Top 79 Music Albums of 2016 by Skinny

After #41 this is a complete mess (obviously I like all of these records, but they're in no kind of order whatsoever, largely because I haven't yet figured out how much I like them). Will get it sorted properly when I have the time (maybe).

• Chart updated: 06/18/2016 11:15
• (Created: 01/07/2016 17:41).
• Chart size: 79 albums.

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She Sleeps, She Sleeps 

 Fire!

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- slowly unfurling, moody free jazz - [First added to this chart: 02/04/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

8 charts

Rank Score:

12

Rank in 2016:

1,296

Rank in 2010s:

12,922

Overall Rank:

49,589

Average Rating:

 72 (6 votes)

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Animals Have Feelings 

 Samiyam

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[First added to this chart: 06/18/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

1 chart

Rank Score:

2

Rank in 2016:

3,276

Rank in 2010s:

32,210

Overall Rank:

116,551

Average Rating:

 Not enough data

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0

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Purple Reign 

 Future (Rap)

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- tbh this is only so high because 'inside the matress' and 'perkys calling' are the two best songs of the year so far, the rest is pretty meh - [First added to this chart: 02/04/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

11 charts

Rank Score:

10

Rank in 2016:

1,424

Rank in 2010s:

14,068

Overall Rank:

53,792

Average Rating:

 65 (28 votes)

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We Have To Go 

 Computer Graphics

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- lo-fi, slightly frazzled house music that would definitely suit an east london all-night party - [First added to this chart: 02/04/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

3 charts

Rank Score:

8

Rank in 2016:

1,573

Rank in 2010s:

15,670

Overall Rank:

59,737

Average Rating:

 73 (2 votes)

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Malibu 

 Anderson .Paak

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Malibu deals largely in laidback, summer evening neo-soul, primarily concerned with love and sex and more love and more sex (that said, it's a positive take on both that only occasionally crosses over into R. Kelly-esque sleazebaggery, which - despite my love of Kellz - is a good thing given it isn't an outfit that particularly suits .Paak). I do really like the vast majority of this (although I pretty much despise the forced nu-disco moments), and the major positives are his raspy singing voice (and the ability with which he can switch between it and his hopscotch rapping) and his way with a catchy melody, but every time I return to this I find myself yearning for more fleshed-out instrumentals and something a little less cliche lyrically. He's obviously very talented, but there's something missing here that stops me from falling completely in love with this.

Label: Steel Wood Records [First added to this chart: 02/04/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

339 charts

Rank Score:

2,170

Rank in 2016:

15

Rank in 2010s:

121

Overall Rank:

826

Average Rating:

 79 (498 votes)

Comments:

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Total Freedom 

 Spacin'

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With Total Freedom, Spacin' offer a swampy, groove-centric take on blues rock that just sounds like a group of friends having a great time. Whilst its songs aren't necessarily immediate (especially the pair of lovely, meandering interludes that punctuate the record), they have an ear for a killer riff, and it's all held together by a lovably ramshackle take on the classic motorik rhythm. Unafraid to let jams wander, like a very amateur Grateful Dead tribute act whose main attraction is how much fun they seem to be having. The whole thing is bathed in reverb and delay and fuzz, including the mostly indecipherable vocals, creating a really muddy texture that appeals to the slacker in me. It's not reinventing the wheel, but it has a really loose feel and a chugging pace and a mildly psychedelic tinge, and it's one of the most likeable, interesting rock records I've heard in a long time.

Label: Richie Records [First added to this chart: 04/13/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

1 chart

Rank Score:

2

Rank in 2016:

3,402

Rank in 2010s:

33,435

Overall Rank:

120,845

Average Rating:

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Comments:

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Running To You 

 Best Available Technology

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- crude guitar samples that form strange ambient soundscapes - [First added to this chart: 02/04/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

2 charts

Rank Score:

2

Rank in 2016:

2,994

Rank in 2010s:

29,702

Overall Rank:

107,956

Average Rating:

 71 (1 vote)

Comments:

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In My Feelings. (Goin' Thru It) 

 Boosie Badazz

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... this is the bleakest Boosie release I've ever heard, an album that's angry at the world but uncharacteristically lacking the fight to do anything about it. This is an embittered, battle-weary, broken Boosie, and it shows on an album entirely devoid of enjoyable moments. That isn't to say that this is a bad album (it most certainly isn't), or that it doesn't have merit - it's just that it's not exactly a pleasant experience to gain this sort of insight into the mind of a man struggling with the weight of the world (and more than a few chips) on his shoulders, and it's really quite depressing to hear someone who's usually so full of life suddenly sound so demoralised. Every track here is slow-paced and solemn, and pure resentment seems to be the default emotion for the vast majority of this album's 34-minute runtime (though the sullen nature of much of this material means that it feels almost twice that length).

For a start, the track names themselves are extremely revealing - 'The Rain', 'Smile to Keep from Crying', 'Stressing Me', 'Bad Guy', 'Forgive Me Being Lost', 'I Know They Gon Miss Me', and the stoic, self-explanatory 'Cancer' are all downtrodden titles, and suggest that Boosie himself believes this record could well be his last. Inside, the music and the lyrics offer nothing to disprove this theory. Boosie repeatedly refers to the disease that hangs over this record, whether it's his own or the cancer(s) that killed various family members in the last year. He talks candidly and spitefully about people who have turned their back on him in the past, clearly with no intention of turning the other cheek. He asks God for answers time and time again, in a manner that indicates both indignation and a suffocating sense of hopelessness, the frustration in his voice almost belying his faith itself. On the hook to 'Bad Guy', he literally pleads with people to "leave him alone" - the effect is really quite distressing. The beats here lack their usual synthetic soul bounce (penultimate track 'Roller Coaster Ride' excepted), drawing almost exclusively from a palette of foggy greys and blackish blues. Not only that, but the album feels rushed. Some of these beats sound extremely cheap, but given that they're simply soapboxes from which Boosie can vent, to say so seems somewhat unfair. More glaringly, the volume here differs significantly from song to song, which makes for a jarring experience, and it's an issue that could seemingly have been easily solved. Overall, though, this is thematically the most cohesive album Boosie's ever released, for better or worse. There isn't a bad song here, and any one of these tracks would stand out as a memorable emotional anchor on another Boosie record, but back-to-back the effect they have is close to unbearable. As a glimpse into a tortured mind, In My Feelings is an extremely powerful piece of work, even if it fails to offer any real glimmer of hope. Which, for Boosie fans like myself, is the hardest thing to take.

Label: self-released [First added to this chart: 01/29/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

2 charts

Rank Score:

3

Rank in 2016:

2,580

Rank in 2010s:

25,981

Overall Rank:

95,255

Average Rating:

 67 (5 votes)

Comments:

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Lead Poison 

 Elzhi

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[First added to this chart: 06/18/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

9 charts

Rank Score:

7

Rank in 2016:

1,622

Rank in 2010s:

16,167

Overall Rank:

61,629

Average Rating:

 71 (10 votes)

Comments:

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Ology 

 Gallant

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He fits pretty neatly into that post-Frank Ocean collection of introspective, subtly forward-thinking R'n'B singers. Don't get me wrong, it's still essentially a pop album, but these songs are decorated with some really cool, unusual moments, ranging from a creaking, reverbed-up sax, to guitars that could have been robbed from The Church or The Cure in the mid-'80s, to drum'n'bass breakbeats that seemingly come from nowhere. It's these production embellishments, as well as some rather vivid, idiosyncratic lyrical imagery, that prevent the album from turning into a relatively bland mess of vague balladry, but Gallant does probably flirt with Sam Smith territory a little too closely at times. It doesn't have the same focus or likeable modesty of dvsn's album, the sunny demeanour or topical variety of Anderson .Paak's, or the all-encompassing mood of KING's, and he probably hasn't distanced himself from Frank Ocean quite enough to carve out his own lane completely just yet (I've put it on in the car a couple of times recently, and my girlfriend has twice mistaken it for new Ocean music), but Ology is a very decent R'n'B record, if a little overwrought. [First added to this chart: 06/18/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

11 charts

Rank Score:

41

Rank in 2016:

552

Rank in 2010s:

5,438

Overall Rank:

23,266

Average Rating:

 74 (10 votes)

Comments:

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Top 79 Music Albums of 2016 composition

Artist	Albums	%
Boosie Badazz	4	5%
Future (Rap)	2	3%
Marquis Hawkes	1	1%
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra / Kim Myhr / Jenny Hval	1	1%
Khotin	1	1%
The Hotelier	1	1%
Anderson .Paak	1	1%
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Country	Albums	%
	41	52%
	15	19%
	8	10%
	3	4%
	3	4%
	2	3%
	2	3%
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85/100	06/30/2017 20:21	bobbyb5	728	90/100
75/100	02/10/2017 18:22	dgarr22	61	89/100
95/100	12/27/2016 02:55	phantom1305	291	92/100
70/100	06/08/2016 18:08	mickilennial	718	77/100
95/100	05/05/2016 14:59	RockyRaccoon	49	90/100

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From bobbyb5 06/30/2017 20:22

Gold Panda!!!! Mr. Fingers!!!

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From dgarr22 02/10/2017 18:21

(I usually end up rating year lists lower, but I just don't see some of my favs here, like A Tribe Called Quest, or the other fantastic rap albums this year, or say carseat headrest

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From cestuneblague 07/19/2016 02:51

Yeah delectable as always for the endless stream of great recs and all the groovy jives my homie, anyways can't wait for the next update as well as your thoughts on Centres, and of course FDT

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From GeevyDallas 02/16/2016 23:22

seen in your log you were looking for recs. skee mask and gunnar haslam's albums are both sick and worth checking out. cadell's album too.

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From meccalecca 02/16/2016 16:40

I will be coming here to pilfer frequently

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