Year-End Lists

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016

1. Beyoncé
   Lemonade
2. Frank Ocean
   Blond
3. Chance The Rapper
   Coloring Book
4. A Tribe Called Quest
   We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
5. David Bowie
   Blackstar
6. Solange
   A Seat at the Table
7. Angel Olsen
   My Woman
8. Mitski
   Puberty 2
9. Kanye West
   The Life of Pablo
10. Danny Brown
    Atrocity Exhibition
11. Car Seat Headrest
    Teens of Denial
12. Anderson .Paak
    Malibu
13. Radiohead
    A Moon Shaped Pool
14. Schoolboy Q
    Blank Face LP
15. Bon Iver
    22, A Million
16. Kamaiyah
    A Good Night in the Ghetto
17. White Lung
    Paradise
18. Katie Dey
    Flood Network
19. ANOHNI
    Hopelessness
20. Rihanna
    Anti
21. The 1975
    I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
22. PUP
    The Dream Is Over
23. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    Skeleton Tree
24. Pinegrove
    Cardinal
25. Cobalt
    Slow Forever
26. Sturgill Simpson
    A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
27. Japanese Breakfast
    Psychopomp
28. Noname
    Telefone
29. Mal Devisa
    Kiid
30. Abi Reimold
    Wriggling
31. Cass McCombs
    Mangy Love
32. YG
    Still Brazy
33. IAN SWEET
    Shapeshifter
34. Leonard Cohen
    You Want It Darker
35. Mannequin Pussy
    Romantic
36. KAYTRANADA
    99.9%
37. Jamila Woods
    HEAVN
38. Jenny Hval
    Blood Bitch
39. The Hotelier
    Goodness
40. Kendrick Lamar
    Untitled Unmastered
41. Crying
    Beyond the Fleeting Gales
42. James Blake
    The Colour in Anything
43. M83
    Junk
44. Frankie Cosmos
    Next Thing
45. Margaret Glaspy
    Emotions and Math
46. Touché Amoré
    Stage Four
47. Lydia Loveless
    Real
48. Tim Hecker
    Love Streams
49. Kvelertak
    Nattesferd
50. Modern Baseball
    Holy Ghost