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Best of 2016: Albums

Lukas Henne Top 10 Albums 1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (Matador) 2. Mitski - Puberty 2 (Dead Oceans) 3. Noname - Telefone (Mixtape via SoundCloud) 4. Anderson .Paak - Malibu (Steel Wool) 5. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (Columbia) 6.

Lukas Henne
Top 10 Albums

1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (Matador)
2. Mitski - Puberty 2 (Dead Oceans)
3. Noname - Telefone (Mixtape via SoundCloud)
4. Anderson .Paak - Malibu (Steel Wool)
5. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (Columbia)
6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -
Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
7. A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here Thank You 4 Your Service (Epic)    
8. Solange - A Seat at the Table
(Saint Records/Columbia)
9. Pinegrove - Cardinal (Run For Cover Records)
10. Charles Bradley - Changes (Daptone)

Liam Starnes
Top 10 Albums

1.  Gord Downie - Secret Path (Arts & Crafts)
2. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (Columbia)
3. Death Grips - Bottomless Pit (Harvest Records)
4. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -
Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
5. Bon Iver - 22, A Million (Jagjaguwar)
6. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
7. Hiss Golden Messenger - Heart Like a Levee (Merge)
8. Anderson .Paak - Malibu (Steel Wool)
9. Noname - Telefone (Mixtape via SoundCloud)
10. Anohni - Hopelessness (Secretly Canadian)

Eli Teed
Top 10 Albums

1. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (Matador)
2. Parquet Courts - Human Performance (Rough Trade)
3. Anderson .Paak -
Malibu (Steel Wool/OBE/Art Club/EMPIRE)
4. Whitney - Light Upon the Lake (Secretly Canadian)
5. Black Mountain - IV (Jagjaguwar)
6. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
(Domino Recording Co.)
7. Angel Olsen - My Woman (Jagjaguwar)
8. Kevin Morby - Singing Saw (Dead Oceans)
9. Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (Warp Records)
10. Okkervil River - Away (ATO Records)

John Goodman
Top 10 Albums

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds -
Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (XL Recordings)
3. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphée
(Deutsche Grammophon)
4. Lydia Loveless - Real (Bloodshot)
5. Solange - A Seat at the Table
(Saint Records/Columbia)
6. Blood Orange - Freetown Sound (Domino)
7. Jessy Lanza - Oh No (Hyperdub)
8. Lori McKenna - The Bird & the Rifle (CN Records)
9. Essaie pas - Demain est une autre nuit
(DFA Records)
10. Angel Olsen - My Woman (Jagjaguwar)

John Goodman
Favourite Reissues/Archival Recordings

1. Big Star - Complete Third (Omnivore Recordings)
2. Paul Bowles - Music of Morocco (Dust to Digital)
3. Bob Dylan - Live 1966:
Complete Live Recordings (Legacy)
4. Led Zeppelin - BBC Sessions (Atlantic)
5. Steve Reich  - The ECM Recordings (ECM)
6. Sun Ra - The Singles  (Strut)
7. The Bangles -
Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Bangles! (Omnivore)
8. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box 4CD set (Universal)
9. Autechre - Incunabula/Amber/Tri Repetae (Warp)
10. Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land  
(Blue Note/Music Matters vinyl)