Top 50 Albums of 2016
You’ve all been waiting, anxiously. Waiting for our arbitrary list of the opinion of four folks who run this site, and what we think were the best albums of 2016. It’s really really important. We’re going to make our site great again with this list. We’re going to win, bigly. But really, it’s just a list of the stuff we loved the most that we covered throughout this year on our site. The comment section is open, so feel free to tell us where we’ve gone wrong or what we’ve got right or anything else fitting.
- Hamilton + Rostam – I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
2. Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale
3. Angel Olsen – My Woman
4. Omni – Deluxe
5. Radio Dept. – Running Out of Love
6. The Coathangers – Nosebleed Weekend
7. Dogbreth – Second Home
8. Operators – Blue Wave
9. Real Numbers – Wordless Numbers
10. Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
11. Chook Race – Around the House
12. Radiohead – Moon Shaped Pool
13. The Gotobeds – Blood Sugar Secs Traffic
14. Holy Esque – At Hopes Ravine
15. Lost Animal – You Yang
16. The Goon Sax – Up to Anything
17. Teenage Fanclub – Here
18. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS
19. John K. Samson – Winter Wheat
20. Terry Malts – Lost at the Party
21. Florist – The Birds Outside Sang
22. Tycho – Epoch
23. Ablebody – Adult Contemporaries
24. Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are
25. Adult Books – Running from the Blows
26. Wild Nothing – Life of Pause
27. Connections – Midnight Run
28. Cass McCombs – Mangy Love
29. Black Marble – Its Immaterial
30. Fruit Bats – Absolute Loser
31. Quilt – Plaza
32. Chris Cohen – As If Apart
33. At/All – Sun Dog
34. EZTV- HighIn Place
35. Tim Presley – The Wink
36. Useless Eaters – Relaxing Death
37. Pete Astor – Spilt Milk
38. Happy Diving – Electric Soul Unity
39. I Have a Tribe – Beneath a Yellow Moon
40. Cool Ghouls – Animal Races
41. Holy Balm – Activity
42. Big Wave Riders – Endless Summer
43. Still Parade – Concrete Vision
44. Flowers – Everybodys Dying to Meet you
45. Steve Adamyk Band – Graceland
46. So Cow – Lisa Marie Airplane Tour
47. King Creosote – Astronaut Meets Astroman
48. Bubblegum Lemonade – The Great Leap Backwards
49. Carter Tanton – Jettison the Valley
50. Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want
Great choice…Nap Eyes…