Les Inrockuptibles: 50 Best Albums of 2016
[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- David Bowie — Blackstar
- La Femme — Mystère
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- The Lemon Twigs — Do Hollywood
- PNL — Dans la légende
- Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
- Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
- Drake — Views
- Alex Cameron — Jumping the Shark
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
- PJ Harvey — The Hope Six Demolition Project
- Bon Iver — 22, A Million
- Parquet Courts — Human Performance
- ALA.NI — You & I
- Angel Olsen — My Woman
- Michael Kiwanuka — Love & Hate
- The Weeknd — Starboy
- Grand Blanc — Mémoires vives
- Weyes Blood — Front Row Seat to Earth
- Soft Hair — Soft Hair
- Blood Orange — Freetown Sound
- James Blake — The Colour in Anything
- The Pirouettes — Carrément carrément
- Benjamin Biolay — Palermo Hollywood
- Young Thug — Jeffery
- ANOHNI — Hopelessness
- Bayonne — Primitives
- Jóhann Jóhannsson — Orphée
- Justice — Woman
- Lescop — Dérangé
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Cullen Omori — New Misery
- Noura Mint Seymali — Arbina
- Solange — A Seat at the Table
- El’Blaszczyk Rock Band Himself — The Quirky Lost Tapes 1993-1995
- Field Music — Commontime
- Schoolboy Q — Blank Face LP
- Rihanna — Anti
- Bjarki — “Б”
- The Fat White Family — Songs for Our Mothers
- Wati Watia Zorey Band — Moriarty & Friends Presents: Zanz in lanfér
- Karl Blau — Introducing Karl Blau
- Nicolas Jaar — Sirens
- M.I.A. — AIM
- DIIV — Is the Is Are
- Paradis — Recto Verso
- Céu — Tropix
- Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni — Les Filles de Illighadad
- Lost Under Heaven — Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing
- DJ Pone — Radiant