The Best Albums of 2016

Once again, Emacs has tallied up what albums I’ve listened to most this year, and must therefore be the best music released in 2016.

	Grumbling Fur	Preternaturals
	Dani Siciliano	Dani Siciliano
	Anohni	Hopelessness
	Babyfather	Meditation
	PJ Harvey	The Hope Six Demolition Project
	Copeland & Gast	Sisters of Control
	DJ Nigga Fox	Noite e dia
	Lolina	Live In Paris
	Lush	Blind
	Antonymes	(For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly
	Matana Roberts	Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
	Róisin Murphy	Take Her Up to Monto
	The Body	No One Deserves Happiness
	Telebossa	Garagen Aurora
	Twinkle3 with Sidsel Endresen	Debris in Lower Earth Orbit

And what’s the best older music I bought this year? Emacs knows that, too!

	Black Cab	Games of the XXI Olympiad
	Holly Herndon	Platform
	Grimes & d’Eon	Darkbloom
	Jlin	Dark Energy
	Grimes	Geidi Primes
	Hookworms	Hookworms
	Karin Krog	Don’t Just Sing
	Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos, Collin Walcott	Codona (1)
	The Young Mothers	A Mother’s Work Is Never Done
	A New Line (Related)	Fucking Succour

It was a rather good year for music. Otherwise… Worst year ever.