• Philadelphia, PA
  
• Atlanta, GA
  
• Washington, DC
  
• Dover, DE
  
• Lancaster, PA
  
• Brooklyn, NY
  
• Nashville, TN
  
• Baltimore, MD
  
• Dewey Beach, DE
  
• Boston, MA
  
• Rehoboth Beach, DE
  
• Summit, NJ
  

Previously

Music released in 2016:
- Tycho - Epoch
- Aphex Twin - Cheetah
- Blood Orange - Freetown Sound
- Hallelujah The Hills - A Band Is Something To Figure Out

Other Music:
- Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II - Brian Eno - Apollo
- Thrupence - Thoughts
- Thrupence - Lessons
- Michna - Thousand Thursday
- Jon Hopkins - Immunity
- Fela Kuti - Beasts of No Nation
- Martin Courtney - Many Moons
- Autechre - Tri Repetae
- Stars of The Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
- William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops

Honorable Mentions:

• Taylor Deupree
• Tim Hecker
• Mitski - Puberty 2
• Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial
• Field Music - Commontime
• Jasper TX - Singing Stones

DJ Mixes:
- Skylar Spence - Mysteryland 2016
- Tycho - Descent
- HNNY - Boiler Room Set
- Prins Thomas - XLR8R Podcast
- µ-Ziq - Vinyl Factory: Aphex Twin
- Derrick May - Live at Music Institute 1988

Favorite Song of The Last Year: HNNY - Exactly

Notes:

• I got really into ambient this year, which is somewhat reflected in the items above, but there were also a lot of individual tracks I listened to as well. This Spotify Playlist highlights some of my favorite ambient jams.
• After several failed attempts in the past, I finally got into Aphex Twin. Although he appears multiple times above, I listened a lot to almost all of his albums this year.

• My President was Black by Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic
• Undertale: The Kotaku Review by Nathan Grayson | Kotaku
• How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind by David Wong | Cracked.com
• Star Wars has always been political. Here’s why the alt-right is claiming otherwise by Aja Romano | Vox
• ‘There’s Nothing Better Than a Scared, Rich Candidate’ by Molly Ball | The Atlantic
• How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016 by Jose Aguinaga | Hackernoon
• I arrived at my friend’s party. A few hours later she died, exactly as planned. by Kestrin Pantera | Vox
• How did the Neutral Milk Hotel legend get so out of hand? by Luke Winkie | A.V. Club
• The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder. by Dylan Matthews | Vox
• America’s Achilles Heel by Dave Pell | Medium

Most of this year’s pieces are on the shorter side; it may be more accurate to call them “Favorite Articles of 2016”. I blame that on two factors:

1. The election, which had me reading more news articles and less “long reads”
2. Switching from a walking/subway commute to a driving-only commute

• Boston, MA
• Atlanta, GA
• Rochester, NH
• Montreal, Canada
• Philadelphia, PA
• Langhorne, PA
• Minneapolis, MN
• Brooklyn, NY
• Dover, DE
• Rehoboth Beach, DE
• Hawk Mountain, PA
• Kennet Square, PA

Previously

1. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
2. Rushmore (1998)
3. Bottle Rocket (1996)
4. The Life Aquatic (2004)
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
7. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
8. The Darjeeling Ltd (2007)