Top Albums of 2016
1 |
72 |
David Bowie |
★ [Blackstar] |
Art Rock
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2 |
114 |
Frank Ocean |
Blonde |
Alternative R&B,
Neo-Soul
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3 |
125 |
Beyoncé |
Lemonade |
Contemporary R&B,
Pop
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4 |
167 |
Solange |
A Seat at the Table |
Neo-Soul
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5 |
285 |
Radiohead |
A Moon Shaped Pool |
Art Pop,
Art Rock,
Chamber Pop
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6 |
359 |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds |
Skeleton Tree |
Art Rock,
Singer/Songwriter
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7 |
505 |
Rihanna |
Anti |
Alternative R&B
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8 |
511 |
A Tribe Called Quest |
We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service |
Conscious Hip Hop,
Jazz Rap
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9 |
627 |
Angel Olsen |
My Woman |
Indie Rock,
Singer/Songwriter
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10 |
640 |
Leonard Cohen |
You Want It Darker |
Chamber Folk,
Singer/Songwriter
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11 |
777 |
Car Seat Headrest |
Teens of Denial |
Indie Rock
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12 |
805 |
Anderson .Paak |
Malibu |
Alternative R&B,
Neo-Soul
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13 |
832 |
Bon Iver |
22, A Million |
Art Pop
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14 |
916 |
Mitski |
Puberty 2 |
Indie Rock
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15 |
961 |
ANOHNI |
Hopelessness |
Art Pop,
Electropop
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16 |
981 |
Chance the Rapper |
Coloring Book |
Conscious Hip Hop,
Pop Rap
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17 |
1252 |
Danny Brown |
Atrocity Exhibition |
Experimental Hip Hop,
Hardcore Hip Hop
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18 |
1465 |
Kaytranada |
99.9% |
Alternative R&B,
Funky House
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19 |
1562 |
Kanye West |
The Life of Pablo |
Pop Rap
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20 |
1653 |
Blood Orange |
Freetown Sound |
Alternative R&B,
Synth Funk
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21 |
1961 |
Skepta |
Konnichiwa |
Grime,
UK Hip Hop
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22 |
2052 |
Jenny Hval |
Blood Bitch |
Ambient Pop,
Art Pop
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23 |
2278 |
PJ Harvey |
The Hope Six Demolition Project |
Alternative Rock,
Art Rock
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24 |
2290 |
Michael Kiwanuka |
Love & Hate |
Singer/Songwriter,
Soul
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25 |
2371 |
Sturgill Simpson |
A Sailor's Guide to Earth |
Alt-Country,
Country Soul
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26 |
2373 |
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard |
Nonagon Infinity |
Garage Rock,
Psychedelic Rock
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27 |
2387 |
Kate Tempest |
Let Them Eat Chaos |
Conscious Hip Hop,
Political Hip Hop,
UK Hip Hop
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28 |
2545 |
Parquet Courts |
Human Performance |
Indie Rock
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29 |
2617 |
Whitney |
Light Upon the Lake |
Indie Folk,
Indie Rock
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30 |
2660 |
The 1975 |
I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It |
Pop Rock,
Synthpop
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31 |
2696 |
James Blake |
The Colour in Anything |
Alternative R&B,
Art Pop
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32 |
2796 |
Huerco S. |
For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) |
Ambient
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33 |
2851 |
Kendrick Lamar |
untitled unmastered. |
Conscious Hip Hop,
Jazz Rap
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34 |
2927 |
Iggy Pop |
Post Pop Depression |
Alternative Rock
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35 |
2960 |
Childish Gambino |
Awaken, My Love! |
Funk,
Neo-Soul,
Psychedelic Soul
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Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: |
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Kevin Morby |
Singing Saw |
Folk Rock,
Singer/Songwriter
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The Avalanches |
Wildflower |
Plunderphonics
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Margo Price |
Midwest Farmer's Daughter |
Country
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Nicolas Jaar |
Sirens |
Ambient Pop,
Art Pop
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BADBADNOTGOOD |
IV |
Jazz Fusion,
Nu Jazz
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Savages |
Adore Life |
Post-Punk
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Weyes Blood |
Front Row Seat to Earth |
Psychedelic Folk
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Miranda Lambert |
The Weight of These Wings |
Contemporary Country
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Run the Jewels |
Run the Jewels 3 |
Hardcore Hip Hop
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Andy Shauf |
The Party |
Chamber Pop,
Indie Folk,
Singer/Songwriter
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Neko Case/k.d. lang/Laura Veirs |
case/lang/veirs |
Chamber Folk
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Jessy Lanza |
Oh No |
Alternative R&B,
Synthpop,
UK Bass
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Drive-By Truckers |
American Band |
Alt-Country,
Southern Rock
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Noname |
Telefone |
Conscious Hip Hop,
Jazz Rap
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Oranssi Pazuzu |
Varahtelija |
Black Metal,
Psychedelic Rock
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PUP |
The Dream is Over |
Pop Punk,
Post-Hardcore
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Young Thug |
JEFFERY |
Southern Hip Hop,
Trap
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The Radio Dept. |
Running Out of Love |
Indie Pop,
Synthpop
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith |
Ears |
Progressive Electronic
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DIIV |
Is The Is Are |
Dream Pop,
Post-Punk
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Gojira |
Magma |
Groove Metal,
Progressive Metal
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Triángulo de Amor Bizarro |
Salve discordia |
Indie Rock,
Noise Pop
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Lambchop |
FLOTUS |
Indietronica
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Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam |
I Had a Dream That You Were Mine |
Chamber Pop,
Indie Rock
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YG |
Still Brazy |
Gangsta Rap
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Wilco |
Schmilco |
Alt-Country,
Indie Rock
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Babyfather |
BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow |
Experimental Hip Hop
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Paul Simon |
Stranger to Stranger |
Art Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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Swans |
The Glowing Man |
Experimental Rock,
Post-Rock
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Cass McCombs |
Mangy Love |
Singer/Songwriter
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Metallica |
Hardwired...to Self-Destruct |
Heavy Metal
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Drake |
Views |
Contemporary R&B,
Pop Rap
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Touché Amoré |
Stage Four |
Screamo
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Lucinda Williams |
The Ghosts of Highway 20 |
Americana,
Country Rock,
Singer/Songwriter
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Ryley Walker |
Golden Sings That Have Been Sung |
Chamber Folk,
Psychedelic Folk,
Singer/Songwriter
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Tim Hecker |
Love Streams |
Ambient,
Glitch
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Isolation Berlin |
Und aus den Wolken tropft die Zeit |
Indie Pop
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KING |
We Are KING |
Contemporary R&B
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Pinegrove |
Cardinal |
Indie Rock
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Preoccupations |
Preoccupations |
Post-Punk
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The Last Shadow Puppets |
Everything You've Come to Expect |
Chamber Pop,
Indie Rock
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The Hotelier |
Goodness |
Indie Rock
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ScHoolboy Q |
Blank Face LP |
Gangsta Rap
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Frankie Cosmos |
Next Thing |
Twee Pop
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White Lung |
Paradise |
Punk Rock
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Inter Arma |
Paradise Gallows |
Death Doom Metal,
Sludge Metal
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Underworld |
Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future |
Progressive House
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Every Time I Die |
Low Teens |
Mathcore
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Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas |
Mariner |
Atmospheric Sludge Metal,
Post-Metal
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Maren Morris |
Hero |
Country Pop,
Pop Rock
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Esperanza Spalding |
Emily's D+Evolution |
Art Pop,
Jazz Fusion
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Teenage Fanclub |
Here |
Jangle Pop
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The Weeknd |
Starboy |
Alternative R&B,
Electropop
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Common |
Black America Again |
Conscious Hip Hop
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Anna Meredith |
Varmints |
Art Pop,
Progressive Electronic
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Thee Oh Sees |
A Weird Exits |
Garage Rock,
Psychedelic Rock
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Zeal and Ardor |
Devil Is Fine |
Avant-Garde Metal,
Spirituals
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La Femme |
Mystere |
French Pop,
Indie Pop
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Deftones |
Gore |
Alternative Metal,
Alternative Rock
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The Rolling Stones |
Blue & Lonesome |
Blues Rock,
British Blues
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Princess Nokia |
1992/1992 Deluxe |
Trap
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Nails |
You Will Never Be One of Us |
Grindcore,
Powerviolence
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Moderat |
III |
IDM,
Indietronica
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Goat |
Requiem |
Psychedelic Rock
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Bat for Lashes |
The Bride |
Art Pop
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Suede |
Night Thoughts |
Britpop
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Suuns |
Hold/Still |
Art Rock
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Kamaiyah |
A Good Night in the Ghetto |
Hip Hop
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Daughter |
Not to Disappear |
Art Pop,
Dream Pop
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21 Savage & Metro Boomin |
Savage Mode |
Southern Hip Hop,
Trap
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Japanese Breakfast |
Psychopomp |
Dream Pop,
Indie Pop
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Maxwell |
blackSUMMERS'night |
Contemporary R&B,
Neo-Soul
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Cobalt |
Slow Forever |
Atmospheric Sludge Metal,
Black Metal
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Shura |
Nothing's Real |
Dance-Pop,
Synthpop
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Autechre |
elseq 1-5 |
IDM
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Nao |
For All We Know |
Alternative R&B,
Electropop
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NxWorries |
Yes Lawd! |
Neo-Soul
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Yussef Kamaal |
Black Focus |
Jazz Fusion,
Jazz-Funk
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Ian William Craig |
Centres |
Ambient
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Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein |
Stranger Things OST [Volume 1 & 2] |
Synthwave,
Television Music
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Charles Bradley |
Changes |
Soul
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De La Soul |
And the Anonymous Nobody |
Conscious Hip Hop
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Glass Animals |
How to Be a Human Being |
Art Pop,
Indietronica
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The Dillinger Escape Plan |
Dissociation |
Mathcore
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Hinds |
Leave Me Alone |
Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
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Oathbreaker |
Rheia |
Atmospheric Sludge Metal,
Blackgaze
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The Lemon Twigs |
Do Hollywood |
Psychedelic Pop
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Roly Porter |
Third Law |
Dark Ambient
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Dinosaur Jr. |
Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not |
Alternative Rock
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Emma Ruth Rundle |
Marked for Death |
Dream Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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Isaiah Rashad |
The Sun's Tirade |
Conscious Hip Hop,
Southern Hip Hop
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Wild Beasts |
Boy King |
Art Pop,
Synthpop
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Equiknoxx |
Bird Sound Power |
Juke
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Julia Jacklin |
Don't Let the Kids Win |
Indie Folk,
Singer/Songwriter
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Shirley Collins |
Lodestar |
English Folk Music
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Julianna Barwick |
Will |
Ambient,
Ambient Pop
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Kano |
Made in the Manor |
Grime,
UK Hip Hop
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Tegan and Sara |
Love You to Death |
Synthpop
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Lady Gaga |
Joanne |
Pop Rock,
Pop Soul
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William Tyler |
Modern Country |
American Primitivism
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Steve Gunn |
Eyes on the Lines |
Folk Rock
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Warpaint |
Heads Up |
Dream Pop,
Neo-Psychedelia
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Frank Ocean |
Endless |
Alternative R&B,
Ambient Pop,
Art Pop
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Laura Mvula |
The Dreaming Room |
Art Pop
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Gold Panda |
Good Luck and Do Your Best |
IDM,
Microhouse
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School of Seven Bells |
SVIIB |
Dream Pop,
Synthpop
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Neurosis |
Fires Within Fires |
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
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Agnes Obel |
Citizen of Glass |
Chamber Pop,
Singer/Songwriter
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Flume |
Skin |
Glitch Pop,
Wonky
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Brian Eno |
The Ship |
Ambient
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Let's Eat Grandma |
I, Gemini |
Ambient Pop,
Art Pop,
Psychedelic Pop
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The Drones |
Feelin Kinda Free |
Art Rock
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Explosions in the Sky |
The Wilderness |
Post-Rock
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Beach Slang |
A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings |
Alternative Rock,
Punk Rock
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Kevin Gates |
Islah |
Pop Rap,
Southern Hip Hop
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The Fat White Family |
Songs for Our Mothers |
Art Punk,
Psychedelic Rock
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Get Well Soon |
Love |
Chamber Pop
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Metronomy |
Summer 08 |
Alternative Dance,
Indietronica,
Synthpop
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Jeff Rosenstock |
WORRY. |
Indie Rock,
Pop Punk,
Power Pop
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Elysia Crampton |
Demon City |
Latin Electronic,
UK Bass
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Kero Kero Bonito |
Bonito Generation |
Electropop
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Oren Ambarchi |
Hubris |
Krautrock
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Death Grips |
Bottomless Pit |
Abstract Hip Hop,
Industrial Hip Hop
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Noura Mint Seymali |
Arbina |
Moorish Music
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Hiss Golden Messenger |
Heart Like a Levee |
Americana,
Folk Rock
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Meilyr Jones |
2013 |
Art Pop,
Chamber Pop
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M83 |
Junk |
Synthpop
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Weezer |
Weezer [The White Album] |
Alternative Rock,
Power Pop
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Lydia Loveless |
Real |
Alt-Country,
Pop Rock
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D.D Dumbo |
Utopia Defeated |
Art Pop,
Indie Pop
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Jamila Woods |
HEAVN |
Alternative R&B,
Neo-Soul
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Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions |
Until the Hunter |
Dream Pop,
Psychedelic Folk
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The Comet Is Coming |
Channel the Spirits |
Jazz Fusion,
Nu Jazz,
Space Rock
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Bob Mould |
Patch the Sky |
Alternative Rock
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Aesop Rock |
The Impossible Kid |
Abstract Hip Hop
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Travis Scott |
Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight |
Trap
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Andy Stott |
Too Many Voices |
UK Bass
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Marissa Nadler |
Strangers |
Contemporary Folk,
Singer/Songwriter
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Leon Vynehall |
Rojus |
Deep House
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Ariana Grande |
Dangerous Woman |
Contemporary R&B,
Dance-Pop
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Juventud Juché |
Movimientos |
Art Punk,
Post-Punk
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Ka |
Honor Killed the Samurai |
Abstract Hip Hop,
Experimental Hip Hop
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Russian Circles |
Guidance |
Atmospheric Sludge Metal,
Post-Metal,
Post-Rock
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Denzel Curry |
Imperial |
Southern Hip Hop,
Trap
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