Obscure Sound presents the top ten albums of 2016.
New Tracks
The Top 20 kicks off with albums #11 to #20 taking the spotlight.
The top albums of 2016, with albums #21 to #30 featured.
Albums #31 to #40 are covered as we continue the top 50 albums of 2016.
We feature the top 50 albums released in 2016, starting with numbers 41 to 50.
“MY 45” is the debut single from multi-instrumentalist Lane Mueller, aka Candy Cigarettes. He dropped his debut full-length this past May, which is one of the more impressive introductions this year. The
Based out of New Hamburg, Canada, Jon Parks crafts what he calls “pensive pop music”, a good fit for “fans of Belle and Sebastian, David Bowie, Wilco or Ron Sexsmith.” The chamber-pop
Arcade Velocity is an industrial-tinged electronic-pop project, whose new track “November Drive” recalls Depeche Mode’s ability to juggle twinkling synth work with darker-set atmospheric and vocal tones. The project, formed by Albin
New Albums
A stellar new EP from Chicago dream-pop act Snowcuffs, Sweet Gravity envelops across both bursting guitar charisma and lush synth beauty. Showing
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Pol Sembrano consumes with a self-titled synth-pop success of an album, seamlessly balancing hooky immediacy and emotional depth. The Seattle-based Filipino-American artist
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Borough 6 serves as a hauntingly inventive ode to the sixth borough, where Matthew Mirliani explores a vast landscape of ambient, atonal
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Edinburgh-based composer and pianist Ryoka Hagiwara debuts with ICHI, a solo piano album navigating fleeting memory and fragile identity through a striking
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