KVSC’s Top 88 Albums of 2016
Rank Artist Album
1 Sonny Knight & The Lakers Sooner or Later 2 A Tribe Called Quest We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
3 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity
4 Aesop Rock The Impossible Kid
5 Broods Conscious
6 Woods City Sun Eater in the River of Light
7 ZuluZuluu What's the Price?
8 Black Mountain IV
9 Kaytranada 99.9%
10 David Bowie Blackstar
11 Daughter Not to Disappear
12 Childish Gambino Awaken, My Love!
13 Michael Kiwanuka Love & Hate
14 Kaleo A/B
15 Bon Iver 22, A Million 16 Dirty Mercury Violet Light
17 James Blake The Colour in Anything
18 Margaret Glaspy Emotions and Math 19 Conor Oberst Ruminations
20 The Warlocks Songs from the Pale Eclipse
21 Aksel Krafnick Self 22 The Avett Brothers True Sadness
23 Black Market Brass Cheat and Start a Fight
24 Cass McCombs Mangy Love
25 Joseph I'm Alone, No You're Not
26 Lucius Good Grief
27 Cage the Elephant Tell Me I'm Pretty
28 Metasota Run DMT
29 Monica LaPlante Noir
30 Car Seat Headrest Teens of Denial
31 Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition
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32 Devendra Banhart Ape in Pink Marble
33 Haley Bonar Impossible Dream
34 Goodbye Lucy Grey Beautifully Broken
35 Blood Orange Freetown Sound
36 Foo Fighters Saint Cecilia
37 Shovels & Rope Little Seeds
38 Gold Panda Good Luck and Do Your Best 39 Drive-By Truckers American Band
40 Goat Requiem
41 Whiskey City Tango Not Funny? 42 Charles Bradley Changes
43 Beats Antique Shadowbox
44 Flock Of Dimes If You See Me, Say Yes 45 Sturgill Simpson A Sailor's Guide to Earth
46 Shana Falana Here Comes the Wave
47 Angel Olsen My Woman
48 Wye Oak Tween
49 Tony Peachka Dirty Knees
50 Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves
51 Whitney Light Upon the Lake
52 Tycho Epoch
53 Santigold 99 Cents
54 Kitten Forever 7 Hearts
55 Violent Femmes We Can Do Anything
56 The Amazing Ambulance
57 Paul Simon Stranger to Stranger
58 Anderson .Paak Malibu 59 Hinds Leave Me Alone
60 Andy Shauf The Party
61 The Struts Everybody Wants 62 The Jayhawks Paging Mr. Proust
63 Lake Street Dive Side Pony
2 Rank Artist Album
64 Mark "Hazzy" Hasbrouck Songs From No Cat
65 Astronautalis Cut the Body Loose
66 Big Thief Masterpiece
67 Blind Pilot And Then Like Lions
68 The Besnard Lakes A Coliseum Complex Museum
69 Weezer The White Album
70 Atmosphere Fishing Blues 71 Rogue Valley Radiate/Dissolve
72 Bob Mould Patch the Sky
73 M83 Junk 74 The Frightnrs Nothing More to Say
75 Bear Mountain Badu
76 Poor Lily Dirt on Everyone 77 Quivers We'll Go Riding on the Hearses
78 The Record Company Give It Back to You
79 Allen Toussaint American Tunes
80 High Waisted On Ludlow
81 Candace New Future
82 The Avalanches Wildflower
83 David Bromberg Band The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues
84 Con Brio Paradise
85 Robert Ellis Robert Ellis
86 Leagues Alone Together
87 New Model Army Winter
88 The Range Potential
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