Year-End Lists

AllMusic: 48 Best Albums of 2016 (roughly alphabetical by artist)

• A Tribe Called Quest
  We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
• Agnes Obel
  Citizen of Glass
• Alejandro Escovedo
  Burn Something Beautiful
• Amos Lee
  Spirit
• Anderson .Paak
  Malibu
• Andy Stott
  Too Many Voices
• Angel Olsen
  My Woman
• Astronoid
  Air
• Aubrie Sellers
  New City Blues
• Beyoncé
  Lemonade
• Brandy Clark
  Big Day in a Small Town
• Car Seat Headrest
  Teens of Denial
• Charles Bradley
  Changes
• Danny Brown
  Atrocity Exhibition
• David Bowie
  Blackstar
• Donny McCaslin
  Beyond Now
• Drive-By Truckers
  American Band
• Esperanza Spalding
  Emily’s D+Evolution
• Iggy Pop
  Post Pop Depression
• Jenny Hval
  Blood Bitch
• Jessy Lanza
  Oh No
• Jóhann Jóhannsson
  Orphée
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
  EARS
• KAYTRANADA
  99.9%
• Kendrick Lamar
  Untitled Unmastered
• KING
  We Are King
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  Nonagon Infinity
• Kvelertak
  Nattesferd
• Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
  Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 and 2
• Michael Spiro, Wayne Wallace & La Orquestra Sinfonietta
  Canto América
• Leonard Cohen
  You Want It Darker
• Maren Morris
  Hero
• Margo Price
  Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
• Miranda Lambert
  The Weight of These Wings
• Mitski
  Puberty 2
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  Skeleton Tree
• Omni
  Deluxe
• Paul Simon
  Stranger to Stranger
• Radiohead
  A Moon Shaped Pool
• Sarathy Korwar
  Day to Day
• Savages
  Adore Life
• Solange
  A Seat at the Table
• Sturgill Simpson
  A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
• Tegan and Sara
  Love You to Death
• The Dear Hunter
  Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional
• The Rolling Stones
  Blue & Lonesome
• William Tyler
  Modern Country
• Yussef Kamaal
  Black Focus