Year-End Lists

Les Inrockuptibles: 50 Best Albums of 2016

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