Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2016

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1. The Gospel
   Årabrot
2. A Seat at the Table
   Solange
3. III
   Innercity Ensemble
4. Oh No
   Jessy Lanza
5. Lodestar
   Shirley Collins
6. Songs for Our Mothers
   The Fat White Family
7. Blackstar
   David Bowie
8. Centres
   Ian William Craig
9. Redemption
   Dawn Richard
10. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
11. Blond
    Frank Ocean
12. Simultaneous Flight Movement
    Laura Cannell
13. Ultimate Care II
    Matmos
14. Too
    Klara Lewis
15. Konnichiwa
    Skepta
16. Everywhere at the End of Time
    The Caretaker
17. Värähtelijä
    Oranssi Pazuzu
18. Devotional Songs
    Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini
19. Controlling Body
    Peder Mannerfelt
20. Strangers
    Marissa Nadler
21. Hardcore Sounds From Tehran
    Sote
22. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
23. Color
    Katie Gately
24. Sex Swing
    Sex Swing
25. The Ship
    Brian Eno
26. We Are King
    KING
27. Mirror
    Gnod
28. Be One
    Wolfgang Buttress & Bees
29. Perdurance
    Jute Gyte
30. For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
    Huerco S
31. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
32. Remoteness Of Light
    The Stargazer’s Assistant
33. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
34. Will
    Julianna Barwick
35. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
36. Night Thoughts
    Suede
37. A Hermitage
    Jambinai
38. 2845
    Convextion
39. The Life of Pablo
    Kanye West
40. Toll
    Kemper Norton
41. The Spiral
    Puce Mary
42. Hipnotik Tradisi
    Black Merlin
43. I, Sun
    Daniel Patrick Quinn
44. Butterflies
    Lord Tang
45. Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
    Underworld
46. FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani
47. We Be All Africans
    Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
48. Bird Sound Power
    Equiknoxx
49. Varmints
    Anna Meredith
50. 25 25
    Factory Floor
51. Love Streams
    Tim Hecker
52. Defy a Thing to Be
    Bully Fae
53. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
54. Made in the Manor
    Kano
55. Human Condition
    Bruxa Maria
56. Furfour
    Grumbling Fur
57. You Want It Darker
    Leonard Cohen
58. Shred
    Skee Mask
59. Hubris
    Oren Ambarchi
60. Channel the Spirits
    The Comet Is Coming
61. “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow
    Babyfather
62. No One Deserves Happiness
    The Body
63. Housebound Demigod
    G.H.
64. Thankful Villages, Vol. 1
    Darren Hayman
65. A Pot of Powdered Nettles
    Laniakea
66. Lines
    Waclaw Zimpel
67. Third Law
    Roly Porter
68. Coloring Book
    Chance The Rapper
69. Atlantikwall
    Atlantikwall
70. SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
    SHXCXCHCXSH
71. Adieux Au Dancefloor
    Marie Davidson
72. Pattern Man
    Pattern Man
73. Insight II
    Julien Marchal
74. Lagos Sessions
    Billy Bao
75. Epicycle
    Gyða Valtýsdottir
76. Arbina
    Noura Mint Seymali
77. Remain Calm
    Mica Levi & Oliver Coates
78. Bronze
    Hen Ogledd
79. Disclosure
    Kassem Mosse
80. The Black Meat
    Kristoffer Lo
81. Awake but Always Dreaming
    Hannah Peel
82. Isis and Osiris
    Sam Shalabi
83. In Drum Play
    Pangaea
84. PYR
    Ghold
85. From Patterns to Details
    FIS
86. You Know What It’s Like
    Carla dal Forno
87. The Glowing Man
    Swans
88. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
89. The Best
    Omar S
90. Bottled out of Eden
    Knifeworld
91. Hymns for the Broken, Swollen And Silent
    Gnaw Their Tongues
92. M:FANS
    John Cale
93. Patience
    The Invisible
94. Nocturnal Koreans
    Wire
95. Jackie Lynn
    Circuit Des Yeux
96. Bes
    The Dwarfs of East Agouza
97. Treasure House
    Cat’s Eyes
98. Ahrkh Wagner
    Ahrkh Wagner
99. Last Evenings on Earth
    Melt Yourself Down
100. Strandebarm
     Stein Urheim