From Angel Olsen to Rihanna, see TIME's list of the best albums of the year....http://time.com/4577061/top-10-best-albums-2016/ 10. Il, Jean-Michel Blais
9. Emily?s D+Evolution, Esperanza Spalding
8. Freetown Sound, Blood Orange. ...
7. Anti, Rihanna. ...
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Rihanna might be the most charismatic person on the planet, and Anti is her first album to recognize that said charisma is her greatest strength. The music within is all over the place: she moves from dancehall to stoned soul to grimy trap-pop to Tame Impala-style psych without blinking, relying on her voice and force of personality to hold everything together. The result is an album that creates and ignores trends instead of chasing them. Rihanna?s stardom has been inarguable for a solid decade at this point; Anti is the first album that does her justice.
6. A Moon Shaped Pool, Radiohead. Radiohead/XL Recordings. ...
5. Potential, The Range. The Range/Domino. ...
4. My Woman, Angel Olsen. Angel Olsen/Jagjaguwar/Amanda Ma. ...
3. Puberty 2, Mitski. Dead Oceans. ...
2. A Seat at the Table, Solange.
QuoteSolange knows the personal is political. On A Seat at the Table she enlists her family, friends and network of collaborators to help her render the agony and ecstasy of black womanhood. The music is elegant and warm, running the gamut from classic soul to bubbling electro-pop, and the messaging is gentle but firm. ?Don?t Touch My Hair? puts the invasion of personal space into straightforward terms; on ?Mad,? she dismantles the way black women?s anger is stereotyped. ?Cranes in the Sky? is even better, a digest of all the coping mechanisms she?s employed to fend off the pain of living in a world that doesn?t respect her. If an album has the power to change that for future generations, it?s A Seat at the Table, a patient and magnanimous statement of personhood.
1. Blonde, Frank Ocean. Frank Ocean.
QuoteFrank Ocean has become pop music?s leading ascetic, a less-is-more devotee who?d rather let his melodies do all the talking. Released after four years of increasingly interminable hype, Blonde finds Ocean leaving behind the rich arrangements and narratives of 2012?s Channel Orange in favour of radical simplicity: little percussion, few guest stars, lyrics that are both stunning and impossibly opaque. ?Nights? is a multi-part suite ? like Ocean?s own ?Pyramids? ? given an acid bath and stripped to spare parts; ?Solo? and ?Godspeed? are breathtaking modern hymns. (They?re queer, too, and so deeply felt they make a song like ?Forrest Gump? sound cloying.) If Channel Orange made Ocean a star, Blonde confirms that he?s a singular figure.
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