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Yoko Ono. The name stirs up strong emotions from people, most of whom know next to nothing about her. Few have listened to her albums, watched her movies, or even seen her art. There is—in particular—a vehement hatred directed towards her by men that see her as committing the ultimate sin: getting in-between bros. Just listen to Bill Burr’s bit from his podcast a few years back about John Lennon being “pussy-whipped.” The audio was uploaded to YouTube, with near viral views. The comments are, well, revealing.

Every month, we ask a couple members of our staff to recommend a few items we’re carrying in our online store. Think of it like the Staff Picks display in a record store. Here are the picks for our October Store.

Mitski's Puberty 2 is one of our favorite LPs from 2016. Mitski, who is one of the best follows on Twitter, took some time out of the album's promotion cycle to tell us five albums everyone needs to own on vinyl. Read this for sex jam recommendations and how albums should be panned for one ear bud.

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Every month, we ask a couple members of our staff to recommend a few items we’re carrying in our online store. Think of it like the Staff Picks display in a record store. Here are the picks for our October Store.

Every month, we ask a couple members of our staff to recommend a few items we’re carrying in our online store. Think of it like the Staff Picks display in a record store. Here are the picks for our October Store.

Deaf Forever and Digital/Divide are metal and electronic music columns by Andy O’Connor and Gary Suarez. We’re having Andy and Gary pick a new album for the store each month—here are this month's picks:

No one really knows how many albums are released each year. With free mixtapes sites, Spotify, and Bandcamp opening up their loving arms to any album made by anyone, the best estimates are that there are around 75K albums made each year. If you wanted to keep up and listen to them all, you’d need to listen to 1442 albums a week. If you figure the average album is about 35 minutes, you literally don’t have enough hours in the week to listen to everything released each year. Some things are going to fall through the cracks.

That’s where we come in: Here’s our list of the 15 most overlooked albums of 2016 that we think deserved more attention than they got. But that’s not all: We believe that these albums are not only worth listening to, we think they’re worth owning as well, so you can purchase each and every one of these albums in the VMP Store, right now.

Without further ado, here’s our list of most overlooked albums from 2016.