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2016 was an odd year for music and like many creative things across the board, it is selective.
In keeping with tradition, our correspondents Le-La Cloutier and RICH D SMOOV have unleashed their favorite albums of the year.
Le-La's picks:
1.Glass Animals:
How to be a Human Being
2. Beyonce:
Lemonade
3. The Weeknd: Starboy
4. Childish
Gambino: Awaken, My Love!
5.The Avett
Brothers: True Sadness
6. Miike Snow: iii
7. Saint Motel:
saintmotelevision
8. Kings of Leon:
Walls
9. The Shelters:
The Shelters
10. Flume: Skin
RICH D SMOOV's list as broken down by his two favorite genres-- metal and hip-hop.
1. Inquisition: Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond
The Celestial Zenith.
2. Oranssi Pazuzu: Varahtelija
3. Wormrot: Voices
4. Anaal Nathrakh: The Whole Of The Law
5. Nails: You Will Never Be One Of Us
6. Sex Prisoner: Tannhauser Gate
7. Asphyx: Incoming Death
8. Destroyer666: Wildfire
9. Deafeated Sanity: Dharmata
10. The Dillinger Escape Plan: Dissociation
Honorable Mention: Vermin Womb: Decline
Top 5 Hip Hop Albums Of The Year In No Particular Order:
A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here...Thank You 4
Your Service
Czarface: A Fistful Of Peril
Apathy: Handshakes With Snakes
Masta Ace: The Falling Season
Run The Jewels : RTJ3
Honorable Mention: Craig G: I Rap And Go Home
