Year-End Lists

Les Inrockuptibles: 50 Best Albums of 2016

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1. Blackstar
   David Bowie
2. Mystère
   La Femme
3. Blond
   Frank Ocean
4. Do Hollywood
   The Lemon Twigs
5. Dans la légende
   PNL
6. The Life of Pablo
   Kanye West
7. You Want It Darker
   Leonard Cohen
8. Views
   Drake
9. Jumping the Shark
   Alex Cameron
10. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
11. The Hope Six Demolition Project
    PJ Harvey
12. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
13. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
14. You & I
    ALA.NI
15. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
16. Love & Hate
    Michael Kiwanuka
17. Starboy
    The Weeknd
18. Mémoires vives
    Grand Blanc
19. Front Row Seat to Earth
    Weyes Blood
20. Soft Hair
    Soft Hair
21. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
22. The Colour in Anything
    James Blake
23. Carrément carrément
    The Pirouettes
24. Palermo Hollywood
    Benjamin Biolay
25. Jeffery
    Young Thug
26. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
27. Primitives
    Bayonne
28. Orphée
    Jóhann Jóhannsson
29. Woman
    Justice
30. Dérangé
    Lescop
31. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
32. New Misery
    Cullen Omori
33. Arbina
    Noura Mint Seymali
34. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
35. The Quirky Lost Tapes 1993-1995
    El’Blaszczyk Rock Band Himself
36. Commontime
    Field Music
37. Blank Face LP
    Schoolboy Q
38. Anti
    Rihanna
39. “Б”
    Bjarki
40. Songs for Our Mothers
    The Fat White Family
41. Moriarty & Friends Presents: Zanz in lanfér
    Wati Watia Zorey Band
42. Introducing Karl Blau
    Karl Blau
43. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
44. AIM
    M.I.A.
45. Is the Is Are
    DIIV
46. Recto Verso
    Paradis
47. Tropix
    Céu
48. Les Filles de Illighadad
    Fatou Seidi Ghali & Alamnou Akrouni
49. Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing
    Lost Under Heaven
50. Radiant
    DJ Pone