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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2016)

Individual staff lists

Andy's list

1. Swans – The Glowing Man (Young God)
2. Perturbator – The Uncanny Valley (Blood Music)
3. Avvenir – Natural Language (Safety Records)
4. Mannequin Pussy – Romantic (Tiny Engines)
5. Andrew Hung – The Greasy Strangler (Soundtrack) (Death Waltz)
6. Kindling – Galaxies (No Idea Records)
7. David Bowie – ? (Blackstar) ( ISO Records / Columbia)
8. Cliff Martinez – The Neon Demon Original Soundtrack (Milan Records)
9. Youth Code – Commitment to Complications (Dais Records)
10. New Shack – Eingang (Self-released)
11. Parquet Courts – Human Performance (Rough Trade)
12. The Casket Girls – The Night Machines (Graveface Records & Curiosities)
13. Oiseaux-Tempête – Unworks & Rarities (Sub Rosa)
14. Angel Olsen – My Woman (Jagjaguwar)
15. Wreck and Reference – Indifferent Rivers Romance End (Flenser Records)
16. Violent Magic Orchestra – Catastrophic Anonymous (Throatruiner Records)
17. Nadja – Sv (Essence Music)
18. American Football – LP2 (Polyvinyl)
19. Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness (Temporary Residence)
20. Kuba Kapsa Ensemble – Vantdraught 4 (Denovali Records)
21. SURVIVE – RR7349 (Relapse)
22. DTCV – Confusion Moderne (Xemu Records)
23. Heliotropes – Over There That Way (The End Records)
24. Rabid Flash Mob – Like a Riot (Self-released)
25. Anarchist Republic of Bzzz – United Diktaturs of Europe (Bzzz Records)

Cheryl's list

1. Alcest – Kodama (Prophecy Productions)
2. 40 Watt Sun – Wider than the Sky (Radiance Records)
3. Rome – The Hyperion Machine (Trisol Music Group)
4. Schammasch – Triangle (Prosthetic Records)
5. Wwdrujacy Wiatr – O turniach, jeziorach i nocnych szlakach (Werewolf Promotion)
6. Mesarthim – .- -... ... . -. -.-. . (Independent)
7. Metallica – Hardwired...to Self Destruct (Blackened Recordings)
8. Mare Cognitum – Luminiferous Aether (I, Voidhanger Records)
9. Tardigrada – Emotionale Ödnis (Eisenwald)
10. ColdWorld – Autumn (Cold Dimensions)
11. Woman is the Earth – Torch of Our Final Night (Init)
12. Borknagar – Winter Thrice (Century Media Records)
13. Mizmor – Yodh (Gilead Media)
14. Bölzer – Hero (Iron Bonehead Records)
15. Blood Incantation – Starspawn (Dark Descent Records)
16. Perturbator – The Uncanny Valley (Blood Music)
17. Cobalt – Slow Forever (Profound Lore)
18. Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder (Peaceville)
19. Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts (Peaceville)
20. Anaal Nathrakh – The Whole of the Law (Metal Blade Records)
21. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation (Party Smasher Inc.)
22. Germ – Escape (Prophecy Productions)
23. Deftones – Gore (Warner Music Group)
24. Ihsahn – Arktis. (Candlelight Records)
25. Imperium Dekadenz – Dis Manibvs (Season of Mist)

Kevin Fitzpatrick's list

1. Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression (Loma Vista Recordings)
2. David Bowie – ? (Blackstar) ( ISO Records / Columbia)
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed LTD.)
4. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker (Columbia)
5. Taylor Hawkins – KOTA e.p. (Independent)
6. Metallica – Hardwired...to Self Destruct (Blackened Recordings)
7. White Lung – Paradise (Domino)
8. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (XL Recordings)
9. Marillion – F.E.A.R. (Intact)
10. Pixies – Head Carrier (Pixies Music)
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway (Warner Bros.)
12. Tricky – Skilled Mechanics (K7)
13. Deftones – Gore (Warner Music Group)
14. Nevermen – Nevermen (Ipecac)
15. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service (Epic)
16. Giraffe Tongue Orchestra – Broken Lines (Party Smasher Inc.)
17. Bloody Hammers – Lovely Sort of Death (Napalm Records)
18. Descendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Epitaph)
19. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation (Party Smasher Inc.)
20. Gojira – Magma (Roadrunner)
21. Kaada & Patton – Bacteria Cult (Ipecac)
22. Cobalt – Slow Forever (Profound Lore)
23. Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder (Peaceville)
24. Melvins – Basses Loaded (Ipecac)
25. Esben and the Witch – Older Terrors (Season of Mist)

Loren's list

1. Big Eyes – Stake My Claim (Don Giovanni)
2. Arms Aloft – What a Time to Be Barely Alive (Red Scare Industries)
3. Toys That Kill – Sentimental Ward (Recess)
4. Shallow Cuts – Empty Beach Town (No Idea Records)
5. Low Culture – Places To Hide (Dirtnap)
6. Drakulas – Raw Wave (Dirtnap)
7. The Blind Shake – Celebrate Your Worth (Goner)
8. The Falcon – Gather Up the Chaps (Red Scare Industries)
9. Coathangers – Nosebleed Weekend (Suicide Squeeze)
10. Mikey Erg – Tentative Decisions (Don Giovanni)
11. Dean Ween Group – The Deaner Record (ATO)
12. Hakan – Hakan II (Drunken Sailor)
13. Sex Stains – Sex Stains (Don Giovanni)
14. Boilerman – Feel Ways About Stuff (86'd Records)
15. Hannahband – Quitting Will Improve Your Health (Blackwire Records/Lesstalk Records)
16. Real Numbers – Wordless Wonder (Slumberland Records)
17. Sims – More Than Ever (Doomtree)
18. Bullnettle – Bullnettle (Dirt Cult)
19. Crybaby – Drag Me Under (Square of Opposition)
20. Pkew Pkew Pkew – self-titled (Royal Mountain Records)
21. Attention – !Attention! (Tour Van Records)
22. The Interrupters – Say It Out Loud (Epitaph)
23. Spokenest – Gone, Gone, Gone (Drunken Sailor)
24. Mark Sultan – BBQ (In the Red Records)
25. Yeesh – Confirmation Bias (Tiny Engines)

Matt's list

1. David Bowie – ? (Blackstar) ( ISO Records / Columbia)
2. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (XL Recordings)
3. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service (Epic)

Nathan G. O'Brien's list

1. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service (Epic)
2. Rakta – III (Iron Lung)
3. Schoolboy Q – Blank Face (Top Dawg)
4. Anxiety – Anxiety (La Vida Es En Mus Discos Punk)
5. Timeless Truth – Cold Wave (Different Worlds)
6. Mommy – Songs About Children (Toxic State)
7. Planet Asia & DJ Concept – Seventy Nine (Coalmine Records)
8. Gag – America's Greatest Hits (Iron Lung)
9. Warpath – Pure Butter (Daily Concept)
10. Chroma – Cuerpos Dociles (La Vida Es En Mus Discos Punk)
11. Gensu Dean & Denmark Vessey – Whole Food (Mello Music Group)
12. Lumpy & The Dumpers – Huff My Sack (La Vida Es En Mus Discos Punk)
13. Ill Bill – Septagram (Uncle Howie)
14. Deny The Cross – Alpha Ghoul (Tankcrimes)
15. Czarface – A Fistful of Peril (Sliver Age Records)
16. Boilerman – Feel Ways About Stuff (86'd Records)
17. D.I.T.C. – Sessions (D.I.T.C. Studios)
18. D.I.T.C. – D.I.T.C. Studios (Slice of Spice)
19. Pure Disgust – Pure Disgust (Katorga Works)
20. Discourse – Megalomaniac (Crate Cartel)
21. Cracked Vessel – No Path (Hip Kid Records)
22. Bloody Monk Consortium – The Awakening (Bloody Monk Consortium)
23. Blood Pressure – Need to Control (Beach Impediment)
24. DJ Skizz – Cruise Control (Different Worlds)
25. Descendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Epitaph)
26. Dyke Drama – Up Against the Bricks (Salinas Records)
27. Zsa Zsa Sapian & Mutado Pintado – Musical Confrontation (Peasant Vitality)

Spyros Stasis's list

1. Swans – The Glowing Man (Young God)
2. Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä (Svart Records/20 Buck Spin)
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed LTD.)
4. Neurosis – Fires Within Fires (Neurot Recordings)
5. David Bowie – ? (Blackstar) ( ISO Records / Columbia)
6. Tim Hecker – Love Streams (4AD)
7. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service (Epic)
8. Sumac – What One Becomes (Thrill Jockey)
9. The Body – No One Deserves Happiness (Thrill Jockey)
10. Cobalt – Slow Forever (Profound Lore)
11. Lycus – Chasms (Relapse)
12. clipping. – Splendor & Misery (Sub Pop)
13. Matmos – Ultimate Care II (Thrill Jockey)
14. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch (Sacred Bones)
15. Dälek – Asphalt For Eden (Profound Lore)
16. Street Sects – End Position (Flenser)
17. Marissa Nadler – Strangers (Sacred Bones)
18. Various Artists – Okkyung Lee & Christian Marclay ? Amalgam (Northern Spy)
19. Virus – Memento Collider (Karisma Records)
20. Helen Money – Become Zero (Thrill Jockey)
21. Oren Ambarchi – Hubris (Editions Mego)
22. Angel Olsen – My Woman (Jagjaguwar)
23. Various Artists – Amirtha Kidambi, Elder Ones ? Holy Science (Northern Spy)
24. Various Artists – Oneida & Rhys Chatham - What's Your Sign? (Northern Spy)
25. Sun Worship – Pale Dawn (Golden Antenna)