1. David Bowie – Blackstar 2. Beyonce - Lemonade 3. Moor Mother – Fetish Bones 4. Autechre – elseq 1-5 5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Skeleton Tree 6. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch 7. Rihanna - Anti 8. Yves Tumor – Serpent Music 9. Gaika – Security 10. Jessy Lanza - Oh No 11. Gate – Saturday Night Fever 12. Solange – A Seat At The Table 13. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo 14. Oren Ambarchi – Hubris 15. Babyfather – BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow 16. Future - Purple Reign 17. Anna Meredith – Varmints 18. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS 19. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service 20. Carla dal Forno – You Know What It's Like 21. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book 22. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker 23. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered 24. Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife 2 25. Laura Cannell – Simultaneous Flight Movement 26. Kaytranada - 99% 27. Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines 28. The Weeknd - STARBOY 29. Matmos – Ultimate Care II 30. Laraaji & Sun Araw – Professional Sunflow 31. Scott Walker – The Childhood Of A Leader OST 32. Deadmau5 - W:/2016ALBUM/ 33. Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City 34. Anderson .Paak - Malibu 35. D.R.A.M. - BIG BABY D.R.A.M. 36. Anxiety – Anxiety 37. Skepta – Konnichiwa 38. Puce Mary – The Spiral 39. Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct 40. Lady Gaga - Joanne 41. Horse Lords – Interventions 42. Roy Montgomery – R M H Q 43. Frank Ocean – Blonde 44. Thalia Zedek Band – Eve 45. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It 46. Young Thug - Jeffery 47. Jackie Lynn – Jackie Lynn 48. Zomby – Ultra 49. Klara Lewis – Too 50. Drake - Views
How can you defend this garbage?
Jeremiah Rivera
(You)
some of us actually subscribe so you can't pull a fast one like this
Lucas Nelson
nice try pitchfork
Jayden Brooks
t. wire shills
Lucas Flores
hmmm maybe Sup Forums was wrong and the black artists are actually good and talented but we're too deep in our counter-agenda to see that
Connor Garcia
What's the problem?
It's a nice mix of pop and experimental.
Nathan Rogers
why would you change it to take off 75 dollar bill?
Brandon Nguyen
>1. David Bowie – Blackstar >2. Beyonce - Lemonade
shat myself already, shant be reading anymore
Oliver James
t. pitchfork staff
Aaron King
this. that album was fucking great.
Landon Collins
>this is supposed to be the cutting edge of avant-garde music journalism
Eli King
Any list that has Beyonce and Rihanna in the top ten is irrelevant
>he spent that much time editing wire's list to include pop bullshit
WEW
Eli Jenkins
there's some kind of meme campaign to both claim that the wire is a bunch of prentious elitists who circlejerk of the most obscure shit possible and discredit the wire as being a "fake experimental" and "poptimist" publication worse than the likes of pitchfork
The truth is in the middle, this year's list did have more mainstream/p4k shit. They didn't even go indepth into many of the albums they had in that list. It was a bit weird.
Thomas Brown
>magazine that focuses primarily on experimental, avant-garde, and underground music doesn't rank a mainstream RnB singer highly Gee, I wonder why...
James Anderson
The actual list, if anyone cares. There are still a few pop albums.
1. David Bowie – Blackstar 2. Shirley Collins – Lodestar 3. Moor Mother – Fetish Bones 4. Autechre – elseq 1-5 5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree 6. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch 7. Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina 8. Yves Tumor – Serpent Music 9. Gaika – SECURITY 10. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Yermande 11. Gate – Saturday Night Fever 12. Solange – A Seat at the Table 13. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo 14. Oren Ambarchi – Hubris 15. Babyfather – “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow 16. 75 Dollar Bill – Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock 17. Anna Meredith – Varmints 18. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS 19. A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service 20. Carla dal Forno – You Know What It’s Like 21. David Toop – Entities Inertias Faint Beings 22. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker 23. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered 24. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – We Be All Africans 25. Laura Cannell – Simultaneous Flight Movement
Michael Robinson
It's because the list was selected by their writers core staff, as well as the numerous freelance contributors who work for other publications that wrote for them this year as well.
That said, the list was a bit more mainstream/convential leaning that usual, but there were still some good choices in it and their coverage in the issues themselves is still the same.
Mason Jenkins
*cont
26. Ectoplasm Girls – New Feeling Come 27. Steve Gunn – Eyes on the Lines 28. Ian William Craig – Centres 29. Matmos – Ultimate Care II 30. Laraaji & Sun Araw – Professional Sunflow 31. Scott Walker – The Childhood of a Leader (OST) 32. Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties 33. Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City 34. Katie Gately – Color 35. Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini – Devotional Songs 36. Anxiety – Anxiety 37. Skepta – Konnichiwa 38. Puce Mary – The Spiral 39. The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Bes 40. Catherine Christer Hennix – Live At Issue Project Room 41. Horse Lords – Interventions 42. Roy Montgomery – R M H Q: Headquarters 43. Frank Ocean – Blonde 44. Thalia Zedek – Eve 45. Charlemagne Palestine – Cathédrale De Strasbourg 46. Kepler Quartet – Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, & 8 47. Circuit Des Yeux – Jackie Lynn 48. Zomby – Ultra 49. Klara Lewis – Too 50. Peder Mannerfelt – Controlling Body
Parker Collins
>people think this garbage webzine is better than pitchfork LMAO