Consequence of Sound: Top 50 Albums of 2016
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011]
- Beyoncé — Lemonade
- Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book
- David Bowie — Blackstar
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- ANOHNI — Hopelessness
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
- Angel Olsen — My Woman
- Anderson .Paak — Malibu
- Bon Iver — 22, A Million
- Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
- Mitski — Puberty 2
- A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Blood Orange — Freetown Sound
- Schoolboy Q — Blank Face LP
- Wilco — Schmilco
- Tim Hecker — Love Streams
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial
- Solange — A Seat at the Table
- Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein — Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 and 2
- Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch
- KAYTRANADA — 99.9%
- The Body & Full of Hell — One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
- James Blake — The Colour in Anything
- Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition
- Jamila Woods — HEAVN
- Tegan and Sara — Love You to Death
- Frankie Cosmos — Next Thing
- Nicolas Jaar — Sirens
- Pinegrove — Cardinal
- BABYMETAL — Metal Resistance
- Explosions in the Sky — The Wilderness
- Gojira — Magma
- Sioux Falls — Rot Forever
- Into It. Over It. — Standards
- Noname — Telefone
- The Range — Potential
- Whitney — Light Upon the Lake
- Savages — Adore Life
- Deftones — Gore
- Mothers — When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired
- Kevin Gates — Islah
- The Hotelier — Goodness
- Lambchop — FLOTUS
- Young Thug — Jeffery
- Martha — Blisters In the Pit of My Heart
- Japanese Breakfast — Psychopomp
- White Lung — Paradise
- Weaves — Weaves
- Iggy Pop — Post Pop Depression