The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2016
[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Årabrot — The Gospel
- Solange — A Seat at the Table
- Innercity Ensemble — III
- Jessy Lanza — Oh No
- Shirley Collins — Lodestar
- The Fat White Family — Songs for Our Mothers
- David Bowie — Blackstar
- Ian William Craig — Centres
- Dawn Richard — Redemption
- Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- Laura Cannell — Simultaneous Flight Movement
- Matmos — Ultimate Care II
- Klara Lewis — Too
- Skepta — Konnichiwa
- The Caretaker — Everywhere at the End of Time
- Oranssi Pazuzu — Värähtelijä
- Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini — Devotional Songs
- Peder Mannerfelt — Controlling Body
- Marissa Nadler — Strangers
- Sote — Hardcore Sounds From Tehran
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
- Katie Gately — Color
- Sex Swing — Sex Swing
- Brian Eno — The Ship
- KING — We Are King
- Gnod — Mirror
- Wolfgang Buttress & Bees — Be One
- Jute Gyte — Perdurance
- Huerco S — For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
- Blood Orange — Freetown Sound
- The Stargazer’s Assistant — Remoteness Of Light
- A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- Julianna Barwick — Will
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Suede — Night Thoughts
- Jambinai — A Hermitage
- Convextion — 2845
- Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
- Kemper Norton — Toll
- Puce Mary — The Spiral
- Black Merlin — Hipnotik Tradisi
- Daniel Patrick Quinn — I, Sun
- Lord Tang — Butterflies
- Underworld — Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani — FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
- Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids — We Be All Africans
- Equiknoxx — Bird Sound Power
- Anna Meredith — Varmints
- Factory Floor — 25 25
- Tim Hecker — Love Streams
- Bully Fae — Defy a Thing to Be
- Beyoncé — Lemonade
- Kano — Made in the Manor
- Bruxa Maria — Human Condition
- Grumbling Fur — Furfour
- Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
- Skee Mask — Shred
- Oren Ambarchi — Hubris
- The Comet Is Coming — Channel the Spirits
- Babyfather — “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow
- The Body — No One Deserves Happiness
- G.H. — Housebound Demigod
- Darren Hayman — Thankful Villages, Vol. 1
- Laniakea — A Pot of Powdered Nettles
- Waclaw Zimpel — Lines
- Roly Porter — Third Law
- Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book
- Atlantikwall — Atlantikwall
- SHXCXCHCXSH — SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
- Marie Davidson — Adieux Au Dancefloor
- Pattern Man — Pattern Man
- Julien Marchal — Insight II
- Billy Bao — Lagos Sessions
- Gyða Valtýsdottir — Epicycle
- Noura Mint Seymali — Arbina
- Mica Levi & Oliver Coates — Remain Calm
- Hen Ogledd — Bronze
- Kassem Mosse — Disclosure
- Kristoffer Lo — The Black Meat
- Hannah Peel — Awake but Always Dreaming
- Sam Shalabi — Isis and Osiris
- Pangaea — In Drum Play
- Ghold — PYR
- FIS — From Patterns to Details
- Carla dal Forno — You Know What It’s Like
- Swans — The Glowing Man
- Bon Iver — 22, A Million
- Omar S — The Best
- Knifeworld — Bottled out of Eden
- Gnaw Their Tongues — Hymns for the Broken, Swollen And Silent
- John Cale — M:FANS
- The Invisible — Patience
- Wire — Nocturnal Koreans
- Circuit Des Yeux — Jackie Lynn
- The Dwarfs of East Agouza — Bes
- Cat’s Eyes — Treasure House
- Ahrkh Wagner — Ahrkh Wagner
- Melt Yourself Down — Last Evenings on Earth
- Stein Urheim — Strandebarm