Year-End Lists

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Top 100 Albums of 2012: Austin Town Hall

Trending Lists

115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Idlewild Idlewild
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Sly Thom Zimny
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Fingernails Christos Nikou

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