- Parquet Courts – Human Performance (Rough Trade)
- Hinds – Leave Me Alone (Mom + Pop)
- Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing (Bayonet)
- Cate Le Bon – Crab Day (Drag City)
- Goon Sax – Up To Anything (Chapter Music)
- Burnt Palms – Back on My Wall (We Were Never Boring)
- The World – Managerial Material (It Takes Two)
- Lithics – Borrowed Floors (Water Wing)
- Naked Lights – On Nature (Castle Face)
- Chook Race – Around the House (Trouble in Mind)
- Omni – Deluxe (Trouble in Mind)
- Nots – Cosmetic (Goner)
- Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial (Matador)
Songs I Loved in 2016
- Parquet Courts – “Berlin Got Blurry” – Human Performance (Rough Trade)
- The World – “Managerial Material” – Managerial Material (It Takes Two)
- Frankie Cosmos – “Fool” – Next Thing (Bayonet)
- Thao & the Get Down Stay Down – “The Evening” – A Man Alive (Ribbon)
- Goon Sax – “Susan” – Up To Anything (Chapter Music)
- Cate Le Bon – “I’m a Dirty Attic” – Crab Day (Drag City)
- Burnt Palms – “Last Time” – Back on My Wall (We Were Never Boring)
- Hinds – “Easy” – Leave Me Alone (Mom + Pop)
- Omni – “Earrings” – Deluxe (Trouble in Mind)
- Naked Lights – “Hedges” – On Nature (Castle Face)
- Chook Race – “Sometimes” – Around the House (Trouble in Mind)
- Lithics – “Shees” – Borrowed Floors (Water Wing)
- Mind Spiders – “Running” – Prosthesis (Dirtnap)
- Car Seat Headrest – “Destroyed By Hippie Powers” – Teens of Denial (Matador)
- Mitski – “Happy” – Puberty 2 (Dead Oceans)
- Yoni & Geti – “Allegheny” – Testarossa (Joyful Noise)
- Real Numbers – “Frank Infatuation” – Wordless Wonder (Slumberland)
- Nots – “Cold Line” – Cosmetic (Goner)
- Julie Ruin – “Let Me Go” – Hit Reset (Hardly Art)
- Tim Presley – “Long Bow” – The Wink (Drag City)
- Mean Jeans – “Are There Beers in Heaven” – Tight New Dimension (Fat Wreck Chords)
- Jeff the Brotherhood – “Idiot” – Zone (Dine Alone)
- Hazel English – “I’m Fine” – Never Going Home (Marathon Artists)
- Lisa Prank – “Turn it Up” – Adult Teen (Father/Daughter)
- Eerie Wanda – “I Am Over Here” – Hum (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
- Devendra Banhart – “Fancy Man” – Ape in Pink Marble (Nonesuch)
- Brave Radar – “Moves in Time” – Lion Head (Fixture)
- Parrots – “Let’s Do It Again” – Los Niños Sin Miedo (Heavenly)
- Supermoon – “Witching Hour” – Playland (Mint)
