Year-End Lists

Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2016

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1. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
2. Coloring Book
   Chance The Rapper
3. Blackstar
   David Bowie
4. Blond
   Frank Ocean
5. Hopelessness
   ANOHNI
6. Skeleton Tree
   Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
7. My Woman
   Angel Olsen
8. Malibu
   Anderson .Paak
9. 22, A Million
   Bon Iver
10. You Want It Darker
    Leonard Cohen
11. Puberty 2
    Mitski
12. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
13. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
14. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
15. Blank Face LP
    Schoolboy Q
16. Schmilco
    Wilco
17. Love Streams
    Tim Hecker
18. Teens of Denial
    Car Seat Headrest
19. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
20. Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 and 2
    Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
21. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
22. 99.9%
    KAYTRANADA
23. One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
    The Body & Full of Hell
24. The Colour in Anything
    James Blake
25. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
26. HEAVN
    Jamila Woods
27. Love You to Death
    Tegan and Sara
28. Next Thing
    Frankie Cosmos
29. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
30. Cardinal
    Pinegrove
31. Metal Resistance
    BABYMETAL
32. The Wilderness
    Explosions in the Sky
33. Magma
    Gojira
34. Rot Forever
    Sioux Falls
35. Standards
    Into It. Over It.
36. Telefone
    Noname
37. Potential
    The Range
38. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
39. Adore Life
    Savages
40. Gore
    Deftones
41. When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired
    Mothers
42. Islah
    Kevin Gates
43. Goodness
    The Hotelier
44. FLOTUS
    Lambchop
45. Jeffery
    Young Thug
46. Blisters In the Pit of My Heart
    Martha
47. Psychopomp
    Japanese Breakfast
48. Paradise
    White Lung
49. Weaves
    Weaves
50. Post Pop Depression
    Iggy Pop