Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2016

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2016

Listing for 229 records from 2016 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	A Tribe Called Quest: *We Got It From Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service* [Epic]
A	Car Seat Headrest: *Teens of Denial* [Matador] Chance the Rapper: *Coloring Book* [self-released] Elizabeth Cook: *Exodus of Venus* [Agent Love/Thirty Tigers] Drive-By Truckers: *American Band* [ATO] Robbie Fulks: *Upland Stories* [Bloodshot] Lyrics Born: *Now Look What You've Done, Lyrics Born!: Greatest Hits!* [Mobile Home] M.I.A.: *AIM* [Interscope] Youssou N'Dour: *Senegaal Rekk* [Prince Arts EP] Parquet Courts: *Human Performance* [Rough Trade] Rihanna: *Anti (Deluxe Edition)* [Westbury Road/Roc Nation] Elza Soares: *The Woman at the End of the World (A Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo)* [Mais Um Discos] *African Rumba* [Putamayo] *American Honey* [UMe download]
A-	Ab-Soul: *Do What Thou Wilt* [Top Dawg] Kevin Abstract: *American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story* [Brockhampton] Aesop Rock: *The Impossible Kid* [Rhymesayers Entertainment] Mose Allison: *I'm Not Talkin': The Song Stylings of Mose Allison 1957-1971* [BGP] Anderson .Paak: *Malibu* [OBE/Steel Wool/ArtClub/Empire] Arca: *Entranas* [self-released] Beats Antique: *Shadowbox* [Beats Antique] Beyoncé: *Lemonade* [Columbia] Blood Orange: *Freetown Sound* [Domino] David Bromberg: *The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing but the Blues* [Red House] Brandy Clark: *Big Day in a Small Town* [Warner Bros.] The Coathangers: *Nosebleed Weekend* [Suicide Squeeze] Leonard Cohen: *You Want It Darker* [Columbia] Martin Creed: *Thoughts Lined Up* [Telephone] Deap Vally: *Femejism* [Nevado] Fanfare Ciocarlia: 20 [Asphalt Tango] Kevin Gates: *Islah* [Atlantic] Margaret Glaspy: *Emotions and Math* [ATO] The Goon Sax: *Up for Anything* [Chapter Music] Macy Gray: *Stripped* [Chesky] The Highwaymen: *The Very Best of the Highwaymen* [Columbia/Legacy] Injury Reserve: *Floss* [Las Fuegas] Julie Ruin: *Hit Reset* [Hardly Art] Kano: *Made in the Manor* [Parlophone] Vieux Kanté: *The Young Man's Harp* [Sterns] Alicia Keys: *Here* [RCA] Marcel Khalifé/Mahmoud Darwish: *Andalusia of Love* [Nagam] Konono No 1: *Konono No. 1 Meets Batida* [Crammed Discs] Kendrick Lamar: *untitled unmastered.* [Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope] Leland Sundries: *Music for Outcasts* [L'Echiquier] Jinx Lennon: *Magic Bullets of Madness to Uplift the Grief Magnets* [Septic Tiger] Jinx Lennon: *Past Pupil Stay Sane* [Septic Tiger] L7: *Fast and Frightening* [Easy Action] Gary Lucas' Fleischerei Featuring Sarah Stiles: *Music From Max Fleischer Cartoons* [Cuneiform] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: *This Unruly Mess I've Made* [self-released] The Del McCoury Band: *Del and Woody* [McCoury Music] Lori McKenna: *The Bird & the Rifle* [CN/Thirty Tigers] Vic Mensa: *There's Alot Going On* [self-released] Buddy Miller: *Cayamo Sessions at Sea* [New West] Randy Newman: *The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3* [Nonesuch] The Nots: *Cosmetic* [Goner] The Paranoid Style: *Rolling Disclosure* [Bar/None] Margo Price: *Midwest Farmer's Daughter* [Third Man] Joey Purp: *iiiDrops* [self-released] Pussy Riot: *xxx* [Nice Life EP] Sad13: *Slugger* [Carpark] Homeboy Sandman: *Kindness for Weakness* [Stones Throw] 75 Dollar Bill: *Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock* [Thin Wrist] Noura Mint Seymali: *Arbina* [Glitterbeat] Sheer Mag: *III 7"* [Wilsuns RC/Katorga Works EP] Paul Simon: *Stranger to Stranger* [Concord] Britney Spears: *Glory (Deluxe Edition)* [RCA] Regina Spektor: *Remember Us to Life (Deluxe Edition)* [Sire] Peter Stampfel and the Brooklyn & Lower Manhattan Fiddle/Mandolin Swarm: *Holiday for Strings* [Don Giovanni] Vince Staples: *Prima Donna* [Def Jam EP] Swet Shop Boys: *Cashmere* [Customs] Tacocat: *Lost Time* [Hardly Art] Tanya Tagaq: *Retribution* [Six Shooter] Tegan and Sara: *Love You to Death* [Warner Bros.] Thao & the Get Down Stay Down: *A Man Alive* [Ribbon] Pat Thomas: *Coming Home* [Strut] T.I.: *Us or Else: Letter to the System* [Grand Hustle/Roc Nation] Umphrey's McGee: *Zonkey* [Nothing Too Fancy] Waco Brothers: *Going Down in History* [Bloodshot] Becky Warren: *War Surplus* [self-released] Kanye West: *The Life of Pablo* [Def Jam/G.O.O.D. Music] White Lung: *Paradise* [Domino] Saul Williams: *Martyr Loser King* [Fader] Chuck Willis: *The Songs of Chuck Willis* [Jasmine] Wussy: *Forever Sounds* [Shake It] Young Thug: *Jeffery* [300 Entertainment/Atlantic] Tom Zé: *Cancoes Eroticas Para Ninar* [Irara] *God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson* [Alligator] *The Hamilton Mixtape* [Atlantic] *The Rough Guide to Blues Women* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to Ethiopian Jazz* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to South African Jazz* [World Music Network] *Senegambia Rebel* [Voodoo Rebel]
B+	Danny Brown: *Atrocity Exhibition* [Warp] Debo Band: *Ere Gobez* [FPE] Dogbrain: *Blue Dog* [dogbrain] Open Mike Eagle + Paul White: *Hella Personal Film Festival* [Mello Music] Mahalia Jackson: *Moving On Up a Little Higher* [Spirit Feel] The Klezmatics: *Apikorsim/Heretics* [World Village] Miranda Lambert: *The Weight of These Wings* [Epic] Mach-Hommy: *HBO (Haitian Body Odor)* [Griselda] Frank Ocean: *Blond/Blonde* [self-released] Pylon: *Live* [Chunklet] Walter Salas-Humara: *Explodes and Disappears* [Sonic Pyramid] Travis Scott: *Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight* [Epic] Sleigh Bells: *Jessica Rabbit* [Torn Clean] Yoni & Geti: *Testarossa* [Joyful Noise] *Urgent Jumping!: East African Musiki Wa Dansi Classics* [Sterns]
*******	Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman: *Lice Two: Still Buggin'* [Rhymesayers/Stones Throw download EP] Thomas Anderson: *Heaven* [Out There] A$AP Ferg: *Always Strive and Prosper* [Polo Grounds/RCA] Atmosphere: *Fishing Blues* [Rhymesayers] William Bell: *This Is Where I Live* [Stax] Cavanaugh: *Time and Materials* [Mello Music] Barbara Dane With Tammy Hall: *Throw It Away . . .* [Dreadnaught] DJ Shadow: *The Mountain Will Fall* [Mass Appeal] Dreezy: *No Hard Feelings* [Interscope] Fantastic Negrito: *The Last Days of Oakland* [Blackball Universe] Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: *Time/Life* [Impulse] Handsome Family: *Unseen* [Carrot Top] Heron Oblivion: *Heron Oblivion* [Sub Pop] Jealous of the Birds: *Parma Violets* [Big Space] Aly Keita/Jan Gallega Bronnimann/Lucas Niggli: *Kalo-Yele* [Intakt] Ladysmith Black Mambazo: *Walking in the Footsteps of Our Fathers* [self-released] Let's Eat Grandma: *I, Gemini* [PIAS America] Loretta Lynn: *Full Circle* [Legacy] Walter Martin: *Arts & Leisure* [Ile Flottante] The Mekons: *Existentialism* [Bloodshot] Migos: *Y.R.N. 2 (Young Rich Niggas 2)* [self-released] Noname: *Telefone* [self-released] NxWorries: Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge: *Yes Lawd!* [Stones Throw] Iara Rennó: *Arca* [YB Music] Derek Senn: *Avuncular* [self-released] Siama: *Rivers: From the Congo to the Mississippi* [self-released] Sleaford Mods: *T.C.R.* [Rough Trade EP] Esperanza Spalding: *Emily's D+Evolution* [Concord] Spillage Village: *Bears Like This Too Much* [Spillage Village] Mavis Staples: *Livin' on a High Note* [Anti-] Starlito & Don Trip: *Step Brothers Two* [self-released] Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis: *NYN* [Riverboat] T.I.: *Us or Else* [T.I./Roc Nation EP] Warehouse: *Super Low* [Bayonet] Neil Young: *Peace Trail* [Reprise] Zomba Prison Project: *"I Will Not Stop Singing"* [Six Degrees] *Celestial Blues* [BGP] *Chartbusters USA: Special Country Edition* [Ace] *Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison* [Ace]
**	Animal Collective: *Painting With* [Domino] Arkells: *Morning Report* [Last Gang] The Avalanches: *Wildflower* [Astralwerks] Azealia Banks: *Slay-Z* [self-released] Bombino: *Azel* [Nonesuch] Bibi Bourelly: *Free the Real (Pt. # 1)* [Circa 13/Def Jam] Burial: *"Young Death"/"Nightmarket"* [Hyperdub EP] Toronzo Cannon: *The Chicago Way* [Alligator] Clams Casino: *32 Levels* [Columbia] Colvin & Earle: *Colvin & Earle* [Fantasy] Common: *Black America Again* [Def Jam] Frankie Cosmos: *Next Thing* [Bayonet] Death Grips: *Bottomless Pit* [Harvest/Third Worlds] De La Soul: *And the Anonymous Nobody* [A.O.I.] The Haymarket Squares: *Light It Up* [The Haymarket Squares] Veda Hille: *Love Waves* [Canadian Council of the Arts/Conseil des arts du Canada] Ka: *Honor Killed the Samurai* [Iron Works] Khun Narin Electric Phin Band: II [Innovative Leisure] Kilo Kish: *Reflections in Real Time* [Kisha Soundscape + Audio] John Legend: *Darkness and Light* [Columbia] Ravyn Lenae: *Moon Shoes* [Atlantic EP] Lizzo: *Coconut Oil* [Question Everything/RCA EP] DeJ Loaf: *All Jokes Aside* [self-released] Mr. Lif: *Don't Look Down* [Mello Music] Mitski: *Puberty 2* [Dead Oceans] Van Morrison: *. . . It's Too Late to Stop Now . . . Volumes II, III, IV & DVD* [Legacy] Kacey Musgraves: *A Very Kacey Christmas* [Mercury Nashville] Youssou N'Dour: *Africa Rekk* [Sony Music] Willie Nelson: *Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin* [Legacy] Pet Shop Boys: *Super* [Kobalt] Pinegrove: *Cardinal* [Run for Cover] John Prine: *For Better, or Worse* [Oh Boy] The Relatives: *Goodbye World* [Luv N' Haight] Saba: *The Bucket List Project* [Saba Pivot] Amanda Shires: *My Piece of Land* [Silver Knife] Chaim Tannenbaum: *Chaim Tannenbaum* [Storysound] Kate Tempest: *Let Them Eat Chaos* [Lex] Benjamin Dean Wilson: *Small Talk* [Tapete] Jamila Woods: *HEAVN* [Closed Sessions] Neil Young + Promise of the Real: *Earth* [Reprise] Young Thug: *I'm Up* [300 Entertainment/Atlantic] Young Thug: *Slime Season 3* [300 Entertainment/Atlantic] Frank Zappa: *Zappatite: Frank Zappa's Tastiest Tracks* [Zappa] *Brexit Blues* [Riverboat] *The Rough Guide to Americana* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to Bottleneck Blues* [World Music Network] *The Rough Guide to Delta Blues* [World Music Network]
*	Adult Books: *Running From the Blows* [Lollipop] Big Thief: *Masterpiece* [Saddle Creek] Bon Iver: *22, a Million* [Jagjaguwar] J Cole: *For Your Eyez Only* [Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope] The Dandy Warhols: *Distortland* [Dine Alone] Slim Gaillard: *Searching for You: The Lost Singles of McVouty 1958-1974* [Sunset Blvd] Garbage: *Strange Little Birds* [Vagrant] Gazebos: *Die Alone* [Hardly Art] PJ Harvey: *The Hope Six Demolition Project* [Island] Horse Lords: *Interventions* [Northern Spy] Benji Hughes: *Songs in the Key of Animals* [Merge] The Kills: *Ash & Ice* [Domino] Kool A.D.: *Official* [self-released] Lady Gaga: *Joanne (Deluxe Edition)* [Streamline/Interscope] Lecrae: *Church Clothes 3* [self-released] Lithics: *Borrowed Floors* [Water Wing] Little Simz: *Stillness in Wonderland* [Age 101] L'Orange & Mr. Lif: *The Life and Death of Scenery* [Mello Music Group] Leyla McCalla: *A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey* [Jazz Village] Willie Nelson: *For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price* [Legacy] Nice as Fuck: *Nice as Fuck* [Loves Way] Angel Olsen: *My Woman* [Jagjaguwar] Professor Longhair: *Live in Chicago* [Orleans] Rae Sremmurd: *SremmLife 2* [Eardrum/Interscope] Red Pill: *Instinctive Drowning* [Mello Music] Iara Rennó: *Flecha* [YB Music] L.A. Salami: *Dancing With Bad Grammar: The Director's Cut* [PIAS America] Sidestepper: *Supernatural Love* [RealWorld] Sneaks: *Gymnastics* [Merge] Todd Snider: *Eastside Bulldog* [Aimless/30 Tigers EP] Swim Team: *Swim Team* [Infinity Cat] Lucinda Williams: *The Ghosts of Highway 20* [Highway 20] YG: *Still Brazy* [Def Jam] *Blues Images Presents . . . 20 Classic Blues Songs From the 1920's: Vol. 13* [Blues Images] *The Rough Guide to Gospel Blues* [World Music Network] *Southern Family* [Low Country Sound]

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