Erik Oldman’s Top 15 of 2016
David Bowie - Blackstar Faces of the Bog - Ego Death Labirinto - Gehenna Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker Polarizer - The Fall and the Swell Tribe Called Quest - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service Animals as Leaders - the Madness of Many Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation Esperanza Spalding - Emily’s D+Evolution Hiromi - Spark Haken - Affinity eighth blackbird - Hand Eye Virgil Donati - The Dawn of Time Snarky Puppy - Culcha Vacha
Honorable Mentions: Watchtower - Concepts of Math: Book 1 Dysrhythmia - The Veil of Control Explosions in the Sky - The Wilderness Butchered - Whatever, I Guess Varaha - Varaha EP Behold the Arctopus - Cognitive Emancipation Opeth - Sorceress Snow Burial - Victory in Ruin