NOW Magazine's Top Albums of 2016

NOW Magazine's Top Albums of 2016

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10.

March 31, 2016
Critic Score
81
3 reviews

9.

August 20, 2016
Critic Score
86
42 reviews

Blonde delves even further into Ocean’s creeping sense of mortality than Endless, but with the kind of focused songwriting and production values befitting the intense level of fan expectation that preceded its release.

8.

May 13, 2016
Critic Score
86
27 reviews

Past Chance the Rapper releases seemed inspired by Kanye West's The College Dropout, whereas Coloring Book has the celebratory and playful feel of Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III - densely packed with metaphors, flow and tempo change-ups, and summer-jam-worthy songs.

7.

September 30, 2016
Critic Score
87
48 reviews
Although the presentation has changed, the raw emotional power at the heart of Bon Iver is intact.

6.

May 6, 2016
Critic Score
81
38 reviews

Combined with Anohni's trembling and vulnerable vibrato, its grandiose sounds crescendo into a sprawling political epic that could inspire spontaneous bursts of interpretive dance.

4.

February 14, 2016
Critic Score
77
36 reviews

Most pop stars are content with a me-against-the-world mentality, but The Life Of Pablo posits a mantra more like me-against-myself, expressed as a mainline rush of gospel, rap, soul, house, noise and pop, and full of digressions into the highest highs and lowest lows.

2.

September 30, 2016
Critic Score
88
30 reviews
There’s a weariness to Solange’s album, a realization that the Black identity, stripped of its dimensionality and packaged for mainstream entertainment, has left us all looking like bad dudes to some degree in the eyes of others.

1.

January 8, 2016
Critic Score
86
45 reviews
Although there's cosmic energy in the music's upward trajectory, it comes from a decidedly earthbound live-off-the-floor approach rather than meticulously sculpted production.
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