Q Magazine: Top 50 Albums Of 2016
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- David Bowie — Blackstar
- Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
- PJ Harvey — The Hope Six Demolition Project
- A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Cass McCombs — Mangy Love
- Angel Olsen — My Woman
- The 1975 — I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
- Christine and the Queens — Chaleur Humaine
- Skepta — Konnichiwa
- Goat — Requiem
- Beyoncé — Lemonade
- Michael Kiwanuka — Love & Hate
- Dexys — Let the Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul
- Cate Le Bon — Crab Day
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- The Avalanches — Wildflower
- Parquet Courts — Human Performance
- ANOHNI — Hopelessness
- Iggy Pop — Post Pop Depression
- Steve Mason — Meet the Humans
- Pet Shop Boys — Super
- Julia Jacklin — Don’t Let the Kids Win
- Wild Beasts — Boy King
- The Lemon Twigs — Do Hollywood
- Underworld — Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
- Anna Meredith — Varmints
- Let’s Eat Grandma — I, Gemini
- Jamie T — Trick
- Kate Tempest — Let Them Eat Chaos
- Bat for Lashes — The Bride
- Kendrick Lamar — Untitled Unmastered
- Lady Gaga — Joanne
- Savages — Adore Life
- Biffy Clyro — Ellipsis
- Brian Eno — The Ship
- The Fat White Family — Songs for Our Mothers
- Thee Oh Sees — A Weird Exits
- Bastille — Wild World
- Kevin Morby — Singing Saw
- Solange — A Seat at the Table
- The Coral — Distance Inbetween
- The Last Shadow Puppets — Everything You’ve Come To Expect
- Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
- Peter Doherty — Hamburg Demonstrations
- Blossoms — Blossoms
- Drake — Views
- Richard Ashcroft — These People
- Primal Scream — Chaosmosis