Mitski, ‘Puberty 2’. (Photo: Archive)
Lvl Up, ‘Return to Love’. (Photo: Archive)
Anohni, ‘Hopelessness’. (Photo: Archive)
Sting, ’57th & 9th’. (Photo: Archive)
Alicia Keys, ‘Here’. (Photo: Archive)
Margo Price, ‘Midwest Farmer’s Daughter’. (Photo: Archive)
David Bowie, ‘Blackstar’. (Photo: Archive)
Frank Ocean, ‘Blonde’. (Photo: Archive)
Beyoncé, ‘Lemonade’. (Photo: Archive)
Car Seat Headrest, ‘Teens of Denial’. (Photo: Archive)
Brandy Clark, ‘Big Day in a Small Town’. (Photo: Archive)
Radiohead, ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’. (Photo: Archive)
Young Thug, ‘Jeffery’. (Photo: Archive)
Danny Brown, ‘Atrocity Exhibition’. (Photo: Archive)
Angel Olsen, ‘My Woman’. (Photo: Archive)
Chance the Rapper, ‘Coloring Book’. (Photo: Archive)
Leonard Cohen, ‘You Want It Darker’. (Photo: Archive)
Rihanna, ‘Anti’. (Photo: Archive)
Blood Orange, ‘Freetown Sound’. (Photo: Archive)
Drive-By Truckers, ‘American Band’. (Photo: Archive)
Bon Iver, ’22, A Million’. (Photo: Archive)
White Lung, ‘Paradise’. (Photo: Archive)
Miranda Lambert, ‘The Weight of These Wings’. (Photo: Archive)
Green Day, ‘Revolution Radio’. (Photo: Archive)
Maren Morris, ‘Hero’. (Photo: Archive)
Mudcrutch, ‘Mudcrutch 2’. (Photo: Archive)
Rolling Stones, ‘Blue & Lonesome’. (Photo: Archive)
Kanye West, ‘The Life of Pablo’. (Photo: Archive)
Parquet Courts, ‘Human Performance’. (Photo: Archive)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, ‘Skeleton Tree’. (Photo: Archive)
Paul Simon, ‘Stranger to Stranger’. (Photo: Archive)
The 1975, ‘I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It’. (Photo: Archive)
A Tribe Called Quest, ‘We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service’. (Photo: Archive)
Sturgill Simpson, ‘A Sailor’s Guide to Earth’. (Photo: Archive)
Solange, ‘A Seat at the Table’. (Photo: Archive)
Check out our list of the top albums released in this most turbulent of years. Do you agree or disagree with our selection?