Year-End Lists

Iconoclasts

1. The Best Albums of 2025: The Line of Best Fit
1. Top 20 Albums of 2025: Spectrum Culture
2. The Best Albums of 2025: No Ripcord
7. The Best Albums of 2025: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
18. Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
18. 25 Favourite Albums of 2025: Drowned in Sound
19. Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions
21. Albums of the Year 2025: Loud And Quiet
26. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Paste
26. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
36. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Guardian
37. Top 50 Albums of 2025: Beats Per Minute
40. Top 55 Albums of 2025: Brooklyn Vegan
90. Albums of the Year 2025: Quietus

• Top 10 Albums of 2025: Ann Powers: NPR: NPR Music
• Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop

All Thoughts Fly

43. Top 50 Albums of 2020: The Wire

Dead Magic

22. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Treble
35. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
46. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Brooklyn Vegan
84. Top 100 Albums of 2018: Under the Radar

The Miraculous

76. 100 Favourite Albums of 2015: Drowned in Sound

Ceremony

9. 25 Best Albums of 2012: Sonic