RECOMMENDED LISTENING EXPERIENCES, 50% of the Way Through 2016

*Heavy leaning on ya.

BOLDED: What are you waitin’ for? This is the shit.

#Not really 2016, but late-breaking, maybe.

 *Aesop Rock: The Impossible Kid

*Allen, J.D.: Americana

*Angry Angles: Angry Angles

*Bajakian, Aram: Music Inspired by the film “The Color of Pomegranates”

*Beyonce: Lemonade

*Bombino: Azel

*Booker, James: Bayou Maharajah (film)

Bowie, David: Blackstar

Bradley, Charles: Changes

Braxton, Anthony: 3 Compositions [EEMHM] 2011

*Chance the Rapper: Coloring Book

Childbirth: Women’s Rights

Coathangers: Nosebleed Weekend

Cook, Elizabeth: Exodus of Venus

Dalek: Asphalt for Eden

DeJohnette, Jack: In Movement

Del McCoury Band: Del and Woody

Denny, Sandy: I’ve Always Had a Unicorn–The Acoustic Sandy Denny

*Dylan, Bob: Fallen Angels

Fulks, Robbie: Upland Stories

Garbage: Strange Little Birds

*Hogberg, Anna: Anna Hogberg Attack

Konono N°1 and Batida: Konono N°1 meets Batida

*Kool and Kass: Barter 7

*Iyer, Vijay, and Wadada Leo Smith: A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke

Lamar, Kendrick: Untitled Unmastered

Lewis, Linda Gail: Heartache Highway

Lynn, Loretta: Full Circle

*#McPhee, Joe, and Paal Nilssen-Love: Candy

*Mexrissey: No Manchester

*Moondoc, Jemeel, and Hilliard Greene: Cosmic Nickolodeon

*Morrison, Van: It’s Too Late to Stop Now…Volumes II, III, IV

Oddissee: Alwasta

*Open Mike Eagle: Hella Personal Film Festival

*Parquet Courts: Human Performance

The Pedrito Martinez Group: Habana Dreams

Professor Longhair: Live in Chicago

Pusha T: Darkness Before Dawn

Reed, Blind Alfred: Blind Alfred Reed–Appalachian Visionary

Rihanna: Anti

Rollins, Sonny: Holding Down the Stage—Road Shows, Volume Four

Stetson, Colin: Sorrow—A Reimagining of Gorecki’s Third Symphony

Tacocat: Lost Time

Threadgill, Henry: Old Locks and Irregular Verbs

*Toussaint, Allen: American Tunes

*Various Artists: Music of Morocco–Recorded by Paul Bowles, 1959

*#Various Artists: Original Cast Recording of Hamilton

*Various Artists: Soul Sok Sega–Sega Sounds from Mauritius

*Veloso, Caetano, and Gilberto Gil: Dois Amigos, Um Século de Música–Multishow Live

White Lung: Paradise

*Williams, Saul: Martyr Loser King

Wills, Bob, and the Texas Playboys: Let’s Play, Boys–Rediscovered Songs from Bob Wills’Personal Transcriptions

Wussy: Forever Sounds

Yoni & Geti: Testarossa

#Ze, Tom: Vira Lata na Via Lactea