My favorite albums of 2016

No pre-amble necessary. Here are my favorite albums of 2016.

1. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
2. The Hotelier – Goodness
3. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
4. Pinegrove – Cardinal
5. Touche Amore – Stage Four
6. Mitski – Puberty 2
7. Frank Ocean – Blonde
8. Blowout – No Beer, No Dad
9. Carly Rae Jepsen – E-MO-TION B-Side
10. Vince Staples – Prima Donna
11. Pup – The Dream Is Over
12. For Everest – We Are At Home In The Body
13. Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death
14. Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost
15. Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
16. Pity Sex – White Hot Moon
17. Joyce Manor – Cody
18. Nick Jonas – Last Year Was Complicated
19. Shura – Nothing is Real
20. blink-182 – California
21. Kevin Gates – Islah
22. Real Friends – The Home Inside My Head
23. Anderson .Paak – Malibu
24. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here…
25. Young Thug – Jeffery
26. Solange – A Seat at the Table
27. YG – Still Brazy
28. Panic! At the Disco – Death of a Bachelor
29. The Weeknd – Starboy
30. Angel Olsen – My Woman
31. Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
32. Agaisnt the Current – In Our Bones
33. Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife 2
34. Drake – Views
35. The Thermals – We Disappear
36. Beyonce – Lemonade
37. Gucci Mane – Everybody Looking
38. Childish Gambino – Awaken, My Love!
39. Big Thief – Masterpiece
40. Thrice – To Be Everywhere is to Be Nowhere
41. Against Me! – Shape Shift with Me
42. Jimmy Eat World – Integrity Blues
43. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
44. School Boy Q – Black Face
45. Taking Back Sunday – Tidal Wave
46. Mac Miller – The Divine Feminine
47. Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide to Earth
48. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
49. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
50. Gallant – Ology