Here’s what I listened to in 2016.
- The 1975 – I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it (7.5/10)
- A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service (8.5/10)
- A.B. Original – Reclaim Australia (8/10)
- Against Me! – Shape Shift with Me (8/10)
- AJJ – The Bible 2 (7/10)
- All Saints – Red Flag (6.5/10)
- American Football – American Football (8/10)
- Angel Olsen – My Woman (6.5/10)
- Animal Collective – Painting With (7.5/10)
- Anohni – Hopelessness (8/10)
- Architects – All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us (6.5/10)
- Atilla – Chaos (0/10)
- Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman (8/10)
- Austin Lucas – Between the Moon and the Midwest (6/10)
- The Avalanches – Wildflower (8.5/10)
- The Axis of Awesome – Viva La Vida Loca Las Vegas (6/10)
- Baauer – Aa (7.5/10)
- BABYMETAL – Metal Resistance (7/10)
- BADBADNOTGOOD – IV (7.5/10)
- Balance and Composure – Light We Made (8/10)
- Ball Park Music – Every Night the Same Dream (8/10)
- Band of Horses – Why Are You OK (7/10)
- Band of Skulls – By Default (7/10)
- Banks & Steelz – Anything But Words (7/10)
- Basement – Promise Everything (8/10)
- Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings (7.5/10)
- Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals – Call it What it Is (4/10)
- Ben Lee – Freedom, Love and the Recuperation of the Human Mind (7/10)
- The Bennies – Wisdom Machine (7.5/10)
- Beth Orton – Kidsticks (7/10)
- Beyoncé – Lemonade (8.5/10)
- Biffy Clyro – Ellipsis (7/10)
- Big Scary – Animal (7.5/10)
- Big Smoke – Time is Golden (6/10)
- Big White – Teenage Dreams (7.5/10)
- The Black Queen – Fever Daydream (6.5/10)
- Blake Shelton – If I’m Honest (7/10)
- Bleached – Welcome the Worms (6/10)
- blink-182 – California (4.5/10)
- Bloc Party – Hymns (6.5/10)
- Blood Orange – Freetown Sound (8/10)
- Bob Evans – Car Boot Sale (5/10)
- Body/Head – No Waves (7.5/10)
- Bon Iver – 22, A Million (8/10)
- Brian Fallon – Painkillers (5.5/10)
- Bruno Mars – 24k Magic (8/10)
- Burlap – Burnout King (8/10)
- Camp Cope – Camp Cope (8/10)
- Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial (6.5/10)
- case/lang/veirs – case/lang/veirs (8/10)
- Ceres – Drag it Down on You (8/10)
- Chairlift – Moth (7.5/10)
- Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book (8.5/10)
- Childish Gambino – “Awaken, My Love!” (7/10)
- Chris Farren – Can’t Die (7.5/10)
- The Claypool Lennon Delirium – The Monolith of Phobos (6.5/10)
- Columbus – Spring Forever (6/10)
- Conor Oberst – Ruminations (7.5/10)
- Creative Adult – Fear of Life (7.5/10)
- Crystal Castles – Amnesty (I) (6.5/10)
- Cub Sport – This is Our Vice (7.5/10)
- Dangers – The Bend in the Break (8/10)
- Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (8/10)
- Daughter – Not to Disappear (7.5/10)
- David Bazan – Blanco (7/10)
- David Bowie – Blackstar (8.5/10)
- Descendents – Hypercaffum Spazzinate (7.5/10)
- DevilDriver – Trust No One (6/10)
- The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation (8/10)
- Dinosaur Jr. – Get a Glimpse of What Yer Not (8/10)
- Diploid – Is God Up There? (7.5/10)
- DJ Khaled – Major Key (6.5/10)
- DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall (5/10)
- DJ Snake – Encore (8/10)
- Drake – Views (8/10)
- Drapht – Seven Mirrors (7.5/10)
- The Drones – Feelin Kinda Free (8/10)
- Drowning Pool – Hellelujah (6/10)
- Ducking Punches – Fizzy Brain (7/10)
- Elisabeth Dixon – LP1 (7.5/10)
- Every Time I Die – Low Teens (8/10)
- Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness (7.5/10)
- Fear Like Us – Succour (8/10)
- Field Music – Commontime (6.5/10)
- The Finks – Middling (8/10)
- Fitz and the Tantrums – Fitz and the Tantrums (4.5/10)
- Forever Ends Here – Imagine This (6/10)
- Frameworks – Smother (7.5/10)
- Frank Iero and The Patience – Parachutes (7/10)
- Frank Ocean – blond (7.5/10)
- Frank Ocean – Endless (7/10)
- Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack (7/10)
- The Gooch Palms – Introverted Extroverts (7.5/10)
- The Grand Magoozi – The Grand Magoozi (7.5/10)
- Green Day – Revolution Radio (4/10)
- Gwen Stefani – This is What the Truth Feels Like (3.5/10)
- Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – I Had a Dream That You Were Mine (7.5/10)
- H A N N A H B A N D – Quitting Will Improve Your Health (8/10)
- Heart Beach – Kiss Your Face (7/10)
- Henry Wagons – After What I Did Last Night… (6.5/10)
- Hockey Dad – Boronia (7.5/10)
- Hoodlum Shouts – Heat Island (7.5/10)
- Horror My Friend – Stay In, Do Nothing (7.5/10)
- Hot Hot Heat – Hot Hot Heat (6/10)
- The Hotelier – Goodness (8.5/10)
- Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression (7.5/10)
- Into It. Over It. – Standards (7/10)
- Jacob – Jacob (7.5/10)
- James Blake – The Colour in Anything (7.5/10)
- James Vincent McMorrow – We Move (7.5/10)
- Jeff Rosenstock – WORRY (7.5/10)
- Jimmy Eat World – Integrity Blues (7/10)
- John K. Samson – Winter Wheat (7.5/10)
- The John Steel Singers – Midnight at the Plutonium (7.5/10)
- Joyce Manor – Cody (7.5/10)
- Julianna Barwick – Will (7.5/10)
- The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset (7.5/10)
- Kaiser Chiefs – Stay Together (3/10)
- Kanye West – The Life of Pablo (8/10)
- Kari Faux – Lost en Los Angeles (8.5/10)
- Katy Steele – Human (6/10)
- KAYTRANADA – 99.9% (7.5/10)
- Keaton Henson – Kindly Now (7/10)
- Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered. (8/10)
- Kevin Devine – Instigator (7/10)
- The Kills – Ash and Ice (7/10)
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity (8/10)
- Kings of Leon – WALLS (7/10)
- Kishi Bashi – Sonderlust (8/10)
- Korn – The Serenity of Suffering (7.5/10)
- Kvelertak – Nattesferd (7/10)
- L-Fresh the Lion – Become (8/10)
- Lady Gaga – Joanne (7/10)
- Ladyhawke – Wild Things (8/10)
- Lambchop – FLOTUS (7.5/10)
- Leonard Cohen – You Want it Darker (8/10)
- letlive. – If I’m the Devil… (7/10)
- Lissie – My Wild West (5.5/10)
- The Living End – Shift (7/10)
- Loretta Lynn – Full Circle (7/10)
- Luca Brasi – If This is All We’re Going to Be (7.5/10)
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – This Unruly Mess I’ve Made (7/10)
- Marcus Whale – Inland Sea (8.5/10)
- Martha Wainwright – Goodnight City (7.5/10)
- Melvins – Basses Loaded (7/10)
- Metallica – Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (7.5/10)
- Mica Levi and Oliver Coates – Remain Calm (7.5/10)
- Michael Kiwanuka – Love and Hate (8/10)
- Miike Snow – iii (6/10)
- Mike Noga – King (7.5/10)
- Mike Posner – At Night, Alone. (2/10)
- Miranda Lambert – The Weight of These Wings (8/10)
- Mitski – Puberty 2 (8/10)
- Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost (8/10)
- The Monkees – Good Times! (8/10)
- MSTRKRFT – Operator (7/10)
- Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us (8/10)
- The Nation Blue – Black (8/10)
- The Nation Blue – Blue (8/10)
- Neil Young – Peace Trail (6/10)
- Nevermen – Nevermen (7/10)
- Ngaiire – Blastoma (8/10)
- Nice as Fuck – Nice as Fuck (7.5/10)
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (8/10)
- Nick Jonas – Last Year Was Complicated (7/10)
- O’ Brother – Endless Light (6.5/10)
- Oathbreaker – Rheia (8.5/10)
- Olympia – Self Talk (7/10)
- Owen – The King of Whys (7.5/10)
- Panic! At the Disco – Death of a Bachelor (6.5/10)
- The Paranoid Style – Rolling Disclosure (7/10)
- Passenger – Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea (6/10)
- Paul Kelly – Seven Sonnets and a Song (7/10)
- Paul Simon – Stranger to Stranger (7.5/10)
- The Peep Tempel – Joy (7.5/10)
- Pet Shop Boys – Super (6/10)
- Pinegrove – Cardinal (8/10)
- Pity Sex – White Hot Moon (8/10)
- Pixies – Head Carrier (7.5/10)
- PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project (4/10)
- Preoccupations – Preoccupations (7/10)
- PUP – The Dream is Over (8/10)
- Ra Ra Riot – Need Your Light (7.5/10)
- Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (7.5/10)
- Ray Toro – Remember the Laughter (3.5/10)
- Red Fang – Only Ghosts (7/10)
- Real Friends – The Home Inside My Head (7.5/10)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway (4/10)
- Regina Spektor – Remember Us to Life (7/10)
- REMI – Divas & Demons (8/10)
- Rihanna – ANTI (8/10)
- The Rolling Stones – Blue and Lonesome (6.5/10)
- RÜFÜS – Bloom (7.5/10)
- sad13 – Slugger (7/10)
- Safe Hands – Tie Your Soul to Mine (8/10)
- Saliva – Love, Lies and Therapy (3.5/10)
- Santigold – 99 Cents (7/10)
- Saosin – Along the Shadow (7.5/10)
- Sarah Jarosz – Undercurrent (8/10)
- Savages – Adore Life (7/10)
- Shirley Collins – Lodestar (8/10)
- Sia – This is Acting (5/10)
- Signals Midwest – At This Age (7.5/10)
- Skepta – Konnichiwa (8/10)
- Slaves – Take Control (7/10)
- Solange – A Seat at the Table (8.5/10)
- Somos – First Day Back (8/10)
- Spring King – Tell Me if You Like To (6.5/10)
- Stockades – Open (8/10)
- Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (8.5/10)
- The Sugarcanes – The Sugarcanes (7.5/10)
- Swans – The Glowing Man (8.5/10)
- Taasha Coates and Her Melancholy Sweethearts – Taasha Coates and Her Melancholy Sweethearts (5.5/10)
- Tacocat – Lost Time (7/10)
- Taking Back Sunday – Tidal Wave (7.5/10)
- Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death (7/10)
- The Temper Trap – Thick as Thieves (5.5/10)
- Tim Heidecker – In Glendale (7.5/10)
- Tiny Moving Parts – Celebrate (7/10)
- Thao and the Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive (7/10)
- The Thermals – We Disappear (7/10)
- Thrice – To Be Everywhere is to Be Nowhere (7/10)
- Tkay Maidza – TKAY (7.5/10)
- TTNG – Disappointment Island (7.5/10)
- Tom Chaplin – The Wave (6.5/10)
- Tonight Alive – Limitless (6.5/10)
- Totally Unicorn – Dream Life (7.5/10)
- Touché Amoré – Stage Four (8.5/10)
- Two Door Cinema Club – Gameshow (7/10)
- Two Steps on the Water – God Forbid Anyone Look Me in the Eye (8/10)
- Unity Floors – Life Admin (7.5/10)
- Unlocking the Truth – Chaos (6/10)
- Urthboy – The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat (9/10)
- Violent Femmes – We Can Do Anything (6/10)
- Violent Soho – Waco (7.5/10)
- Walking Dead on Broadway – Scars (6/10)
- Warpaint – Heads Up (7.5/10)
- We Are Scientists – Helter Sketzer (4.5/10)
- Weak Boys – Weak Boys II (8/10)
- The Weeknd – Starboy (7.5/10)
- Weezer – Weezer (8/10)
- White Lung – Paradise (8/10)
- Wolfie’s Just Fine – I Remembered But Then I Forgot (7.5/10)
- Xenia Rubinos – Black Terry Cat (8/10)
- Young the Giant – Home of the Strange (5.5/10)
- Yuck – Stranger Things (7.5/10)
