Year-End Lists

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2016 Music

Brooklyn Vegan: Top Albums of 2016

20 December 2016

My Woman - Angel Olsen

Brooklyn Vegan: Top Albums of 2016

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
  2. Slow Forever
    Cobalt
  3. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
  4. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
  5. Puberty 2
    Mitski
  6. Cody
    Joyce Manor
  7. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
  8. Blackstar
    David Bowie
  9. Nattesferd
    Kvelertak
  10. Cardinal
    Pinegrove
  11. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
  12. Teens of Denial
    Car Seat Headrest
  13. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
  14. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  15. Blond
    Frank Ocean
  16. Endless
    Frank Ocean
  17. You Want It Darker
    Leonard Cohen
  18. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
  19. Paradise Gallows
    Inter Arma
  20. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
  21. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
  22. A Good Night in the Ghetto
    Kamaiyah
  23. Goodness
    The Hotelier
  24. Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
    Margo Price
  25. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
  26. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
  27. Running out of Love
    The Radio Dept.
  28. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
    Sturgill Simpson
  29. Rheia
    Oathbreaker
  30. Commontime
    Field Music
  31. Love & Hate
    Michael Kiwanuka
  32. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
  33. Singing Saw
    Kevin Morby
  34. Still Brazy
    YG
  35. Hypercaffium Spazzinate
    Descendents
  36. Blank Face LP
    Schoolboy Q
  37. Potential
    The Range
  38. FLOTUS
    Lambchop
  39. Void Beats / Invocation Trex
    Cavern of Anti-Matter
  40. A Coliseum Complex Museum
    The Besnard Lakes
  41. American Football (LP2)
    American Football
  42. Let Them Eat Chaos
    Kate Tempest
  43. Eyes on the Lines
    Steve Gunn
  44. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
  45. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
  46. City Sun Eater in the River of Light
    Woods

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