Metacritic 75 (best rated 2016 new albums)

Info:  «Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged» (from Wikipedia). Metacritic 75 is a series of playlists collecting all new albums (no reissues, anthologies, live albums) that get a 75+ aggregated score generated by at least 15 reviews. On running years, the playlist is periodically updated and closed on January of the following year. This playlist collects new albums published in 2016. 

Source: Metacritic

Date of publication: 2016

Spotify playlist latest update: 15th January 2017

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David Bowie - Blackstar (87)
Anderson Paak - Malibu (85)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Pond Scum (77)
Tindersticks - The Waiting Room (82)
Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger (77)
Suede - Night Thoughts (80)
Eleanor Friedberger - New View (81)
Savages - Adore Life (81)
Shearwater - Jet Plane and Oxbow (82)
Saul Williams - MartyrLoserKing (78)
Money - Suicide Songs (78)
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat (80)
Porches - Pool (75)
Field Music - Commontime (79)
Lucinda Williams - The Ghosts of Highway 20 (83)
Kanye West - The Life of Pablo (75)
Matmos - Ultimate Care II (76)
Wild Nothing - Life of Pause (75)
Teen - Love Yes (75)
The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It (75)
School of Seven Bells - SVIIB (83)
Bonnie Raitt - Dig in Deep (82)
The Coral - Distance Inbetween (81)
Loretta Lynn - Full Circle (84)
M. Ward - More Rain (75)
Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered. (86)
Brian Fallon - Painkillers (78)
Emmy The Great - Second Love (77)
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression (79)
Underworld - Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future (81)
The Range - Potential (81)
Bob Mould - Patch the Sky (83)
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing (78)
The Field - The Follower (78)
Explosions in the Sky - Wilderness (80)
Charles Bradley - Changes (80)
Andrew Bird - Are You Serious (78)
Black Mountain - IV (75)
Pet Shop Boys - Super (75)
Tim Hecker - Love Streams (82)
Parquet Courts - Human Performance (81)
Deftones - Gore (81)
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw (84)
Sam Beam - Love Letter For Fire (79)
Cate Le Bon - Crab Day (75)
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project (79)
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth (86)
Wire - Nocturnal Koreans (78)
Beyoncé - Lemonade (92)
Brian Eno - The Ship (79)
James Blake - The Colour In Anything (78)
Skepta - Konnichiwa (83)
Kaytranada - 99,9% (81)
Anohni - Hopelessness (83)
Julianna Barwick - Will (77)
White Lung - Paradise (79)
Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (88)
Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost (81)
Jessy Lanza - Oh No (82)
Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book (90)
Various Artists - Day of the Dead (75)
Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (85)
Bob Dylan - Fallen Angels (77)
Marissa Nadler - Strangers (76)
Gold Panda - Good Luck and Do Your Best (79)
Holy Fuck - Congrats (78)
Whitney - Light Upon the Lake (83)
William Tyler - Modern Country (81)
Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger (85)
Steve Gunn - Eyes on the Lines (82)
Tegan and Sara - Love You To Death (79)
Garbage - Strange Little Birds (75)
Let's Eat Grandma - I, Gemini (78)
Swans - The Glowing Man (81)
Mitski - Puberty 2 (87)
case/lang/veirs - case/lang/veirs (83)
Mogwai - Atomic (77)
Deerhoof - The Magic (79)
Blood Orange - Freetown Sound (82)
Maxwell - BlackSUMMERS'Night (86)
Bat For Lashes - The Bride (78)
ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP (81)
BadBadNotGood - IV (77)
Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up To Monto (77)
Shura - Nothing's Real (80)
The Avalanches - Wildflower (82)
The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset (78)
Clams Casino - 32 Levels (76)
Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate (86)
Nao - For All We Know (82)
Wild Beasts - Boy King (78)
Dinosaur Jr. - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not (79)
Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits (82)
Lydia Loveless - Real (82)
Frank Ocean - Blonde (87)
Cass McCombs - Mangy Love (81)
De La Soul - And The Anonymous Nobody (76)
Angel Olsen - My Woman (87)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree (94)
Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016 (81)
Teenage Fanclub - Here (79)
Okkervil River - Away (79)
Wilco - Schmilco (79)
Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me (79)
Preoccupations - Preoccupations (78)
How To Dress Well - Care (75)
Warpaint - Heads Up (75)
Beach Slang - A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings (81)
Hamilton Leithauser - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine (82)
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition (86)
Solange - A Seat at the Table (89)
Drive-By Truckers - American Band (89)
Bon Iver - 22, A Million (86)
Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch (84)
Joyce Manor - Cody (79)
Goat - Requiem (76)
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation (86)
Conor Oberst - Ruminations (76)
NxWorries - Yes Lawd! (80)
Pretenders - Alone (77)
American Football - American Football LP2 (78)
The Radio Dept. - Running Out Of Love (82)
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (92)
Honeyblood - Babes Never Die (76)
Lambchop - FLOTUS (83)
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service (89)
Sad13 - Slugger (79)
Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!" (77)
The Rolling Stones - Blue and Lonesome (82)
Kate Bush - Before The Dawn (live) (84)
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 (88)