My Top 40 Music Albums of 2016

Here is a list of my top 40 favorite albums of 2016, along with my top 10 favorite albums from the 7 years prior. 

2016
40. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
39. The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You’ve Come To Expect
38. Chairlift - Moth
37. Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye
36. Local Natives - Sunlit Youth
35. Animal Collective - Painting With
34. Bloc Party - Hymns
33. Little Green Cars - Ephemera=
32. Bastille - An Act Of Kindness
31. Islands - Should I Remain Here at Sea?
30. Wilco - Schmilco
29. Plants and Animals - Waltzed In From the Rumbling
28. Okkervil River - Away
27 Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I)
26. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
25. Rogue Wave - Delusions of Grand Fur
24. Band of Horses - Why Are You OK
23. The Naked and Famous - Simple Forms
22. Grouplove - Big Mess
21. Weezer - Weezer
20. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
19. The Temper Trap - Thick As Thieves
18. Two Door Cinema Club - Gameshow
17. Ra Ra Riot - Need Your Light
16. Passenger - Young As The Morning, Old As The Sea
15. Blind Pilot - And Then Like Lions
14. Miike Snow - iii
13. Dr. Dog - The Psychedelic Swamp
12. Andrew Bird - Are You Serious
11. Sia - This Is Acting

10. Empire Of The Sun - Two Vines

9. Frightened Rabbit - Painting Of A Panic Attack

8. The Lumineers - Cleopatra 

7. The Avett Brothers - True Sadness

6. The Head And The Heart - Signs Of Light

5. Tegan And Sara - Love You To Death

4. The Strumbellas - Hope

3. Islands - Taste

2. Cloud Cult - The Seeker 

1. Radical Face - The Leaves

2015
1. Mowgli's - Kids In Love
2. Twenty One Pilots - Blurry Face
3. Matt And Kim - New Glow
4. Metric - Pagans In Vegas
5. Death Cab For Cutie - Kintsugi 
6. Belle And Sabastian - Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance
7. Walk Off The Earth - Sing It All Away
8. Mew - + - 
9. Decemberists - What A Terrible World, What A Wonderful World
10. Chvurches - Every Open Eye

2014
1. Future Islands - Singles
2. Passenger - Whispers
3. Bishop Allen - Lights Out
4. Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield
5. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Mended With Gold
6. Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow
7. Spoon - The Want My Soul
8. Foster the People - Supermodel
9. Broken Bells - After the Disco
10. Manchester Orchestra - Cope

2013
1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
2. Radical Face - Family Tree: The Branches
3. Twenty One Pilots - Vessel
4. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
6. Shout Out Louds - Optica
7. Crystal Fighters - Cave Rave
8. The Sounds - Weekend
9. Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
10. Little Green Cars - Absolute Zero

2012

1. Radical Face – The Family Tree: The Roots
2. Passion Pit - Gossamer
3. Mumford And Son – Babel
4. Miike Snow – Happy To You
5. Imagine Dragons – Night Visions

6. Two Door Cinema Club – Beacon
7. Metric – Sythetica
8. Dr. Dog – Be The Void
9. Of Monsters And Men – My Head Is An Animal
10. The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter

2011
1. Death Cab For Cutie – Codes And Keys
2. The Sounds – Something To Die For
3. Architecture In Helsinki – Moment Bends
4. Decemberists – The King Is Dead
5. The Strokes – Angles
6. The Head And The Heart – The Head And The Heart
7. Brett Dennen – Loverboy
8. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
9. I’m From Barcelona – Forever Today
10. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Departing

2010
1. The National – High Violet
2. Vampire Weekend – Contra
3. Shout Out Louds – Work
4. Mumford And Sons – Sigh No More
5. Mates Of State – Crushes
6. Dr. Dog – Shame Shame
7. Rogue Wave – Permalight
8. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
9. Matt & Kim – Sidewalks
10. Tokyo Police Club – Champ

2009
1. The Sounds – Crossing The Rubicon
2. Passion Pit – Manners
3. Metric – Fantasies
4. Animal Collective – Merryweather Post Pavilion
5. Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream
6. The Rural Alberta Advantage – Hometowns
7. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
8. We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
9. Islands – Vapours
10. Mew – No More Stories Are Told…