Paste Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2016
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- David Bowie — Blackstar
- Beyoncé — Lemonade
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial
- A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- Mitski — Puberty 2
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Angel Olsen — My Woman
- Lucy Dacus — No Burden
- Bon Iver — 22, A Million
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
- Margo Price — Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
- Solange — A Seat at the Table
- Pinegrove — Cardinal
- Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book
- Anderson .Paak — Malibu
- Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
- Blood Orange — Freetown Sound
- Sturgill Simpson — A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
- Parquet Courts — Human Performance
- Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition
- Lucius — Good Grief
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
- Andrew Bird — Are You Serious
- The Avalanches — Wildflower
- Wilco — Schmilco
- Tacocat — Lost Time
- Tegan and Sara — Love You to Death
- Frankie Cosmos — Next Thing
- Thao & the Get Down Stay Down — A Man Alive
- Japanese Breakfast — Psychopomp
- case/lang/veirs — case/lang/veirs
- Hinds — Leave Me Alone
- Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop — Love Letter For Fire
- Lake Street Dive — Side Pony
- Kendrick Lamar — Untitled Unmastered
- Whitney — Light Upon the Lake
- ANOHNI — Hopelessness
- Paul Simon — Stranger to Stranger
- Dawn Richard — Redemption
- Margaret Glaspy — Emotions and Math
- Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch
- Charles Bradley — Changes
- The Coathangers — Nosebleed Weekend
- Hiss Golden Messenger — Heart Like a Levee
- Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam — I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
- St. Paul & The Broken Bones — Sea Of Noise
- Drive-By Truckers — American Band
- Fruit Bats — Absolute Loser
- Courtney Marie Andrews — Honest Life