Guest List: The Best Albums of 2016 – John Macintosh
1. David Bowie – ★
2. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
3. Solange – A Seat at the Table
4. A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
5. Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
6. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
7. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears
8. Anohni – Hopelessness
9. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
11. Tim Hecker – Love Streams
12. Noname – Telofone
13. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
14. Mitski – Puberty 2
15. Anderson .Paak – Malibu
16. Frank Ocean – Blonde
17. NxWorries – Yes Lawd!
18. Cantique Lépreux – Cendres Célestes
19. Angel Olsen – MY WOMAN
20. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3
21. Beyonce – Lemonade
22. Oathbreaker – Rheia
23. Jamila Woods – HEAVN
24. Eluvium – False Readings On
25. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
The Best Albums of 2016
1. David Bowie – ★
2. Blood Incantation – Starspawn
3. Mélanie de Biasio – Blackened Cities
4. Ka – Honor Killed the Samurai
5. Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us
6. Autechre – elseq
7. William Tyler – Modern Country
8. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Arc
9. Oranssi Pazuzu – Värähtelijä
10. Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
11. Shabaka and the Ancestors – Wisdom of Elders
12. Cass McCombs – Mangy Love
13. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
14. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
15. Teramobil – Magnitude of Thoughts
16. The Gerogerigegege – 燃えない灰
17. Bon Iver – 22, a Million
18. Sumerlands – Sumerlands
19. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Ears
20. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
21. Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis
22. King – We Are King
23. Zhrine – Unortheta
24. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
25. Sumac – What One Becomes
The Best Albums of 1972
1. David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
2. Roxy Music – Roxy Music
3. Novos Baianos – Acabou chorare
4. Grateful Dead – Europe ’72
5. Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
6. Arthur Verocai – Arthur Verocai
7. Big Star – #1 Record
8. Klaus Schulze – Irrlicht
9. Miles Davis – On the Corner
10. Neil Young – Harvest
11. Aphrodite’s Child – 666
12. Stevie Wonder – Talking Book
13. The Allman Brothers Band – Eat a Peach
14. Lou Reed – Transformer
15. Pharoah Sanders – Black Unity
16. Jackson Browne – Jackson Browne
17. Terry Callier – What Color Is Love
18. Wishbone Ash – Argus
19. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Will the Circle Be Unbroken
20. Can – Ege Bamyasi
21. Fela Kuti – Roforofo Fight
22. Popol Vuh – Hoisanna Mantra
23. The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main Street
24. NEU! – NEU!
25. Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes
The Best Albums of 1971
1. Can – Tago Mago
2. John Prine – John Prine
3. Sly & the Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On
4. David Bowie – Hunky Dory
5. Judee Sill – Judee Sill
6. John Cale & Terry Riley – Church of Anthrax
7. The Who – Who’s Next
8. Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin IV
9. Roy Harper – Stormcock
10. Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
11. Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes – Âme debout
12. The Mothers of Invention – Filmore East – June 1971
13. Joni Mitchell – Blue
14. T. Rex – Electric Warrior
15. Uriah Heep – Look at Yourself
16. Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
17. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
18. Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
19. Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head
20. Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
21. Bill Withers – Just As I Am
22. Eugene McDaniels – Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
23. Popol Vuh – In den Gärten Pharaos
24. The Allman Brothers – At Fillmore East
25. Comus – First Utterance
The Best Albums of 2015
1. Heroin in Tahiti – Sun and Violence
2. 2 8 1 4 – 新しい日の誕生
3. Myrkur – M
4. Beaten to Death – Unplugged
5. Max Richter – Sleep
6. Mastery – VALIS
7. Death Grips – Jenny Death
8. Kovtun – Androginóforo
9. Intronaut – The Direction of Last Things
10. Future – DS2
11. Gorod – A Maze of Recycled Creeds
12. FKA twigs – M3LL155X
13. The Internet – Ego Death
14. Earl Sweatshirt – I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside
15. Paradise Lost – The Plague Within
16. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
17. Leviathan – Scar Sighted
18. The Giraffes – We Hear Music
19. Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden of Delete
20. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
21. Sorcerer – In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross
22. Horrendous – Anareta
23. Snoop Dogg – Bush
24. Swallow the Sun – Songs From the North
25. John Carpenter – Lost Themes