Think of the first bracket as a "Top Ten" (though there are more than ten albums). The second bracket is a list of good albums that, for various reasons, didn't make it into the top selection. The third bracket is akin to a “honorable mention” grouping. Should Have Been… are records that came out too late last year to include or I missed their initial release during the previous year.
+ In Order +
- Neurosis ~ Fire Within Fires
- Tacocat ~ Lost Time
- Savages ~ Adore Life
- Angel Olsen ~ My Woman
- Anthony Hamilton ~ What I’m Feelin'
- Earth Girls ~ Wanderlust
- Noname ~ Telefone
- Jamila Woods ~ HEAVN
- KRIMEWATCH ~ demo
- A Tribe Called Quest ~ We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- Paul Burch ~ Meridian Rising
- A Giant Dog ~ Pile
- Warpaint ~ Heads Up
- Katy Goodman + Greta Morgan ~ Take It, It’s Your's
- Kyle Kinane ~ Loose in Chicago
- PJ Harvey ~ The Hope Six Demolition Project
- Chance the Rapper ~ Coloring Book
+ Alphabetical +
- Maria Bamford ~ 20%
- Rhea Butcher ~ Butcher
- case/lang/veirs ~ case/lang/veirs
- De La Soul ~ And the Anonymous Nobody
- Free Cake for Every Creature ~ Talking Quietly of Anything with You
- Future of the Left ~ The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left
- Damien Jurado ~ Visions of Us on the Land
- Lala Lala ~ Sleepyhead
- Jessy Lanza ~ Oh No
- Metronomy ~ Summer 08
- Night School ~ Blush
- Soddy Daisy ~ Cuttin’ Up Hot Dogs For My Stepson’s Mac n’ Cheese
- Strange Relations ~ Going Out EP
- Geoff Tate ~ Again
- Teksi-TV 666 ~ 1,2,3
- Thee Oh Sees ~ A Weird Exits
- Sara Watkins ~ Young in all the Wrong Ways
- Wilco ~ Schmilco
- Witching Waves ~ Crystal Cafe
+ Alphabetical +
- Autolux ~ Pussy’s Dead
- Bleached ~ Welcome the Worms
- Bloom ~ Young Camelot Presents 2-13-16 Dojo
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ~ Skeleton Tree
- The Duke Spirit ~ Kin
- Eleanor Friedberger ~ New View
- Night Beats ~ Who Sold My Generation
- Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions ~ Until the Hunters
- SARALEE ~ -dogs-
- The Stargazer Lilies ~ Door to the Sun
+ Should Have Been on Last Year's List + »
- Bosque Brown ~ Us
- Downtown Boys ~ Full Communism
- Helta Skelta ~ Beyond the Black Stump
- Mike Krol ~ Turkey
- Prince ~ HitnRun Phase Two