Fopp's Best Albums of 2016

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Published: November 29, 2016 10:13 Source

# 52

HOPELESSNESS by ANOHNI

Album • May 06 / 2016 Art Pop Electropop Deconstructed Club

# 53

Golden Sings That Have Been Sung by Ryley Walker

Album • Aug 19 / 2016 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter Psychedelic Folk

# 54

MY WOMAN by Angel Olsen

Album • Sep 02 / 2016 Indie Rock Singer-Songwriter

# 55

Adore Life by Savages

Album • Jan 22 / 2016 Post-Punk

# 56

Wildflower by The Avalanches

Album • Jul 08 / 2016 Plunderphonics Neo-Psychedelia

# 57

Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not by Dinosaur Jr.

Album • Aug 05 / 2016 Alternative Rock Indie Rock Slacker Rock

# 58

Requiem by Goat

Album • Oct 07 / 2016 Psychedelic Rock

# 59

Love & Hate by Michael Kiwanuka

Album • Jul 15 / 2016 Soul Singer-Songwriter

# 60

Post Pop Depression by Iggy Pop

Album • Jan 22 / 2016 Alternative Rock

# 61

Keep Me Singing by Van Morrison

Album • Sep 30 / 2016 Singer-Songwriter Blue-Eyed Soul

# 62

The Ghosts of Highway 20 by Lucinda Williams

Album • Feb 05 / 2016 Americana Singer-Songwriter Country Rock

# 63

Heads Up by Warpaint

Album • Sep 23 / 2016 Dream Pop Neo-Psychedelia Indie Rock

# 64

Leave Me Alone by Hinds

Album • Jan 08 / 2016 Slacker Rock

# 65

The Waiting Room by Tindersticks

Album • Jan 22 / 2016 Chamber Pop

# 66

Stranger To Stranger by Paul Simon

Album • Jun 03 / 2016 Art Pop Singer-Songwriter

# 67

Take Me to the Alley by Gregory Porter

Album • May 06 / 2016 Vocal Jazz Soul Jazz

# 68

At Swim by Lisa Hannigan

Album • Aug 19 / 2016 Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk Chamber Folk

# 69

Blood Bitch by Jenny Hval

Album • Sep 30 / 2016 Art Pop Ambient Pop

# 70

Songs for Our Mothers by Fat White Family

Album • Jan 22 / 2016 Psychedelic Rock Art Punk

# 71

The Glowing Man by Swans

Album • Jun 17 / 2016 Post-Rock Experimental Rock

# 72

Gore by Deftones

Album • Apr 08 / 2016 Alternative Metal Alternative Rock

# 73

Why Are You OK by Band of Horses

Album • Jun 10 / 2016 Indie Rock

# 74

Crab Day by Cate Le Bon

Album • Apr 15 / 2016 Neo-Psychedelia

# 75

Chaosmosis by Primal Scream

Album • Mar 18 / 2016 Synthpop Alternative Dance

# 76

In Search of Harperfield by Emma Pollock

Album • Jan 29 / 2016 Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock

# 77

Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future by Underworld

Album • Mar 19 / 2016 Progressive House

# 78

Super by Pet Shop Boys

Album • Apr 01 / 2016 Synthpop House Dance-Pop

# 79

Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad by Billy Bragg + Joe Henry

Album • Sep 23 / 2016 Contemporary Folk American Folk Music

# 80

Let It Be You by Joan As Police Woman + Benjamin Lazar Davis

Album • Oct 21 / 2016 Indietronica

# 81

The Wilderness by Explosions In the Sky

Album • Apr 01 / 2016 Post-Rock

# 82

2 by The Gloaming

Album • Feb 26 / 2016 Irish Folk Music Chamber Folk

# 83

Minor Victories by Minor Victories

Album • Jun 03 / 2016 Shoegaze Post-Rock

# 84

New View by Eleanor Friedberger

Album • Jan 22 / 2016 Singer-Songwriter Indie Pop

# 85

void beats/invocation trex by Cavern of Anti-Matter

Album • Feb 19 / 2016 Krautrock Electronic

# 86

You Can't Go Back If There's Nothing to Go Back To by Richmond Fontaine

Album • Mar 18 / 2016 Americana Alt-Country

# 87

Malibu by Anderson .Paak

Album • Jan 15 / 2016 Neo-Soul

# 88

Transmission by Death In Vegas

Album • May 27 / 2016 Minimal Wave

# 89

Channel the Spirits by The Comet Is Coming

Album • Apr 01 / 2016 Nu Jazz Space Rock Jazz Fusion

# 90

Hit Reset by The Julie Ruin

Album • Jul 08 / 2016 Indie Rock

# 91

Red Earth & Pouring Rain by Bear's Den

Album • Jul 22 / 2016 Indie Rock Heartland Rock

# 92

Let Them Eat Chaos by Kae Tempest

Album • Oct 07 / 2016 UK Hip Hop Political Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop

# 93

Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds by Ólafur Arnalds

Album • Jun 24 / 2016 Downtempo

# 94

Boy King by Wild Beasts

Album • Aug 05 / 2016 Synthpop Art Pop New Rave

# 95

Strange Little Birds by Garbage

Album • Jun 03 / 2016 Alternative Rock

# 96

Earth by Neil Young + Promise of the Real

Album • Jun 24 / 2016 Folk Rock

# 97

Clear Shot by TOY

Album • Oct 28 / 2016 Neo-Psychedelia Indie Rock

# 98

Young as the Morning Old as the Sea (Deluxe) by Passenger

Album • Sep 23 / 2016

# 99

Hymns by Bloc Party

Album • Jan 29 / 2016 Synthpop Indietronica

# 100

Everything at Once by Travis

Album • Apr 29 / 2016 Pop Rock Post-Britpop