Another year down, another year filled with great tunes. Below is a list (in alphabetical order) of 50 albums I dug in 2016. Normally I shy away from naming my top album because quite frankly I think there is too much great music that gets released throughout the year but this year is different because to me, A Tribe Called Quest didn’t just shock everyone by announcing and releasing its first album in 18 years, coupled with the loss earlier this year of Phife Dawg but it was the perfect album at the right time when “We The People” needed it. We Got It From Here…Thank You For Your Service is the album of the year and if you haven’t for some reason, dive into it, listen closely. We need more like ATCQ in 2017 and the years to come, there is a purpose to this album, find yours as I found mine. Peace + Love + Music. See you in 2017.
| A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service |
| Anderson .Paak – Malibu |
| Angel Olsen – My Woman |
| Anohni – Hopelessness |
| Blood Orange – Freetown Sound |
| Blossoms – ST |
| Boulevards – Groove! |
| Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial |
| Catfish and the Bottlemen – The Ride |
| Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book |
| Childish Gambino – Awaken, My Love! |
| Christine and The Queens – Charleur Humaine |
| Crystal Fighters – Everything Is My Family |
| David Bowie – Blackstar |
| DAWES – We’re All Gonna Die |
| DIIV – Is the Is are |
| Empire of the Sun – Two Vines |
| Flume – Skin |
| Gallant – Ology |
| Glass Animals – How To Be A Human Being |
| GOAT – Requiem |
| Goldroom – West of the West |
| J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only |
| Jack Garratt – Phase |
| Kaiser Chiefs – Stay Together |
| Kaytranada – 99.9% |
| Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered |
| Kings of Leon – Walls |
| Lapsley – Long Way Home |
| Lewis Del Mar – ST |
| Mitski – Puberty 2 |
| Mumford & Sons – Johannesburg EP |
| Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – A Little Something More From Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats |
| Nice As Fuck – ST |
| NxWorries – Yes Lawd! |
| Phish – Big Boat |
| Run The Jewels – RTJ3 |
| Saint Mesa – Jungle EP |
| St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Sea Of Noise |
| Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth |
| The Avett Brothers – Trus Sadness |
| The Head and The Heart – Signs of Light |
| The Lumineers – Ophelia |
| The National +++++ – Day of The Dead (Grateful Dead) |
| The Rolling Stones – Blue and Lonesome |
| The Shelters – ST |
| Tycho – Epoch |
| Whitney – Light Upon The Lake |
| Wolfmother – Victorious |
| ZHU – Generation Why |
