La decisión es unánime: el tercer disco de estudio del rapero Kendrick Lamar es el mejor del año. El caso de Lamar demuestra cómo, más allá de gustos, inclinaciones o preferencias, un disco bien hecho se reconoce con objetividad. El onceavo disco del músico norteamericano Sufjan Stevens, el cuarto de la canadiense Grimes, el primero de la australiana Courtney Barnett y el tercero de Tame Impala figuran en la mayoría de casos dentro de los cinco primeros, pero el resto parece más un campo aleatorio. Estas son las listas de Pichtfork, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Metacritic y Consequence of sound:
Pitchfork
1. To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar
2. In Colour, Jamie xx
3. Art Angels, Grimes
4. Summertime '06, Vince Staples
5. Currents, Tame Impala
6. Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens
7. Black Messiah, D'Angelo / The Vanguard
8. Wildheart, Miguel
9. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett
10. Kamasi Washington, The Epic
Rolling Stone
1. To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar
2. 25. Adele
3. If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake
4. Black Messiah, D'Angelo
5. Beauty Behind the Madness, The Weeknd
6. Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett
7. Something More Than Free, Jason Isbell
8. Hamilton: An American Musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda
9. Yours, Dreamily, The Arcs
10. The Magic Whip, Blur
SPIN
1. To Pimp a Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar
2. Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett
3. In Colour, Jamie xx
4. Currents, , Tame Impala
5. Summertime ’06, Vince Staples
6. Ivy Tripp, Waxahatchee
7. Fading Frontier, Deerhunter
8. Pageant Material, Kacey Musgraves
9. Ratchet, Shamir
10. Beach Music, Alex G
Metacritic
1.To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar
2. Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens
3. No Cities to Love, Sleater-Kinney
4. Apex Predator - Easy Meat, Napalm Death
5. The Fade in Time, Sam Lee
6. Hand.Cannot.Erase, Steven Wilson
7. Divers, Joanna Newsom
8. Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett
9. That's the Spirit, Bring Me the Horizon
10. From Kinshasa, Mbongwana Star
Consequence of sound
1. To Pimp A Butterfly, Kendrick Lamar
2. Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens
3. Art Angels, Grimes
4. Garden of Delete, Oneohtrix Point Never
5. Currents, Tame Impala
6. In Colour, Jamie XX
7. Black Messiah, D’Angelo & the vanguard
8. No cities tu love, Sleater-Kinney
9. The Most Lamentable Tragedy, Titus Andronicus
10. Summertime ’06, Vince Staples
