I haven't gone to bed yet (it's 7:37AM right now); just reading and thinking and reading and writing and more thinking. So, I decided I will post my top albums of 2016 up. Why the fuck not? I've been working on it and finalized it earlier this morning. My list reminds me that, despite having expanded my tastes in music over the last 10 years beyond just hip hop, jazz, and R&B, I still am pretty much beholden to that holy trifecta of contemporary black music. My list. In order. For your eyes (all 10 of you, LOL):
1. Solange - A Seat at the Table
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Jack DeJohnette/Matthew Garrison/Ravi Coltrane - In Movement
4. Kaytranada - 99.9%
5. Beyonce - Lemonade
6. Kendrick Lamar - untitled. unmastered.
7. Jeff Parker - The New Breed
8. ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP
9. Josef Leimberg - Astral Projections
10. Common - Black America Again
11. dvsn - SEPT 5TH
12. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
13. James Blake - The Colour in Anything
14. Elzhi - Lead Poison
15. Maxwell - blackSUMMERS'night
Honorable Mentions:
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution
Theo Croker - Escape Velocity
Vince Staples - Prima Donna EP
Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith - A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Rihanna - ANTI
Yussef Jamaal - Black Focus
Jamire Williams - /////EFFECTUAL
I really, really wanted Emily's D+Evolution in the list instead of in HMs, but I guess it was not meant to be. Lead Poison might be the most slept-on album of 2016.
Last note: I may do some write-ups for these and post them over on my Medium page. Please check that out.
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