Originally Posted by Exo

Alright. F*ck this. I'm doing the list. I'll be finding new albums from this year for the next 8 months so let's get this over with while it's still relevant. I hate numerical ranking so these will be broken down into categories with a best of the best section. I'm including EPs. Here we go.

Exo's Best of 2016 Pile

Albums I loved that will bite your face off

Show Me the Body - Body War
Swans - The Glowing Man
Gorguts - Pleiades Dust
Krallice - Hyperion
Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us
JAMBINAI - A Hermitage
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Oathbreaker - Rheia
Swain - The Long Dark Blue
Creepoid - Burner
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
Street Sects - End Position
Animals as Leaders - The Madness of Many

Hip Hop/Pop

Aesop Rock - The Impossible Kid
Anderson Paak. - Malibu
Chance The Rapper - Coloring book
L'Orange - The Life and Death of Scenery
Noname - Telefone
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered
RY X - Dawn
Kweku Collins - Nat Love
KAYTRANADA - 99%
ANOHNI - HOPELESSNESS
Dälek - Asphalt for Eden
A Tribe Called Quest - We got from Here...Thank You 4 Your service
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3
Mounika - Seagulls

Jazz and stuff that sounds Jazzy

Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus
Sarathy Korwar - Day to Day
Logan Richardson - Shift
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
Saib - Around the World
Mammal Hands - Floa
Papadosio - Pattern Integrities
Neil Cowley Trio - Spacebound Apes
Stu Hunter - The Migration
Donny McCaslin - Beyond Now

Solo Artists of all genres

Mick Harvey - Delirium Tremens
Esmé Patterson - We Were Wild
Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
David Bowie - Black Star
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN
Keaton Henson - Kindly Now
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
Ash Koosha - I AKA I
William Tyler - Modern Country
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Emma Ruth Rundle - Marked For Death
Mitski - Puberty 2
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
Nick Waterhouse - Never Twice
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch
Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris
Jherek Biscoff - Cistern
Brian Eno - The Ship

Everything else that was awesome that didn't fit into the four sections above

Big Thief - Masterpiece
DIIV - Is the Is Are
The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free
Flamingosis - Pleasure Palette
Imarhan - Imarhan
Kayo Dot - Plastic House On Base Of Sky
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity
The Most - At Once
Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
Stage Kids - Intra Mental
Camp Cope - Camp Cope
Mothers - When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired
Japanese Breakfast - Psychopomp
Plush - Please
Living Hour - Living Hour
Magic Shoppe - Wonderland
The Derevolutions - I Feel a Goo World
The Men - At Most
Touché Amoré - Stage Four

Okay. I think that's all. I may have missed one or two. Oh well. It's done. For those of you who think that's way too much and want a top 5, here you go. No order. These are my five favorite albums of the year.

Jherek Biscoff - Cistern
David Bowie - Black Star
Swans - The Glowing Man
Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities