200 + 1: The Music Of 2016
Africaine 808, Basar [Golf Channel Recordings]
Africans With Mainframes [Heiroglyphic Being + Noleian Reusse], K.M.T. [Soul Jazz]
Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra, Afro-Haitian Experimental Orchestra [Glitterbeat]
Alpha 606, Afro-Cuban Electronics [Interdimensional Transmissions]
Oren Ambarchi, Hubris [Editions Mego]
Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Real Enemies [New Amsterdam]
A$AP Ferg, Always Strive And Prosper [RCA]
Asda, The Abyss [NoCorner]
Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, Oceanic Suite [Marlow Records]
Audacity, Hyper Vessels [Suicide Squeeze]
Babyfeather, “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow [Hyperdub]
Azealia Banks, Slay-Z [self-released]
Kenny Barron Trio, Book Of Intuition [Impulse!]
Beekman, Beekman Vol. 2 [Ropeadope]
Bent Shapes, Wolves Of Want [Slumberland]
Beyoncé, Lemonade [Parkwood Entertainment]
Big Ups, Before A Million Universes [Exploding In Sound]
BJ The Chicago Kid, In My Mind [Motown/UMG]
Black Bombaim & Peter Brotzmann [Shhpuma]
Black Milk & Nat Turner, The Rebellion Sessions [Computer Ugly]
Carla Bley/Andy Sheppard/Steve Swallow, Andando El Tiempo [ECM]
Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans [Outline]
Bombino, Azel [Partisan Records]
Brookzill!, Throwback To The Future [Tommy Boy]
Danny Brown, Atrocity Exhibition [Warp]
Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Work Songs [Motema Music]
Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter The PlusTet [Firehouse 12]
Uri Caine Trio, Calibrated Thickness [816 Music]
Will Calhoun, Celebrating Elvin Jones [Motema]
Car Seat Headrest, Teens Of Denial [Matador]
Causa Sui, Return to Sky [El Paraiso]
Cavern of Anti-Matter, void beats/invocation trex [Duophonic]
Chance The Rapper, Coloring Book [self-released]
The Chicago Plan, The Chicago Plan, [Clean Feed]
Chimurenga Renaissance, Girlz With Gunz [Glitterbeat]
Brandy Clark, Big Day In A Small Town [Warner Bros.]
The Coathangers, Nosebleed Weekend [Suicide Squeeze]
Avishai Cohen, Into The Silence [ECM]
Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker [Sony]
Kweku Collins, Nat Love [Closed Sessions]
Frankie Cosmos, Next Thing [Bayonet Records]
Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The Declaration Of Musical Independence [ECM]
Damana (Dag Magnus Narvesen Octet), Cornua Copiae [Clean Feed]
The Dead C, Trouble [Ba Da Bing!]
Deap Vally, Femejism [Nevado Music]
Death Grips, Bottomless Pit [Third Worlds]
Debo Band, Ere Gobez [FPE Records]
Jack DeJohnette, In Movement [ECM]
Olegario Diaz, Aleph In Chromatic [SteepleChase]
Whit Dickey / Kirk Knuffke, Fierce Silence [Clean Feed]
DJ Rude One, ONEderful [2RBR]
Pierre Dorge & New Jungle Orchestra, Ubi Zaa [SteepleChase]
Dave Douglas, Dada People [Greenleaf]
Dre Hocevar, Transcendental Within The Sphere Of Indivisible Remainder [Clean Feed]
Mark Dresser Seven, Sedimental You [Clean Feed]
Dressy Bessy, Kingsized [Yep Roc Records]
Drive-By Truckers, American Band [ATO Records]
Earprint, Earprint [Endectomorph]
Harris Eisenstadt, Old Growth Forest [Clean Feed]
Eskimeaux, Year Of The Rabbit [Double Double Whammy]
Family Atlantica, Cosmic Unity [Soundway]
The Field, The Follower [Kompakt]
Fire!, She Sleeps She Sleeps [Rune Grammofon]
Flatbush Zombies, 3001: A Laced Odyssey [Glorious Dead Recordings]
Zélia Fonseca, O Terceiro Olho da Abelha 9Yellowbird]
Michael Formanek / Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance [ECM]
Daniel Freedman, Imagine That [Anzic Records]
Free Nelson MandoomJazz, The Organ Grinder [RareNoise]
Fruit Bats, Absolute Loser [Easy Sound Recording Company]
Robbie Fulks, Upland Stories [Bloodshot]
Ras G, The El-Aylien Tapes [Leaving Records]
Gambari Band, Kokuma [Membran Media]
Giant Peach, Tarantula [Don Giovanni Records]
Bob Gluck [etc], Infinite Spirit: Revisiting Music Of The Mwandishi Band [self-released]
GoGo Penguin, Man Made Object [Decca Records France]
Brian Groder Trio, R Train On The D Line [Latham Records]
Los Hacheros, Bambulaye [Jacob Plasse]
Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life [Impulse!]
Mary Halvorson Octet, Away With You [Firehouse 12]
Handsome Family, Unseen [Loose Music]
PJ Harvey, The Hope Six Demolition Project [Island]
Alexander Hawkins & Evan Parker, Leaps In Leicester [Clean Feed]
The Heliocentrics, From The Deep [Now-Again Records]
The Fred Hersch Trio, Sunday Night At The Vanguard [Palmetto]
Hinds, Leave Me Alone [Mom + Pop]
Anna Högberg Attack, Anna Högberg Attack [Omlott]
Homeboy Sandman, Kindness For Weakness [Stones Throw]
HXLT, HXLT [Def Jam]
The I Don’t Cares, Wild Stab [Dry Wood Music]
Ethan Iverson, The Purity Of The Turf [Criss Cross]
Jigmastas, Resurgence Resurgence [BBE]
Julie Ruin, Hit Reset [Hardly Art]
Ka, Honor Killed The Samurai [Iron Works]
Matthew Shipp/Bobby Kapp, Cactus [Northern Spy]
Kaytranada, 99.9% [XL]
Allan Kingdom, Northern Lights [So Cold Records]
Aly Keïta, Kalo-Yele [Intakt Records]
Kel Assouf, Tikounen [Igloo Records]
Alicia Keys, Here [RCA]
The Knocks, 55 [Big Beat Records]
Kirk Knuffke [& Jesse Stacken], Satie [SteepleChase]
Konono No. 1, Konono No. 1 Meets Batida [Crammed Discs]
Kool A.D., Official [self-released]
Glenn Kotche / So Percussion, Drumkit Quartets [Cantaloupe Music]
Krakauer’s Ancestral Groove, Checkpoint [Table Pounding Records]
Julian Lage, Arclight [Mack Avenue]
La Sera, Music For Listening To Music To [Polyvinyl Record Co.]
Lady Gaga, Joanne [Interscope]
Kendrick Lamar, untitled unmastered [Aftermath/Interscope]
Law Holt, City [Soulpunk]
Okkyung Lee / Christian Marclay, Amalgam [Northern Spy]
Steve Lehman/Sélébéyone, Sélébéyone [Pi]
Jinx Lennon, Past Pupils Stay Sane [Septic Tiger]
Jinx Lennon, Magic Bullets Of Madness To Uplift Grief Magnets [Septic Tiger]
James Brandon Lewis Trio, No Filter [BNS]
L’Orange & Mr Lif, Life & Death Of Scenery [Mello Music]
Baaba Maal, Traveller [Knitting Factory]
Luísa Maita, Fio da Memória [Cumbancha]
Mantra Percussion / Michael Gordon: Timber Remixed [Cantaloupe Music]
Milton Marsh, The Music Of Milton Marsh Revisited Vol. 1 [Alankara Records]
Leyla McCalla, A Day For The Hunter, A Day For The Prey [JazzVillage]
Lori McKenna, The Bird & The Rifle [CN Records]
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, Otis Was A Polar Bear [Royal Potato Family]
Nick Millevoi, Desertion [Shhpuma Records]
Mr Fingers, Outer Acid EP [Alleviated]
Mr. Lif, Don’t Look Down [Mello Music Group]
Moksha, Beauty Of An Arbitrary Moment [Jazzland]
Heraldo do Monte, Heraldo do Monte [Biscoito Fino]
Moodymann, DJ-Kicks [!K7 Records]
Clara Moreno, Samba Esquema Novo De Novo [Far Out]
Maren Morris, Hero [Sony]
Murray, Allen & Carrrington Power Trio, Perfection [Motema]
Roy Nathanson & Friends, Nearness And You: Duets And Improvisations [Clean Feed]
Willie Nelson, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin [Sony]
Nisennenmondai, #N/A, [On-U Sound]
No Em Pingo D’Agua, Sambatologia [Biscoito Fino]
Nots, Cosmetic [Goner]
NxWorries, Yes Lawd! [Stones Throw]
Frank Ocean, Blond [Boys Don’t Cry]
Aruan Ortiz Trio, Hidden Voices [Intakt Records]
Anderson .Paak, Malibu [Steel Wool / OBE]
Jeff Parker, New Breed [International Anthem]
Aaron Parks, Groovements [Sundance]
Parquet Courts, Human Performance [Rough Trade]
Florian Pellissier Quintet, Cap De Bonne Esperance [Heavenly Sweetness]
Luis Perdomo, Spirits & Warriors [Criss Cross Jazz]
Pet Shop Boys, Super [x2 Recordings]
Ralph Peterson, Triangular III [Onyx/Truth Revolution]
Richard Poole / Marilyn Crispell / Gary Peacock, In Motion [Intakt]
Margo Price, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter [Third Man Records]
Psychic TV, Alienist [Dais Records]
Punkt3, Ordnung Herrscht [Clean Feed]
Quantic Presents Flowering Inferno, 1000 Watts [Tru Thoughts]
Isaiah Rashad, The Sun’s Tirade [Top Dawg]
Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau, Nearness [Nonesuch]
Renegades Of Jazz, Moyo Wangu [Agogo]
Eric Revis Trio [w/ Kris Davis and Gerald Cleaver], Crowded Solitudes [Clean Feed]
Rhythm Future Quartet, Travels [Rhythm Future Quartet]
Rihanna, Anti [Westbury Road Entertainment]
Jim Rotondi, Dark Blue [Smoke Sessions]
Rudy Royston, Rise Of Origin [Greenleaf]
Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balázs Pándi, Strength & Power [RareNoise]
Wanda Sá, Cá entre nós [Fina Flor]
Sao Paulo Underground, Cantos Invisiveis [Cuneiform]
Savages, Adore Life [Matador]
Scarcity Of Tanks, Ringleader Lies [Total Life]
Mikael Seifu, Zelalem [RVNG Intl.]
Noura Mint Seymali, Arbina [Glitterbeat]
Shabaka & The Elders, Wisdom Of Ancestors [Brownswood]
Paul Simon, Stranger To Stranger [Concord]
Sleigh Bells, Jessica Rabbit [Torn Clean]
Wadada Leo Smith, America’s National Parks [Cuneiform]
Sneaks, Gymnastics [Merge]
Snowboy & The Latin Section, New York Afternoon [Mark Cotgrove]
Elza Soares, The Woman at the End of the World [Mais Um Discos]
Solange, A Seat At The Table [Columbia]
Sonzeira, Tam Tam Tam Reimagined [Brownswood]
So Pitted, neo [Sub Pop]
Vince Staples, Prima Donna [Def Jam]
Robert Stillman, Rainbow [self-released]
Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor’s Guide To Earth [Atlantic]
Sun Ra / Merzbow, Strange City [Cold Spring]
Swet Shop Boys, Cashmere [Customs]
Tegan And Sara, Love You To Death [Warner Bros]
The Thermals, We Disappear [Saddle Creek]
Thug Entrancer, Arcology [Kemado/Mexican Summer]
A Tribe Called Quest, We got it from Here…Thank You 4 Your service [Epic]
Trio Da Paz [Lubambo/Matta/Fonseca], 30 [Zoho Music]
Ukandanz, Awo [Atypeek Music]
Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil, Dois Amigos, Um Seculo De Musica
David Virelles, Antenna EP [ECM]
Dan Weiss, Sixteen: Drummers Suite [Pi Recordings]
Kanye West, The Life Of Pablo [self-released]
Waco Brothers, Going Down In History [Bloodshot]
Greg Ward, Touch My Beloved’s Thought [Greenleaf Music]
Warehouse, super low [Bayonet]
White Lung, Paradise [Domino Recording Co]
Wussy, Forever Sounds [Shake It Records]
Eri Yamamoto Trio, Life [AUM Fidelity]
La Yegros, Magnetismo [Soundway]
Yoni & Getti, Testarossa [Joyful Noise]
– jazz, pop, avant: a jumping off point for explorations.
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