![]() ![]() Combined, they showcase her increasing versatility and superb vocals. Two years after her breakthrough album Burn Your Fire for No Witness, singer-songwriter Angel Olsen returned with an even better third album that is divided into a more upbeat first half and quieter, sadder B-side. The 40 best-reviewed albums of 2016 (min. Note that live albums, reissues, compilations, and the like are excluded from this chart, though they are listed separately a bit further down this page. And four new studio albums managed to achieve an elite score of 90 or higher, up from last year's mark of three.īelow is this year's final ranking of the best albums (in Metacritic's database) released during 2016 as determined by their Metascores (an average of all reviews by professional critics at the time of each album's original release). That's up from 2015's figure of 20% (and even further up from the 13% rate we saw in 2014). ![]() Of those, 153-or over 23%-received universal acclaim (with a Metascore of 81 or greater). And there was one other easy way into the top 10: having the last name of Knowles.Īt the time we are publishing this, there are 654 albums released during 2016 that have seven or more reviews from professional critics. ![]() That applies not only to Nick Cave but also bands like Radiohead, A Tribe Called Quest, and Drive-By Truckers. ![]() For two artists in our top 10, death was even closer: both David Bowie and Leonard Cohen died within days of releasing their final albums.Īnother commonality in our top 10 was much less bleak: that of veteran bands scoring some of their best-ever reviews late into their careers. Themes of mortality appear in the lyrics of multiple albums, including 2016's highest-scoring release: Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, a band whose frontman lost his son while the album was being recorded. One-unsurprisingly for a year that has seemed bleak at times-is death. Several themes unite seemingly disparate entries in our list of 2016's best albums. ![]()
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