Year-End Lists

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2016

1. David Bowie
   Blackstar
2. Radiohead
   A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Angel Olsen
   My Woman
4. M83
   Junk
5. Blood Orange
   Freetown Sound
6. Parquet Courts
   Human Performance
7. Car Seat Headrest
   Teens of Denial
8. Leonard Cohen
   You Want It Darker
9. Weyes Blood
   Front Row Seat to Earth
10. Jim James
    Eternally Even
11. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    Skeleton Tree
12. Underworld
    Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future
13. Wye Oak
    Tween
14. Bat for Lashes
    The Bride
15. Lush
    Blind Spot
16. A Tribe Called Quest
    We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
17. The Radio Dept.
    Running out of Love
18. Bon Iver
    22, A Million
19. DIIV
    Is the Is Are
20. The Avalanches
    Wildflower
21. Yeasayer
    Amen & Goodbye
22. Solange
    A Seat at the Table
23. Charlie Hilton
    Palana
24. Wild Beasts
    Boy King
25. Glass Animals
    How to Be a Human Being
26. Mitski
    Puberty 2
27. Britta Phillips
    Luck or Magic
28. Cass McCombs
    Mangy Love
29. School Of Seven Bells
    SVIIB
30. Beyoncé
    Lemonade
31. Caveman
    Otero War
32. Frankie Cosmos
    Next Thing
33. Danny Brown
    Atrocity Exhibition
34. Sunflower Bean
    Human Ceremony
35. Frank Ocean
    Blond
36. C Duncan
    The Midnight Sun
37. Wild Nothing
    Life of Pause
38. Flock of Dimes
    If You See Me, Say Yes
39. The Veils
    Total Depravity
40. Primal Scream
    Chaosmosis
41. Savages
    Adore Life
42. Chance The Rapper
    Coloring Book
43. Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan
    Take It, It's Yours
44. Kevin Morby
    Singing Saw
45. Jamie Lidell
    Building a Beginning
46. Minor Victories
    Minor Victories
47. Amber Arcades
    Fading Lines
48. Lucy Dacus
    No Burden
49. Boxed In
    Melt
50. The Lemon Twigs
    Do Hollywood
51. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
    Nonagon Infinity
52. NZCA Lines
    Infinite Summer
53. James Blake
    The Colour in Anything
54. PJ Harvey
    The Hope Six Demolition Project
55. Cymbals Eat Guitars
    Pretty Years
56. Luke Temple
    A Hand Through The Cellar Door
57. Anderson .Paak
    Malibu
58. Springtime Carnivore
    Midnight Room
59. Jagwar Ma
    Every Now & Then
60. Whitney
    Light Upon the Lake
61. Chairlift
    Moth
62. Mass Gothic
    Mass Gothic
63. Lambchop
    FLOTUS
64. Soft Hair
    Soft Hair
65. The Divine Comedy
    Foreverland
66. Xiu Xiu
    Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
67. Jenny Hval
    Blood Bitch
68. TEEN
    Love Yes
69. ANOHNI
    Hopelessness
70. Shearwater
    Jet Plane and Oxbow
71. Warpaint
    Heads Up
72. Psychic Twin
    Strange Diary
73. Still Corners
    Dead Blue
74. Thomas Cohen
    Bloom Forever
75. Wilco
    Schmilco
76. Merchandise
    A Corpse Wired For Sound
77. Teenage Fanclub
    Here
78. Woods
    City Sun Eater in the River of Light
79. Metronomy
    Summer 08
80. Black Mountain
    IV
81. Marlon Williams
    Marlon Williams
82. Tim Hecker
    Love Streams
83. Preoccupations
    Preoccupations
84. Field Music
    Commontime
85. Frightened Rabbit
    Painting of a Panic Attack
86. Teleman
    Brilliant Sanity
87. Yann Tiersen
    EUSA
88. Iggy Pop
    Post Pop Depression
89. Quilt
    Plaza
90. The Invisible
    Patience
91. of Montreal
    Innocence Reaches
92. Suede
    Night Thoughts
93. Weird Dreams
    Luxury Alone
94. Fear of Men
    Fall Forever
95. Slow Club
    One Day All Of This Won't Matter Any More
96. Julianna Barwick
    Will
97. Steve Gunn
    Eyes on the Lines
98. Tegan and Sara
    Love You to Death
99. Plants and Animals
    Waltzed in from the Rumbling
100. Cat’s Eyes
     Treasure House