Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)
[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- David Bowie — Blackstar
- Beyoncé — Lemonade
- A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
- Chance The Rapper — Coloring Book
- Solange — A Seat at the Table
- Frank Ocean — Blond
- Radiohead — A Moon Shaped Pool
- Leonard Cohen — You Want It Darker
- Car Seat Headrest — Teens of Denial
- Kanye West — The Life of Pablo
- Anderson .Paak — Malibu
- Angel Olsen — My Woman
- Rihanna — Anti
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds — Skeleton Tree
- Mitski — Puberty 2
- Sturgill Simpson — A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
- Drive-By Truckers — American Band
- Bon Iver — 22, A Million
- Blood Orange — Freetown Sound
- Danny Brown — Atrocity Exhibition
- The 1975 — I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
- ANOHNI — Hopelessness
- Miranda Lambert — The Weight of These Wings
- Kendrick Lamar — Untitled Unmastered
- Philip Jeck — Cardinal
- Margo Price — Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
- Iggy Pop — Post Pop Depression
- Maren Morris — Hero
- KAYTRANADA — 99.9%
- The Rolling Stones — Blue & Lonesome
- Parquet Courts — Human Performance
- Savages — Adore Life
- Brandy Clark — Big Day in a Small Town
- The Hotelier — Goodness
- Noname — Telefone
- Esperanza Spalding — Emily’s D+Evolution
- Whitney — Light Upon the Lake
- Childish Gambino — Awaken, My Love!
- KING — We Are King
- Jenny Hval — Blood Bitch
- Robbie Fulks — Upland Stories
- Kevin Gates — Islah
- YG — Still Brazy
- Paul Simon — Stranger to Stranger
- PJ Harvey — The Hope Six Demolition Project
- Schoolboy Q — Blank Face LP
- 75 Dollar Bill — Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
- Michael Kiwanuka — Love & Hate
- Jamila Woods — HEAVN
- Lambchop — FLOTUS
- The Monkees — Good Times!
- Maxwell — blackSUMMERS’night
- The Avalanches — Wildflower
- Young Thug — Jeffery
- Nicolas Jaar — Sirens
- Heron Oblivion — Heron Oblivion
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — EARS
- De La Soul — and the Anonymous Nobody…
- Floorplan — Paradise
- Jeff Rosenstock — WORRY.
- Ka — Honor Killed the Samurai
- Lori McKenna — The Bird & the Rifle
- Hiss Golden Messenger — Heart Like a Levee
- Cymbals Eat Guitars — Pretty Years
- Horse Lords — Interventions
- Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam — I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
- NxWorries — Yes Lawd!
- Japanese Breakfast — Psychopomp
- Steve Gunn — Eyes on the Lines
- Lucinda Williams — The Ghosts of Highway 20
- Kevin Morby — Singing Saw
- Lydia Loveless — Real
- William Tyler — Modern Country
- PUP — The Dream Is Over
- Xenia Rubinos — Black Terry Cat
- Dawn Richard — Redemption
- case/lang/veirs — case/lang/veirs
- Jeff Parker — The New Breed
- Conor Oberst — Ruminations
- Aesop Rock — The Impossible Kid
- Wilco — Schmilco
- Bob Mould — Patch the Sky
- Charles Bradley — Changes
- Martha — Blisters In the Pit of My Heart
- William Bell — This Is Where I Live
- Mary Halvorson Octet — Away with You
- Tim Hecker — Love Streams
- Autechre — elseq 1-5
- Dinosaur Jr. — Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
- Huerco S — For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
- Vijay Iyer & Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith — A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
- Chairlift — Moth
- Kamaiyah — A Good Night in the Ghetto
- A Tribe Called Red — We Are the Halluci Nation
- Lady Gaga — Joanne
- Elza Soares — A Mulher do Fim do Mundo
- James Blake — The Colour in Anything
- Cobalt — Slow Forever
- Cass McCombs — Mangy Love
- Metallica — Hardwired… to Self-Destruct