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Saint Audio’s Best of 2016

Members of the Saint Audio team picked their favorite songs and albums from 2016. Listen to our Spotify playlist with selections from the best of the year.  

Luna B

Albums:

  1. We got it from here… Thank You 4 Your Service – A Tribe Called Quest
  2. Views – Drake
  3. 99.9% – Kaytranada
  4. The Life Of Pablo – Kanye West
  5. Oology – Gallant
  6. Coloring Book – Chance The Rapper
  7. The Colour In Anything – James Blake 

Marie Davis

Albums:

  1. Telefone – Noname
  2. Coloring Book – Chance The Rapper
  3. Lemonade – Beyonce
  4. Blonde – Frank Ocean
  5. A Seat At The Table – Solange
  6. We got it from here… Thank You 4 Your Service – A Tribe Called Quest

 

Bobby Davin

Albums:

  1. Blonde – Frank Ocean
  2. Malibu – Anderson .Paak
  3. 22, A Million – Bon Iver
  4. A Seat at the Table – Solange
  5. We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service – A Tribe Called Quest
  6. 99.9% – Kaytranada
  7. Freetown Sound – Blood Orange
  8. The Life of Pablo – Kanye West
  9. The Party – Andy Shauf
  10. My Woman – Angel Olsen

Songs:

  1. “Best to You” – Blood Orange
  2. “Self Control” – Frank Ocean
  3. “29 #Strafford APTS” – Bon Iver
  4. “Glowed Up” – Kaytranada feat. Anderson . Paak
  5. “untitled 2 | 06.23.2014.” – Kendrick Lamar
  6. “Don’t Touch My Hair” – Solange Sampha
  7. “No Woman” – Whitney
  8. “The Magician” – Andy Shauf
  9. “Waves” – Kanye West
  10. “1-5-9” – Koi Child

 

Kyle Mest

Albums:

  1. 99.9% – Kaytranada
  2. A Seat at the Table – Solange 
  3. Malibu – Anderson .Paak
  4. Anti – Rihanna
  5. 5. Seventh Dragon III VFD OST – Yuzo Koshiro, UK

Songs:

  1. “Alrite (Kaytraflip)” – Janet Jackson
  2. “Cranes in the Sky” – Solange
  3. “What If I go?” – Mura Masa
  4. “Room In Here” – Anderson .Paak feat. The Game, Sonyae Elise
  5. “F.L.O.R.” – Sango
  6. “Get Your Way (feat. Roses Gabor)” – Brasstracks
  7. “Youth (baby) [wntr remix]” – Rilla Force
  8. “Trabalho (Work Brazil Edit)” – SIROJ
  9. “Re:Vanishment (feat. Annabel)” – sasakure.UK
  10. “Formation” – Beyoncé 

 

Elliot Muir

Albums:

  1. Blonde – Frank Ocean
  2. EMOTION SIDE B – Carly Rae Jepsen
  3. I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it – The 1975
  4. 22, A Million – Bon Iver
  5. “Awaken, My Love!” – Childish Gambino
  6. Every Open Eye – CHVRCHES
  7. The Life of Pablo – Kanye West
  8. You Want It Darker – Leonard Cohen
  9. La La Land (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Various Artists
  10. Mind of Mine – ZAYN

Songs:

  1. “8 (circle)” – Bon Iver
  2. “Higher” – Carly Rae Jepsen
  3. “Redbone” – Childish Gambino
  4. “Down Side Of Me” – CHVRCHES
  5. “Friends (feat. Bon Iver)”– Francis and the Lights
  6. “Nikes” – Frank Ocean
  7. “Ultralight Beam” – Kanye West
  8. “Freedun” – M.I.A., ZAYN
  9. “Someone In The Crowd” – Emma Stone, Callie Hernandez, Sonoya Mizuno, Jessica Rothe
  10. “I Feel It Coming” – The Weeknd, Daft Punk

Siv Nilsson

Albums:

  1. untitled unmastered. – Kendrick Lamar
  2. We got it from here… Thank You 4 Your Service – A Tribe Called Quest
  3. The Life of Pablo – Kanye West
  4. Malibu – Anderson .Paak
  5. 3001: A Laced Odyssey – Flatbush Zombies 

Songs:

  1. “untitled 08 | 09.06.2014.” – Kendrick Lamar
  2. “Bounce” – Flatbush Zombies
  3. “Kids…” – A Tribe Called Quest
  4. “untitled 07 | 2014-2016” – Kendrick Lamar
  5. “Ultralight Beam” – Kanye West
  6. “No More Parties In LA” – Kanye West
  7. “Whateva Will Be” – A Tribe Called Quest
  8. “untitled 02 | 06.23.2014.” – Kendrick Lamar
  9. “Spike Lee Joint” – Flatbush Zombies feat. Anthony Flammia
  10. “Pink + White” – Frank Ocean

 

Jasper Pakshong

Albums:

  1. Blonde – Frank Ocean
  2. untitled unmastered. – Kendrick Lamar
  3. 22, A Million – Bon Iver 
  4. Yellow Memories – Fatima 
  5. Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’ – Kid Cudi 
  6. Sun Ra EP – Mall Grab 
  7. Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight – Travis $cott
  8. Coloring Book – Chance The Rapper
  9. The Life Of Pablo – Kanye West
  10. 4 Your Eyes Only – J. Cole

Songs:

  1. “untitled 5 | 09.21.2014.” – Kendrick Lamar
  2. “Can’t” – Mall Grab
  3. “Ivy” – Frank Ocean
  4. “10 d E A T h b R E a s T” – Bon Iver
  5. “Ultralight Beam” – Kanye West
  6. “The Guide” – Kid Cudi feat. Andre Benjamin
  7. “Me and Your Mama” – Childish Gambino
  8. “Mushroom Kingdom” – KEI-LI
  9. “Life Love Changes” – Monty Python
  10. “Drippin’” – Young Thug

 

Staley Sharples

Albums:

  1. Aa – Baauer
  2. Human Energy – Machinedrum
  3. Pool – Porches
  4. I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it – The 1975
  5. Social Housing – Marquis Hawkes
  6. Anti – Rihanna
  7. Everything – Lido 
  8. A Mineral Love – Bibio
  9. A Seat At The Table – Solange 
  10. Glass – Illum Sphere  

Songs:

  1. “Bodypaint (Florentino Remix)” – Kid Antoine
  2. “Deadstream” – Jim-E Stack
  3. “Naila (Murlo Remix)” – AJ Tracey
  4. “White Ferrari (Jacques Greene Remix)” – Frank Ocean
  5. “Crying in Public” – Chairlift
  6. “Cruel Intentions” – JMSN
  7. “Common Ground” – Sam O.B.
  8. “My Hands” – Ayer
  9. “Body” – Wet
  10. TIE: “Halo” – DBM & “Like Man” – Croatian Amor

emiliah

Albums:

  1. 99.9% – Kaytranada
  2. Stillness in Wonderland – Little Simz
  3. Relationships – Nick Hook
  4. Konnichiwa – Skepta
  5. All Wet – Mr. Oizo
  6. Blonde – Frank Ocean
  7. Aa – Baauer
  8. AIM – M.I.A.
  9. Jeffery – Young Thug
  10. OWSLA Worldwide Broadcast – Various Artists

Songs:

  1. “Squeeze Me” – icekream
  2. “Telephone Calls (feat. A$AP Rocky, Tyler, the Creator, Playboi Carti & Yung Gleesh)” – A$AP Mob
  3. “WTF (Where They From) [feat. Pharrell Williams] [Vindata Remix]” – Missy Elliott
  4. “End of the World (feat. Skrillex)” – Mr. Oizo
  5. “Perfect” – Cavalier
  6. “Legendary” – deadmau5 feat. Shotty Horroh
  7. “Paauer” – Baauer
  8. “CTRL” – SoundSnobz
  9. “And Wot?” – TroyBoi
  10. “Go Off” – M.I.A.

 

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