Year-End Lists

The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2016

1. Frank Ocean
   Blond
2. Solange
   A Seat at the Table
3. Bon Iver
   22, A Million
4. Anderson .Paak
   Malibu
5. Angel Olsen
   My Woman
6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
   Skeleton Tree
7. David Bowie
   Blackstar
8. Anohni
   Hopelessness
9. Parquet Courts
   Human Performance
10. Beyoncé
    Lemonade
11. Radiohead
    A Moon Shaped Pool
12. Car Seat Headrest
    Teens of Denial
13. Tacocat
    Lost Time
14. Chance The Rapper
    Coloring Book
15. Mitski
    Puberty 2
16. Blood Orange
    Freetown Sound
17. Anna Meredith
    Varmints
18. Nao
    For All We Know
19. Shura
    Nothing’s Real
20. Pinegrove
    Cardinal
21. The 1975
    I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
22. Leon Vynehall
    Rojus (Designed to Dance)
23. Kanye West
    The Life of Pablo
24. Savages
    Adore Life
25. KAYTRANADA
    99.9%
26. Frankie Cosmos
    Next Thing
27. Nicolas Jaar
    Sirens
28. James Blake
    The Colour in Anything
29. Noname
    Telefone
30. Danny Brown
    Atrocity Exhibition
31. Wild Beasts
    Boy King
32. Julianna Barwick
    Will
33. Hinds
    Leave Me Alone
34. Julia Jacklin
    Don’t Let the Kids Win
35. Moor Mother
    Fetish Bones
36. Glass Animals
    How to Be a Human Being
37. Frightened Rabbit
    Painting of a Panic Attack
38. Whitney
    Light Upon the Lake
39. Parra for Cuva
    Darwîś
40. Gold Panda
    Good Luck And Do Your Best
41. Teenage Fanclub
    Here
42. Shield Patterns
    Mirror Breathing
43. Honeyblood
    Babes Never Die
44. Kevin Morby
    Singing Saw
45. American Football
    American Football (LP2)
46. Law Holt
    City
47. Steve Mason
    Meet the Humans
48. De Rosa
    Weem
49. Carly Rae Jepsen
    E•MO•TION: Side B
50. Daughter
    Not to Disappear