Year-End Lists

Treble: The Top 50 Albums of 2016

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1. Blackstar
   David Bowie
2. Coloring Book
   Chance The Rapper
3. Teens of Denial
   Car Seat Headrest
4. A Moon Shaped Pool
   Radiohead
5. Blond
   Frank Ocean
6. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
7. Skeleton Tree
   Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
8. The Life of Pablo
   Kanye West
9. Atrocity Exhibition
   Danny Brown
10. Adore Life
    Savages
11. Freetown Sound
    Blood Orange
12. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
13. 22, A Million
    Bon Iver
14. A Seat at the Table
    Solange
15. Untitled Unmastered
    Kendrick Lamar
16. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
17. You Want It Darker
    Leonard Cohen
18. Paradise
    White Lung
19. Puberty 2
    Mitski
20. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
21. Marked for Death
    Emma Ruth Rundle
22. Fires Within Fires
    Neurosis
23. Next Thing
    Frankie Cosmos
24. Purple
    Baroness
25. Malibu
    Anderson .Paak
26. Paradise Gallows
    Inter Arma
27. Värähtelijä
    Oranssi Pazuzu
28. Before A Million Universes
    Big Ups
29. Love Streams
    Tim Hecker
30. Varmints
    Anna Meredith
31. A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
    Sturgill Simpson
32. The Glowing Man
    Swans
33. Preoccupations
    Preoccupations
34. Turn To Gold
    Diarrhea Planet
35. Sirens
    Nicolas Jaar
36. Hopelessness
    ANOHNI
37. Hunted
    Khemmis
38. For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
    SubRosa
39. Emily’s D+Evolution
    Esperanza Spalding
40. Cardinal
    Pinegrove
41. No One Deserves Happiness
    The Body
42. Evol
    Future
43. blackSUMMERS’night
    Maxwell
44. Convenience
    Pill
45. Stage Four
    Touché Amoré
46. King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude
    Pusha T
47. The Bride
    Bat for Lashes
48. A Corpse Wired For Sound
    Merchandise
49. Dead Revolution
    Hammers of Misfortune
50. Rheia
    Oathbreaker