Year-End Lists

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  1. The Skinny: Albums of 2025
  2. Dazed: The 20 Best Albums of 2025
  3. Grace Robins-Somerville: Favorite Albums of 2025
  4. Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
  5. Time Out: The 25 Best Albums of 2025
  6. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  7. The Forty-Five: The 45 Best Albums of 2025
  8. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2025
  9. Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2025
  10. NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  11. Our Culture: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
  12. Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
  13. Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2025

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.