Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Top 100 Albums of 2016

1. Årabrot
   The Gospel
2. Solange
   A Seat at the Table
3. Innercity Ensemble
   III
4. Jessy Lanza
   Oh No
5. Shirley Collins
   Lodestar
6. The Fat White Family
   Songs for Our Mothers
7. David Bowie
   Blackstar
8. Ian William Craig
   Centres
9. Dawn Richard
   Redemption
10. Jenny Hval
    Blood Bitch
11. Frank Ocean
    Blond
12. Laura Cannell
    Simultaneous Flight Movement
13. Matmos
    Ultimate Care II
14. Klara Lewis
    Too
15. Skepta
    Konnichiwa
16. The Caretaker
    Everywhere at the End of Time
17. Oranssi Pazuzu
    Värähtelijä
18. Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini
    Devotional Songs
19. Peder Mannerfelt
    Controlling Body
20. Marissa Nadler
    Strangers
21. Sote
    Hardcore Sounds From Tehran
22. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    Skeleton Tree
23. Katie Gately
    Color
24. Sex Swing
    Sex Swing
25. Brian Eno
    The Ship
26. KING
    We Are King
27. Gnod
    Mirror
28. Wolfgang Buttress & Bees
    Be One
29. Jute Gyte
    Perdurance
30. Huerco S
    For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
31. Blood Orange
    Freetown Sound
32. The Stargazer’s Assistant
    Remoteness Of Light
33. A Tribe Called Quest
    We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
34. Julianna Barwick
    Will
35. Radiohead
    A Moon Shaped Pool
36. Suede
    Night Thoughts
37. Jambinai
    A Hermitage
38. Convextion
    2845
39. Kanye West
    The Life of Pablo
40. Kemper Norton
    Toll
41. Puce Mary
    The Spiral
42. Black Merlin
    Hipnotik Tradisi
43. Daniel Patrick Quinn
    I, Sun
44. Lord Tang
    Butterflies
45. Underworld
    Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
46. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani
    FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy
47. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
    We Be All Africans
48. Equiknoxx
    Bird Sound Power
49. Anna Meredith
    Varmints
50. Factory Floor
    25 25
51. Tim Hecker
    Love Streams
52. Bully Fae
    Defy a Thing to Be
53. Beyoncé
    Lemonade
54. Kano
    Made in the Manor
55. Bruxa Maria
    Human Condition
56. Grumbling Fur
    Furfour
57. Leonard Cohen
    You Want It Darker
58. Skee Mask
    Shred
59. Oren Ambarchi
    Hubris
60. The Comet Is Coming
    Channel the Spirits
61. Babyfather
    “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow
62. The Body
    No One Deserves Happiness
63. G.H.
    Housebound Demigod
64. Darren Hayman
    Thankful Villages, Vol. 1
65. Laniakea
    A Pot of Powdered Nettles
66. Waclaw Zimpel
    Lines
67. Roly Porter
    Third Law
68. Chance The Rapper
    Coloring Book
69. Atlantikwall
    Atlantikwall
70. SHXCXCHCXSH
    SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs
71. Marie Davidson
    Adieux Au Dancefloor
72. Pattern Man
    Pattern Man
73. Julien Marchal
    Insight II
74. Billy Bao
    Lagos Sessions
75. Gyða Valtýsdottir
    Epicycle
76. Noura Mint Seymali
    Arbina
77. Mica Levi & Oliver Coates
    Remain Calm
78. Hen Ogledd
    Bronze
79. Kassem Mosse
    Disclosure
80. Kristoffer Lo
    The Black Meat
81. Hannah Peel
    Awake but Always Dreaming
82. Sam Shalabi
    Isis and Osiris
83. Pangaea
    In Drum Play
84. Ghold
    PYR
85. FIS
    From Patterns to Details
86. Carla dal Forno
    You Know What It’s Like
87. Swans
    The Glowing Man
88. Bon Iver
    22, A Million
89. Omar S
    The Best
90. Knifeworld
    Bottled out of Eden
91. Gnaw Their Tongues
    Hymns for the Broken, Swollen And Silent
92. John Cale
    M:FANS
93. The Invisible
    Patience
94. Wire
    Nocturnal Koreans
95. Circuit Des Yeux
    Jackie Lynn
96. The Dwarfs of East Agouza
    Bes
97. Cat’s Eyes
    Treasure House
98. Ahrkh Wagner
    Ahrkh Wagner
99. Melt Yourself Down
    Last Evenings on Earth
100. Stein Urheim
     Strandebarm