Year-End Lists

Gorilla vs. Bear: 60 Favorite Albums of 2016

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1. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
   A Tribe Called Quest
2. Oh No
   Jessy Lanza
3. January Sun
   Kedr Livanskiy
4. 99.9%
   KAYTRANADA
5. A Moon Shaped Pool
   Radiohead
6. Blond
   Frank Ocean
7. Familiar Touch
   DIANA
8. The Bells
   Kornél Kovács
9. Young Death / Nightmarket
   Burial
10. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
11. Front Row Seat to Earth
    Weyes Blood
12. Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 and 2
    Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
13. Untitled Unmastered
    Kendrick Lamar
14. Yoncalla
    Yumi Zouma
15. Sky Girl: Compiled by Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae
    various artists
16. Fall Forever
    Fear of Men
17. Wabi-Sabi
    Cross Record
18. The Party
    Andy Shauf
19. RR7349
    S U R V I V E
20. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
21. Body Work
    Negative Gemini
22. Hoops / Tape #2 / Tape #3
    Hoops
23. Don’t Leave Me in the Dark
    Vesuvio Solo
24. You Know What It’s Like
    Carla dal Forno
25. Black Mirror: San Junipero
    Clint Mansell
26. The Visitor
    Kadhja Bonet
27. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
28. Graphic
    Troller
29. Bonito Generation
    Kero Kero Bonito
30. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
31. Rojus (Designed to Dance)
    Leon Vynehall
32. Yes Lawd!
    NxWorries
33. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
34. Reverie
    Postiljonen
35. Bird Sound Power
    Equiknoxx
36. Amparo
    Maria Usbeck
37. Psychopomp
    Japanese Breakfast
38. EARS
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
39. Dreamboat
    Dreamboat
40. Binasu
    NV
41. Cross Your Heart
    LIZ
42. Stand Up and Speak
    DJDS
43. E•MO•TION: Side B
    Carly Rae Jepsen
44. On Vacation
    CFCF
45. Dead Blue
    Still Corners
46. Psychic Materials
    Casey Mecija
47. Autodrama
    Puro Instinct
48. Uncanny Valley
    Merely
49. Color
    Katie Gately
50. Strangers
    Marissa Nadler
51. Stiff
    White Denim
52. Parts
    Parts
53. Disco Mantras
    various artists
54. Yr Body Is Nothing
    Boy Harsher
55. Fading Lines
    Amber Arcades
56. Leave Me Alone
    Hinds
57. Liquid Cool
    Nite Jewel
58. Dangerous Woman
    Ariana Grande
59. Mangy Love
    Cass McCombs
60. Will
    Julianna Barwick