Thibault Maekelbergh

Best of 2016

Following my annual tradition below is a list of my (top 100) picks for the best musical releases of 2016. Sorted up to 50 and unsorted from 51, all including Spotify/Bandcamp link!

Sorted

  1. Floating Points - For Marmish Part II

  2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

  3. Radiohead - Spectre 7"

  4. Bonobo - Kerala

  5. VA - LateNightTales: Olafur Arnalds LP

  6. Cliff Martinez - The Neon Demon Soundtrack

  7. Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities

  8. Soulwax - Belgica Soundtrack

  9. Phillipi & Rodrigo - Karma / Gueto de Gent

  10. Kaytranada - 99.9%

  11. Anderson Paak - Malibu LP

  12. Avalon Emerson - Whities 006

  13. DJ Tennis - Divisions Chirality EP

  14. Floating Points - Kuiper

  15. Flume - Skin LP

  16. Osias Drexel - Did Sally Come Home Last Night ? 12"

  17. Frank Ocean - Blonde

  18. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered.

  19. Ry X - Dawn LP

  20. VA - DJ-Kicks Marcel Dettmann LP

  21. VA - When I Was 14 EP

  22. VA - Realm of Consciousness LP

  23. Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit EP

  24. Vokx - Whorebag Sally 12"

  25. Dyad - Fully Automated

  26. Katy B ft. Floating Points & Four Tet - Calm Down

  27. Four Tet - Randoms LP

  28. Nonkeen - The Gamble

  29. Eefje De Visser - Nachtlicht LP

  30. Eefje De Visser - Staan 7"

  31. Emika - Forever Never 12"

  32. Paleman - PLMN001

  33. Bazart - Echo

  34. Beyoncé - Lemonade

  35. Asa Moto - Stay Awake / Wanowan Efem 12"

  36. Âme - Fiori (Dixon Beat Edit)

  37. Huxley - Widow EP

  38. Astrid S - Astrid S LP

  39. Brassica - Tears I Can Afford (Bicep Remix)

  40. Degray - The Source 12"

  41. Charlotte de Witte - Trip (TWR72 Remix)

  42. Blawan - Communicat 1022 EP

  43. Isaac Tichauer - Higher Level (Bicep Remix)

  44. Kris Wadsworth - Infiltrator LP

  45. Jessy Lanza - Oh No LP

  46. James Blake - Timeless

  47. Randomer - Running Dry

  48. DeNiro - The Penal Colony 12"

  49. Emmanuelle - L'uomo d'affari / Italove 12"

  50. Florence + The Machine - Songs From Final Fantasy XV EP

Unsorted