Phil's Top Ten Albums of 2016

  1. The Range--"Potential" (electronica)
  2. Brass Tracks--"Good Love" (electronica/jazz/hip-hop)
  3. The 1975--"I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware" (electro-pop)
  4. Dawn Golden--"Still Life" (electronica/ambient)
  5. Blood Orange--"Freetown Sound" (rock?)
  6. James Blake--"The Colour in Anything" (electronica/ambient)
  7. Phantogram--"Three" (electro-rock)
  8. Massive Attack--"Ritual Spirit EP" (trip-hop)
  9. Jack Garratt--"Phase" (electronica/rock/???)
  10. Various Artists--"Hamilton Mixtape" (broadway/hip-hop)
Honorable mentions:
  • School of Seven Bells--"SVIIB" (rock)
  • Various Artists--"Day of the Dead" (Grateful Dead covers organized by The National)
It was also a good year for EPs. A few of my favorites:
  1. Petit Biscuit--"Petit Biscuit EP"
  2. Verite--"Living EP"
  3. The Range--"Superimpose EP"
[Editor's note: I spend a surprising amount of time looking for these through my FB archive over the years, so I'm dropping these here mostly for my own ease of use.

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