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Posted on December 24, 2016

  • A Bu – Butterflies Fly in Pairs (Sennheiser Media)
  • Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom – Otis Was A Polar Bear (Royal Potato Family)
  • Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – We Be All Africans (Strut)
  • BADBADNOTGOOD – IV (Beat)
  • GoGo Penguin – Man Made Object(Blue Note)
  • Charlie Hunter – Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth (GroundUP)
  • Curtis J Stewart – Of Colors (Outside in Music)
  • Dave Douglas – Dark Territory (Greenleaf)
  • Gregory Porter – Take Me to the Alley (Blue Note)
  • Silk Road Ensemble & Yo-Yo Ma – Sing Me Home (Sony Classical)
  • Trio Celeste – Beethoven & Dvořák: Piano Trios (Navona)
  • Kikagaku Moyo – House in the Tall Grass (Guruguru Brain)
  • Psychic Temple – III (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • Ryley Walker – Golden Sings that Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans)
  • Jambinai – A Hermitage (Bella Union)
  • Brian Eno – The Ship (Beat)
  • Anna Meredith – Varmints (Moshi Moshi)
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani – FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy (RVNG)
  • Marielle V Jakobsons – Star Core (Thrill Jockey)
  • Jherek Bischoff – Cistern (The Leaf Label)
  • Helen Money – Become Zero (Thrill Jockey)
  • Black Mountain – IV (Jagjaguwar)
  • Julianna Barwick – Will (Dead Oceans)
  • Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop – Love Letter for Fire (Sub Pop)
  • case/lang/veirs – S/T (Anti-)
  • Baird Sisters – Until You Find Your Green (Ba Da Bing!)
  • Glenn Jones – Fleeting (Thrill Jockey)
  • John Scofield – Country for Old Men (Impulse!)
  • Tyondai Braxton – Oranged Out (Nonesuch)
  • Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (XL)
  • Matmos – Ultimate Care II (Thrill Jockey)
  • TOR – Blue Book (Loci)
  • Plaid – The Digging Remedy (Warp)
  • Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker (Columbia)
  • David Bowie – Blackstar (ISO)
  • Big Thief – Masterpiece (Saddle Creek)
  • Angel Olsen – MY WOMAN (Jagjaguwar)
  • Emma Pollock – In Search of Harperfield (Chemikal Underground) 
  • Heron Oblivion – S/T (Sub Pop)
  • Jackie Lynn – Jackie Lynn (Thrill Jockey)
  • Jessy Lanza – Oh No (Hyperdub)
  • John Cale – Music for a New Society/M:FANS (Domino)
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.)
  • Solange – A Seat At The Table (Saint)
  • Sonny & The Sunsets – Moods Baby Moods (Polyvinyl)
  • The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset (Hardly Art)
  • Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth (Mexican Summer)
  • Whitney – Light Upon the Lake (Secretly Canadian)
  • Wild Nothing – Life of Pause (Captured Tracks)
  • Y La Bamba – Ojos Del Sol (Tender Loving Empire)

Compilations/Reissues

  • Pastor T. L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir – Like a Ship…Without a Sail(Light in the Attic)
  • V/A – Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music-(Numero Group)
  • V/A – HEROES: Vol. 1-(Rough Trade)

Soundtracks

  • Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Hell or High Water (Milan)
  • Scott Walker – The Childhood of a Leader (4AD)
  • Johann Johansson – Arrival (Deutsche Grammophon)

Most Fun Concerts

  • Iggy Pop & Queens of the Stone Age Post Pop Depression tour – May 31 – Masonic Auditorium SF
  • Whitney – April 27 – Doug Fir Lounge Portland

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