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8 Great Albums You Might Have Missed this Year

From dance-diva pop to honky-tonk country to southern glam, you gotta catch 'em all.

Forgive us if we're starting to sound like a broken record, but 2016 has been a great year for music—so great, in fact, that there are likely a whole bunch of great albums that never even landed on your radar. Here are some choice sleepers—ranging from decadent dance-jams to cabaret-glam to honky-tonk—that kept us (happily) up all night during the last twelve months.

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