(short and sweet and to the point; culled from listening to 828 releases—at time of publishing—from 2016. ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be drastically different, but you have to lock ’em in sometime.)
Honorable Mention
BJ the Chicago Kid – In My Mind; Opeth – Sorceress; She Is We – War; The 1975 – I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it; Ed Harcourt – Furnaces; J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only; Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are; Against the Current – In Our Bones; Tall Heights – Neptune; The Lumineers – Cleopatra; Lissie – My Wild West; Thrice – To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere; Green Day – Revolution Radio; Santigold – 99 Cents; D.D Dumbo – Utopia Defeated; Wild Nothing – Life of Pause; The Weeknd – Starboy; Phantogram – Three; Band of Skulls – By Default; Joseph – I’m Alone, No You’re Not; Messa – Belfry; Local Natives – Sunlit Youth; Corinne Bailey Rae – The Heart Speaks in Whispers; Peter Bjorn and John – Breakin’ Point; HONNE – Warm On a Cold Night.
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by
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