It's been a great year for music, probably one of the best in recent memory, across many genres including Art Pop, Black Metal and Hip Hop.

Here, for me, are the best releases of the year (all rated at least 7/10):

LINGUA IGNOTA - Caligula (Neoclassical/Death Industrial)
clipping. - There Existed An Addiction to Blood (Hip Hop/Horrorcore)
Little Simz - Grey Area (Hip Hop)
Tyler, the Creator - Igor (Hip Hop)
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising (Art Pop)
Leprous - Pitfalls (Art rock)
Tool - Fear Inoculum (Prog metal)
Opeth - In cauda venenum (Prog rock)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen (Ambient pop)
Thom Yorke - Anima (Ambient pop)

Some HMs;
Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿ (Hip Hop)
JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs (Hip Hop)
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana (Hip Hop)
Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (Art pop)
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors (Art pop)
FKA Twigs - Magdalene (Art Pop)
Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear (Sludge Metal)
Litergy - H.A.Q.Q. (Black metal)
Mgla - Age of Excuse (Black metal)
Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia (Black Metal)
Saor - Forgotten Paths (Black metal)
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct (Blackgaze)
Idle Hands - Mana (Heavy metal)
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time (Prog metal)

A few of the HMs need re-listening and I still need to check out Swans' Leaving Meaning. And no, Kanye West's Jesus is King was not great..