And here’s the full list, including runners-up. Thanks always for reading.
1. Kelela – Take Me Apart
2. Saint Etienne – Home Counties
3. Jens Lekman – Life Will See You Now
4. Nicole Atkins – Goodnight Rhonda Lee
5. St. Vincent – MASSEDUCTION
6. Migos – Culture
7. The xx – I See You
8. Kehlani – SweetSexySavage
9. Charlie Worsham – The Beginning of Things
10. Paramore – After Laughter
11. Spoon – Hot Thoughts
12. Lee Ann Womack – The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone
13. Ibibio Sound Machine – Uyai
14. Lorde – Melodrama
15. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – The French Press
16. 2 Chainz – Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
17. Romeo Santos – Golden
18. Tyler the Creator – Flower Boy
19. Arto Lindsay – Cuidado Madame
20. Sunny Sweeney – Trophy
21. BROCKHAMPTON – SATURATION II
22. Haim – Something to Tell You
23. Miguel – War & Leisure
24. Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory
25. K Michelle – K: The People That I Used to Know
26. Tee Grizzley – My Moment
27. Rostam – Half-Light
28. The Mountain Goats – Goths
29. Willie Nelson – God’s Problem Child
30. Cloud Nothings – Life Without Sound
31. Jay-Z – 4:44
32. Kendrick Lamar – DAMN.
33. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 3
34. Big Boi – Boomiverse
35. Fever Ray — Plunge
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