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The Best Albums of 2016

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Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan
Best of Rock Albums
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    8/10
  1. Impossible Nothing: Phonemenomicon (no label)
    7.5/10
  2. Julia Reidy: All Is Ablaze (self)
  3. Comet Is Coming: Channel the Spirits (Leaf)
  4. Roly Porter: Third Law (Tri Angle)
  5. Jpegmafia: Black Ben Carson (Trashfuck)
  6. Drose: Boy Man Machine (Orange Milk)
  7. Lonker See: Split Image (Music Is The Weapon)
    7/10
  8. Matmos: Ultimate Care II (Thrill Jockey)
  9. Nicolas Jaar: Sirens (Other People)
  10. Moor Mother: Fetish Bones (Don Giovanni)
  11. Dear Hunter: Act V - Hymns With The Devil in Confessional (Equal Vision)
  12. Parquet Courts: Human Performance (Rough Trade)
  13. Maja Ratkje: Crepuscular Hour (Rune Grammofon)
  14. Oranssi Pazuzu: Varahtelija (Svart)
  15. Ulrich Krieger: /RAW:ReSpace/ (XI)
  16. Yves Tumor: Serpent Music (PAN)
  17. Equiknoxx: Bird Sound Power (DDS)
  18. Troller: Graphic (Crucial Blast)
  19. 75 Dollar Bill: Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock (Thin Wrist)
  20. Vektor: Terminal Redux (Earache)
  21. Bon Iver: 22 A Million (Jagjaguwar)
  22. Maja Ratkje: And Sing (2L)
  23. Kiran Leonard: Grapefruit (Moshi Moshi)
  24. Necks: Unfold (Ideologic Organ)
  25. Lil Peep:
    Hellboy     (self)
  26. Young Thug: No My Name is Jeffery (self)
  27. Lycus: Chasms (Relapse)
  28. Run The Jewels: Run The Jewels 3 (BMG)
  29. Blush Response: Rebirthed in the Sprawl (Total Black)
  30. Robert Rich: Vestiges (self)
  31. Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker: Cannots (Dead Oceans)
  32. Jon Mueller: Tongues (Rhythmplex)
  33. Monika Roscher: Of Monsters and Birds (Zenna)
  34. Mare Cognitum: Luminiferous Aether (I Voidhanger)
EPs and Minis
  1. Chino Amobi: Airport Music For Black Folk (self), 7/10 (EP)
  2. Drowse: Soon Asleep , 7/10 (mini)
  3. Fucked Up: This Mother Forever (EP), 7/10
  4. Bitch 'n' Monk: We Are Peering Over (Lotus Arts Box)
Songs
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  1. Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
  2. Nicolas Jaar: The Governor
  3. Dear Hunter: The Most Cursed of Hands/Who Am I
  4. Empath: Gut Feeling
  5. Run The Jewels: Panther Like A Panther
  6. Savage Young Taterbug: The Paperstud
  7. Comet is Coming: Star Furnace
  8. Drose: A Change
  9. Danny Brown: Ain't It Funny
  10. Parquet Courts: Dust
  11. Jpegmafia: Digital Blackface
  12. Equiknoxx: Timebird
  13. Parquet Courts: Pathos Prairie
  14. Troller: Not Here
  15. Peder Mannerfelt: I Love You
  16. King Goblin: Garadama
  17. Krallice: Hyperion
  18. Khun Narin: Long Wat
  19. Chino Amobi: Malmo
  20. Andy Stott: On My Mind
  21. Woods: Politics of Free
  22. Run The Jewels: Talk To Me
  23. Ergo: A Conviction
  24. Equiknoxx: Last Of The Mohicans
  25. Julianna Barwick: St Apolonia
  26. Bon Iver: 00000 Million
  27. Lil Peep: Worlds Away
  28. Chance the Rapper: Angels
  29. White Lung: Sister
  30. Stereo Total: Zu Schoen Fuer Dich
  31. Kevin Gates: Ain't Too Hard
  32. Cigarettes After Sex: K
  33. Death Grips: Bottomless Pit
  34. Nick Cave: I Need You
  35. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Rare Things Grow
  36. Nails: Made to Make You Fall
  37. Mitsky: Your Best American Girl
  38. Roy Montgomery: Six Guitar Salute To Peter Gutteridge
  39. Moor Mother: Deadbeat Protest
  40. Kanye West: Wolves
  41. Radiohead: The Numbers
  42. Moses Sumney: Doomed
  43. Girl in Red: I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
  44. Mach-Hommy: Plenty
  45. Weezer: L.A. Girlz
  46. James Blake: Radio Silence
  47. Katie Gately: Lift
  48. Yves Tumor: Seed
  49. Pixies: Tenement Song
  50. Shit and Shine: BC Rich Celtic Virgo
  51. 1975: The Sound
  52. Lucinda Williams: Ghosts of Highway 20
  53. Lambchop: NIV
  54. Lil Peep: Yesterday
  55. A Tribe Called Red: Sila
  56. Kungs: Don't You Know
  57. Yung Lean: Hennessy & Sailor Moon
  58. Zammuto: Smolt
  59. Michael Kiwanuka: Black Man In A White World
  60. Miranda Lambert: Ugly Lights
  61. Algorithm: Userspace
  62. Elucid: Bleachwater
  63. Mach-Hommy: Bey Six
  64. Xenia Rubinos: Lonely Lover
  65. Lucy Dacus: Strange Torpedo
  66. Guerilla Toss: Perfume
  67. Ichiko Aoba: Kamisama no Takurami
  68. Yeule: About Her
  69. Sinners Are Winners: Like a Moth to the Flame
  70. Florist: The Birds Outside Sang
  71. Zeal & Ardor: Come on Down
  72. Petrol Girls: Phallocentric
Extended compositions
  1. Impossible Nothing: A
  2. Julia Reidy: All Is Ablaze
  3. Matmos: Ultimate Care II
  4. Impossible Nothing: D
  5. Nicolas Jaar: Three Sides Of Nazareth
  6. Roly Porter: Blind Blackening
  7. 75 Dollar Bill: Beni Said
  8. Impossible Nothing: P
  9. Roly Porter: Mass
  10. Lonker See: Split Image pt 1 2 & 3
  11. Necks: Timepiece
  12. Oranssi Pazuzu: Vasemman Kaden Hierarkia
  13. Ulrich Krieger: Trona
  14. Gnod: Sodom & Gomorrah
  15. Rhys Chatham: Pythagorean Dream
  16. Nate Wooley: Seven Storey Mountain V
  17. Cult of Luna: The Wreck Of SS Needle
  18. Aluk Todolo: B3
  19. Necks: Blue Mountain
  20. Merzbow: Planet Of The Cows
  21. Fucked Up: Our Own Blood
  22. Troller: Torch
  23. Vektor: Cygnus Terminal
  24. Cobalt: Elephant Graveyard
  25. Kiran Leonard: Fireplace
  26. Ascanio Borga: Porta Alchemica
  27. Richard Pinhas: TVJ33
  28. Car Seat Headrest: Vincent
  29. Sumac: Image Of Control
  30. Trio Puech-Gourdon-Bremaud: Puech Gourdon Bremaud
  31. Ulcerate: Chasm Of Fire
  32. Jute Gyte: Like The Woodcutter Sawing His Hands
  33. Jon Mueller: How You Look When You're Not Looking
  34. Wilco: Nope
  35. Roy Montgomery: Riding
  36. Krallice: Lotus Throne
  37. Mesarthim: Pillars
  38. Robert Rich: Spectre Of Lost Light
  39. Eluvium: Posturing Through Metaphysical Collapse
  40. Alcest: Je Suis D'ailleurs
  41. Avenged Sevenfold: Exist
  42. Minus 5: Michael Nesmith
  43. Blood Incantation: Vitrification of Blood Part 1
  44. Blush Response: Rebirthed in the Sprawl
  45. Mesarthim: Absence 6
  46. Qu'qu'matz: Tepeu
  47. Himukalt: I Started
  48. Supersilent: 13.9
  49. J Cole: 4 Your Eyez Only
  50. Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker : Cannots
  51. Maja Ratkje: Crepuscular Hour
  52. Bitch'n'Monk: Wee Nomad
  53. Goat: Goatfuzz
  54. Won James Won: Deisis II
  55. Sirom: Svetlobni Prelaz Cez Vrnitev
  56. Hope Sandoval: Into the Trees
  57. Moon Relay: ..../__ (;;;''___'',,,)
  58. Sex Swing: Grace Jones
  59. Monika Roscher: Full Moon Theatre
  60. Dwarfs of East Agouza: Baka of the Future
  61. Mare Cognitum: Constellation Hipparchia
  62. Dag Rosenqvist: Porcelan
 		Jazz

    7.5/10
  1. Leo Smith: America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  2. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  3. Ken Vandermark: Site Specific (Catalytic)
  4. Comet is Coming: Channel the Spirits (Leaf)
    7/10
  5. Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker: Cannots (Dead Oceans)
  6. Kurushimi: Kurushimi
  7. Bathysphere: Bathysphere (Driff)
  8. SLM (Mark Dresser and Sarah Weaver): Source (Liminal)
  9. Peter Broetzmann: Beautiful Lies (Neos)
  10. Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines
  11. Barry Guy: The Blue Shroud (Intakt)
  12. Rob Mazurek: Alien Flower Sutra (International Anthem)
  13. Taylor Ho Bynum: Enter The Plus Tet (Firehouse 12)
  14. Ergo: As Subtle as Tomorrow (Cuneiform)
  15. Peter Evans: Lifeblood
  16. Martin Archer: Story Tellers
  17. Michael Formanek's Ensemble Kolossus: The Distance (ECM)
  18. Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum Of Variables (Pi)
  19. Nels Cline: Lovers
  20. Nate Wooley: Argonautica
  21. Henry Threadgill's Ensemble Double-Up: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs
  22. George Lewis: Creative Construction Set (Mikroton)
  23. Paul Dunmall: Maha Samadhi
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