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:
Diet Cig: Swear I'm Good At This
Alvvays: Antisocialites
Marika Hackman: I'm Not Your Man
100 - EMA: Exile In The Outer Ring - 75,1 (75,7 / 19)
Highlights: Down and Out - Fire Water Air LSD - Breathalyzer
Noise Rock
99 - Mavis Staples: If All I Was Was Black - 75,1 (77,4 / 14)
Highlights: If All I Was Was Black - We Go High - No Time for Crying
Soul
98 - James Holden & The Animal Spirits: The Animal Spirits - 75,1 (77,8 / 13)
Highlights: Pass Through the Fire - Thunder Moon Gathering - Each Moment Like The First
Electronic
97 - 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
96 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Luciferian Towers – 75,3 (74,6 / 23)
Highlights: Anthem for No State - Bosses Hang - Undoing a Luciferian Towers
Post-Rock
95 - Wolves in the Throne Room: Thrice Woven - 75,3 (77,3 / 15)
Highlights: Born from the Serpent's Eye - Fires Roar in the Palace of the Moon - The Old Ones Are With Us
Atmospheric Black Metal
94 - Sorority Noise: You're Not As _____ As You Think – 75,3 (79,3 / 19)
Highlights: No Halo - A Better Sun - A Portrait Of
Emo
93 - Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit: The Nashville Sound – 75,3 (78,4 / 16)
Highlights: If We Were Vampires - Anxiety - Cumberland Gap
Americana
92- Elbow: Little Fictions - 75,4 (75,8 / 20)
Highlights: Magnificent (She Says) - Gentle Storm - All Disco
Art Rock
91 - Julie Byrne: Not Even Happiness – 75,7 (76,3 / 19)
Highlights: Natural Blue - Follow My Voice - Sleepwalker
Folk
90 - Zola Jesus: Okovi - 75,7 (75,3 / 22)
Highlights: Exhumed - Siphon - Remains
Art Pop
89 - Queens Of The Stone Age: Villains – 75,7 (73,3 / 28)
Highlights: Feet Don't Fail Me - The Evil Has Landed - Un-Reborn Again
Alternative Rock
88 - Future Islands: The Far Field – 75,7 (72,3 / 31)
Highlights: Ran - Shadows - Through the Roses
Synthpop
87 - 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
86 - Mark Lanegan Band: Gargoyle - 75,7 (76,1 / 20)
Highlights: Old Swan - Beehive - Drunk on Destruction
Singer-Songwriter
85 - Pallbearer: Heartless – 75,7 (78,1 / 14)
Highlights: Lie of Survival - Dancing in Madness - I Saw the End
Doom Metal
84 - Ryan Adams: Prisoner - 75,8 (74,1 / 26)
Highlights: Outbound Train - Prisoner - Anything I Say To You Now
Singer-Songwriter
83 - Fever Ray: Plunge - 75,8 (76,1 / 20)
Highlights: To the Moon and Back - This Country - IDK About You
Electropop
82 - Mount Kimbie: Love What Survives - 75,8 (75,8 / 21)
Highlights: Blue Train Line - Audition - Four Years and One Day
Future Garage
81 - Aldous Harding: Party - 75,9 (77,9 / 15)
Highlights: Imagining My Man - Living the Classics - Party
Folk
80 - Lana Del Rey: Lust For Life - 75,9 (73,5 / 28)
Highlights: 13 Beaches - Love - Lust for Life
Dream Pop
79 - 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
78 - (Sandy) Alex G: Rocket – 76,0 (76,3 / 20)
Highlights: Sportstar - Bobby - County
Indie Rock
77 - Aimee Mann: Mental Illness – 76,0 (78,7 / 13)
Highlights: Goose Snow Cone - You Never Loved Me - Patient Zero
Singer-Songwriter
76 - 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
75 - Grandaddy: Last Place – 76,1 (75,8 / 22)
Highlights: Way We Won't - Evermore - A Lost Machine
Indie Rock
74 - Ibeyi: Ash – 76,1 (77,5 / 17)
Highlights: No Man Is Big Enough For My Arms - Transmission/Michaelion - Deathless
Art Pop
73 - Neil Young: Hitchhiker - 76,3 (77,9 / 16)
Highlights: Hawaii - Pocahontas - Powderfinger
Singer-Songwriter
72 - Blanck Mass: World Eater – 76,3 (76,9 / 19)
Highlights: Rhesus Negative - Please - Silent Treatment
Experimental
71 - Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile: Lotta Sea Lice - 76,3 (74,7 / 26)
Highlights: Over Everything - Continental Breakfast - Blue Cheese
Folk Rock
70 - Sleaford Mods: English Tapas – 76,4 (76,0 / 22)
Highlights: B.H.S. - Just Like We Do - Time Sands
Post-Punk
69 - Loyle Carner: Yesterday's Gone - 76,4 (78,4 / 15)
Highlights: The Isle of Arran - Damselfly - No CD
Hip Hop
68 - Mogwai: Every Country's Sun - 76,5 (74,8 / 26)
Highlights: Party in the Dark - Every Country's Sun - Crossing the Road Material
Post-Rock
67 - Do Make Say Think: Stubborn Persistent Illusions - 76,5 (79,5 / 12)
Highlights: And Boundless - Horripilation - Return, Return Again
Post-Rock
66 - 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
65 - Jesca Hoop: Memories Are Now - 76,7 (79,7 / 12)
Highlights: Memories Are Now - Unsaid - The Lost Sky
Indie Folk
64 - The Weather Station: The Weather Station – 76,8 (79,8 / 12)
Highlights: Kept It All To Myself - Thirty - You and I (On the Other Side of the World)
Singer-Songwriter
63 - Margo Price: All American Made - 76,8 (81,1 / 8)
Highlights: Don`t Say It - All American Made - Cocaine Cowboys
Country
62 - Charly Bliss: Guppy - 76,9 (81,6 / 7)
Highlights: Percolator - Gatorade - Totalizer
Indie Rock
61 - Broken Social Scene: Hug Of Thunder – 76,9 (74,9 / 27)
Highlights: Hug of Thunder - Halfway Home - Protest Song
Indie Rock
60 - Japanese Breakfast: Soft Sounds From Another Planet – 77,1 (78,4 / 17)
Highlights: Diving Woman - Boyish - Till Death
Dream Pop
59 - Waxahatchee: Out In The Storm – 77,2 (75,5 / 26)
Highlights: Never Been Wrong - Hear You - Sparks Fly
Indie Rock
58 - Dirty Projectors: Dirty Projectors - 77,3 (74,6 / 29)
Highlights: Little Bubble - Ascent Through Clouds - Up in Hudson
Art Pop
57 - SZA: CTRL – 77,3 (79,3 / 15)
Highlights: Drew Barrymore - Love Galore - Broken Clocks
Alternative R&B
56 - Wolf Parade: Cry Cry Cry – 77,3 (78,3 / 18)
Highlights: Am I an Alien Here - Valley Boy - You're Dreaming
Indie Rock
55 - Destroyer: Ken – 77,4 (76,0 / 25)
Highlights: A Light Travels Down the Catwalk - Tinseltown Swimming in Blood - In the Morning
Synthpop
54 - The Afghan Whigs: In Spades – 77,5 (76,5 / 24)
Highlights: Arabian Heights - Demon in Profile - The Spell
Alternative Rock
53 - Wiley: Godfather - 77,6 (81,3 / 10)
Highlights: Can't Go Wrong - Laptop - Name Brand
Grime
52 - Nadine Shah: Holiday Destination – 77,7 (79,3 / 16)
Highlights: Out The Way - Yes Men - Jolly Sailor
Indie Rock
51 - Grizzly Bear: Painted Ruins – 77,7 (75,0 / 29)
Highlights: Mourning Sound - Three Rings - Losing All Sense
Indie Rock
50- 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
49 - Phoebe Bridgers: Stranger In The Alps – 78,0 (80,3 / 14)
Highlights: Killer - Motion Sickness - Funeral
Indie Folk
48 - 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
47 - 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
46 - Jay-Z: 4:44 - 78,2 (77,6 / 23)
Highlights: Smile - 04:44 - Kill Jay Z
Hip Hop
45 - King Krule: The OOZ – 78,2 (77,6 / 23)
Highlights: Czech One - Dum Surfer - Half Man Half Shark
Art Rock
44 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: The Kid – 78,3 (79,6 / 17)
Highlights: A Kid - An Intention - To Follow & Lead
Art Pop
43 - PWR BTTM: Pageant - 78,3 (82,0 / 10)
Highlights: LOL - Sissy - Answer My Text
Indie Rock
42 - Rhiannon Giddens: Freedom Highway - 78,4 (82,1 / 10)
Highlights: The Love We Almost Had - Freedom Highway - At The Purchaser’s Option
Folk
41 - The Moonlandingz: Interplanetary Class Classics - 78,5 (82,9 / 8)
Highlights: This Cities Undone - Black Hanz - The Strangle of Anna
Neo-Psychedelia
40 - Julien Baker: Turn Out the Lights – 78,6 (78,6 / 21)
Highlights: Appointments - Turn Out the Lights - Sour Breath
Singer-Songwriter
39 - Jlin: Black Origami - 78,7 (82,4 / 10)
Highlights: Kyanite - Holy Child - Challenge To Be Continued
Footwork
38 - Tyler, the Creator: Flower Boy - 78,8 (79,4 / 19)
Highlights: 911 / Mr. Lonely - Where This Flower Blooms - Who Dat Boy
Experimental Hip Hop
37 - Big Thief: Capacity - 79,3 (80,6 / 17)
Highlights: Mythological Beauty - Shark Smile - Haley
Indie Rock
36 - Wolf Alice: Visions Of A Life – 79,3 (78,3 / 24)
Highlights: Don’t Delete The Kisses - Heavenward - Beautifully Unconventional
Indie Rock
35 - Chelsea Wolfe: Hiss Spun – 79,4 (80,7 / 17)
Highlights: Spun - Scrape - Twin Fawn
Gothic Rock
34 - Ryuichi Sakamoto: async – 79,5 (83,0 / 9)
Highlights: Solari - Stakra - Life, Life
Ambient
33 - 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
32 - Kelela: Take Me Apart – 79,7 (78,7 / 24)
Highlights: Frontline - LMK - Waitin
Alternative R&B
31 - Stormzy: Gang Signs & Prayer - 79,7 (80,4 / 19)
Highlights: Big for Your Boots - Mr Skeng - Shut Up
Grime
30 - 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
29 - Circuit Des Yeux: Reaching for Indigo - 79,9 (84,6 / 7)
Highlights: Paper Bag - Black Fly - Falling Blonde
Art Pop
28 - Gas: Narkopop - 79,9 (82,9 / 12)
Highlights: Narkopop 10 - Narkopop 2 - Narkopop 5
Ambient
27 - The xx: I See You – 80,0 (77,3 / 29)
Highlights: On Hold - Say Something Loving - A Violent Noise
Indie Pop
26 - Feist: Pleasure – 80,0 (78,0 / 27)
Highlights: Any Party - Pleasure - Century
Indie Rock
25 - Björk: Utopia - 80,1 (78,4 / 26)
Highlights: Arisen My Senses - The Gate - Utopia
Art Pop
24 - Protomartyr: Relatives in Descent - 80,2 (80,9 /19)
Highlights: My Children - Windsor Hum - Night-Blooming Cereus
Post-Punk
23 - Hurray For The Riff Raff: The Navigator – 80,3 (81,3 / 18)
Highlights: Pa'lante - The Navigator - Rican Beach
Americana
22 - Thundercat: Drunk – 80,3 (78,6 / 26)
Highlights: Show You the Way - A Fan’s Mail - Walk on By
Neo-Soul
21 - Laura Marling: Semper Femina – 80,4 (78,1 / 28)
Highlights: Nothing, Not Nearly - Soothing - Nouel
Singer-Songwriter
20 - Moses Sumney: Aromanticism – 80,5 (82,5 / 15)
Highlights: Doomed - Indulge Me - Lonely World
Art Pop
19 - Laurel Halo: Dust - 80,9 (82,2 / 17)
Highlights: Moontalk - Sun to Solar - Jelly
Ambient Pop
18 - Converge: The Dusk In Us – 81,3 (82,6 / 17)
Highlights: The Dusk in Us - Reptilian - Under Duress
Metalcore
17 - Father John Misty: Pure Comedy - 81,9 (78,9 /30)
Highlights: Leaving L.A. - Total Entertainment Forever - Pure Comedy
Singer-Songwriter
16 - Brand New: Science Fiction – 82,1 (84,4 /14)
Highlights: Same Logic / Teeth - Batter Up - Can't Get It Out
Indie Rock
15 - Algiers: The Underside Of Power – 82,1 (81,4 / 23)
Highlights: The Underside of Power - Cleveland - Walk Like a Panther
Post-Punk
14 - Slowdive: Slowdive – 82,2 (80,2 / 27)
Highlights: Sugar for the Pill - Star Roving - Falling Ashes
Dream Pop
13 - Arca: Arca - 82,3 (82,0 / 22)
Highlights: Desafío - Anoche - Fugaces
Art Pop
12 - The Horrors: V – 82,3 (82,0 / 22)
Highlights: Something to Remember Me By - Machine - World Below
Neo-Psychedelia
11 - Sampha: Process - 83,2 (80,9 / 28)
Highlights: (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano - Blood on Me - Plastic 100°C
Alternative R&B
10 - Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory – 83,7 (83,0 / 23)
Highlights: Yeah Right - BagBak - Crabs in a Bucket
Hip Hop
09 - Perfume Genius: No Shape – 83,8 (82,1 / 26)
Highlights: Slip Away - Alan - Wreath
Art Pop
08 - 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
07 - The War On Drugs: A Deeper Understanding - 84,7 (81,4 / 31)
Highlights: Holding On - Pain - Thinking of a Place
Heartland Rock
06 - Mount Eerie: A Crow Looked at Me – 85,7 (87,4 / 16)
Highlights: Ravens - Real Death - Toothbrush/Trash
Singer-Songwriter
05 - Lorde: Melodrama - 87,9 (84,9 / 30)
Highlights: Green Light - Sober - Writer in the Dark
Art Pop
04 - LCD Soundsystem: American Dream – 88,0 (85,3 / 29)
Highlights: Tonite - American Dream - Call the Police
Dance Punk
03 - St. Vincent: Masseduction – 88,4 (854 / 30)
Highlights: New York - Smoking Section - Los Angeles
Art Pop
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
