2016 Listening.

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)