Top 22 Music Albums of 2016 by johnner

Best Tracks of 2016:
1. Ivy - Frank Ocean
2. Out of Control - Lush
3. Nikes - Frank Ocean
4. Self Control - Frank Ocean
5. Futura Free - Frank Ocean
6. Landing Cliffs - Explosions In The Sky
7. Siegfried - Frank Ocean
8. Wondering - Xiu Xiu
9. Blackstar - David Bowie
10. Teach Me To Forget - The Radio Dept
11. Watch Me - ANOHNI
12. Suicide Song - MONEY
13. There’s A Little Cloud Passing In You - Ulrika Spacek
14. Obama - ANOHNI
15. Human Behaviour - Parquet Courts

• Chart updated: 4 days ago
• (Created: 01/15/2016 14:17).
• Chart size: 22 albums.

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Blond 

 Frank Ocean

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I don't know, is everyone listening to the same album as me? Cos everyone's complaining how difficult a listen it is, lacking any discernable singles etc etc, when it just sounds like a perfectly smooth listen with subtle but obvious earworm pop songs all the same.
In fact, I'll go to say Blond has so many of the qualities missing from white music these days: balls; new ideas; sonic innovation; and the ability to take the listener to new places. Just as much as this is a modern, 21st Century R'n'B album it's also a spiritual heir to works such as Closer or Loveless - it's that good. Simply put, Frank Ocean makes everyone else look like a bunch of clueless, ungainly fools. Wow. [First added to this chart: 08/25/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

887 charts

Rank Score:

13,531

Rank in 2016:

2

Rank in 2010s:

8

Overall Rank:

91

Average Rating:

 84 (1,100 votes)

Comments:

91

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Blind Spot 

 Lush

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Nearly 20 years from when they last released new material Blind Spot EP is a perfect mix of their early dreamy, shoegazing sound with the punchy Brit-Pop of their last album that can stand shoulder to shoulder with some of their best songs. Yet again sounding like a dream mix between ABBA and The Cocteau Twins, how can this be wrong? [First added to this chart: 04/15/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

9 charts

Rank Score:

34

Rank in 2016:

631

Rank in 2010s:

6,235

Overall Rank:

26,574

Average Rating:

 75 (15 votes)

Comments:

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★ [Blackstar] 

 David Bowie

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No-one has died quite like David Bowie, starting with the utter shock his passing elicited, the lack of ceremony or mourners surrounding his funeral, to this, his last album, his going away gift to his fans, released two days before dying.
In death as in life Bowie has endeavered to create a work of art. This is the last thing he has left us from a life of breaking taboo's, pioneering new music, new ideas, and just generally being a true, bona-fide star. David Bowie, you will be missed. [First added to this chart: 01/16/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

1,248 charts

Rank Score:

12,487

Rank in 2016:

3

Rank in 2010s:

9

Overall Rank:

107

Average Rating:

 86 (1,643 votes)

Comments:

151

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The Wilderness 

 Explosions In The Sky

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I haven't listened to EITS since 2003's The Earth is Not A... so The Wilderness is a welcome surprise. Each track twinkles and sparkles in it's own beautiful way, whilst some really lovely and inventive electronic effects glow around them, marking a departure from the guitar-orientated post rock sound. [First added to this chart: 04/02/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

66 charts

Rank Score:

171

Rank in 2016:

127

Rank in 2010s:

1,425

Overall Rank:

7,370

Average Rating:

 70 (111 votes)

Comments:

4

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Hopelessness 

 Anohni

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Proof that the day of artists producing difficult, boundary pushing albums is far from over, Hopelessness is a dazzling and thought-provoking piece of work. Leaving behind the previous baroque-rock stylings of before for a more contemporary, electro feel this is a brave and exciting step forward for ANOHNI. [First added to this chart: 05/13/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

204 charts

Rank Score:

779

Rank in 2016:

30

Rank in 2010s:

344

Overall Rank:

2,120

Average Rating:

 73 (217 votes)

Comments:

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The Album Paranoia 

 Ulrika Spacek

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Ulrika Spacek rock in a kind of Television/Pavement/Sonic Youth stylee with each song coming on in the kind of riff-age those bands specialise in, so yeah, this album is for fans of 'interesting' guitar chords. Saying that, the band repeat each riff to a hypnotic, stoner-friendly groove. It's enjoyable. [First added to this chart: 02/07/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

15 charts

Rank Score:

26

Rank in 2016:

750

Rank in 2010s:

7,428

Overall Rank:

30,901

Average Rating:

 74 (9 votes)

Comments:

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Suicide Songs 

 Money

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Or hope for the hopeless. Coming on like a folky, early Verve but without the hokey psychedelia, these songs match the passion and the desperation of every busker who knows the power of a strongly strummed guitar or of a song belted out to the heavens. Suicide Songs has a heart as big as Manchester. [First added to this chart: 01/29/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

32 charts

Rank Score:

77

Rank in 2016:

306

Rank in 2010s:

3,109

Overall Rank:

14,701

Average Rating:

 70 (63 votes)

Comments:

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Post Pop Depression 

 Iggy Pop

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Billed as his possible last album, PPD is a renaissance of sorts for the man, with the album revisiting one of his classic lp's - The Idiot. Whilst not as good, it is nice to hear him successfully come back with some of his best material in years. [First added to this chart: 03/24/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

182 charts

Rank Score:

718

Rank in 2016:

34

Rank in 2010s:

363

Overall Rank:

2,248

Average Rating:

 74 (259 votes)

Comments:

10

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Running Out Of Love 

 The Radio Dept.

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"Reflective and nostalgic look back to the spirit of '88 (both Phuture and Inner City are notably referenced) even if the politics of 2016 manage to get a look in. Another excellent lp from the Dept." November 2016 [First added to this chart: 11/17/2018]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

43 charts

Rank Score:

104

Rank in 2016:

206

Rank in 2010s:

2,269

Overall Rank:

11,160

Average Rating:

 71 (45 votes)

Comments:

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Human Performance 

 Parquet Courts

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Yeah, they still sound like Pavement but they also remind me of The Modern Lovers and they're really good at copying Lou Reed's ostrich guitar by way of 'The Black Angel's Death Song'. Saying all that, Human Performance is the type of indie album you thought they'd forgotten to make with tunes aplenty. it's got the flavour! [First added to this chart: 04/09/2016]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

152 charts

Rank Score:

415

Rank in 2016:

54

Rank in 2010s:

611

Overall Rank:

3,549

Average Rating:

 74 (188 votes)

Comments:

3

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Top 22 Music Albums of 2016 composition

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	2	9%
Preoccupations	1	5%
Lush	1	5%
Xiu Xiu	1	5%
David Bowie	1	5%
Solange	1	5%
Explosions In The Sky	1	5%
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Country	Albums	%
	9	41%
	7	32%
	3	14%
	1	5%
	1	5%
	1	5%

Top 22 Music Albums of 2016 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 3 from 20th to 17th Is The Is Are by DIIV
Up 2 from 17th to 15th Wildflower by The Avalanches
Up 2 from 16th to 14th A Seat At The Table by Solange

Biggest fallers
Down 3 from 15th to 18th I Had A Dream That You Were Mine by Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
Down 2 from 10th to 12th Preoccupations by Preoccupations
Down 2 from 14th to 16th The Lexicon Of Love II by ABC

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