The Freshman 15: 2016's Best Debut Albums
We are still a week away from our final, overall list of 2016's best albums, but our best of 2016 coverage continues now with a look at the year's top newcomers.
Below is our list of the 15 best-reviewed debut albums of 2016, ranked by Metascore. Note that albums must have at least 7 reviews—and be a full LP, rather than an EP—to be eligible for inclusion. Albums are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding.
(Sub Pop) Two-year-old psych-rock outfit Heron Oblivion is fronted by Meg Baird (Espers) and features two members of Comets on Fire and one from Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound. Their distortion-heavy March debut impressed reviewers with its balance of soothing and seething.
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