For the rest of the year, we’ll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2016 here on the KEXP Blog. You can also check out lists from staff and volunteers, plus check out KEXP Listener’s Top 90.3 Albums of 2016, too!
Chance The Rapper // photo by Dave Lichterman (view set)
John Gilbreath’s 2016 Top Ten Albums
| rank | artist | album | label |
| 1 | Steve Lehman | Selebeyone | Pi Recordings |
| 2 | David Bowie | Blackstar | ISO/Columbia |
| 3 | Leonard Cohen | You Want It Darker | Columbia |
| 4 | Chance The Rapper | Coloring Book | Self Released |
| 5 | Andrew Cyrille Quartet | The Declaration of Musical Independence | ECM |
| 6 | Kris Davis | Duopoly | Pyroclastic |
| 7 | Jaimeo Brown | Work Songs | Motema |
| 8 | Matt Wilson’s Big Happy Family | Beginning of a Memory | Palmetto |
| 9 | Ware & Shipp Duo | Live in Sant’Anna | AUM Fidelity |
| 10 | Baba Maal | The Traveller | Knitting Factory Records |
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