{"id":17452,"date":"2016-12-22T19:21:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=17452"},"modified":"2016-12-22T19:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T19:21:51","slug":"the-best-40-albums-of-2016-according-to-urban75-see-them-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-best-40-albums-of-2016-according-to-urban75-see-them-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The best 40 albums of 2016 according to urban75 – see them here"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

Once again, posters on the urban75 forums have been voting for their best albums of 2016, with a pretty interesting selection making the\u00a0list.<\/p>\n

Nominations were invited<\/a> at the beginning of December on the forums, with the winners being announced<\/a>\u00a0a few weeks later.<\/p>\n

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Huge thanks go to the poster belboid<\/a> for his hard work is counting and compiling the list, which is as follows:<\/p>\n

Best Album 2016<\/h2>\n
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  1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree<\/li>\n
  2. David Bowie Blackstar<\/li>\n
  3. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool<\/li>\n
  4. Leonard Cohen \u2013 You Want It Darker<\/li>\n
  5. PJ Harvey \u2013 The Hope Six Demolition Project<\/li>\n
  6. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service<\/li>\n
  7. Cavern of Anti-Matter: Void Beats \/ Invocation Trex<\/li>\n
  8. Mogwai – Atomic<\/li>\n
  9. Angel Olsen \u2013 My Woman<\/li>\n
  10. Handsome Family – Unseen<\/li>\n
  11. Ex-Easter Island Head – Twenty Two Strings<\/li>\n
  12. Richmond Fontaine – You Can’t Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To.<\/li>\n
  13. The Avalanches – Wildflower<\/li>\n
  14. Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – The Commandments According to SCAC<\/li>\n
  15. Huerco S – For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)<\/li>\n
  16. Anderson Paak – Malibu<\/li>\n
  17. Beyonc\u00e9 – Lemonade<\/li>\n
  18. Death Grips – Bottomless Pit<\/li>\n
  19. Romare – Love Songs: Part Two<\/li>\n
  20. Drive By Truckers – American Band<\/li>\n
  21. Kaytranda \u2013 99.9%<\/li>\n
  22. Diiv – Is This The Are<\/li>\n
  23. Gojira – Magma<\/li>\n
  24. Konono No1<\/li>\n
  25. Metallica – Hardwired to self destruct<\/li>\n
  26. Africaine 808 – Basar<\/li>\n
  27. Bon Iver – 22, A Million<\/li>\n
  28. Steven James Adams – old magick<\/li>\n
  29. Thee Oh Sees \u2013 A Weird Exits<\/li>\n
  30. BadBadNotGood – IV<\/li>\n
  31. eMMplekz – Rook to TN34<\/li>\n
  32. Steve Hauschildt, Strands<\/li>\n
  33. Black Angel Drifter – Black Angel Drifter<\/li>\n
  34. Bracken – High Passes<\/li>\n
  35. School of Seven Bells -SVIIB<\/li>\n
  36. Holy Fuck – Congrats<\/li>\n
  37. Michael Kiwanuka – Love And Hate<\/li>\n
  38. Gold Panda \u2013 Good Luck and Do Your Best<\/li>\n
  39. Hieroglyphic Being – The Disco’s Of Imhotep<\/li>\n
  40. Swans \u2013 The Glowing Man<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have to confess that there’s quite a few albums there I’ve never heard of (check out the thread<\/a> to view videos of all the acts, or to add your own comments), but for me there was only one winner this year: David Bowie: Blackstar.<\/p>\n