I think 2016 has been a great year for music so far (I know it has barely started. Here are the albums I have dug so far this year (NOT a list of everything I have heard or enjoyed; Some stuff I still need more time with, like the new Sia and Tricky albums):
Abbath - Abbath
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Arc
The Besnard Lakes - A Coliseum Complex Museum
Bloodiest - Bloodiest
Cauldron - In Ruin
Conan - Revengeance
David Bowie - Blackstar
Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night
Exmortus - Ride Forth
Height Keech - Unending Blaze Volume 1
HINDS - Leave Me Alone
Damien Jurado - Visions of Us on the Land
Leggy - Dang
Megadeth - Dystopia
Milk Teeth - Vile Child
Quilt - Plaza
Raindeer - HWYL
Rihanna - Anti
Saul Williams - MartyrLoserKing
School Of Seven Bells - SVIIB
Sunflower Bean - Human Ceremony
Surgeon - From Farther Known Objects
Suuns - Hold/Still
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger
UXO - UXO
Witchcraft - Nucleus
Edit: I also have the Cult, Nevermen, and Black Tusk on deck...