Year-End Lists

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2016 Music

Flood: The Best Records of 2016

11 December 2016

Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Flood Magazine: The Best Records of 2016

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014]

  1. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  2. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
  3. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
  4. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
  5. You Want It Darker
    Leonard Cohen
  6. The Party
    Andy Shauf
  7. Blackstar
    David Bowie
  8. The Life of Pablo
    Kanye West
  9. Jumping the Shark
    Alex Cameron
  10. Blond
    Frank Ocean
  11. Untitled Unmastered
    Kendrick Lamar
  12. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
  13. Coloring Book
    Chance The Rapper
  14. Preoccupations
    Preoccupations
  15. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
  16. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
  17. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
  18. Mowing
    Michael Nau
  19. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
  20. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
  21. Crab Day
    Cate Le Bon
  22. Black Terry Cat
    Xenia Rubinos
  23. Post Pop Depression
    Iggy Pop
  24. Mangy Love
    Cass McCombs
  25. Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
    Margo Price

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