Favourite music albums of 2016

I guess this year final­ly marked the end of my album lis­ten­ing behav­iour. Spo­ti­fy’s Dis­cov­er and Dai­ly Mix fea­tures were the one-two punch that knocked it out. In addi­tion I some­how stopped scrob­bling to Last.fm in March. It’s switched back on now but the dam­age is done.

So the data I do have is incom­plete. I did still delib­er­ate­ly put on a num­ber of albums this year. But I won’t post them in order of lis­tens like I did last year. This is sub­jec­tive, unsort­ed and hand-picked. I will even sneak in a few albums that were pub­lished towards the end of 2015.

My sources includ­ed Pitch­fork’s list of best new albums which used to be how I dis­cov­ered new music and still wields some influ­ence. I cross-ref­er­enced with Spo­ti­fy’s top songs of 2016.

So first Spo­ti­fy tells me what to lis­ten to and then it gives me a list of things I actu­al­ly lis­tened to. This is get­ting weird…

Any­way, here they are. A * marks a par­tic­u­lar favourite.

• A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… *
• Solange – A Seat At the Table
• Hamil­ton Lei­thauser + Ros­tam – I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
• The Avalanch­es – Wildflower *
• Blood Orange – Free­town Sound
• Whit­ney – Light Upon the Lake
• Car Seat Head­rest – Teens Of Denial *
• Chance The Rap­per – Col­or­ing Book *
• ANOHNI – HOPELESSNESS
• Moody­mann – DJ-Kicks *
• Grimes – Art Angels * 
• Float­ing Points – Elaenia
• The Range – Potential *
• Sepal­cure – Fold­ing Time
• Jami­la Woods – HEAVN

Here’s a playlist which includes a cou­ple of more albums if you want to have a listen.