Top Albums of the 2010s: Individual Writers’ Lists

1. Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION
2. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring
4. David Bowie – Blackstar
5. Chromatics – Kill for Love
6. Slowdive – Slowdive
7. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
8. Paramore – Paramore
9. Beach House – Teen Dream
10. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana
11. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
12. Alvvays – Antisocialites
13. Foals – Total Life Forever
14. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
15. Beyoncé – Lemonade
16. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
17. Los Campesinos! – No Blues
18. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
19. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
20. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
21. Wire – Change Becomes Us
22. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
23. Frightened Rabbit – The Winter of Mixed Drinks
24. Janelle Monàe – Dirty Computer
25. Ice Choir – Designs in Rhythm

26. Alvvays – Alvvays
27. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
28. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
29. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
30. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
31. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
32. Vampire Weekend – Contra
33. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
34. D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah
35. CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
36. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
37. Arctic Monkeys – AM
38. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
39. The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
40. St. Vincent – Masseduction
41. Battles – Gloss Drop
42. Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow
43. Janelle Monàe – The ArchAndroid
44. Los Campesinos! – Hello Sadness
45. Tune-Yards – whokill
46. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
47. Esperanza Spalding – Emily’s D+Evolution
48. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland
49. The 1975 – I Like When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
50. Roman à Clef – Abandonware

1. Beyoncé – Beyoncé
2. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION
4. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
5. Beyoncé – Beyoncé
6. Adele – 21
7. Beyoncé – 4
8. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
9. Janelle Monàe – Dirty Computer
10. Lorde – Melodrama
11. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
12. Ellie Goulding – Lights
13. Katy Perry – Teenage Dream
14. CHVRCHES – Every Open Eye
15. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
16. Solange – A Seat at the Table
17. Lianne La Havas – Blood
18. SZA – CTRL
19. Tegan and Sara – Love You to Death
20. The xx. – Coexist
21. Ellie Goulding – Halcyon
22. Rihanna – ANTI
23. Adele – 25
24. Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
25. Lady Gaga – Born This Way

26. Taylor Swift – Red
27. Vampire Weekend – Contra
28. Paramore – Paramore
29. Drake – Take Care
30. Rihanna – Loud
31. Lin Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast – Hamilton
32. Beyoncé – Homecoming
33. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born soundtrack
34. Phoenix – Bankrupt!
35. Taylor Swift – 1989
36. Jamie xx – In Colour
37. Ariana Grande – Sweetener
38. Frank Ocean – Blonde
39. Bruno Mars – 24k Magic
40. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
41. Mark Ronson – Uptown Special
42. Nick Jones – Nick Jonas
43. Kesha – Rainbow
44. CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
45. Robyn – Body Talk
46. Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
47. Hilary Duff – Breathe In, Breathe Out
48. Lady Gaga – Joanne
49. Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
50. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience

1. Frank Ocean – Blonde
2. Bon Iver – 22, A Million
3. MUNA – About U
4. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
5. Mitski – Puberty 2
6. The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past
7. Julien Baker – Turn Out the Lights
8. Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION
9. Frightened Rabbit – Pedestrian Verse
10. Janelle Monàe – Dirty Computer
11. Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy
12. Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps
13. The National – High Violet
14. James Vincent McMorrow – Early in the Morning
15. Hitsujibungaku – Dear Youths
16. Chromatics – Kill for Love
17. Haim – Days Are Gone
18. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
19. Turnover – Peripheral Vision
20. FKA Twigs – LP1
21. Laura Stevenson – The Big Wheel
22. Moses Sumney – Aromanticism
23. Taylor Swift – 1989
24. The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
25. Brockhampton – Ginger

26. Grouper – Ruins
27. Jonsi – Go
28. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
29. Brandi Carlile – By the Way, I Forgive You
30. Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
31. Sharon Van Etten – Are We There
32. SHINee – The Story of Light
33. Years and Years – Communion
34. Charli XCX – Pop 2
35. Kelela – Take Me Apart
36. Beyoncé – Lemonade
37. Boygenius – Boygenius
38. The War on Drugs – Lost in a Dream
39. Tame Impala – Currents
40. Grimes – Art Angels
41. Anohni – Hopelessness
42. S. Carey – Hundred Acres
43. Perfume Genius – No Shape
44. David Bowie – Blackstar
45. CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
46. BTS – Love Yourself: Answer
47. The Hotelier – Goodness
48. Bon Iver – i, i
49. Panic! at the Disco – Vices and Virtues
50. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…

1. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
2. Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
3. Tacocat – Lost Time
4. Arctic Monkeys – AM
5. Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION
6. Haim – Days are Gone
7. Chastity Belt – Time to Go Home
8. Beyoncé – Lemonade
9. Lorde – Melodrama
10. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
11. Friends – Manifest!
12. La Roux – Trouble in Paradise
13. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
14. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
15. St. Vincent – St. Vincent
16. Janelle Monàe – Dirty Computer
17. Beach House – Teen Dream
18. Scissor Sisters – Night Work
19. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
20. Jenny & Johnny – I’m Having Fun Now
21. Best Coast – Crazy for You
22. Best Coast – The Only Place
23. Tierra Whack – Whack World
24. Jenny Lewis – On the Line
25. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?

26. Christine & The Queens – Chris
27. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
28. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
29. Rihanna – ANTI
30. Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
31. Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
32. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
33. St. Lucia – When the Night
34. Mitski – Puberty 2
35. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
36. Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
37. Janelle Monàe – The Electric Lady
38. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
39. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
40. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
41. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
42. Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride
43. Sharon Van Etten – Remind Me Tomorrow
44. SZA – CTRL
45. Sleigh Bells – Treats
46. The Lonely Island – Popstar: Never Stop Stopping soundtrack
47. The xx – I See You
48. Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
49. Lady Gaga – Born This Way
50. U.S. Girls – In a Poem Unlimited

1. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
2. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
4. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
5. Vampire Weekend – Contra
6. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
7. Beach House – 7
8. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
9. Kanye West – Yeezus
10. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
11. Sophie – Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
12. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
13. Beyoncé – Lemonade
14. Beach House – Bloom
15. Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy
16. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
17. D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah
18. The Mountain Goats – Transcendental Youth
19. Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
20. Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
21. Blanck Mass – World Eater
22. Vektor – Terminal Redux
23. Tune-Yards – whokill
24. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
25. Future Islands – Singles

26. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
27. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
28. Tierra Whack – Whack World
29. St. Vincent – Masseduction
30. Beck – Morning Phase
31. The Decemberists – The King is Dead
32. Björk – Vulnicura
33. Deafheaven – Sunbather
34. David Bowie – Blackstar
35. Bon Iver – i, i
36. My Bloody Valentine – m b v
37. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3
38. Deerhunter – Monomania
39. Death Grips – Exmilitary
40. Beirut – The Rip Tide
41. Sleigh Bells – Treats
42. Jonny Greenwood – Phantom Thread
43. Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
44. The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
45. John Grant – Pale Green Ghosts
46. Kamasi Washington – The Epic
47. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
48. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
49. Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy
50. The Weeknd – House of Balloons

1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Jamie xx – In Colour
3. Grouper – Ruins
4. Kanye West – Yeezus
5. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
6. Death Grips – The Money Store
7. Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
8. Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell
9. Frank Ocean – Blonde
10. Childish Gambino – Because the Internet
11. Lorde – Pure Heroine
12. Swans – To Be Kind
13. Idles – Joy as an Act of Resistance
14. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
15. Macintosh Plus – Floral Shoppe
16. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
17. Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
18. Sun Kil Moon – Benji
19. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
20. Tyler the Creator – Wolf
21. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
22. Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
23. Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
24. FKA Twigs – LP1
25. Drake – If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late

26. St Vincent – St. Vincent
27. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
28. Beyoncé – Lemonade
29. Travis Scott – Rodeo
30. The 1975 – The 1975
31. Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION
32. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
33. James Blake – James Blake
34. Angel Olsen – My Woman
35. Young Thug – Barter 6
36. Danny Brown – XXX
37. Noname – Room 25
38. Madlib & Freddie Gibbs – Pinata
39. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
40. The Weeknd – Trilogy
41. Standing on the Corner – Red Burns
42. Parquet Courts – Human Performance
43. Beach House – Teen Dream
44. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
45. Chief Keef – Finally Rich
46. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
47. King Krule – 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
48. Aphex Twin – Syro
49. Slowthai – Nothing Great About Britian
50. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream

1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
3. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
5. Fleet Foxes – Crack-Up
6. Arctic Monkeys – AM
7. Travis Scott – Astroworld
8. Kid Cudi – Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin’
9. Janelle Monàe – Dirty Computer
10. Frank Ocean – Blonde
11. Tame Impala – Currents
12. Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager
13. Vampire Weekend – Contra
14. Denzel Curry – Taboo
15. Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy
16. MGMT – Little Dark Age
17. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
18. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
19. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
20. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
21. Best Coast – California Nights
22. Joey Badass – All Amerikkkan Badass
23. Jay-Z – 4:44
24. A$AP Rocky – Long Live A$AP
25. Beach House – 7

26. Beck – Colors
27. Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe
28. Brockhampton – Saturation 2
29. Calvin Harris – Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1
30. Daniel Caesar – Fruedian
31. Drake – If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late
32. Earl Sweatshirt – Some Rap Songs
33. Family of the Year – Loma Vista
34. Goldlink – At What Cost
35. Hayley Hendrickx – I Need to Start a Garden
36. JID – DiCaprio 2
37. Saba – Care for Me
38. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
39. SZA – CTRL
40. Whitney – Forever Turned Around
41. The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
42. Snail Mail – Lush
43. Noname – Room 25
44. Feist – Pleasure
45. Flatbush Zombies – Vacation in Hell
46. J. Cole – 4 Your Eyez Only
47. Body/Head – The Switch
48. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
49. Wiz Khalifa – Rolling Papers
50. Mount Eerie – A Crow Looked At Me

1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. The Uncluded – Hokey Fright
3. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra
5. Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast – Hamilton
6. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
7. Vampire Weekend – Contra
8. Robyn – Body Talk
9. Pistol Annies – Hell on Heels
10. Rihanna – Anti
11. Tune-Yards – whokill
12. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
13. Dead Sara – Pleasure to Meet You
14. Wussy – Strawberry
15. The Paranoid Style – Rock and Roll Just Can’t Recall
16. Janelle Monàe – Dirty Computer
17. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
18. M.I.A. – Maya
19. Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
20. Girl Talk – All Day
21. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
22. Jay-Z – 4:44
23. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
24. Beyoncé – Beyoncé
25. Eric Church – Chief

26. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday
27. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
28. Lady Gaga – Artpop
29. Noname – Room 25
30. Miranda Lambert – Platinum
31. Wussy – Attica!
32. Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Americana
33. Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
34. Beyoncé – Lemonade
35. Ashley Monroe – Sparrow
36. Grimes – Art Angels
37. The Julie Ruin – Run Fast
38. Rachid Taha – Zoom
39. Taylor Swift – Red
40. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
41. Lily Allen – Sheezus
42. Elizabeth Cook – Welder
43. Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
44. Young Thug & Bloody Jay – Black Portland
45. Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park
46. Skrillex – Bangarang
47. Tanya Tagaq – Animism
48. Azealia Banks – Broke with Expensive Taste
49. Azealia Banks – 1991
50. Low Cut Connie – Get Out the Lotion

1. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
2. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
3. Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
4. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
5. Lorde – Melodrama
6. Kanye West – Yeezus
7. Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
8. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
9. CHVRCHES – The Bones of What You Believe
10. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch the Throne
11. Disclosure – Caracal
12. D’Angelo & The Vanguard – Black Messiah
13. Drake – Nothing Was the Same
14. Tirzah – Devotion
15. Anderson .Paak – Malibu
16. Beyoncé – 4
17. Friendly Fires – Pala
18. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
19. Kacey Musgraves – Rainbow
20. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
21. Disclosure – Settle
22. Kaytranada – 99.9%
23. Childish Gambino – Awaken, My Love!
24. Blood Orange – Negro Swan
25. Snail Mail – Lush

26. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
27. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf
28. Pusha T – Daytona
29. SZA – CTRL
30. The xx – I See You
31. Solange – When I Get Home
32. Arctic Monkeys – AM
33. Jay-Z – 4:44
34. Noname – Room 25
35. Travis Scott – Astroworld
36. LCD Soundsystem – American Dream
37. Alabama Shakes – Sound & Color
38. Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
39. Deftones – Koi No Yokan
40. Tuxedo – Tuxedo II
41. Rina Sawayama – Rina
42. Beck – Morning Phase
43. Raphael Saadiq – Stone Rollin’
44. The Strokes – Angles
45. JPEGMAFIA – Veteran
46. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
47. The Lonely Island – Turtleneck & Chain
48. Devo – Something for Everybody
49. Bruno Mars – 24k Magic
50. Remo Drive – Greatest Hits

1. Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
2. Foster the People – Torches
3. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
4. Arctic Monkeys – AM
5. Foster the People – Supermodel
6. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
7. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Original Broadway Cast – Hamilton
8. David Bowie – Blackstar
9. Skrillex – Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP
10. Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
11. Glass Animals – How to Be a Human Being
12. The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come to Expect
13. Fontaines D.C. – Dogrel
14. The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Merrie Land
15. Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox
16. Lorde – Pure Heroine
17. Irontom – The Irontom Compilation
18. Marina and the Diamonds – Electra Heart
19. Cage the Elephant – Melophobia
20. Kesha – Rainbow
21. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
22. various artists – Music from Baz Luhrmann’s film The Great Gatsby
23. Florence + the Machine – Between Two Lungs
24. MGMT – Little Dark Age
25. Adele – 21

26. Bastille – Wild World
27. nevershoutnever – Harmony
28. Jamie T. – Carry on the Grudge
29. Yungblud – 21st Century Liability
30. The Neighborhood – I Love You.
31. Maroon 5 – Hands All Over
32. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
33. Lil Peep – Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 1
34. Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap
35. Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops and Hooligans
36. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness
37. Blur – The Magic Whip
38. Mac DeMarco – 2
39. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
40. Rihanna – Loud
41. Crystal Castles – (II)
42. Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor
43. Tame Impala – Currents
44. Gorillaz – Humanz
45. Lil Nas X – 7 Ep
46. Vampire Weekend – Contra
47. The Dirt Daubers – Wake Up
48. Avicii – True
49. Katzenjammer – A Kiss Before You Go
50. Lady Gaga – Born This Way

1. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. Glass Animals – Zaba
3. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
4. Odesza – In Return
5. Lizzo – Cuz I Love You
6. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3
7. Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
8. Grimes – Art Angels
10. The Weeknd – Beauty Behind the Madness
11. CHVRCHES – Love is Dead
12. Haim – Days Are Gone
13. Lorde – Pure Heroine
14. ARIZONA – Gallery
15. Lord Huron – Strange Trails
16. Crystal Castles – (III)
17. Yeasayer – Odd Blood
18. Bleachers – Gone Now
19. Disclosure – Settle
20. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
21. Marina and the Diamond – Electra Heart
22. Halsey – Badlands
23. Lady Gaga – Born This Way
24. The National – High Violet
25. Janelle Monàe – The ArchAndroid

26. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
27. Hilltop Hoods – Drinking from the Sun
28. Caribou – Swim
29. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
30. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
31. Jamie xx – In Colour
32. Portugal. the Man – Evil Friends
33. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
34. Big Gigantic – Brighter Future
35. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
36. Chance the Rapper – 10 Day
37. St. Vincent – Masseduction
38. Miike Snow – iii
39. The Black Keys – Brothers
40. Børns – Dopamine
41. James Blake – James Blake
42. Chromeo – Business Casual
43. Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx – We’re New Here
44. Years & Years – Communion
45. Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
46. Chairlift – Something
47. Andrew Bird – I Want to See Pulaski at Night
48. Avicii – True
49. Sleigh Bells – Treats
50. Die Antwoord – Ten$ion

1. Beyoncé – Lemonade
2. Grimes – Art Angels
3. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
5. Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial
6. Lin-Manuel Miranda & Original Broadway Cast – Hamilton
7. P!nk – The Truth About Love
8. Laurie Anderson – Heart of a Dog
9. Beyoncé – Homecoming
10. Pistol Annies – Innerstate Gospel
11. Miranda Lambert – Platinum
12. Burial – Truant/Rough Sleeper
13. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
14. Beyoncé – Beyoncé
15. Drive-By Truckers – American Band
16. Pistol Annies – Hell on Heels
17. Robyn – Body Talk
18. Wussy – Attica!
19. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
20. The Roots – How I Got Over
21. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
22. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
23. Rihanna – Anti
24. Superchunk – What a Time to Be Alive
25. Sleater-Kinney – No Cities to Love

26. Angaleena Presley – American Middle Class
27. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
28. Willie Nelson – Last Man Standing
29. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
30. Sophie – Product
31. Taylor Swift – Lover
32. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
33. Todd Snider – Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3
34. Skrillex – Bangarang EP
35. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
36. Vampire Weekend – Contra
37. Himanshu – Nehru Jackets
38. Big Boi – Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty
39. Aphex Twin – Syro
40. Hop Along – Painted Shut
41. Noname – Room 25
42. Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What
43. Heems – Eat Pray Thug
44. Lana Del Rey – Lust for Life
45. Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride
46. various artists – The American Epic Sessions: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
47. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
48. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment – Surf
49. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP2
50. Miranda Lambert – The Weight of These Wings

1. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
2. Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra
3. Beyoncé – Lemonade
4. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
5. tune-yards – whokill
6. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
7. Robyn – Body Talk
8. Alex Lahey – I Love You Like a Brother
9. Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer
10. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
11. Tegan & Sara – Heartthrob
12. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
13. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires in the City
14. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
15. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
16. Beyoncé – Beyoncé
17. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
18. Azealia Banks – Broke with Expensive Taste
19. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!
20. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
21. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
22. Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap
23. Pistol Annies – Hell on Heels
24. Janelle Monàe – The ArchAndroid
25. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2

26. Chance the Rapper – Coloring Book
27. Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
28. Grimes – Art Angels
29. Vince Staples – Summertime ’06
30. The National – High Violet
31. Wussy – Strawberry
32. Maren Morris – Hero
33. Miguel – Kaleidoscope Dream
34. Janelle Monàe – The Electric Lady
35. Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
36. Jamila Woods – HEAVN
37. Miranda Lambert- Platinum
38. Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer, Different Park
39. Jay-Z – 4:44
40. Mitski – Be the Cowboy
41. Rihanna – Anti
42. Jamila Woods – Legacy! Legacy!
43. Downtown Boys – Full Communism
44. Carly Rae Jepsen – E·MO·TION
45. Vampire Weekend – Contra
46. Lorde – Melodrama
47. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
48. Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
49. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
50. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die