Time to sum up everything from 2016, as this is usual in this time of the year. It has been our 10th anniversary year and therefore a very important year for us. In general, it has been a crazy year and a very sad one, as the music world lost some of their top artists and pop icons who helped shape the sound and vision of the previous four decades.
In terms of quality and what 2016 offered, and based on what is in our charts, we could say that pop went retro, post punk turned groovy and we found some new formulas of R'n'B and Soul. As you can see, our top company were Preoccupations (formerly Viet Cong) Shura and Blood Orange. What else was hot, see below.
01.
Preoccupations- Preoccupations [Jagjaguwar]
02. Shura- Nothing's Real [Polydor]
03. Blood Orange- Freetown Sound [Domino]
04. Villa Nah- Ultima [Solina]
05. Michelle Gurevich- New Decadence [self released]
06. Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool [XL]
07. Bat for Lashes- The Bride [Parlophone]
08. PJ Harvey- The Hope Six Demolition Project
[Island]
09. Geneva Jacuzzi- Technophelia [Medical Records
LLC]
10. David Bowie- ★ Blackstar [ISO]
11. Cat's Eyes- Treasure House [Raf Records]
12. Suede- Night Thoughts [Warner]
13. Get Well Soon- Love [Caroline]
14. Angel Olsen- MY WOMAN [Jagjaguwar]
15. Michael Kiwanuka- Love & Hate [Polydor]
16. Xeno & Oaklander- Topiary [Ghostly]
17. The Last Shadow Puppets- Everything You've Come
to Expect[Domino]
18. The Radio Dept.- Running Out of Love [Labrador]
19. Still Corners- Dead Blue [Wrecking Light]
20. Yeasayer- Amen & Goodbye [Mute]
21.
Wrangler- White Glue [Meme Tune]
22. Lust for Youth- Compassion [Sacred Bones]
23. Hante.- This Fog That Never Ends [Synth
Religion]
24. Cult Club- Play with Lies [Domestica]
25. Black Arcade- Transhuman [digital file]
26. Perfect Human- Erste [Perfect Aesthetics]
27. Liste Noire- Brace [No Emb Blanc]
28. DIIV- Is the Is Are [Captured Tracks]
29. Boy Harsher- Yr Body is Nothing [digital file]
30. School of Seven Bells-SVIIB [Vargant]