Year-End Lists

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016 (an annual poll of critics, published by The Village Voice)

1. David Bowie
   Blackstar
2. Beyoncé
   Lemonade
3. A Tribe Called Quest
   We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
4. Chance The Rapper
   Coloring Book
5. Solange
   A Seat at the Table
6. Frank Ocean
   Blond
7. Radiohead
   A Moon Shaped Pool
8. Leonard Cohen
   You Want It Darker
9. Car Seat Headrest
   Teens of Denial
10. Kanye West
    The Life of Pablo
11. Anderson .Paak
    Malibu
12. Angel Olsen
    My Woman
13. Rihanna
    Anti
14. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    Skeleton Tree
15. Mitski
    Puberty 2
16. Sturgill Simpson
    A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
17. Drive-By Truckers
    American Band
18. Bon Iver
    22, A Million
19. Blood Orange
    Freetown Sound
20. Danny Brown
    Atrocity Exhibition
21. The 1975
    I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
22. ANOHNI
    Hopelessness
23. Miranda Lambert
    The Weight of These Wings
24. Kendrick Lamar
    Untitled Unmastered
25. Philip Jeck
    Cardinal
26. Margo Price
    Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
27. Iggy Pop
    Post Pop Depression
28. Maren Morris
    Hero
29. KAYTRANADA
    99.9%
30. The Rolling Stones
    Blue & Lonesome
31. Parquet Courts
    Human Performance
32. Savages
    Adore Life
33. Brandy Clark
    Big Day in a Small Town
34. The Hotelier
    Goodness
35. Noname
    Telefone
36. Esperanza Spalding
    Emily’s D+Evolution
37. Whitney
    Light Upon the Lake
38. Childish Gambino
    Awaken, My Love!
39. KING
    We Are King
40. Jenny Hval
    Blood Bitch
41. Robbie Fulks
    Upland Stories
42. Kevin Gates
    Islah
43. YG
    Still Brazy
44. Paul Simon
    Stranger to Stranger
45. PJ Harvey
    The Hope Six Demolition Project
46. Schoolboy Q
    Blank Face LP
47. 75 Dollar Bill
    Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
48. Michael Kiwanuka
    Love & Hate
49. Jamila Woods
    HEAVN
50. Lambchop
    FLOTUS
51. The Monkees
    Good Times!
52. Maxwell
    blackSUMMERS’night
53. The Avalanches
    Wildflower
54. Young Thug
    Jeffery
55. Nicolas Jaar
    Sirens
56. Heron Oblivion
    Heron Oblivion
57. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
    EARS
58. De La Soul
    and the Anonymous Nobody…
59. Floorplan
    Paradise
60. Jeff Rosenstock
    WORRY.
60. Ka
    Honor Killed the Samurai
62. Lori McKenna
    The Bird & the Rifle
63. Hiss Golden Messenger
    Heart Like a Levee
64. Cymbals Eat Guitars
    Pretty Years
65. Horse Lords
    Interventions
66. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
    I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
67. NxWorries
    Yes Lawd!
68. Japanese Breakfast
    Psychopomp
69. Steve Gunn
    Eyes on the Lines
70. Lucinda Williams
    The Ghosts of Highway 20
71. Kevin Morby
    Singing Saw
71. Lydia Loveless
    Real
73. William Tyler
    Modern Country
74. PUP
    The Dream Is Over
75. Xenia Rubinos
    Black Terry Cat
76. Dawn Richard
    Redemption
77. case/lang/veirs
    case/lang/veirs
77. Jeff Parker
    The New Breed
79. Conor Oberst
    Ruminations
80. Aesop Rock
    The Impossible Kid
80. Wilco
    Schmilco
82. Bob Mould
    Patch the Sky
83. Charles Bradley
    Changes
84. Martha
    Blisters In the Pit of My Heart
85. William Bell
    This Is Where I Live
86. Mary Halvorson Octet
    Away with You
86. Tim Hecker
    Love Streams
88. Autechre
    elseq 1-5
89. Dinosaur Jr.
    Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
90. Huerco S
    For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
90. Vijay Iyer & Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
    A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke
92. Chairlift
    Moth
93. Kamaiyah
    A Good Night in the Ghetto
94. A Tribe Called Red
    We Are the Halluci Nation
95. Lady Gaga
    Joanne
96. Elza Soares
    A Mulher do Fim do Mundo
96. James Blake
    The Colour in Anything
98. Cobalt
    Slow Forever
99. Cass McCombs
    Mangy Love
100. Metallica
     Hardwired… to Self-Destruct