The Best Albums, Tracks & New Artists of 2016

In no particular order...

Best Albums of 2016:

My most-listened-to new albums of the year. Includes EPs!

  1. Slime Season 3 - Young Thug

  2. Skin - Flume

  3. The Colour in Anything - James Blake

  4. Divide & Conquer - What So Not [EP]

  5. I'm a Piece of Shit - Father

  6. Coloring Book - Chance the Rapper

  7. Don't You - Wet

  8. Konnichiwa - Skepta

  9. ANTI - Rihanna

  10. Bloom - RÜFÜS DU SOL

  11. Escapism II - Sam Gellaitry [EP]

  12. Blind - Leon Power [EP]

  13. Yours - SG Lewis [EP]

  14. Radical $uicide - $uicideBoy$ [EP]

  15. Warm On A Cold Night - HONNE

  16. Views - Drake

Notable releases:

  • Aa - Baauer
  • Atrocity Exhibition - Danny Brown
  • untitled unmastered - Kendrick Lamar
  • Blonde - Frank Ocean
  • How To Be A Human Being - Glass Animals
  • Prima Donna - Vince Staples [EP]
  • The Sun's Tirade - Isaiah Rashad
  • JEFFERY - Young Thug
  • Hours Spent Loving You - Sango, Xavier Omär
  • (m)edian - Ta-ku, Wafia [EP]
  • Blank Face LP - ScHoolboy Q
  • Cozy Tapes Vol. 1: Friends - A$AP Mob
  • Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight - Travi$ Scott
  • The Life of Pablo - Kanye West
  • Warlord - Yung Lean

Best Tracks of 2016:

Listen to the Spotify playlist.

BEST NEW ARTISTS OF 2016:

My favorite new (or newish) artists that blew up this year.

  1. NAO
  2. Gallant
  3. dvsn
  4. Anderson .Paak
  5. Kaytranada
  6. Rich Chigga
  7. Mura Masa
  8. Ekali
  9. Aminé
  10. Russ
  11. SG Lewis
  12. RÜFÜS DU SOL
  13. HONNE
  14. Wet
  15. Lil Yachty
  16. Isaiah Rashad