Best Albums of the Years: 2016

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Original Top 40

  1. Kayo Dot – Plastic House on Base of Sky
  2. Autechre – elseq 2
  3. Christian Fennesz & Jim O’Rourke – It’s Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry
  4. C Duncan – The Midnight Sun
  5. Sleigh Bells – Jessica Rabbit
  6. Katie Gately – Color
  7. Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
  8. Francis Dhomont – Le cri du Choucas
  9. Stefan Fraunberger – Quellgeister #2 ‘Wurmloch’
  10. Jonty Harrison – Voyages
  11. Daniel Wohl – Holographic
  12. John Wall – Muta Variations
  13. Claude Vivier – Kopernikus
  14. Chaya Czernowin – The Quiet: works for orchestra
  15. Cliff Martinez – The Neon Demon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  16. Ladyhawke – Wild Things
  17. The Natural History Museum – Attenborough
  18. Supersilent – 13
  19. Matmos – Ultimate Care II
  20. Fritz Hauser – Different Beat
  21. SPC ECO – All We Have Is Now
  22. Robin Foster – Anthropoid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  23. Clara Iannotta – A Failed Entertainment: Werke 2009–2014
  24. Zahn | Hatami | McClure – Veerian
  25. Bent Sørensen – Snowbells
  26. Richard Barrett – Music for cello and electronics
  27. Mark Korven – The Witch (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  28. Michael Moser – Antiphon Stein
  29. Seth Parker Woods – asinglewordisnotenough
  30. James O’Callaghan – Espaces tautologiques
  31. Oy – Space Diaspora
  32. Wendy Bevan – Rose and Thorn
  33. Necro Deathmort – The Capsule
  34. Maïa Vidal – You’re the Waves
  35. Kroy – Scavenger
  36. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
  37. Olga Neuwirth – Goodnight Mommy (Original Soundtrack)
  38. Bear McCreary – The Forest (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  39. Me and My Drummer – Love is a Fridge
  40. Mitski – Puberty 2

Revised Top 30​

  1. Kayo Dot – Plastic House on Base of Sky
  2. Autechre – elseq 2
  3. Christian Fennesz & Jim O’Rourke – It’s Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry
  4. Fia Fiell – A Hair, A Heap
  5. The Caretaker – Everywhere at the end of time – Stage 1
  6. Adam Basanta – from here to there in one straight line
  7. Fassine – Dialectik
  8. Bitch ‘n’ Monk – We Are Peering Over
  9. John Wall – 2005–14
  10. Sleigh Bells – Jessica Rabbit
  11. C Duncan – The Midnight Sun
  12. Katie Gately – Color
  13. Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
  14. John Williams – The BFG (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  15. Francis Dhomont – Le cri du Choucas
  16. Per Nørgård – Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6 [Oslo Philharmonic / Storgårds]
  17. Aurora [Aurora Aksnes] – All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend
  18. Stefan Fraunberger – Quellgeister #2 ‘Wurmloch’
  19. Þóranna Björnsdóttir – Tónlist fyrir þungt og létt andrúmsloft
  20. Rashad Becker – Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II
  21. Matmos – Ultimate Care II
  22. Jonty Harrison – Voyages
  23. Eivør, Peter Jensen, Danish Radio Big Band & Danish National Vocal Ensemble – At the Heart of a Selkie
  24. Daniel Wohl – Holographic
  25. Claude Vivier – Kopernikus
  26. Chaya Czernowin – The Quiet: works for orchestra
  27. Haruo Okada & Fabio Perletta – Genkai
  28. Cliff Martinez – The Neon Demon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  29. Galina Grigorjeva – Nature Morte
  30. Ladyhawke – Wild Things