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40 Albums That Melted My Brain In 2016

Posted on January 12, 2017

  • Air Protection Office – Escaping Distances (Ekar)
  • Autolux – Pussy’s Dead (30th Century)
  • Devendra Barnhart – Ape In Pink Marble (Nonesuch)
  • Juliana Barwick – Will (Dead Oceans)
  • Jherek Bischoff – Cistern (Leaf)
  • Black Marble – It’s Immaterial (Ghostly International)
  • Botany – Deepak Verbena (Western Vinyl)
  • City Yelps – The City Yelps Half Hour (Emotional Response)
  • Chris Cohen – As If Apart (Captured Tracks)
  • Cross Record – Wabi Sabi (Ba Da Bing)
  • Cube – My Cube (Left Hand Path)
  • Essaie Pas – Demain Est Une Autre Nuit (DFA)
  • Exploded View – s/t (Sacred Bones)
  • Gaslamp Killer – Instrumentalepathy (Cuss)
  • The Hecks – s/t (Trouble In Mind)
  • Higher Authorities – Neptune (Domino)
  • Marielle V Jakobsons – Star Core (Thrill Jockey)
  • Damien Jurado – Visions Of Us On The Land (Secretly Canadian)
  • Kikagaku Moyo – House In The Tall Grass (Guruguru Brain)
  • Klaus Johann Grobe – Spagat der Liebe (Trouble In Mind)
  • Mary Lattimore – At The Dam (Ghostly International)
  • Cate Le Bon – Crab Day (Drag City)
  • Lithics – Borrowed Floors (Water Wing)
  • Morgan Delt – Phase Zero (Sub Pop)
  • Naked Lights – On Nature (Castle Face)
  • Nonkeen – The Gamble (R&S)
  • Omni – Deluxe (Trouble In Mind)
  • Plaid – The Digging Remedy (Warp)
  • Powell – Sport (XL)
  • Mark Pritchard – Under The Sun (Warp)
  • Public Memory – Wuthering Drum (Felte)
  • Say No! To Architecture – s/t (Ghosthunter’s Club)
  • Sonny & The Sunsets – Moods Baby Moods (Polyvinyl)
  • Space Dimension Controller – Orange Melamine (Ninja Tune)
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears (Western Vinyl)
  • Takenobu – Reversal (s/r)
  • Thor & Friends – s/t (LM Dupli-Cation)
  • Tobacco – Sweatbox Dynasty (Ghostly International)
  • Vanishing Twin – Choose Your Own Adventure (Soundway)
  • 10th Letter – The Revenge (Psych Army Intergalactic)

Reissues/Compilations

  • Bocal 5 – Musique Électronique (Dark Entries)
  • Ahmed Malek – Musique Originale De Films (Habibi Funk)
  • Pedro Santos ‎– Krishnanda (Mr. Bongo)
  • Various Artists – (The Microcosm) Visionary Music Of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 (Light In The Attic)
  • Various Artists – Sky Girl (Efficient Space)
  • Various Artists – So-Low (Vinyl Factory)
  • Various Artists – Tanbou Toujou Lou: Meringue, Kompa Kreyol, Vodou Jazz, & Electric Folklore from Haiti 1960 – 1981 (Ostinato)
  • Various Artists – Venezuela 70: Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s (Soundway)

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