I love it when at the end of the year people comment "Naah, it's been a weak year..." blah blah. Even with the loss it took off and landed with (Bowie, Prince, George Michael), 2016 has been good to me. Here is my list:
1. Frank Ocean . Endless . Def Jam Recordings
2. A Tribe Called Quest / We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your
Service / Epic
3. Solange Knowles . A Seat At The Table . Saint Records/Columbia
4. Mykki Blanco . Mykki . Dogfood/!K7
5. LA-4A . Phonoautograph . Delft
6. Factory Floor . 25 25 . DFA
7. David Bowie . Blackstar . RCA/Columbia/Sony
8. Anohni . Hopelessness . Secretly Canadian
9. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner . The Revenant .
Milan Records
10. James Blake . The Colour In Anything .
Polydor