The numbers presented next to each album title are the weighted average rating, and, in brackets, average and number of ratings (out of 31 included sources). The weighted average is based on a formula that includes a) the average of ratings and b) the number of sources that have rated the album.
The magazines I used for the ratings were:
EUR + Australia: Gaffa-dk; Gaffa-sw; Humo; Indiestyle; Jenesaispop; Laut; Mondosonoro; Musikexpress; Nojesguiden; Ondarock; Plattentests; Sentire Ascoltare; The Music
UK: DIY; Drowned In Sound; The Guardian; Music OMH; NME; The Line Of Best Fit; The Skinny; The 405
USA + Canada: Allmusic; AV Club; Consequence Of Sound; Exclaim!; Paste; Pitchfork; Popmatters; Rolling Stone; Tinymixtapes; Under The Radar
Highlights: These are the top three songs from the album according to Allmusic, Consequence of Sound, Jenesaispop, Plattentests, The Skinny, Beardfood, BostonGlobe, Nowtoronto, Entertainment Weekly, etc…
New entry or Re-entry
Albums that have obtained new reviews and improved the score
Albums that have obtained new reviews but worsened the score
Out:
Pissed Jeans: Why Love Now
Vagabon: Infinite Worlds
Drake: More Life
Susanne Sundfør: Music For People In Trouble
90 - Pharmakon: Contact - 74,7 (76,7 / 15)
Highlights: Transmission - No Natural Order - Nakedness of Need
Noise
89 - Kevin Morby: City Music - 74,8 (74,5 / 22)
Highlights: City Music - Come To Me Now - Pearly Gates
Singer-Songwriter
88 - Tinariwen: Elwan - 74,8 (77,5 / 13)
Highlights: Nànnuflày - Assàwt - Ténéré Tàqqàl
World
87 - Priests: Nothing Feels Natural - 74,9 (77,2 / 14)
Highlights: Nothing Feels Natural - JJ - Pink White House
Post-Punk
86 - Migos: Culture - 74,9 (76,2 / 17)
Highlights: Bad and Boujee - T-Shirt - Call Casting
Hip Hop
85 - Diet Cig: Swear I'm Good At This - 74,9 (77,9 / 12)
Highlights: Tummy Ache - Sixteen - Link in Bio
Indie Pop
84 - Alvvays: Antisocialites – 75,0 (74,3 / 23)
Highlights: Dreams Tonite - In Undertow - Lollipop (Ode to Jim)
Indie Pop
83 - Marika Hackman: I'm Not Your Man - 75,0 (77,0 / 15)
Highlights: Boyfriend - My Lover Cindy - Violet
Singer-Songwriter
82 - EMA: Exile In The Outer Ring - 75,1 (75,7 / 19)
Highlights: Down and Out - Fire Water Air LSD - Breathalyzer
Noise Rock
81 - Spoon: Hot Thoughts – 75,1 (73,8 / 25)
Highlights: Hot Thoughts - Do I Have to Talk You Into It - I Ain’t the One
Indie Rock
80 - Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit: The Nashville Sound – 75,1 (77,1 / 15)
Highlights: If We Were Vampires - Anxiety - Cumberland Gap
Americana
79 - Aldous Harding: Party - 75,2 (77,5 / 14)
Highlights: Imagining My Man - Living the Classics - Party
Folk
78 - Queens Of The Stone Age: Villains – 75,2 (73,2 / 27)
Highlights: Feet Don't Fail Me - The Evil Has Landed - Un-Reborn Again
Alternative Rock
77 - Wolf Alice: Visions Of A Life - 75,3 (77,9 / 13)
Highlights: Don’t Delete The Kisses - Heavenward - Beautifully Unconventional
Indie Rock
76 - Sorority Noise: You're Not As _____ As You Think – 75,3 (79,3 / 19)
Highlights: No Halo - A Better Sun - A Portrait Of
Emo
75 - Elbow: Little Fictions - 75,4 (75,8 / 20)
Highlights: Magnificent (She Says) - Gentle Storm - All Disco
Art Rock
74 - Julie Byrne: Not Even Happiness – 75,7 (76,3 / 19)
Highlights: Natural Blue - Follow My Voice - Sleepwalker
Folk
73 - Zola Jesus: Okovi - 75,7 (75,3 / 22)
Highlights: Exhumed - Siphon - Remains
Art Pop
72 - Future Islands: The Far Field – 75,7 (72,3 / 31)
Highlights: Ran - Shadows - Through the Roses
Synthpop
71 - Mark Eitzel: Hey Mr Ferryman - 75,7 (79,0 / 11)
Highlights: Nothing and Everything - In My Role As Professional Singer and Ham - The Last Ten Years
Singer-Songwriter
70 - Mark Lanegan Band: Gargoyle - 75,7 (76,1 / 20)
Highlights: Old Swan - Beehive - Drunk on Destruction
Singer-Songwriter
69 - Pallbearer: Heartless – 75,7 (78,1 / 14)
Highlights: Lie of Survival - Dancing in Madness - I Saw the End
Doom Metal
68 - Ryan Adams: Prisoner - 75,8 (74,1 / 26)
Highlights: Outbound Train - Prisoner - Anything I Say To You Now
Singer-Songwriter
67 - Hiss Golden Messenger: Hallelujah Anyhow - 75,8 (80,4 / 7)
Highlights: Jenny of the Roses - I Am the Song - John the Gun
Americana
66 - Mount Kimbie: Love What Survives - 75,8 (75,8 / 21)
Highlights: Blue Train Line - Audition - Four Years and One Day
Future Garage
65 - Lana Del Rey: Lust For Life - 75,9 (73,5 / 28)
Highlights: 13 Beaches - Love - Lust for Life
Dream Pop
64 - Mac DeMarco: This Old Dog – 76,0 (72,6 / 31)
Highlights: My Old Man - One More Love Song - A Wolf Who Wears Sheep Clothes
Singer-Songwriter
63 - (Sandy) Alex G: Rocket – 76,0 (76,3 / 20)
Highlights: Sportstar - Bobby - County
Indie Rock
62 - Aimee Mann: Mental Illness – 76,0 (78,7 / 13)
Highlights: Goose Snow Cone - You Never Loved Me - Patient Zero
Singer-Songwriter
61 - Mogwai: Every Country's Sun - 76,0 (75,0 / 24)
Highlights: Crossing the Road Material - Don't Believe the Fife - Every Country's Sun
Post-Rock
60 - Jens Lekman: Life Will See You Now - 76,1 (75,8 / 22)
Highlights: How We Met, the Long Version - What's That Perfume That You Wear? - Hotwire the Ferris Wheel
Indie Pop
59 - Grandaddy: Last Place – 76,1 (75,8 / 22)
Highlights: Way We Won't - Evermore - A Lost Machine
Indie Rock
58 - Neil Young: Hitchhiker - 76,3 (77,9 / 16)
Highlights: Hawaii - Pocahontas - Powderfinger
Singer-Songwriter
57 - Blanck Mass: World Eater – 76,3 (76,9 / 19)
Highlights: Rhesus Negative - Please - Silent Treatment
Experimental
56 - Sleaford Mods: English Tapas – 76,4 (76,0 / 22)
Highlights: B.H.S. - Just Like We Do - Time Sands
Post-Punk
55 - Loyle Carner: Yesterday's Gone - 76,4 (78,4 / 15)
Highlights: The Isle of Arran - Damselfly - No CD
Hip Hop
54 - Do Make Say Think: Stubborn Persistent Illusions - 76,5 (79,5 / 12)
Highlights: And Boundless - Horripilation - Return, Return Again
Post-Rock
53 - Colin Stetson: All This I Do For Glory – 76,6 (78,6 / 15)
Highlights: Spindrift - All This I Do for Glory - Between Water and Wind
Avant-Garde Jazz
52 - Jesca Hoop: Memories Are Now - 76,7 (79,7 / 12)
Highlights: Memories Are Now - Unsaid - The Lost Sky
Indie Folk
51 - SZA: CTRL – 76,7 (79,0 / 14)
Highlights: Drew Barrymore - Love Galore - Broken Clocks
Alternative R&B
50 - Charly Bliss: Guppy - 76,9 (81,6 / 7)
Highlights: Percolator - Gatorade - Totalizer
Indie Rock
49 - Broken Social Scene: Hug Of Thunder – 76,9 (74,9 / 27)
Highlights: Hug of Thunder - Halfway Home - Protest Song
Indie Rock
48 - Japanese Breakfast: Soft Sounds From Another Planet – 77,1 (78,4 / 17)
Highlights: Diving Woman - Boyish - Till Death
Dream Pop
47 - Waxahatchee: Out In The Storm – 77,2 (75,5 / 26)
Highlights: Never Been Wrong - Hear You - Sparks Fly
Indie Rock
46 - Dirty Projectors: Dirty Projectors - 77,3 (74,6 / 29)
Highlights: Little Bubble - Ascent Through Clouds - Up in Hudson
Art Pop
45 - Phoebe Bridgers: Stranger In The Alps - 77,3 (80,3 / 12)
Highlights: Killer - Motion Sickness - Funeral
Indie Folk
44 - The Afghan Whigs: In Spades – 77,5 (76,5 / 24)
Highlights: Arabian Heights - Demon in Profile - The Spell
Alternative Rock
43 - Wiley: Godfather - 77,6 (81,3 / 10)
Highlights: Can't Go Wrong - Laptop - Name Brand
Grime
42 - Nadine Shah: Holiday Destination – 77,7 (79,3 / 16)
Highlights: Out The Way - Yes Men - Jolly Sailor
Indie Rock
41 - Grizzly Bear: Painted Ruins – 77,7 (75,0 / 29)
Highlights: Mourning Sound - Three Rings - Losing All Sense
Indie Rock
40- Ty Segall: Ty Segall - 77,8 (76,1 / 26)
Highlights: Take Care (To Comb Your Hair) - Orange Color Queen - Warm Hands (Freedom Returned)
Psychedelic Rock
39 - Fleet Foxes: Crack-Up – 78,0 (76,0 / 27)
Highlights: Fool's Errand - Third of May/Ōdaigahara - I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar
Folk
38 - Everything Everything: A Fever Dream – 78,1 (78,4 / 20)
Highlights: Run the Numbers - Good Shot, Good Soldier - Night of the Long Knives
Art Pop
37 - Chelsea Wolfe: Hiss Spun – 78,2 (80,8 / 13)
Highlights: Spun - Scrape - Twin Fawn
Gothic Rock
36 - Jay-Z: 4:44 - 78,2 (77,6 / 23)
Highlights: Smile - 04:44 - Kill Jay Z
Hip Hop
35 - PWR BTTM: Pageant - 78,3 (82,0 / 10)
Highlights: LOL - Sissy - Answer My Text
Indie Rock
34 - Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway - 78,4 (82,1 / 10)
Highlights: The Love We Almost Had - Freedom Highway - At The Purchaser’s Option
Folk
33 - The Moonlandingz: Interplanetary Class Classics - 78,5 (82,9 / 8)
Highlights: This Cities Undone - Black Hanz - The Strangle of Anna
Neo-Psychedelia
32 - Jlin: Black Origami - 78,7 (82,4 / 10)
Highlights: Kyanite - Holy Child - Challenge To Be Continued
Footwork
31 - Tyler, the Creator: Flower Boy - 78,8 (79,4 / 19)
Highlights: 911 / Mr. Lonely - Where This Flower Blooms - Who Dat Boy
Experimental Hip Hop
30 - Moses Sumney: Aromanticism – 79,3 (82,3 / 12)
Highlights: Doomed - Lonely World - Indulge Me
Art Pop
29 - Big Thief: Capacity - 79,3 (80,6 / 17)
Highlights: Mythological Beauty - Shark Smile - Haley
Indie Rock
28 - Ryuichi Sakamoto: async – 79,5 (83,0 / 9)
Highlights: Solari - Stakra - Life, Life
Ambient
27 - The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir – 79,6 (79,6 / 21)
Highlights: 01: Have You Seen It in the Snow? - 74: No - 02: Be True to Your Bar
Indie Pop
26 - Stormzy: Gang Signs & Prayer - 79,7 (80,4 / 19)
Highlights: Big for Your Boots - Mr Skeng - Shut Up
Grime
25 - Sheer Mag: Need to Feel Your Love – 79,7 (81,1 / 17)
Highlights: Just Can’t Get Enough - Meet Me in the Street - Need To Feel Your Love
Power Pop
24 - Gas: Narkopop - 79,9 (82,9 / 12)
Highlights: Narkopop 10 - Narkopop 2 - Narkopop 5
Ambient
23 - The xx: I See You – 80,0 (77,3 / 29)
Highlights: On Hold - Say Something Loving - A Violent Noise
Indie Pop
22 - Feist: Pleasure – 80,0 (78,0 / 27)
Highlights: Any Party - Pleasure - Century
Indie Rock
21 - Hurray For The Riff Raff: The Navigator – 80,3 (81,3 / 18)
Highlights: Pa'lante - The Navigator - Rican Beach
Americana
20 - Thundercat: Drunk – 80,3 (78,6 / 26)
Highlights: Show You the Way - A Fan’s Mail - Walk on By
Neo-Soul
19 - The Horrors: V - 80,4 (81,1 / 19)
Highlights: Something to Remember Me By - Machine - World Below
Neo-Psychedelia
18 - Laura Marling: Semper Femina – 80,4 (78,1 / 28)
Highlights: Nothing, Not Nearly - Soothing - Nouel
Singer-Songwriter
17 - Protomartyr: Relatives in Descent - 80,6 (84,3 /10)
Highlights: My Children - Windsor Hum - Night-Blooming Cereus
Post-Punk
16 - Laurel Halo: Dust - 80,7 (82,3 / 16)
Highlights: Moontalk - Sun to Solar - Jelly
Ambient Pop
15 - Father John Misty: Pure Comedy - 81,9 (78,9 /30)
Highlights: Leaving L.A. - Total Entertainment Forever - Pure Comedy
Singer-Songwriter
14 - Algiers: The Underside Of Power - 81,9 (81,6 / 22)
Highlights: The Underside of Power - Walk Like a Panther - A Hymn for an Average Man
Post-Punk
13 - Brand New: Science Fiction – 82,1 (84,8 /13)
Highlights: Same Logic / Teeth - Batter Up - Lit Me Up
Indie Rock
12 - Slowdive: Slowdive – 82,2 (80,2 / 27)
Highlights: Sugar for the Pill - Star Roving - Falling Ashes
Dream Pop
11 - Arca: Arca - 82,3 (82,0 / 22)
Highlights: Desafío - Anoche - Fugaces
Art Pop
10 - Sampha: Process - 83,2 (80,9 / 28)
Highlights: (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano - Blood on Me - Plastic 100°C
Alternative R&B
09 - Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory – 83,7 (83,0 / 23)
Highlights: Yeah Right - BagBak - Crabs in a Bucket
Hip Hop
08 - Perfume Genius: No Shape – 83,8 (82,1 / 26)
Highlights: Slip Away - Alan - Wreath
Art Pop
07 - The National: Sleep Well Beast – 84,5 (81,2 / 31)
Highlights: Day I Die - The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness - I’ll Still Destroy You
Indie Rock
06 - The War On Drugs: A Deeper Understanding - 84,7 (81,4 / 31)
Highlights: Holding On - Pain - Thinking of a Place
Heartland Rock
05 - Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked at Me – 85,7 (87,4 / 16)
Highlights: Ravens - Real Death - Toothbrush/Trash
Singer-Songwriter
04 - Lorde: Melodrama - 87,9 (84,9 / 30)
Highlights: Green Light - Sober - Writer in the Dark
Art Pop
03 - LCD Soundsystem: American Dream – 88,0 (85,3 / 29)
Highlights: Tonite - American Dream - Oh Baby
Dance Punk
02 - Run The Jewels: Run The Jewels 3 - 89,2 (86,9 / 28)
Highlights: Thursday in the Danger Room - Call Ticketron - 2100
Hip Hop
01 - Kendrick Lamar: DAMN. – 89,3 (87,0 / 28)
Highlights: DNA. - HUMBLE. - ELEMENT.
Hip Hop
