Best album of 2016 secondo DeBaser.

"'A Moon Shaped Pool' is a huge step forward from the dim 'The King Of Limbs,' bringing us back to Radiohead in an incredible state of compositional grace." GrantNicholas

Stage Four thus becomes a testament in the melodic hues typical of Touché Amoré’s post-hardcore. ZeroKanada

David Bowie’s Blackstar gave us a stratospheric farewell. Ugly

A beautiful beach, a sunset on the horizon. And "Ivy" playing in the background. A perfect life. 2000

"The new 'Head Carrier' marks an important handover at the producer's booth..." GrantNicholas

He comes out with this Blackstar... it has been talked about as a masterpiece of innovation and music of the future. Ancora D'Oro

I was left speechless like one of your dear fish listening to the 50 tracks from films between the late 60s and mid-70s. Buzzin' Fly

Car Seat Headrest... would be the soundtrack of these situations, of mine, of yours, and of their situations. kloo

The essence is captured in this prophetic phrase. Escaping and extracting extrasensory perceptions seem like the solution through the whirlwind tunnel conceived by the equally twisted mind of Michael Gira. ZeroKanada

Skeleton Tree is a naked album that brings us all into play and involves us all. sotomayor

Put on a good pair of headphones, close your eyes, and start 8 (circle). The beauty of this track is worth purchasing the album and even the time spent trying to understand it. voiceface

Third Law: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Buzzin' Fly

Dark priestess conducts a black ritual born from an exasperated, angst-ridden experimentation. Buzzin' Fly

Tibet is in dazzling form: he is as malevolent and esoteric as in his best times, and his creative vein doesn’t seem exhausted. caesar666

"Angel Olsen is thirty years old but sings like a forty-five-year-old: when she whispers, she instills an oleaginous malice; when she controls herself, she has a transparent opacity; when she shrieks, she is captivating." Almotasim

Anderson .Paak has become both a catalyst for positive vibes and an almost unchallenged King Midas of contemporary black music and beyond. Loconweed

"Signals launched into the cosmos like young cosmic messengers, but with an ever-deepening awareness that this layered symphony... is launched like a probe towards the infinite sensitive inner universe of the listener." Buzzin' Fly

Hall has no qualms about showing his fragility, and in "Aphasia" he passionately recounts the problems he had as a child with expressing himself. Ociredef86

"Evocative is the key word of this captivating work by the prolific Danish artist øjeRum." JonatanCoe

This album, or rather, this book of sound poems emanates the sensation of wind lashing the dry face, words eaten by the air. Marysid

The new American Football is ugly. It doesn’t make sense to exist. MikiNigagi

The German musician and producer conducts a symphony in 10 movements, exploring an electronic galaxy in contact with acoustic signals from a neoclassical parallel universe. Buzzin' Fly

One morning this sadness will fossilize. Sullenboy

Have I already mentioned it’s a miraculous album? That to return after sixteen years and still sound so fresh and classy, you need to be a bit of a genius? MikiNigagi

The album is marked by a sense of inadequacy and loneliness (many lyrics hint at sexual discrimination). RinaldiACHTUNG

Rome East is music for a nighttime party in some apartment room in the middle of nowhere. HOPELESS

"This rapper and this record bring originality in spades." AronnePiperno

"Leave Me Alone" is an album that exudes instinctiveness, simplicity, fun, and healthy goofing around. Loconweed

BEST THING THAT CAME OUT IN 2016, OF MY HEART! kloo

Once again, J. Cole has demonstrated that it’s possible to create a good hip-hop album without necessarily catering to current trends. Sadist

"Wounds is not a free fall into an abyss ... but rather, the slow exploration of a cold and dark cave where we hold an oil lamp that emits a faint light." Fiddler

If J Mascis’s solos were a human being, they would be Mr. Clean, but black with afro hair, moving like Ibrahimovic when he celebrates with his arms wide and with Batman’s voice from the Nolan films. MikiNigagi

16 tracks that you listen to and start wondering when the bad ones will come, then you realize the album is over. Loconweed

"Kodama is also a concept album, centered on the confrontation between the natural world and the human world; inspired by the animated film Princess Mononoke." Galensorg

Mental harassment in the cyber-web, you cannot close your eyes where the frequencies make your neurons boil; NNNNNNNNNNNOIZE!! degiornalai

An album that can remind one of the sounds of Elephant Six and the intimacy of bands like Eric’s Trip and/or The Microphones, with a strong and decisive emo spirit. kloo

There is only one possibility to escape the repetitive universe of Metropolis, and the solution lies in the unknown that watches over us. ZeroKanada

Just a few seconds to catch my attention, I rush to ask for explanations but nature is stronger than me. aleradio

He did not expect to write what is probably one of his best albums, if not the best, in that vast and ever-growing discography. sotomayor

Porches is lo-fi, bringing back a basic use of the synth in its disco-funk deviation, the bass lies beneath the atmospheric layer and hypnotizes the tired limbs. kloo

The latest effort by the Texans is a multifaceted CD, of great studio work on sounds and silences, but which leaves the doubt of being an exercise in style rather than a real and successful evolution. Hellring

We are heading to New York and diving into a Lo-Fi world, not too far from Krill, Pinegrove, or Ovlov. kloo

Orchestral green folk played by enlightened penguins on a pink vinyl spinning, scented by a delicate Canterbury dew. Buzzin' Fly

the seven compositions present in Blackstar struggle to accept the title of songs. They seem more like seven mini suites. stampaestera3

"Sounds slowly shape matter in a cyclical natural movement of the elements whose voice transfigures into an anthem to the silent contemplation of a dark sense of pleasure." Buzzin' Fly

Exploding In Sound never disappoints, and once again they have managed to release a masterpiece that will be talked about animatedly in 10-15 years. kloo

How great would it be if Fugazi and Slint formed a superband, maybe integrating bits and pieces from the NY and Massachusetts scene! kloo

I don’t believe the work felt the need to be revamped in a “modern” key. noveccentrico

The album contains seventeen songs, but none of these seem to be fillers. sotomayor

The music flows fluidly and cathartically: we are literally projected into an astral journey beyond space and time towards unknown spacetime dimensions. caesar666

Empty highways surrounded by an endless black, few but blinding lights that aid sleep on these straight paths. kloo

An ancient pipe organ from a French church upholds in the mysterious darkness pieces of life. Buzzin' Fly

They feed on quirky lo-fi like only Pavement can afford, and then they thrive on repetition à-la The Fall, Velvet Underground, Television. kloo

Atmosphere between the mystical, industrial abstractions struck by ambient radiation offspring of shattered post-punk alembics. Buzzin' Fly

"Ghosts as fetishes implanted in the mind, natural bearers of repressed and suffocated anxieties." JonatanCoe

You can lose yourself in these dark yet light and dreamy atmospheres, and then reflect your face in the eyes of an unknown person and then magically dissolve into thousands of pieces inside shadows of all colors. sotomayor

Their influences are multiple and shapeshifting like a Lovecraftian monster. kloo

After years of rigor and severity, the author is heading towards more melodic, rhythmic dimensions, in a word: catchy. mementomori

When you press play, the sensation is that of being in a kind of secret garden where nature is alive and lush. dreamwave000

Two Inch Astronaut stumble but never fall, they shout but never push beyond the line of pop. kloo

Peaer are Peaer and nothing more! kloo

Sound fragments in search of their story, of their exact placement in a blind mosaic, without an image on which to reconstruct themselves. Buzzin' Fly

Finn Andrews’ stunning vocals and sick lyrics remain the star around which the band’s sound grows and settles. GrantNicholas