DJ AC’s Top 16 Albums of 2016

When listening to countless albums in 2016 I noted which ones I felt were amazing. Unlike many other lists, my best of is solely based on my own opinion. And here’s an interesting thing: the total number just happened to come to 16! For 2016. Coincidence? I think not. Here are my top albums from 2016 in no particular order. My song picks for each album are noted with *.

A handy-dandy Spotify playlist of the whole shebang is available here.

In case you missed my Top 10 Albums of 2015, here it is.

Reversing Falls – Reversing Falls 2
LITERAL RECORDS

1. this is why*
2. secret goth*
3. never let you go
4. wasted again*
5. whisper
6. SS3
7. so young*
8. disappear*
9. black it out*

Death by Unga Bunga – Pineapple Pizza
JANSEN PLATEPRODUKSJON

1. Dollar Slice
2. I Can’t Believe That We’re Together*
3. Best Friends
4. I Can’t Hide
5. Make Up Your Mind*
6. Strangers from the Sky*
7. Tell Me Why
8. Lady Fondue*
9. Ooh, I’m a Bad Bad Man*
10. Wasting Time
11. Wish I Didn’t Know*
12. Young Girls*

The Dirty Nil – Higher Power
DINE ALONE RECORDS

1. No Weaknesses
2. Zombie Eyed*
3. Wrestle Yü to Hüsker Dü*
4. Lowlives*
5. Friends in the Sky*
6. Violent Hands*
7. Know Your Rodent*
8. Fugue State
9. Bruto Bloody Bruto
10. Helium Dreamer
11. Bury Me at the Rodeo*

The Frights – You Are Going to Hate This
DANGERBIRD RECORDS

1. All I Need
2. Kids*
3. Afraid of the Dark*
4. Puppy Knuckles
5. Tungs
6. Haunted
7. You or Me*
8. Growing Up*
9. You Are Going to Hate This*
10. Of Age

Meat Market – Dig Deep
RECESS RECORDS

1. Dig Deep
2. Hole*
3. Big Cookie
4. Floor*
5. Bus
6. Still
7. Line*
8. Big Dream
9. Hole II*
10. World
11. Tiny Room*
12. Instrumental
13. Stay*
14. What’s It Like*

Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive
RIBBON MUSIC

1. Astonished Man
2. Slash/Burn*
3. The Evening
4. Departure
5. Nobody Dies*
6. Guts*
7. Fool Forever
8. Millionaire
9. Meticulous Bird*
10. Give Me Peace
11. Hand to God
12. Endless Love*

Summer Cannibals – Full of It
KILL ROCK STARS

1. Go Home*
2. Just a Little Bit
3. I Wanna Believe*
4. Say My Name*
5. Not Enough
6. Full of It*
7. The Lover*
8. Talk Over Me
9. Make Up
10. Fallen*
11. Simple Life*

Supermoon – Playland
MINT RECORDS

1. Night Division
2. Witching Hour*
3. If You Say So*
4. Bottleships*
5. Stories We Tell Ourselves About Ourselves*
6. Unsaid*
7. Secrets in a Small Town
8. Fast-Fashion

Santigold – 99¢
ATLANTIC RECORDS

1. Can’t Get Enough of Myself
2. Big Boss Big Time Business*
3. Banshee
4. Chasing Shadows*
5. Walking in a Circle
6. Who Be Lovin’ Me
7. Rendezvous Girl
8. Before the Fire
9. All I Got*
10. Outside the War*
11. Run the Races*
12. Who I Thought You Were*

Yak – Alas Salvation
PICCADILLY RECORDS

1. Victorious (National Anthem)*
2. Hungry Heart*
3. Use Somebody*
4. (Interlude I)
5. Roll Another
6. Curtain Twitcher*
7. Take It
8. Harbour the Feeling*
9. Alas Salvation*
10. Smile*
11. Doo Wah*
12. (Interlude II)
13. Please Don’t Wait for Me*
14. All You Need Is a Stranger

Sonny & the Sunsets – Moods Baby Moods
POLYVINYL RECORD CO.

1. Death Cream part 2 “Watch Out for the Cream”
2. Moods
3. Modern Age*
4. Well But Strangely Hung Man
5. Nightmares*
6. Reject of the Lowest Planet*
7. White Cops on Trial*
8. Check Out
9. Needs*
10. My Little Death*
11. Dead Meat on the Beach*
12. The Hospital Grounds at Night

Tancred – Out of the Garden
POLYVINYL RECORD CO.

1. Bed Case
2. Joey
3. Control Me*
4. Not Likely*
5. Pens*
6. The Glow
7. Swimming
8. Hang Me
9. Sell My Head
10. Poise
11. Pretty Girls*

Weaves – Weaves [LP]
KANINE RECORDS (US) | BUZZ RECORDS (CAN) | MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES (ROW)

1. Tick*
2. Birds & Bees
3. Candy*
4. Shithole*
5. Eagle
6. Two Oceans*
7. Human
8. Coo Coo*
9. Sentence
10. One More*
11. Stress

Martha – Blisters in the Pit of My Heart
DIRTNAP RECORDS

1. Christine
2. Chekhov’s Hangnail*
3. Precarious (Supermarket Song)*
4. Do Whatever*
5. Goldman’s Detective Agency*
6. The Awkward Ones
7. Ice Cream and Sunscreen*
8. 11:45, Legless in Brandon*
9. Curly & Raquel*
10. Do Nothing*
11. St Paul’s (Westerberg Comprehensive)

Allah-Las – Calico Review
MEXICAN SUMMER

1. Strange Heat
2. Satisfied*
3. Could Be You*
4. High & Dry
5. Mausoleum
6. Roadside Memorial*
7. Autumn Dawn
8. Famous Phone Figure
9. 200 South La Brea*
10. Warmed Kippers*
11. Terra Ignota
12. Place in the Sun

LVL UP – Return to Love
SUB POP

1. Hidden Driver*
2. Blur
3. She Sustains Us
4. Spirit Was*
5. Pain*
6. The Closing Door
7. Five Men on the Ridge
8. Cut from the Vine
9. I*
10. Naked in the River with the Creator

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