Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Beyoncé — Lemonade
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book
- A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- David Bowie — Blackstar
- Solange — A Seat at the Table
- Angel Olsen — My Woman
- Mitski — Puberty 2
- Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
- Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial
- Anderson .Paak — Malibu
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Schoolboy Q — Blank Face LP
- Bon Iver — 22, A Million
- Kamaiyah — A Good Night in the Ghetto
- White Lung — Paradise
- Katie Dey — Flood Network
- ANOHNI — Hopelessness
- Rihanna — Anti
- The 1975 — I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
- PUP — The Dream Is Over
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
- Pinegrove — Cardinal
- Cobalt — Slow Forever
- Sturgill Simpson — A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
- Japanese Breakfast — Psychopomp
- Noname — Telefone
- Mal Devisa — Kiid
- Abi Reimold — Wriggling
- Cass McCombs — Mangy Love
- YG — Still Brazy
- IAN SWEET — Shapeshifter
- Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
- Mannequin Pussy — Romantic
- KAYTRANADA — 99.9%
- Jamila Woods — HEAVN
- Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch
- The Hotelier — Goodness
- Kendrick Lamar — Untitled Unmastered
- Crying — Beyond the Fleeting Gales
- James Blake — The Colour in Anything
- M83 — Junk
- Frankie Cosmos — Next Thing
- Margaret Glaspy — Emotions and Math
- Touché Amoré — Stage Four
- Lydia Loveless — Real
- Tim Hecker — Love Streams
- Kvelertak — Nattesferd
- Modern Baseball — Holy Ghost