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LPR Staff’s Best Records of 2016

Dec

20

Folks, it’s time again. You know the deal: At end of every year, all of your music-minded friends flood your feed with year-end roundups, and the LPR staff is no different. 2016 has been a trashcan fire of a year, but at least we got some pretty decent music out of it. Check out our picks below for the music that got us in one end and out the other. Here’s to 2017!

Aysia B., Office Manager
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・Solange — A Seat at the Table
・Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book
KING — We Are King
Anderson .Paak — Malibu

Brianne S., Marketing Director
・James Blake — The Colour in Everything
・Blood Orange — Freetown Sound
・Margaret Glaspy — Emotions and Math
Daniel Wohl — Holographic
Jenny HvalBlood Bitch
・Sturgill Simpson — A Sailor’s Guide to the Earth

Chelsea V., Hospitality
・David Bowie — Blackstar
・Emily Wells — Promise
・Flatbush Zombies — 3001: A Laced Odyssey
・Florist — The Birds Outside Sang
・Radiation City — Synesthetica

Dan M., Tech Staff
・Conor Oberst — Ruminations
・Fruit Bats — Absolute Loser
・Margaret Glaspy — Emotions and Math

Frank B., Tech Staff
・GoGo Penguin — Man Made Object
・Pete Yorn — ArrangingTime
・Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
・Norah Jones — Day Breaks
・A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service

Ivan K., Hospitality
・David Bowie — Blackstar
・Hamilton Leithauser — I Had a Dream that You Were Mine
・Lera Lynn — Resistor
・Thee Oh Sees — A Weird Exits
・Savages — Adore Life

Jay E., Director of Production
・Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
・Enemies — Valuables
Andrew BirdAre You Serious
・Bon Iver — 22, A Million
・Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service

John R., Marketing Coordinator
・A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
・Lambchop – FLOTUS
・Angel Olsen – My Woman
・Dead Ryan – Always a Pallbearer, Never a Corpse
・GoGo Penguin — Man Made Object

Justin K., Co-founder
・Suuns — Hold/Still
・Serpentwithfeet — Blisters
・John Adams/St. Louis Symphony/Leila Josefowicz — Scheherazade.2

Michael C., Office Assistant
・Y La Bamba — Ojos del Sol
・Devendra Banhart — Ape in Pink Marble
・A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service

Myllicent F., Tech Staff
・A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
・Solange — A Seat at the Table
・Childish Gambino — Awaken, My Love

Rachael P., Music Director
・Solange — A Seat at the Table
・Big Thief — Masterpiece
Angel OlsenMy Woman
・Clear Plastic Masks — Nazi Hologram
・Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool

Sharif M., Tech Staff
・Hot Curl — Beached
・Wilco — Schmilco
・Luke Temple — A Hand Through the Cellar Door

Sierra S., Assistant to Director of Production
・75 Dollar Bill — WMPPRR
・Tråd Gräs och Stenar — Tråd Gräs och Stenar 2016 Box Set
・Ryley Walker — Golden Sings That Have Been Sung

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