Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2016. Our next list is from DJ Alex.

#1   FLOTUS by Lambchop (Merge)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#2   Freetown Sound by Blood Orange (Domino)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#3   22, A Million by Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#4   Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Bad Seed)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#5   A Seat at the Table by Solange (Columbia)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#6   Teens of Denial by Car Seat Headrest (Matador)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#7   I Had a Dream That You Were Mine by Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam (Glassnote)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#8   Modern Country by William Tyler (Merge)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#9   You're Dreaming by Cactus Blossoms (Red House)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

#10   Puberty 2 by Mitski (Dead Oceans)
BUY: Reckless / Amazon

Deserved more recognition:
Big Business - Command Your Weather
Music Band - Wake Up Laughing
Fat White Family - Songs for our Mothers
The Men - Devil Music
 

More goodness from 2016:
Tom Brosseau - North Dakota Impressions
Parquet Courts - Human Performance
Haley Bonar - Impossible Dream
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
Wye Oak - Tween
Woods - The Other Side
The Pines - Above the Prairie
M. Ward - More Rain
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw 2
DJ Rashad - Afterlife
David Bowie - Blackstar
Beyonce - Lemonade
Lost Under Heaven - Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing