chance”15. PSYCHIC ILLS “Inner Journey Out”16. SCOTT WALKER “Childhood Of A Leader”17. STILL CORNERS “Dead Blue”18. HOPE SANDOVAL and the Warm Inventions “Until The Hunter”19. CATE LE BON “Crab Day”20. HERON OBLIVION “Heron Oblivion”
BAT FOR LASHES
STILL CORNERS
 CATE LE BON
21. THE GROWLERS “City Club”22. HAMILTONLEITHAUSER “I Had A Dream You Were Mine”23. NICOLAS JAAR “Sirens”24. CONOR OBERST “Ruminations”25. TY SEGALL “Emotional Mugger”26. SCHOOL OF SEVENBELLS “SVIIB”27. WIRE “Nocturnal Koreans”28. ANOHNI “Hopelessness”29. NICK CAVE“Skeleton Tree”30. AGNES OBEL “Citizen of Glass”
WIRE
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
31. DEVENDRA BANHART “Ape In Pink Marble”32. HALEY BONAR “Impossible Dream”33. JULIA JACKLIN “Don’t Let The Kids Win”34. FRANKIE COSMOS “Next Thing”35. PARQUET COURTS “Human Performance”36. VUM “Cryptocrystalline”37. JULIANNA BARWICK “Will”38. JAPANESE BREAKFAST “Psychopomp”39. SUNFLOWER BEAN “Human Ceremony”40. MARISSA NADLER “Strangers”
 VUM
41. AURORA “All My Demons Greeting Me A Friend”42. JOSEPH HEIN “AM Gold”43. DIANE BIRCH “Nous”44. AUTOLUX “Pussy’s Dead”45. TIM PRESLEY “The Wink”46. ALLAH LAS “Calico Review”47. NITE JEWEL “Liquid Cool”48. SUZANNE VEGA “Lover, Beloved”49. THE MYSTERY LIGHTS “Mystery Lights”
50. TACOCAT “Lost Time”
TIM PRESLEY


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