I might struggle to make five ... I feel like I have taken a year off.
Not the music's fault necessarily.
Three that really stood out:
1 Hatchback "Colors of the Sun" (although I learn tonight that this is a reissue apparently - one for the summer)
2 Marc Almond "The Velvet Trail" (especially the title track)
3 Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat "The Most Important Place in the World"
Several I have yet to experience more than twice so I will have to make them ineligible: namely China Crisis, Ghost Harmonic, A-Ha, Low and New Order. Most of them promising to be brilliant, and for New Order this is a real surprise.
Then there is "The Sum of the Sum of the Sum of the Sum of the Parts_ The Very Best of Brian Pern, Thotch and Beyond" which I have not heard yet except in snippets from the two BBC4 series so far (another starts in January - it's ace).
Another mention of "London Overgrown" is necessary - despite my quite vocal (which is ironic ...) early misgivings it does work very well as an album and deserves the attention it has received this year.
Can I give you the album of 2016? That's going to be Bowie, not that I have heard a note yet ...