Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Live in Cuxhaven 1976
- 2022 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard
The Lost Tapes
1. Top 100 Albums of 2012: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
- 2012 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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