Year-End Lists

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1. Best Albums of 2021: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
2. 50 Best Albums of 2021: Rolling Stone
3. The Best Albums of 2021: Complex
3. Top 10 Albums of 2021: Brittany Spanos: Rolling Stone
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Billboard
5. The Best Albums of 2021: Chris Willman: Variety
5. The 10 Best Albums of 2021: Entertainment Weekly
7. The 10 Best Albums of 2021: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
8. The 8 Best Albums of 2021: Jason Parham: Wired
10. Top 20 Albums of 2021: Spectrum Culture
12. Our 50 Favourite Albums of 2021: Vinyl Factory
14. 50 Best Albums of 2021: NPR: NPR Music
15. The 20 Best Albums of 2021: A.V. Club
20. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Consequence
22. Best Albums of 2021: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
32. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Pitchfork
32. The Best Albums of 2021 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
38. The 45 Best Albums of 2021: The Forty-Five
40. Albums of the Year 2021: Clash
45. The 100 Best Albums of 2021: Albumism

• The Best Albums of 2021: New Statesman
• Best Albums of 2021: Jon Pareles: New York Times
• Best of 2021: AllMusic
• 10 Best Albums of 2021: BBC: BBC Culture
• Best Albums of 2021: Passerby
• The Best Albums of 2021: Esquire

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2. 50 Best Albums of 2015: Rolling Stone
3. 40 Best Albums of 2015: Entertainment Weekly
4. 50 Best Albums of 2015: Complex
5. 25 Best Albums of 2015: Billboard
16. 50 Best Albums of 2015: Pigeons & Planes
35. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
42. Top 50 Albums of 2015: American Songwriter
78. The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s: Billboard

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1. 10 Best Albums of 2011: SFGate
1. 50 Best Albums of 2011: Rolling Stone
1. Top 10 Albums of 2011: Jon Bream: Minneapolis Star Tribune
1. 10 Best Albums of 2011: Billboard
1. 20 Best Albums of 2011: Entertainment Weekly
1. Top 10 Albums of 2011: Claire Suddath: Time
2. Top Albums of 2011: Sarah Rodman: Boston Globe
3. Top 10 Albums of 2011: Margaret Moser: Austin Chronicle
3. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Q
3. Top 50 Albums of 2011: American Songwriter
3. The 10 Best Albums of the 2010s: Refinery29
5. Top 10 Albums of 2011: Jason Bentley: KCRW
5. 10 Favorite Albums of 2011: Randall Roberts: Los Angeles Times
6. Top 20 Albums of 2011: Filter
6. Top 100 Albums of 2011: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
8. Top 40 Albums of 2011: Clash
8. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Rolling Stone
10. Albums of 2011: DIY
10. The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s: Billboard
12. 75 Best Albums of 2011: PopMatters
14. 50 Best Albums of 2011: Paste
18. Best Albums of 2011: Sonic
19. Top 100 Albums of the 2010s: Consequence
23. 30 Best Pop & Rock Albums of 2011: Exclaim
24. Top 40 Albums of 2011: Epitonic
34. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Consequence
42. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Gigwise
45. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Stereogum
55. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Paste

• 50 Favorite Albums of 2011: NPR: NPR Music
• The Best Albums of the 2010s: Chris Willman: Variety
• The 110 Best Albums of the 2010s: Albumism
• The Best Albums of the 2010s: Atwood Magazine