I always make sure the year is good and dead before I make my AOTY list, or; Two Talisman That Hate Teens!

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Heather Leigh Murray - Throne
Chevalier - Chapitre II
Hi & Saberhagen - Light on Leaves

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4.75
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 Freya Josephine Hollick - Feral Fusion
Chancha Via Circuito - Bienaventuranza
Rabit - Cry Alone
Tierra Whack - Whack World
Koenji Hyakkei - Dhorimviskha
Kali Malone - Organ Dirges 2016 - 2017
Mid-Air Thief - Crumbling
Make a Change... Kill Yourself - IV
The End - Svårmod och vemod är värdesinnen
Foodman - Aru Otoko
Nazar - Enclave
SS Thaman - Toliprema

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4.5
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Elg - Vu Du Dome
Janusz Jurga - Duchy Rogowca
Daphne & Celeste Save the World
Niño de Elche - Antología del cante flamenco heterodoxo
Extra Large Unit -  More Fun Please
Typhonian Highlife - The World Of Shells
Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Ragas Abhogi & Vardhani
Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness - Emakhosini
Serpentwithfeet - Soil
Cucina Povera - Hilja
Gutter Instinct - Heirs of Sisyphus
Migos - Culture II
Pink Siifu - Ensley
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload 
Teki Latex - the Naked King
Devi McCallion & Katie Dey - Some New Form of Life
Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
Le1f - Blue Dream
Galen Tipton - Nightbath
Lorde Fredd33 - NORF: The Legend of Hotboy Ronald
Black Dresses - Hell is Real
Gurrumul Yunupingu - Djarimirri
700 Bliss - Spa 700
Frontierer - Unloved
Kendall :) - Hey
Ravyn Lenae - Crush
Maxo Kream - Punken
Black Mecha - Counterforce


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4.25
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Mustie=DC - A Future Meows
Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence
Vishal-Shekher - Naa Peru Surya Naa Illu India 
Hamoudi Karma - Folklore Sétifien
Joris Roelofs + Han Bennink - Icarus
Drawn and Quartered - the One Who Lurks
Rae Sremmurd - 3 
Noah Creshevsky - Reanimator
Moozlie - Versus
Rockwell - User
Anthroprophh - Omegaville
Erik Friedlander - Artemisia
The Cyclist - Beat At The Heart Of The City
The Pyramids - An Angel Fell
Coffin Torture - Dismal Planet
Elvenstorm - the Conjuring
Sudan Archives - Silk