Gorilla vs. Bear: 60 Favorite Albums of 2016
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- Jessy Lanza — Oh No
- Kedr Livanskiy — January Sun
- KAYTRANADA — 99.9%
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- DIANA — Familiar Touch
- Kornél Kovács — The Bells
- Burial — Young Death / Nightmarket
- Beyoncé — Lemonade
- Weyes Blood — Front Row Seat to Earth
- Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein — Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 and 2
- Kendrick Lamar — Untitled Unmastered
- Yumi Zouma — Yoncalla
- various artists — Sky Girl: Compiled by Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae
- Fear of Men — Fall Forever
- Cross Record — Wabi-Sabi
- Andy Shauf — The Party
- S U R V I V E — RR7349
- Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition
- Negative Gemini — Body Work
- Hoops — Hoops / Tape #2 / Tape #3
- Vesuvio Solo — Don’t Leave Me in the Dark
- Carla dal Forno — You Know What It’s Like
- Clint Mansell — Black Mirror: San Junipero
- Kadhja Bonet — The Visitor
- Nicolas Jaar — Sirens
- Troller — Graphic
- Kero Kero Bonito — Bonito Generation
- Whitney — Light Upon the Lake
- Leon Vynehall — Rojus (Designed to Dance)
- NxWorries — Yes Lawd!
- Angel Olsen — My Woman
- Postiljonen — Reverie
- Equiknoxx — Bird Sound Power
- Maria Usbeck — Amparo
- Japanese Breakfast — Psychopomp
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — EARS
- Dreamboat — Dreamboat
- NV — Binasu
- LIZ — Cross Your Heart
- DJDS — Stand Up and Speak
- Carly Rae Jepsen — E•MO•TION: Side B
- CFCF — On Vacation
- Still Corners — Dead Blue
- Casey Mecija — Psychic Materials
- Puro Instinct — Autodrama
- Merely — Uncanny Valley
- Katie Gately — Color
- Marissa Nadler — Strangers
- White Denim — Stiff
- Parts — Parts
- various artists — Disco Mantras
- Boy Harsher — Yr Body Is Nothing
- Amber Arcades — Fading Lines
- Hinds — Leave Me Alone
- Nite Jewel — Liquid Cool
- Ariana Grande — Dangerous Woman
- Cass McCombs — Mangy Love
- Julianna Barwick — Will