It's that time again.
The Top 250 of 2016(alphabetical order)Top 40Accidente -
Pulso (Pifia Records (and many others))
Alcest -
Kodama (Prophecy Productions)
A Tribe Called Quest -
We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service (Epic)
Bleached -
Welcome The Worms (Dead Oceans)
The Blind Shake -
Celebrate Your Worth (Goner)
Blood Incantation -
Starspawn (Dark Descent)
Cobalt -
Slow Forever (Profound Lore)
Connections -
Midnight Run (Anyway)
Dark Blue -
Start of the World (12XU)
Deftones -
Gore (Reprise)
Dinosaur Jr -
Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not (Jagjaguwar)
Drive-By Truckers -
American Band (ATO)
Earwig -
Pause for the Jets (Anyway/LFM Records)
ESP Ohio (Pollard & Gillard) -
Starting Point of the Royal Cyclopean (GBV, Inc.)
Heaven's Jail -
Widow's Work (self-released)
Homeboy Sandman -
Kindness for Weakness (Stones Throw)
Khemmis -
Hunted (20 Buck Spin)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard -
Nonagon Infinity (ATO)
Kvelertak -
Nattesferd (Roadrunner)
Lithics -
Borrowed Floors (Water Wing (LP)/See My Friends (CS))
Martha -
Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart (Dirtnap)
Metallica -
Hardwired … To Self-Destruct (Blackened)
Mourn -
Ha, Ha, He! (Captured Tracks)
Nots -
Cosmetic (Goner)
Oh Boland -
Spilt Milk (Volar)
Purling Hiss -
High Bias (Drag City)
Savages -
Adore Life (Matador)
Spray Paint -
Feel The Clamps (Goner)
St. Lenox -
Ten Hymns From My American Gothic (Anyway)
SubRosa -
For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages (Profound Lore)
Sumac -
What One Becomes (Thrill Jockey)
Tacocat -
Lost Time (Hardly Art)
Tancred -
Out Of The Garden (Polyvinyl)
Thee Oh Sees -
A Weird Exits/An Odd Entrances (Castle Face)
Tyvek -
Origin of What (In The Red)
Uranium Club -
All Of Them Naturals (Static Shock/Fashionable Idiots)
Venomous Concept -
Kick Me Silly; VCIII (Season of Mist)
White Lung -
Paradise (Domino)
Witching Waves -
Crystal Café (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
Young Hunter -
Young Hunter (self-released)
The RestA Giant Dog-
Pile (Merge)
Alice Bag -
s/t (Don Giovanni)
Alicja-Pop -
Rats - Home Recordings 2009-2013 (Certified PR)
American Wrestlers -
Goodbye Terrible Youth (Fat Possum)
Anciients -
Voice of the Void (Season of Mist)
Angel -
"2017" (Faro)
Angel Olsen -
My Woman (Jagjaguwar)
Anthrax -
For All Kings (Megaforce)
Ausmuteants -
Band Of The Future (Aarght)
Audacity -
Hyper Vessels (Suicide Squeeze)
Axis: Sova -
Motor Earth (God?)
BaD BaD -
s/t (S-S Records)
Bad Sports -
Living With Secrets (Dirtnap)
Bad Vision -
Turn Out Your Sockets (Adagio 830)
Barbara Manning -
Chico Daze (2004-2009) (self-released)
Baus -
Will Be Right Back (Not Normal Tapes)
Beef Jerk -
Tragic (Trouble In Mind)
Big Business -
Command Your Weather (Joyful Noise)
Big Eyes -
Stake My Claim (Don Giovanni)
Birthing Hips -
No Sorry (self-released)
Black Tusk -
Pillars of Ash (Relapse)
Bob Mould -
Patch The Sky (Merge)
Bossk -
Audio Noir (Deathwish)
Carl Sagan's Skate Shoes -
s/t (Super Secret)
Car Seat Headrest -
Teens of Denial (Matador)
case/lang/veirs -
s/t (Anti-)
Casper Skulls -
Lips & Skull EP (Buzz)
Cass McCombs -
Mangy Love (Anti-)
CCR Headcleaner -
Tear Down The Wall (In The Red)
Centre Negative -
Emotion Is Cringey (ever/never)
CFM -
Still Life Of Citrus And Slime (In The Red)
Choke Chains -
s/t (Slovenly)
Chook Race -
Around The House (Trouble In Mind)
Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band -
The Rarity of Experience (No Quarter)
City Yelps -
The City Yelps Half Hour (Odd Box)
The Coathangers -
Nosebleed Weekend (Suicide Squeeze)
Color TV -
s/t EP (Deranged)
Conditioner -
Suggested Use (Kennel Jitters)
Cool Ghouls -
Animal Races (Empty Cellar)
Cough -
Still They Pray (Relapse)
Counter Intuits -
Monosyllabilly (Pyramid Scheme)
Crowbar -
The Serpent Only Lies (eOne Music)
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas -
Mariner (Indie Recordings)
Culture Abuse -
Peach (6131 Records)
Danny Brown -
Atrocity Exhibition (Warp Records)
Danny & The Darleans -
Bug Out (In The Red)
Daylight Robbery -
Accumulated Error (Deranged)
David Bowie -
Blackstar (Columbia)
DD Owen -
s/t (12XU)
Death Angel -
The Evil Divide (Nuclear Blast)
Death Index -
s/t (Deathwish)
Den -
s/t EP (Rice Is Nice)
Descendents -
Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Epitaph)
Dog Date -
Twin Donut (self-released)
Drakulas -
Raw Wave (Dirtnap)
Dressy Bessy -
Kingsized (Yep Roc)
Duchess Says -
Sciences Nouvelles (Slovenly)
Dust Moth -
Scale (The Mylene Sheath)
Dysrhythmia -
Veil of Control (Profound Lore)
Emma Ruth Rundle -
Marked For Death (Sargent House)
Empty Markets -
Stainless Steel (12XU)
Enuff Z'Nuff -
Clowns Lounge (Frontiers)
Exotica -
Musique Exotique #01 (self-released)
Extra Foxx -
Goodbye Insanity, Hello Humanity (Swashbuckling Hobo)
Fake Limbs -
Matronly (Don Giovanni)
Flasher -
s/t EP (Sister Polygon)
Foster Body -
Moving Display (Diabolical)
Frustration -
Empires of Shame (Born Bad)
Gatecreeper -
Sonoran Depravation (Relapse)
Goblin Cock -
Necronomidonkeykongimicon (Joyful Noise)
GØGGS -
s/t (In The Red))
The Goon Sax -
Up To Anything (Chapter Music)
The Gospel Truth -
Jealous Fires (12XU)
The Gotobeds -
Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic (Sub Pop)
Governess -
s/t (Sister Polygon)
Graves At Sea -
The Curse That Is (Relapse)
Heavy Lids -
We Believe in the Night (Pelican Pow Wow/Backhaus)
Helms Alee -
Stillicide (Sargent House)
Heron Oblivion -
s/t (Sub Pop)
Honey Radar -
Blank Cartoon (What's Your Rupture?)
Horse Jumper of Love -
s/t (Disposable America)
The Intended -
Time Will Tell (In The Red)
Inter Arma -
Paradise Gallows (Relapse)
Izzy True -
Nope (Don Giovanni)
James Arthur's Manhunt -
Digital Clubbing (12XU)
Jared Leibowich -
Welcome Late Bloomers ((Sundae Records (2016 LP release) (2015 CS release on Unblinking Ear))
Jeff Rosenstock -
WORRY. (SideOneDummy)
JEFF The Brotherhood -
Zone (Dine Alone)
The Julie Ruin -
Hit Reset (Hardly Art)
Kamiayah -
A Good Night In The Ghetto (self-released)
Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds -
La Araña Es La Vida (In The Red)
Klaus Johann Grobe -
Spagat der Liebe (Trouble In Mind)
Kristin Kontrol -
X-Communicate (Sub Pop)
Lady Gaga -
Joanne (Interscope)
Laika's Orbit -
No Matter What It Takes (Total Negativity)
La Sera -
Music for Listening to Music To (Polyvinyl)
The Lasters -
Kind of Blew (Futilitarian / In the Red)
Latishia's Skull Drawing -
Romanticized (Iron Lung)
The Laurels -
Sonicology (Rice Is Nice)
The Lavender Flu -
Heavy Air (Meds)
Leather Towel -
IV (HoZac)
Liberation -
s/t (Night School)
Lié -
Truth or Consequences (Monofonus Press)
Like Rats -
II (Southern Lord)
Lisa Prank -
Adult Teen (Father/Daughter)
Low Culture -
Places To Hide (Dirtnap)
Lucy Dacus -
No Burden (Matador)
Magic Trick -
Other Man's Blues (Empty Cellar)
Major Stars -
Motion Set (Drag City)
Male Gaze -
King Leer (Castle Face)
Marissa Nadler -
Strangers (Sacred Bones)
Mary Lynn -
My Animal (Anyway)
Meet Your Death -
s/t (12XU)
Merchandise -
A Corpse Wired For Sound (4AD)
Metal Church -
XI (Rat Pak)
Mitski -
Puberty 2 (Dead Oceans)
Mike & The Melvins Three Man And A Baby (Sub Pop)
Mind Spiders -
Prosthesis (Dirtnap)
Miss Destiny -
s/t ((R.I.P. Society (LP)/Agitated (CD))
Mongoloid -
Plays Rock And Roll (Deranged)
The Monkees -
Good Times! (Rhino)
Mosquito Ego -
Glomb (ever/never)
Mountains and Rainbows -
Particles (Castle Face)
Multicult -
Position Release (Reptilian)
Musk -
Musk 2: The Second Scumming (12XU)
Nail Polish -
Aunthetic Living (self-released)
Nails -
You Will Never Be One Of Us (Nuclear Blast)
Nameless Frames -
s/t (Super Secret)
Neurosis -
Fires Within Fires (Neurot)
Nevermen -
s/t (Ipecac)
Nocturnal Habits -
New Skin For Old Children (Glacial Pace)
Nopes -
Never Heard Of It (Magnetic Eye)
No Sister -
s/t (self-released)
Nuke -
Nuke (Hell's Headbangers)
Oak Pantheon -
In Pieces (self-released)
Oathbreaker -
Rheia (Deathwish)
Octagrape -
Aura Obelisk (Sounds Familyre)
Omni -
Deluxe (Trouble In Mind)
Oozing Wound -
Whatever Forever (Thrill Jockey)
Opposite Sex -
Hamlet (Dull Tools/Melted Ice Cream)
The Orb -
Birth (Castle Face)
Parquet Courts -
Human Performance (Rough Trade)
PJ Harvey -
The Hope Six Demolition Project (Island/Vagrant)
Plates of Cake -
Becoming Double (self-released)
Preoccupations -
s/t (Jagjaguwar)
Psalm Zero -
Stranger To Violance (Profound Lore)
Puberty -
s/t (Born Bad)
Puff! -
Living In The Partyzone (Slovenly)
Quailbones -
s/t (Not Normal Tapes)
Radioactivity -
Silent Kill (Dirtnap)
The Radio Dept. -
Running Out of Love (Labrador)
Radiohead -
A Moon Shaped Pool (XL Recordings)
Rebel Kind -
Just For Fools (Urinal Cake)
Red Dons -
The Dead Hand of Tradition ((Deranged (2016 North American release))
Regina Spektor -
Remember Us to Life (Sire)
Robert Pollard -
Of Course You Are (Fire American)
Sammus -
Pieces in Space (Don Giovanni)
Savak -
Best Of Luck In Future Endeavors (Comedy Minus One)
Scraper -
Misery (Slovenly)
Scroll Downers -
Hot Winter (Ehse Records)
Scully -
No Sense EP (Fire Talk)
Sex Stains -
s/t (Don Giovanni)
Skinny Girl Diet -
Heavy Flow (Happy Happy Birthday To Me)
Sleeping Beauties -
s/t (In The Red)
So Cow -
Lisa Marie Airplane Tour (Jigsaw/Tall Pat)
Soft Gang -
s/t (Sophomore Lounge)
Soft Kill -
Choke (Profound Lore)
Sonic Avenues -
Disconnector (Dirtnap)
The Spectres -
Utopia (Deranged)
Spokenest -
Gone, Gone, Gone (self-released)
The Staches -
Placid Faces ((Les Disques Bongo Joe (LP)/Dumpster Tapes (CS))
Stalins of Sound -
Biology Museum (Volar)
Stefan Christensen/Stefan Christensen & Friends -
Empty Plateaus/
Empty Continents/
Cryptic Slang/
American Pastoral Again (The Loki Label//C/Site Recordings//The Loki Label//ever/never)
The Steve Adamyk Band -
Graceland (Dirtnap)
The Sueves -
Change Your Life (HoZac)
Sumerlands -
s/t (Relapse)
Super Unison -
Auto (Deathwish)
Susan -
Never Enough (Volar)
Swet Shop Boys -
Cashmere (Customs Music)
Synthetic ID -
Impulses (Castle Face)
Teledetente 666 -
Karen (Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu? [December 2015 release; French import available for first time in U.S. in 2016])
Testament -
Brotherhood of the Snake (Nuclear Blast)
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down -
A Man Alive (Ribbon Music/Domino)
Thigh Master -
Early Times (Coolin' By Sound)
Terry -
Terry HQ (Upset! The Rhythm)
Tim Heidecker -
In Glendale (Rado)
Tongues -
I Really Have To Get My Life Back On Track Before I Cut All My Hair Off (Moniker)
Touche Amore -
Stage Four (Epitaph)
Trap Them -
Crown Feral (Prosthetic)
Trust Punks -
Double Bind (Wharf Cat Records)
Tyrannamen -
s/t (Static Shock)
Ty Segall -
Emotional Mugger (Drag City)
Ubik -
Demo EP (Lost in Fog)
Unity -
s/t (Digital Regress)
Useless Eaters -
Relaxing Death (Castle Face)
Vanity -
Don't Be Shy (Katorga Works)
Vektor -
Terminal Redux (Earache)
Vex -
Sky Exile (Eihwaz Recordings)
Vince Staples -
Prima Donna EP (ARTium/Def Jam)
Violence Creeps -
Soul Narc (Digital Regress)
Voivod -
Post Society EP (Century Media)
Violent Change -
VC3 (Melters)
Weekend Nachos -
Apology (Relapse)
Wet Ones -
s/t (Slovenly)
The Wilful Boys -
Rough As Guts (ever/never)
Worse -
Rubber Burner (Deranged)
Wrong -
s/t (Relapse)
White Mystery -
Outta Control (self-released)
Wo Fat -
Midnight Cometh (Ripple Music)
Wussy -
Forever Sounds (Shake It)
Zig Zags -
Running Out of Red (Castle Face)