The top 10 albums of 2016

Some of music’s finest have died this year, but there has still been a fine array of records on release. Ed Power picks his favourites

1 Frank Ocean, Blonde

There aren’t any choruses and the lyrics are frequently indecipherable. And yet, Blonde — a long-anticipated follow up to 2010’s Agent Orange — cast an irresistible spell. Ocean spilled his heart out as beats flutters and sighed.