Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2016

Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2016

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75.

Psychic Temple - III
May 6, 2016
Critic Score
80
2 reviews

69.

June 10, 2016
Critic Score
75
14 reviews

68.

March 4, 2016
Critic Score
78
19 reviews

The garbled way in which The Coral piece these disparate elements together creates an odd, timeless and cosmic music, buzzing with energy, and very much their own.

67.

June 3, 2016
Critic Score
77
21 reviews

It manages to top those two finely crafted albums. It's more streamlined in its playing, more confident in its writing, more determined in its mission.

64.

Gruff Rhys - Set Fire to the Stars
September 30, 2016
Critic Score
78
5 reviews

62.

July 8, 2016
Critic Score
82
11 reviews
There's an addictive, hypnagogic quality to this ghostly combination of ambient noise, treated vocals and bursts if static.

61.

January 22, 2016
Critic Score
77
13 reviews

60.

January 22, 2016
Critic Score
76
32 reviews

56.

September 27, 2016
Critic Score
84
36 reviews

Even as Atrocity Exhibition plumbs depths, Brown remains a savvy operator.

55.

Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith - Killer Road
September 2, 2016
Critic Score
65
5 reviews

54.

April 1, 2016
Critic Score
80
6 reviews

53.

January 8, 2016
Critic Score
76
29 reviews

50.

April 15, 2016
Critic Score
82
26 reviews

Superb third album ... The album is beautifully structured like this, with narrative threads and recurring thoughts picked up and passed from song to song. It's also self-referential but, crucially, never arch.

48.

May 6, 2016
Critic Score
81
22 reviews

47.

September 16, 2016
Critic Score
69
5 reviews

46.

June 17, 2016
Critic Score
80
25 reviews

It has a slightly transitory feel; a half-step back from those monolithic builds and whiplash grooves, gesturing towards something more contemplative and… well, “softer” feels the wrong word, but certainly weathered by the journey.

45.

February 5, 2016
Critic Score
81
11 reviews

44.

September 9, 2016
Critic Score
76
20 reviews

It may be OR’s best album yet, even if it doesn’t much sound like the albums immediately preceding it.

43.

July 8, 2016
Critic Score
76
26 reviews
As with its predecessor, the album cherry-picks from the past, but comes with a contemporary sheen. It's hard to imagine her bettering this.

42.

Brigid Mae Power - Brigid Mae Power
June 10, 2016
Critic Score
79
6 reviews
A hugely satisfying album.

39.

October 7, 2016
Critic Score
79
8 reviews

37.

April 8, 2016
Critic Score
80
28 reviews
For all its diverting technical backstory, for all our attempts to manoeuvre Tim Hecker into various neat genre boxes, ancient and modern, his music is ultimately ravishing in a way that transcends method and contest.

36.

September 30, 2016
Critic Score
82
25 reviews

Hval’s approach has always been equal parts instinctive, intellectual and whimsical, but Blood Bitch confirms her singular methodology is now at its most surgically precise and bold. In realising her uncontainable, bewildering ambitions, one might even suggest it represents Hval’s coming of age.

35.

January 22, 2016
Critic Score
76
28 reviews

It’s comforting and surprising, full of trad sounds electrified by the off-kilter vision of an artist whose recognition as one of Americana’s finest voices is long overdue.

34.

February 5, 2016
Critic Score
80
21 reviews

The Ghosts Of Highway 20 is vast, thoughtful and profound.

33.

April 29, 2016
Critic Score
82
18 reviews
This prolonged concentration has resulted in by far King Gizzard’s most cohesive record to date – a hyper-detailed punk opera that few of their peers have matched for intensity, ambition or sheer derangement.

32.

June 2, 2016
Critic Score
90
4 reviews

It's the interplay between the core duo, and between the American and African influences, that gives Wood/Metal its hypnotic pull.

31.

August 26, 2016
Critic Score
78
22 reviews

30.

August 20, 2016
Critic Score
86
42 reviews
The sprawling haziness still lingers, but the songs are sharper and studded with guests.

28.

June 17, 2016
Critic Score
81
29 reviews
This fruitful collaboration between k.d. Lang, Neko Case and Laura Veirs succeeds largely because it makes room for all three distinctive voices and songwriting styles, alongside sublimely blended three-way harmonies.

27.

November 4, 2016
Critic Score
80
13 reviews
As ever it's Collins' wonderfully unfussy voice that is the star.

26.

April 15, 2016
Critic Score
73
23 reviews

Since rising to attention with 2009's Me Oh My, Cate Le Bon has turned out four albums of arch, otherworldly guitar pop, of which Crab Day is surely the best yet.

Original Source: http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/introducing-end-year-uncut-special-98291
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