The 50 Best Albums of 2016

Update:

    1. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
    2. Parquet Courts – Human Performance
    3. Beyonce – Lemonade
    4. Frank Ocean – Blonde
    5. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
    6. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…
    7. Solange – A Seat at the Table
    8. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
    9. Young Thug – Jeffery
    10. David Bowie – Blackstar

  • Kaytranada – 99.9%
  • Anohni – Hopelessness
  • Seth Bogart – Seth Bogart
  • Islands – Taste
  • The Game – 1992
  • Yumi Zouma – Yoncalla
  • Angel Olsen – My Woman
  • Dr Dog – The Psychedelic Swamp
  • Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
  • Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
  • Animal Collection – Painting With
  • Lydia Loveless – Real
  • Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
  • Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
  • Sonny & The Sunsets – Moody Baby Moods
  • Whitney – Light Upon The Lake
  • Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
  • NxWorries – Yes Lawd!
  • 2 Chains – Collegrove
  • Anna Meredith – Varmints
  • Bon Iver – 22, A Million
  • Chance The Rapper – Coloring Book
  • Esperanza Spalding – Emily’s D+Evolution
  • Jeremih – Late Nights: Europe
  • Kamaiyah – A Good Night in the Ghetto
  • Kevin Gates – Islah
  • ScHoolboy Q – Blank Face LP
  • Blonde Readhead – Masculin Feminin
  • Kari Faux – Lost En Los Angelos
  • Wye Oak – Tween
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears
  • MOddyman – DJ Kicks
  • Kevin Morby – Singing Saw
  • Rihanna – Anti
  • Porches – Pool
  • Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
  • Noname – Telefone
  • Hamilton Leithauser – I had a dream that you were mine
  • Kedr Livanskiy – January Sky
  • Japanese Breakfast – Psychopomp

Honorable Mentions:

Jamila Woods – Heavn, Maxwell – blackSUMMERs’night, Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker, YG – Still Brazy, Mitski – Puberty 2, Jessy Lanza – Oh No, Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat to Earth, The Avalanches – Wildflower, Nick Cave – Skeleton Tree, Tim Hecker – Love Streams