Music-News.com (UK)
1. Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate
2. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Field Music: Common Time
4. Bear's Den: Red Earth & Pouring Rain
5. Underworld: Barbara Barbara, We face a shining future
6. The Kills: Ash & Ice
7. Wilco: Schmilco
8. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
9. Kaytranada: 99.9%
10. Childish Gambino: Awaken My Love
11. Bad Bad Not Good: IV
12. Car Seat Head Rest: Teens Of Denial
13. Beyond the Wizards Sleeve: The Soft Bounce
14. Bloc Party: Hynms
15. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
16. Angel Olsen: My Woman
17. School Of Seven Bells: SVIIB
18. Blossoms: Blossoms
19. Steve Mason: Meet The Humans
20. David Bowie: Black Star
21. Passenger: Young as the Morning, Old As The Sea
22. Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression
23. Metronomy: Summer 08
24. THE 1975: I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
25. Charles Bradley: Changes
26. DJ Shadow: The Mountain will fall
27. Gregory Porter: Take Me To The Alley
28. Band Of Horses: Why Are You Ok

Music OMH (UK)
1. David Bowie: Blackstar
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
3. Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos
4. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
5. Anna Meredith: Varmints
6. Christine And The Queens: Chaleur Humaine
7. Solange: A Seat At The Table
8. Angel Olsen: My Woman
9. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
10. Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
11. Cate Le Bon: Crab Day
12. Shura: Nothing’s Real
13. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
14. PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project
15. Frank Ocean: Blonde
16. Shirley Collins: Lodestar
17. Lambchop: FLOTUS
18. Meilyr Jones: 2013
19. Factory Floor: 25 25
20. Let’s Eat Grandma: I, Gemini
21. ANOHNI: Hopelessness
22. Case/Lang/Veirs: Case/Lang/Veirs
23. Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam: I Had A Dream That You Were Mine
24. School Of Seven Bells: SVIIB
25. Savages: Adore Life
26. Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
27. Mitski: Puberty 2
28. Anderson .Paak: Malibu
29. Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression
30. Mykki Blanco: Mykki
31. Noura Mint Seymali: Arbina
32. Blood Orange: Freetown Sound
33. Jamie T: Trick
34. Julianna Barwick: Will
35. KING: We Are KING
36. Mothers: When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired
37. Mutual Benefit: Skip A Sinking Stone
38. Oliver Coates: Upstepping
39. Suede: Night Thoughts
40. Colin Stetson: Sorrow
41. Tyshawn Sorey: The Inner Spectrum Of Variables
42. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
43. Autechre: elseq 1-5
44. Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+Evotion
45. Kanye West: The Life Of Pablo
46. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizzard: Nonagon Infinity
47. Regina Spektor: Remember Us To Life
48. Slow Club: One Day All Of This Won’t Matter Anymore
49. Kaytranada: 99.9%
50. The Lemon Twigs: Do Hollywood

Music Times (US)
10. Kid Cudi: Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin
9. Anderson .Paak: Malibu
8. Solange: A Seat at the Table
7. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
6. Beyonce: Lemonade
5. Frank Ocean: Blonde
4. David Bowie: Blackstar
3. Kaytranada: 99.9%
2. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
1. Chance The Rapper: Coloring Book

Musikexpress (Germany)
1. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
3. David Bowie: Blackstar
4. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
5. James Blake: The Colour In Anything
6. PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project
7. Solange: A Seat At The Table
8. Isolation Berlin: Und Aus den Wolken Tropft Die Zeit
9. Frank Ocean: Blonde
10. Beyonce: Lemonade
11. Anohni: Hopelessness
12. Nicolas Jaar: Sirens
13. Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos
14. Kanye QWest: The Life Of Pablo
15. Katie Gately: Color
16. Gold Panda: Good Luck And Do Your Best
17. Badbadnotgood: IV
18. Angel Olsen: My Woman
19. The Avalanches: Wildflower
20. Golf: Playa Holz
21. Die Höchste Eisenbahn: Wer Bringt Mich Jetzt Zu Den Anderen
22. Skepta: Konnichiwa
23. Whitney: Light Upon The Lake
24. Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression
25. Blood Orange: Freetown Sound
26. Car Seat Headrest: Teens Of Denial
27. Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch
28. Preoccupations: Preoccupations
29. Japanese Breakfast: Psychopomp
30. Virginia: Fierce For The Night
31. Andy Stott: Too Many Voices
32. Xenia Rubinos: Black Terry Cat
33. Moderat: III
34. Metronomy: Summer 08
35. Voodoo Jürgens: Ansa Woar
36. Wild Nothing: Life Of Pause
37. Roosevelt: Roosevelt
38. Kaytranada: 99,9%
39. D.D.Dumbo: Utopia Defeated
40. The Lemon Twigs: Do Hollywood
41. Beginner: Advanced Chemistry
42. Wild Beasts: Boy King
43. Hinds: Leave Me Alone
44. Roisin Murphy: Take Her Up To Monto
45. Warpaint: Heads Up
46. Klaus Johann Grobe: Spagat Der Liebe
47. Anderson.Paak: Malibu
48. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
49. Jakönigja: Emanzipation Im Wald
50. Kendrick Lamar: Untitled Unmastered

Muzikalia (Spain)
1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton tree
2. David Bowie: Blackstar
3. PJ Harvey: The hope six demolition Project
4. Radiohead: A moon shaped pool
5. ANOHNI: Hopelessness
6. Iggy Pop: Post pop depression
7. Leonard Cohen: You want it darker
8. Savages: Adore life
9. Teenage Fanclub: Here
10. Michael Kiwanuka: Love & hate
11. Bon Iver: 22, a million
12. Explosions in the Sky: The wilderness
13. The Last Shadow Puppets: Everything you’ve come to expect
14. The Jayhawks: Paging Mr.Proust
15. Warpaint: Heads up
16. Suede: Night thoughts
17. Angel Olsen: My woman
18. Bob Dylan: Fallen angels
19. Lisa Hannigan: At swim
20. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizzard: Nonagon infinity
21. Danny Brown: Atrocity exhibition
22. Devendra Banhart: Ape in pink marble
23. Yeasayer: Amen & goodbye
24. Weezer: Weezer (White Album)
25. The Rolling Stones: Blue and lonesome
26. Wilco: Schmilco
27. Little Green Cars: Ephemera
28. Hope Sandoval: Until the hunter
29. Twin Peaks: Down in heaven
30. James Blake: The colour in anything
31. Jeff Buckley: You & I
32. Tindersticks: The waiting room
33. The Strokes: Future, present, past
34. Beaty Heart: Till the tomb
35. Benjamin Biolay: Palermo Hollywood
36. Pixies: Head carrier
37. Kings of Leon: Walls
38. The Claypool-Lennon Delirium: Monolith of Phobos
39. Feeder: All bright electric
40. Parquet Courts: Human performance

The Needle Drop (US)
注：此名单为Anthony Fantano根据个人喜好排名，且Acclaimed Music（2016.12.30之前）和Metacritic均未提及，但鉴于其在互联网和音乐圈的影响力，破例收录。
1. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
2. David Bowie: Blackstar
3. Death Grips: Bottomless Pit
4. Swans: The Glowing Man
5. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
6. Xiu Xiu: Plays the Music of Twin Peaks
7. Frank Ocean: Blonde
8. Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial
9. Regina Spektor: Remember Us to Life
10. Nails: You Will Never Be One of Us
11. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
12. YG: Still Brazy
13. Kero Kero Bonito: Bonito Generation
14. Touché Amoré: Stage Four
15. Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered.
16. Angel Olsen: My Woman
17. Swain: The Long Dark Blue
18. Weezer: Weezer (The White Album)
19. Jeff Rosenstock: Worry
20. Crying: Beyond the Fleeting Gales
21. Matmos: Ultimate Care II
22. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Nonagon Infinity
23. Injury Reserve: Floss
24. Street Sects: End Position
25. Marissa Nadler: Strangers
26. Ty Segall: Emotional Mugger
27. Beyoncé: Lemonade
28. clipping.: Splendor & Misery
29. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
30. Aesop Rock: The Impossible Kid
31. Lemon Demon: Spirit Phone
32. The Drones: Feelin Kinda Free
33. Xenia Rubinos: Black Terry Cat
34. Conor Oberst: Ruminations
35. The I.L.Y's: Scum with Boundaries
36. Denzel Curry: Imperial
37. Thee Oh Sees: A Weird Exits
38. Neurosis: Fires Within Fires
39. Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor's Guide to Earth
40. Solange: A Seat at the Table
41. Preoccupations: Preoccupations
42. Vektor: Terminal Redux
43. Ka: Honor Killed the Samurai
44. Moonsorrow: Jumalten Aika
45. Noname: Telefone
46. Pop. 1280: Paradise
47. Various Artists: Southern Family
48. Show Me the Body: Body War
49. Big Ups: Before a Million Universes
50. D.R.A.M.: Big Baby D.R.A.M.

New Noise Magazine (France)
85. Rach Three: Sin Armor
84. Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch
83. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
82. Ulcerate: Shrines of Paralysis
81. The Wounded Kings: Visions in Bone
80. Apollo Brown & Skyzoo: The Easy Truth
79. VHS: Gift of Life
78. Bölzer: Hero
77. King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard: Nonagon Infinity
76. Patten: ¥
75. The Dillinger Escape Plan: Dissociation
74. Krypts: Remnants of Expansion
73. And Also The Trees: Born Into the Waves
72. Giraffe Tongue Orchestra: Broken Lines
71. Inverloch: Distance/Collapsed
70. Psalm 0: Stranger to Violence
69. Sumerlands: Sumerlands
68. Tim Hecker: Love Streams
67. Bloodiest: Bloodiest
66. Deathspell Omega: The Synarchy of Molten Bones
65. Suuns: Hold/Still
64. Nevermen: Nevermen
63. The Red F: Balm Of Gilead
62. Nails: You’ll Never Be One Of Us
61. Radio Dept: Running Out Of Love
60. Heimat: Heimat
59. Slaves: Take Control
58. Deftones: Gore
57. Autechre: Elseq
56. Mamiffer: The World Unseen
55. Not Waving: Animals
54. Colin Stetson: Sorrow
53. Explosions In The Sky: The Wilderness
52. Radiohead: A Moon-Shaped Pool
51. The Julie Ruin: Hit Reset
50. Beach Slang: A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings
49. King Dude: Sex
48. Jesu/Sun Kil Moon: Jesu/Sun Kil Moon
47. Survive: RR7349
46. Dälek: Asphalt For Eden
45. DEAD: Voices
44. Virus: Memento Collider
43. PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project
42. Bob Mould: Patch the Sky
41. Mizery: Absolute Light
40. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
39. Gojira: Magma
38. Streetsweeper: Back To Life
37. Vektor: Terminal Redux
36. Cobalt: Slow Forever
35. Eternal Champion: The Armor of Ire
34. DIIV: Is the Is Are
33. Youth Code: Commitment To Complication
32. Warpaint: Heads Up
31. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
30. Oathbreaker: Rheia
29. Swans: The Glowing Man
28. Merchandise: A Corpse Wired for Sound
27. Mike And The Melvins: Three Men and a Baby
26. Candiria: While They Were Sleeping
25. Hypnopazuzu: Create Christ, Sailor Boy
24. Mütterlein: Orphans of the Black Sun
23. NoFx: First Ditch Effort
22. Exploded View: Exploded View
21. Descendents: Hypercaffium Spazzinate
20. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
19. Wovenhand: Star Treatment
18. Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial
17. Emma Ruth Rundle: Marked For Death
16. White Lung: Paradise
15. Planes Mistaken For Stars: Prey
14. Meshuggah: The Violent Sleep of Reason
13. Frustration: Empires of Shame
12. Pixies: Head Carrier
11. Parquet Courts: Human Performance
10. Oranssi Pazuzu: Värähtelijä
9. Savages: Adore Life
8. Neurosis: Fires Within Fires
7. David Bowie: Blackstar
6. Nothing: Tired of Tomorrow
5. Preoccupations: Preoccupations
4. Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression
3. Perturbator: The Uncanny Valley
2. Cult Of Luna & Julie Christmas: Mariner
1. Dinosaur Jr.: Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not

Newsweek (US)
10. Angel Olsen: My Woman
9. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
8. Big Thief: Masterpiece
7. Solange: A Seat at the Table
6. A Tribe Called Quest: We've Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
5. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
4. Kaytranada: 99.9%
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
2. Beyonce: Lemonade
1. David Bowie: Blackstar

The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
1. Beyonce: Lemonade
2. Nick Cave: Skeleton Tree
3. Frank Ocean: Blonde
4. Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
5. David Bowie: Blackstar
6. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
7. Anderson .Paak: Malibu
8. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
9. Kendrick Lamar: Untitled Unmastered
10. Rihanna: Anti
11. The Avalanches: Wildflower
12. Beastwars: The Death of All Things
13. Schoolboy Q: Blank Face LP
14. The Veils: Total Depravity
15. Solange: A Seat at the Table
16. SWIDT: SWIDT vs Everybody
17. Dinosaur Jr: Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
18. Savages: Adore Life
19. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
20. S U R V I V E: RR7349

NME (UK)
50. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
49. Public Access TV: Never Enough
48. Show Me The Body: Body War
47. Wild Beasts: Boy King
46. Savages: Adore Life
45. Car Seat Headrest: Teens Of Denial
44. The Lemon Twigs: Do Hollywood
43. ANOHNI: Hopelessness
42. Whitney: Light Upon The Lake
41. Solange: A Seat At The Table
40. Rihanna: Anti
39. Green Day: Revolution Radio
38. Slaves: Take Control
37. Soft Hair: Soft Hair
36. Swet Shop Boys: Cashmere
35. Glass Animals: How To Be A Human Being
34. Let’s Eat Grandma: I, Gemini
33. Margo Price: Midwest Farmers Daughter
32. Kings of Leon: Walls
31. Bastille: Wild World
30. Nao: For All We Know
29. Kate Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos
28. Goat: Requiem
27. Giggs: Landlord
26. Biffy Clyro: Ellipsis
25. Blossoms: Blossoms
24. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
23. Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate
22. Radiohead: A Moon-Shaped Pool
21. Anderson. Paak: Malibu
20. Lady Gaga: Joanne
19. White Lung: Paradise
18. Tegan And Sara: Love You To Death
17. Drake: Views
16. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
15. Kano: Made In The Manor
14. Jamie T: Trick
13. Angel Olsen: My Woman
12. Sunflower Bean: Human Ceremony
11. Beyonce: Lemonade
10. Frank Ocean: Blonde
9. Chance The Rapper: Coloring Book
8. Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression
7. DIIV: Is The Is Are
6. David Bowie: Blackstar
5. Kaytranada: 99.9%
4. Skepta: Konnichiwa
3. Christine And The Queens: Chaleur Humaine
2. Kanye West: The Life Of Pablo
1. The 1975: I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It

Noisey (US)
100. Future: Purple Reign
99. Abra: Princess
98. Jank: Versace Summer
97. Kaleidoscope: V.2 N.2: ZONE EXPLORERS
96. BJ Barham: Rockingham
95. Omegas: Power To Exist
94. Garbage: Strange Little Birds
93. Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch
92. Hooded Fang: Venus on Edge
91. Noname: Telefone
90. HINDS: Leave Me Alone
89. Elise Davis: The Token
88. Daniel Bachman: Daniel Bachman
87. G.L.O.S.S.: Trans Day of Revenge
86. Naðra: Allir vegir til glötunar
85. Joey Purp: iiiDrops
84. The Weeknd: Starboy
83. Uranium Club: All of Them Naturals
82. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
81. Storm of Sedition: Decivilize
80. Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered.
79. Pity Sex: White Hot Moon
78. Martha: Blisters In the Pit of My Heart
77. The Dirty Nil: Higher Power
76. Vince Staples: Prima Donna
75. Jessy Lanza: Oh No
74. Charli XCX: Vroom Vroom
73. Mare Cognitum: Luminiferous Aether
72. White Lung: Paradise
71. Planes Mistaken For Stars: Prey
70. Fat White Family: Songs for Our Mothers
69. Drake: VIEWS
68. Gucci Mane: Everybody Looking
67. Angel Olsen: My Woman
66. The 1975: I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
65. Jherek Bischoff: Cistern
64. Void Omnia: Dying Light
63. Head Wound City: A New Wave Of Violence
62. The Cowboys: The Cowboys
61. Paul Cauthen: My Gospel
60. A Tribe Called Red: We Are the Halluci Nation
59. TheMIND: Summer Camp
58. Tyrannamen: Tyrannamen
57. Travis Scott: Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight
56. Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
55. Kodak Black: Lil B.I.G. Pac
54. King Dude: Sex
53. High Spirits: Motivator
52. Miranda Lambert: The Weight of These Wings
51. NxWorries: Yes Lawd!
50. Against Me!: Shape Shift With Me
49. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
48. Kamaiyah: A Good Night in the Ghetto
47. Whitney: Light Upon The Lake
46. Nicolas Jaar: Sirens
45. Kevin Devine: Instigator
44. Maren Morris: Hero
43. Modern aseball: Holy Ghost
42. Cemetery Piss: Order of the Vulture
41. YG: Still Brazy
40. The Growlers: City Club
39. Katie Dey: Flood Network
38. Touché Amoré: Stage Four
37. Camp Cope: Camp Cope
36. Loamlands: Sweet High Rise
35. Kevin Abstract: American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story
34. Florist: The Birds Outside Sang
33. Chairlift: Moth
32. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
31. 808INK: Hungry
30. Cultes Des Ghoules: Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
29. Young Thug: Jeffery
28. David Nance: More Than Enough
27. Swet Shop Boys: Cashmere
26. Skepta: Konnichiwa
25. Blood Orange: Freetown Sound
24. Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor's Guide to Earth
23. ANOHNI: Hopelessness
22. Cass McCombs: Mangy Love
21. Giggs: Landlord
20. Oathbreaker: Rheia
19. PUP: The Dream Is Over
18. Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial
17. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
16. Lil Yachty: Lil Boat
15. David Bowie: Blackstar
14. Savage: Savage Mode
13. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
12. Babyfather: BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow
11. Jeff Rosenstock: WORRY.
10. Culture Abuse: Peach
9. Kano: Made in the Manor
8. KAYTRANADA: 99.9%
7. Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
6. Zeal and Ardor: Devil Is Fine
5. Beyoncé: Lemonade
4. Rihanna: ANTI
3. Chance The Rapper: Coloring Book
2. Solange: A Seat at the Table
1. Frank Ocean: Blonde

Nöjesguiden (Sweden)
1. David Bowie: Blackstar
2. Angel Olsen: My Woman
3. Beyoncé: Lemonade
4. Nicolas Jaar: Sirens
5. Temperance Movement: White Bear
6. Keaton Henson: Kindly Now
7. Anderson.Paak: Malibu
8. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
9. ANHOHNI: Hopelessness
10. Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
11. Whitney: Light Upon The Lake
12. Paul Simon: Stranger to Stranger
13. Crystal Castles: Amnesty (I)
14. Wardruna: Runaljod Ragnarok
15. Solange: A Seat At The Table
16. Frank Ocean: Blonde
17. Travis Scott: Birds In The Trap Sings McKnight
18. Dexys: Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul
19. Deströyer 666: Wildfire
20. Blood Orange: Freetown Sounds
21. Iggy Pop: Post Pop Depression
22. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
23. Dvsn: Sept 5th
24. Fleshgod Apocalypse: King
25. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
26. Tinashe: Nightride
27. Alex Izenberg: Harleqiun
28. Testament: Brotherhood of the Snake
29. Rival Sons: Hollow Bones
30. Weval: Weval

No Ripcord (UK)
50. Lambchop: FLOTUS
49. Laura Mvula: The Dreaming Room
48. Cymbals Eat Guitars: Pretty Years
47. Deakin: Sleep Cycle
46. Touché Amore: Stage Four
45. Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam: I Had a Dream That You Were Mine
44. Whitney: Light Upon the Lake
43. Wilco: Schmilco
42. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Nonagon Infinity
41. Jessy Lanza: Oh No
40. Huerco S.: For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
39. White Lung: Paradise
38. Minor Victories: Minor Victories
37. NAO: For All We Know
36. Sunflower Bean: Human Ceremony
35. Swans: The Glowing Man
34. Chance the Rapper: Coloring Book
33. A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
32. Weezer: Weezer (White Album)
31. Shura: Nothing's Real
30. Sarah Neufeld: The Ridge
29. PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project
28. DIIV: Is the Is Are
27. Preoccupations: Preoccupations
26. The Avalanches: Wildflower
25. Case / Lang / Veirs: case / lang / veirs
24. Frank Ocean: Blonde
23. Blood Orange: Freetown Sound
22. Kendrick Lamar: untitled unmastered.
21. Shearwater: Jet Plane and Oxbow
20. Parquet Courts: Human Performance
19. Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker
18. James Blake: The Colour in Anything
17. Wild Beasts: Boy King
16. Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate
15. Jenny Hval: Blood Bitch
14. Bat for Lashes: The Bride
13. ANOHNI: Hopelessness
12. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
11. Savages: Adore Life
10. Kanye West: The Life of Pablo
9. Solange: A Seat at the Table
8. Mitski: Puberty 2
7. Angel Olsen: My Woman
6. Beyoncé: Lemonade
5. Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial
4. Bon Iver: 22, A Million
3. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
1. Davie Bowie: Blackstar

Norman Records (UK)
1. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: EARS
2. The Veldt: The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation
3. BEAK>: Couple In A Hole Soundtrack
4. Bracken: High Passes
5. Oliver Coates: Upstepping
6. Bayonne: Primitives
7. Western Skies Motel: Settlers
8. Gold Panda: Good Luck and Do Your Best
9. Huerco S.: For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
10. Jason Sharp: A Boat Upon Its Blood
11. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani: FRKWYS Vol 13 Sunergy
12. David Bowie: Blackstar
13. Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Stranger Things: Season 1 - Volume 1
14. MJ Guider: Precious Systems
15. Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
16. Carla dal Forno: You Know What It’s Like
17. C. Diab: No Perfect Wave
18. Hintermass: The Apple Tree
19. Ulrika Spacek: The Album Paranoia
20. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Skeleton Tree
21. Tim Hecker: Love Streams
22. Cavern of Anti-Matter: void beats/invocation trex
23. eagle/deer: The Summer Of Sepia
24. Ian William Craig: Centres
25. Johann Johannsson: Orphée
26. Olafur Arnalds: Island Songs
27. Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition
28. Anohni: Hopelessness
29. Thomas Koner: Tiento de la Luz
30. Pye Corner Audio: Stasis
31. Mitski: Puberty 2
32. Sarah Davachi: Dominions
33. Mark Pritchard: Under The Sun
34. Steve Hauschildt: Strands
35. Mary Lattimore: At The Dam
36. GNOD & Anthony Child: Behind The Lids
37. Omni: Deluxe
38. Botany: Deepak Verbera
39. Matt Elliott: The Calm Before
40. Thee Oh Sees: A Weird Exits
41. The Hecks: The Hecks
42. Helen Money: Become Zero
43. Resina: Resina
44. Angel Olsen: My Woman
45. clipping.: Splendor & Misery
46. Loscil: Monument Builders
47. Shirley Collins: Lodestar
48. Anxiety: Anxiety
49. Sarah Neufeld: The Ridge
50. Thor & Friends: Thor & Friends

NOW Magazine (CAN)
1. DAVID BOWIE: BLACKSTAR
2. SOLANGE: A SEAT AT THE TABLE
3. ANDY SHAUF: THE PARTY
4. KANYE WEST: THE LIFE OF PABLO
5. WEYES BLOOD: FRONT ROW SEAT TO EARTH
6. ANOHNI: HOPELESSNESS
7. BON IVER: 22, A MILLION
8. CHANCE THE RAPPER: COLORING BOOK
9. FRANK OCEAN: BLONDE
10. OMAR-S: THE BEST