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2016 Music

The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2016

21 December 2016

Blackstar - David Bowie

The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2016

[see also 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Blackstar
    David Bowie
  2. Masterpiece
    Big Thief
  3. Coloring Book
    Chance The Rapper
  4. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
  5. What Will Destroy You
    Kyle Morton
  6. Next Thing
    Frankie Cosmos
  7. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
  8. Skin
    Flume
  9. Puberty 2
    Mitski
  10. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
  11. Care
    How to Dress Well
  12. Views
    Drake
  13. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
  14. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
  15. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
  16. The Party
    Andy Shauf
  17. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
  18. The Colour in Anything
    James Blake
  19. Blond
    Frank Ocean
  20. Psychopomp
    Japanese Breakfast
  21. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
  22. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
  23. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
  24. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
  25. Slugger
    Sad13
  26. Ruminations
    Conor Oberst
  27. Emotions and Math
    Margaret Glaspy
  28. Requiem
    Goat
  29. Moth
    Chairlift
  30. You Want It Darker
    Leonard Cohen

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