Another great year of music. We lost two big artists: David Bowie and Leonard Cohen. They gave us a final gift: they released two great albums. I listened to a lot of music this year and it was very difficult make choices. This is a list (not a chart) of 100 Best Albums of this year. Click on the title to read more.
- Keaton Henson – Kindly Now
- A Singer of Songs – Fading
- Cyril Secq and Orla Wren – Branches
- Peter Holy – Peter Holy
- Mark Pritchard – Under The Sun
- Brian Case – Tense Nature
- Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
- Badbadnotgood – IV
- Valerio Tricoli – Clonic Earth
- Suuns – Hold/Still
- Colin Stetson – Sorrow
- Anotnymes – (For Now We See) Through A Glass Dimly
- Matt Elliott – The Calm Before
- Awir Leon – Giant
- Elise Melinand – Apophyllite
- David Bowie – Blackstar
- Laish – Pendulum Swing
- Petrels Jord
- Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
- Kevin Verwijmeren – Those Glorious Heights
- Carla Dal Forno – You Know What It’s Like
- Dead Light – Dead Light
- Raime – Tooth
- Olafur Arnalds – Island Songs
- Emma Pollock – In Search of Harperfield
- Gigi Masin – Plays Hazkara
- Offthesky – Silent Went The Sea
- Radian – On Dark Silent Off
- Glacis – Love, If You Love Me, Lie Beside Me Now
- Western Skies Motel – Settlers
- Rodeo – Dust Bowl
- Douglas Dare – Aforger
- The Eye of Time – MYHT I : A last dance for the things we love
- Alder & Ash – Psalms For Sunder
- Speck – Antiheart
- Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth
- Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld – Nerissimo
- Minor Victories – Minor Victories
- Andy Sott – Too Many Voices
- Orson Hentschel – Feed The Tape
- Pj Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Project
- Message to Bears – Carved From Tides
- Giulio Aldinucci – Goccia
- Solo Andata – In The Lens
- William Ryan Fritch – New Words for Old Wounds
- Galapaghost – I Never Arrived
- DM Stith – Pigeonheart
- Preoccupations – Preoccupations
- Trentemoeller – Fixion
- Tim Hecker – Love Streams
- Mary Lattimore – At The Dam
- Marching Church – Telling Like It is
- Dag Rosenqvist – Elephant
- Nonkeen – The Gamble
- Tangent – Collapsing Horizons
- Gonjasufi – Callus
- Adam Torres – Pearls to Swine
- Roly Porter – Third Law
- Shield Patterns – Mirror Breathing
- Nick Cave – Skeleton Tree
- Agoraphonia – Giulio Aldinucci & Francesco Giannico
- Enrico Coniglio – Astrura
- Aaron Martin & Leonard Rosado – In The Dead of Night When Everything is Asleep
- Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
- Psycho Kinder – The Psycho Kinder Tapes
- Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
- Lorenzo Senni – Persona
- Lakker – Struggle & Emerge
- Lowered – Arche (For Gongs)
- Maurizio Abate & Matteo Uggeri – Beyond Time
- Melt Yourself Down – Last Evenings on Earth
- Il Lungo Addio – Fuori Stagione
- Solar Bears – Advancement
- Christine Ott – Only Silence Remains
- Tape Loop Orchestra – Gi Straight to The Light of All That You Love
- Kuedo – Slow Knife
- OvO – Creatura
- Daughter – Not To Disappear
- In The Cities of Dust – Julia White
- Ed Carlsen – The ourney Tapes
- Pascal Pinon – Sundur
- meanwhile.in.texas – take Black Pills
- The Green Kingdom – Harbor
- Ouvala – Psychology of Colour
- Bruno Bavota – Out of the Blue
- Jozef van Wissem – When Shal This Bright Day Begin
- Ulan Bator – Abracadabra
- Eluvium – False Reading On
- Flying Horses – Tolt
- Futeisha – Alegrias Y Duelos De Mi Alma
- Deison – Any Time Now
- House of Wolves – House of Wolves
- Fogh Depot – Turmalinturm
- Massimo Discepoli & Daniel Barbiero – An Eclipse of Images
- Teleman – Brilliant Sanity
- Oico – A Colourless universe
- K.Lust – Liven
- Weval – Weval
- Junkfood – Italian Masters
- Tycho – Epoch
- Roberto Begini – Eidos
