Best Albums

The Sydney Morning Herald

www.smh.com.au/culture/music

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Highest Rated Albums of 2016

Decade

2010s
- All Time
- 2020s
- 2010s

Source

Genre

All
- All
- Alternative R&B
- Alternative Rock
- Art Pop
- Art Rock
- Chamber Pop
- Country
- Dance Pop
- Dream Pop
- Electronic
- Electropop
- Folk
- Hip Hop
- Indie Folk
- Indie Rock
- Metal
- Pop
- Pop Rock
- Psychedelic
- R&B
- Rock
- Singer-Songwriter
- Soul
- Synthpop

2016

1. The Gloaming - 2

February 26, 2016

Folk

Score

100

2. Daniil Trifonov - Transcendental: Daniil Trifonov Plays Franz Liszt

October 7, 2016

Score

100

Source →

Amazon

3. A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service

November 11, 2016

Score

4. Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

October 21, 2016

Score

5. Moddi - Unsongs

September 16, 2016

Score

6. Ólafur Arnalds - Island Songs

August 12, 2016

Score

7. Big Scary - Animal

September 2, 2016

Score

8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

September 9, 2016

Score

9. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

May 8, 2016

Score

10. Beyoncé - Lemonade

April 23, 2016

Score

11. BABYMETAL - Metal Resistance

April 1, 2016

Score

12. RÜFÜS - Bloom

January 22, 2016

Score

13. Bashka - Fihi Ma Fihi

September 8, 2016

Score

14. Chris Abrahams - Climb

Score

15. Joan Baez - 75th Birthday Celebration

Score

16. Michael Carpenter - Big Radio

April 8, 2016

Score

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Amazon

17. Olympia - Self Talk

April 29, 2016

Score

18. Urthboy - The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat

March 4, 2016

Score

19. Emma Russack - In A New State

June 10, 2016

Score

Source →

Amazon

20. Pretenders - Alone

October 21, 2016

Score

21. Norah Jones - Day Breaks

October 7, 2016

Score

22. Frank Ocean - Blonde

August 20, 2016

Score

23. Warpaint - Heads Up

September 23, 2016

Score

24. Ball Park Music - Every Night the Same Dream

August 19, 2016

Score

Source →

Amazon

25. Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass

October 21, 2016

Score

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NOTE: This is not a year end list. This list is ordered by the ratings The Sydney Morning Herald awarded albums throughout 2016.

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