Once again, posters on the urban75 forums have been voting for their best albums of 2016, with a pretty interesting selection making the list.
Nominations were invited at the beginning of December on the forums, with the winners being announced a few weeks later.
Huge thanks go to the poster belboid for his hard work is counting and compiling the list, which is as follows:
Best Album 2016
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
- David Bowie Blackstar
- Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
- Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
- PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
- A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- Cavern of Anti-Matter: Void Beats / Invocation Trex
- Mogwai – Atomic
- Angel Olsen – My Woman
- Handsome Family – Unseen
- Ex-Easter Island Head – Twenty Two Strings
- Richmond Fontaine – You Can’t Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To.
- The Avalanches – Wildflower
- Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – The Commandments According to SCAC
- Huerco S – For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
- Anderson Paak – Malibu
- Beyoncé – Lemonade
- Death Grips – Bottomless Pit
- Romare – Love Songs: Part Two
- Drive By Truckers – American Band
- Kaytranda – 99.9%
- Diiv – Is This The Are
- Gojira – Magma
- Konono No1
- Metallica – Hardwired to self destruct
- Africaine 808 – Basar
- Bon Iver – 22, A Million
- Steven James Adams – old magick
- Thee Oh Sees – A Weird Exits
- BadBadNotGood – IV
- eMMplekz – Rook to TN34
- Steve Hauschildt, Strands
- Black Angel Drifter – Black Angel Drifter
- Bracken – High Passes
- School of Seven Bells -SVIIB
- Holy Fuck – Congrats
- Michael Kiwanuka – Love And Hate
- Gold Panda – Good Luck and Do Your Best
- Hieroglyphic Being – The Disco’s Of Imhotep
- Swans – The Glowing Man
I have to confess that there’s quite a few albums there I’ve never heard of (check out the thread to view videos of all the acts, or to add your own comments), but for me there was only one winner this year: David Bowie: Blackstar.
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