Year-End Lists

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016

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1. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
2. Blond
   Frank Ocean
3. Coloring Book
   Chance The Rapper
4. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
   A Tribe Called Quest
5. Blackstar
   David Bowie
6. A Seat at the Table
   Solange
7. My Woman
   Angel Olsen
8. Puberty 2
   Mitski
9. The Life of Pablo
   Kanye West
10. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
11. Teens of Denial
    Car Seat Headrest
12. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
13. A Moon Shaped Pool
    Radiohead
14. Blank Face LP
    Schoolboy Q
15. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
16. A Good Night in the Ghetto
    Kamaiyah
17. Paradise
    White Lung
18. Flood Network
    Katie Dey
19. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
20. Anti
    Rihanna
21. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
    The 1975
22. The Dream Is Over
    PUP
23. Skeleton Tree
    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
24. Cardinal
    Pinegrove
25. Slow Forever
    Cobalt
26. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
    Sturgill Simpson
27. Psychopomp
    Japanese Breakfast
28. Telefone
    Noname
29. Kiid
    Mal Devisa
30. Wriggling
    Abi Reimold
31. Mangy Love
    Cass McCombs
32. Still Brazy
    YG
33. Shapeshifter
    IAN SWEET
34. You Want It Darker
    Leonard Cohen
35. Romantic
    Mannequin Pussy
36. 99.9%
    KAYTRANADA
37. HEAVN
    Jamila Woods
38. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
39. Goodness
    The Hotelier
40. Untitled Unmastered
    Kendrick Lamar
41. Beyond the Fleeting Gales
    Crying
42. The Colour in Anything
    James Blake
43. Junk
    M83
44. Next Thing
    Frankie Cosmos
45. Emotions and Math
    Margaret Glaspy
46. Stage Four
    Touché Amoré
47. Real
    Lydia Loveless
48. Love Streams
    Tim Hecker
49. Nattesferd
    Kvelertak
50. Holy Ghost
    Modern Baseball