1. Eponym, SFM-Steve Fulton Music
2. We Got It From Here …, A Tribe Called Quest
3. Idaho Ho Ho Vol. 7, Various Artists
4. You Want It Darker, Leonard Cohen
5. Blue and Lonesome, Rolling Stones
6. 22, A Million, Bon Iver
7. Blurryface, Twenty One Pilots
8. Hardwired … To Self-Destruct, Metallica
9. Cleopatra, The Lumineers
10. Signs of Light, The Head and the Heart
RECORD EXCHANGE 2016 STAFF PICKS: MICHAEL
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Michael’s picks:
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
HAYES CARLL
Lovers & Leavers
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
PARQUET COURTS
Human Performance
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO
Burn Something Beautiful
PAUL SIMON
Stranger To Stranger
ROKIA TRAORE
Ne So
JOSHUA REDMAN & BRAD MEHLDAU
Nearness
BLACK MOUNTAIN
IV
JACK DEJOHNETTE, MATTHEW GARRISON & RAVI COLTRANE
In Movement
RECORD EXCHANGE 2016 STAFF PICKS: JIL
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Jil’s picks:
DAVID BOWIE
Blackstar
LEONARD COHEN
You Want It Darker
AKA BELLE
I Hear It Now
THE JAYHAWKS
Paging Mr. Proust
SHOVELS & ROPE
Little Seeds
ROKIA TRAORE
Ne So
NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS
Hell Or High Water Soundtrack
CASE/LANG/VEIRS
Case/Lang/Veirs
ELDOPAMINE
Sounds Like A Reasonable Thing For A Band To Play
SLEEPY SEAHORSE
Frienditions
RECORD EXCHANGE 2016 STAFF PICKS: ELIZABETH
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Elizabeth’s picks:
BLACK MOUNTAIN
IV
CHAIRLIFT
Moth
DANIEL KERR
Don’t Die
DEDICATED SERVERS
After The Party
THE FANTASTIC NEGRITO
The Last Days Of Oakland
IDYLTIME
Rimrock Country
KARL BLAU
Introducing Karl Blau
PARKER MILLSAP
The Very Last Day
PORCHES
Pool
QUAKER CITY NIGHT HAWKS
El Astronauta
RECORD EXCHANGE 2016 STAFF PICKS: ERIC
Tis the season for year-end best-of lists, and The Record Exchange is pleased to bring you our 2016 Staff Picks!
Here’s Eric’s picks:
SAMIYAM
Animals Have Feelings
DANNY BROWN
Atrocity Exhibition
JAMES BLAKE
The Colour In Anything
ASH KOOSHA
I AKA I
GASLAMP KILLER
Instrumentalepathy
KNEEBODY AND DAEDELUS
Kneedelus
PLAID
The Digging Remedy
MNDSGN
Body Wash
NXWORRIES
Yes Lawd!
BADBADNOTGOOD
IV