Year-End Lists

Gorilla vs. Bear: 60 Favorite Albums of 2016

1. A Tribe Called Quest
   We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
2. Jessy Lanza
   Oh No
3. Kedr Livanskiy
   January Sun
4. KAYTRANADA
   99.9%
5. Radiohead
   A Moon Shaped Pool
6. Frank Ocean
   Blond
7. DIANA
   Familiar Touch
8. Kornél Kovács
   The Bells
9. Burial
   Young Death / Nightmarket
10. Beyoncé
    Lemonade
11. Weyes Blood
    Front Row Seat to Earth
12. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
    Stranger Things OST Volumes 1 and 2
13. Kendrick Lamar
    Untitled Unmastered
14. Yumi Zouma
    Yoncalla
15. various artists
    Sky Girl: Compiled by Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae
16. Fear of Men
    Fall Forever
17. Cross Record
    Wabi-Sabi
18. Andy Shauf
    The Party
19. S U R V I V E
    RR7349
20. Danny Brown
    Atrocity Exhibition
21. Negative Gemini
    Body Work
22. Hoops
    Hoops / Tape #2 / Tape #3
23. Vesuvio Solo
    Don’t Leave Me in the Dark
24. Carla dal Forno
    You Know What It’s Like
25. Clint Mansell
    Black Mirror: San Junipero
26. Kadhja Bonet
    The Visitor
27. Nicolas Jaar
    Sirens
28. Troller
    Graphic
29. Kero Kero Bonito
    Bonito Generation
30. Whitney
    Light Upon the Lake
31. Leon Vynehall
    Rojus (Designed to Dance)
32. NxWorries
    Yes Lawd!
33. Angel Olsen
    My Woman
34. Postiljonen
    Reverie
35. Equiknoxx
    Bird Sound Power
36. Maria Usbeck
    Amparo
37. Japanese Breakfast
    Psychopomp
38. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
    EARS
39. Dreamboat
    Dreamboat
40. NV
    Binasu
41. LIZ
    Cross Your Heart
42. DJDS
    Stand Up and Speak
43. Carly Rae Jepsen
    E•MO•TION: Side B
44. CFCF
    On Vacation
45. Still Corners
    Dead Blue
46. Casey Mecija
    Psychic Materials
47. Puro Instinct
    Autodrama
48. Merely
    Uncanny Valley
49. Katie Gately
    Color
50. Marissa Nadler
    Strangers
51. White Denim
    Stiff
52. Parts
    Parts
53. various artists
    Disco Mantras
54. Boy Harsher
    Yr Body Is Nothing
55. Amber Arcades
    Fading Lines
56. Hinds
    Leave Me Alone
57. Nite Jewel
    Liquid Cool
58. Ariana Grande
    Dangerous Woman
59. Cass McCombs
    Mangy Love
60. Julianna Barwick
    Will