2016 – Year In Music So Far

ByBrian Murnion

Here are 20 tracks I’ve enjoyed since the beginning of 2016. Hastily, they’ve been ranked. David Bowie and Kanye West both made this initial list with two tracks each, but will they make the final list at the end of the year?

1. Ultralight Beam – Kanye West

2. Like Only Lovers Can – Tindersticks

3. I Can’t Give Everything Away – David Bowie

4. untitled 06 | 06.30.2014 – Kendrick Lamar

5. I Have Been to the Mountain – Kevin Morby

6. X-Communicate – Kristin Kontrol

7. Low Burn – Underworld

8. Above My Head – Lou Doillon

9. No More Parties in LA – Kanye West

10. Car – Porches

11. Laser Gun (feat. Mai Lan) – M83

12. Lazarus – David Bowie

13. Fickle Sun (III) I’m Set Free – Brian Eno

14. Sinister – Frankie Cosmos

15. Summer Sixteen – Drake

16. Ritual Spirit – Massive Attack & Azekel

17. Closing Shot – Lindstrom

18. Xanny Family – Future

19. Dust – Parquet Courts

20. Work (feat. Drake) – Rihanna

Brian Murnion

Brian Murnion is a filmmaker, creative director, poet, and self-proclaimed intellectual scrub from Billings, Montana. He spends an unreasonable amount of time obsessing over the connective tissue between music, film, literature, and whatever else seems culturally or aesthetically significant at any given moment. His curation process is equal parts curiosity, fixation, and blind luck, driven by the irrational hope that brilliance is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the chaos.

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