Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2016
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]
- David Bowie — Blackstar
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
- Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
- Ryley Walker — Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
- PJ Harvey — The Hope Six Demolition Project
- Sturgill Simpson — A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
- ANOHNI — Hopelessness
- Teenage Fanclub — Here
- Beyoncé — Lemonade
- Thee Oh Sees — A Weird Exits
- Brian Eno — The Ship
- Drive-By Truckers — American Band
- Bon Iver — 22, A Million
- Wilco — Schmilco
- Hiss Golden Messenger — Heart Like a Levee
- Cavern of Anti-Matter — Void Beats / Invocation Trex
- Solange — A Seat at the Table
- Lambchop — FLOTUS
- Angel Olsen — My Woman
- William Tyler — Modern Country
- The Avalanches — Wildflower
- Margo Price — Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
- Paul Simon — Stranger to Stranger
- Iggy Pop — Post Pop Depression
- Cate Le Bon — Crab Day
- Shirley Collins — Lodestar
- case/lang/veirs — case/lang/veirs
- Kendrick Lamar — Untitled Unmastered
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- Cass McCombs — Mangy Love
- 75 Dollar Bill — Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Nonagon Infinity
- Lucinda Williams — The Ghosts of Highway 20
- Eleanor Friedberger — New View
- Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch
- Tim Hecker — Love Streams
- Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band — The Rarity of Experience
- Shovels and Rope — Little Seeds
- Let’s Eat Grandma — I, Gemini
- Anna Meredith — Varmints
- Brigid Mae Power — Brigid Mae Power
- Róisín Murphy — Take Her Up to Monto
- Okkervil River — Away
- KING — We Are King
- Swans — The Glowing Man
- The Handsome Family — Unseen
- Skepta — Konnichiwa
- Christine and the Queens — Chaleur Humaine
- Kevin Morby — Singing Saw
- Underworld — Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
- various artists — Day of the Dead
- Hinds — Leave Me Alone
- Robbie Fulks — Upland Stories
- Soundwalk Collective / Patti Smith / Jesse Paris Smith — Killer Road
- Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition
- Maxwell — blackSUMMERS’night
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — EARS
- Billy Bragg & Joe Henry — Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad
- Ty Segall — Emotional Mugger
- John Cale — Music for a New Society/M:FANS
- Ian William Craig — Centres
- Richmond Fontaine — You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To
- Gruff Rhys — Set Fire to the Stars
- Emma Pollock — In Search of Harperfield
- Charles Bradley — Changes
- Steve Gunn — Eyes on the Lines
- The Coral — Distance Inbetween
- Allen Toussaint — American Tunes
- Kiran Leonard — Grapefruit
- The Comet Is Coming — Channel the Spirits
- Oren Ambarchi — Hubris
- Heron Oblivion — Heron Oblivion
- Melt Yourself Down — Last Evenings on Earth
- Innercity Ensemble — III