Year-End Lists

Hey What

1. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Treble
1. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Beats Per Minute
2. Top 20 Albums of 2021: Northern Transmissions
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Our Culture
2. Top 25 Albums of 2021: Magnet
2. The Top 30 Albums of 2021: Jordan Cronk
2. The Best Albums of 2021: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
2. Favorite Albums of 2021: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
3. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Brooklyn Vegan
3. Top 100 Albums of 2021: Under the Radar
3. Top Ten Albums of 2021: The Skinny
3. Top 20 Albums of 2021: Spectrum Culture
4. Top 50 Albums of 2021: The Wire
4. 75 Best Albums of 2021: Uncut
4. The 75 Best Albums of 2021: Mojo
4. The 50 Best Albums Of 2021: Stereogum
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Slant
5. Top 25 Albums of 2021: Les Inrocks
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Pitchfork
6. The Best Albums of 2021: Flood
8. Best Albums of 2021: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
8. The Best Music of 2021: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
9. Best Albums of 2021: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
12. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Paste
12. The Best Albums of 2021: Greg Kot: Sound Opinions
13. The 20 Best Albums of 2021: A.V. Club
16. 50 Best Albums of 2021: Rolling Stone
17. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
18. 50 Best Albums of 2021: Exclaim
20. Albums of the Year 2021: Loud And Quiet
21. 50 Best Albums of 2021: NPR: NPR Music
31. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Guardian
36. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Far Out
38. Albums of the Year 2021: Clash
39. Albums of 2021: Gorilla vs. Bear
87. The 100 Best Albums of 2021: Albumism
98. Albums of the Year 2021: Quietus

• Top 10 Albums of 2021: Carl Wilson: Slate
• The Best Music of 2021: Steve Erickson: GCN
• 20 Best Albums of 2021: Glide
• The Best Albums of 2021: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
• The Best Albums of 2021: Esquire

Double Negative

1. 15 Favourite Albums of 2018: Drowned in Sound
1. Favorite Albums of 2018: Jeremy D. Larson
1. Albums 2018: Jordan Cronk
1. 75 Best Albums of 2018: Uncut
2. 15 Best Albums of 2018: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
2. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Brooklyn Vegan
3. Top 20 Albums of 2018: Spectrum Culture
4. Top 100 Albums of 2018: Under the Radar
6. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Treble
7. Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2018: Tiny Mix Tapes
7. 51 Best Albums of 2018: Spin
7. 50 Favorite Albums of the 2010s: Jordan Cronk
8. Albums of the Year 2018: Quietus
8. 50 Best Albums Of 2018: Stereogum
8. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Pitchfork
8. Top 100 Albums of 2018: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
9. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Guardian
9. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Paste
10. Top 50 Albums of 2018: The Wire
14. Top 50 Albums of 2018: 405
16. Best Albums of 2018: Flood
17. Best Albums of 2018: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
17. 50 Best Albums of 2018: NPR: NPR Music
18. The Best Albums of 2018: The Line of Best Fit
19. 75 Best Albums of 2018: Mojo
21. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Q
22. 70 Best Albums of 2018: PopMatters
35. The 50 Best Albums of 2018: Far Out
43. Top 50 Albums of 2018: The Skinny
45. 47 Favorite Albums Of 2018: Hanif Abdurraqib
49. Best Albums of 2018: Fact
59. Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade: Tiny Mix Tapes
71. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Stereogum
96. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork

• 16 Best Albums of 2018: Time Out New York
• Best Music of 2018: Mark Richardson: Wall Street Journal
• Best Albums of 2018: Terence Cawley: Boston Globe
• Top Releases of 2018: XLR8R

Ones and Sixes

11. Top 25 Albums of 2015: Magnet
13. 50 Best Albums of 2015: Mojo
14. 40 Favorite Albums of 2015: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions
16. 100 Favourite Albums of 2015: Drowned in Sound
17. Albums of the Year 2015: Crack Magazine
24. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Under the Radar
28. The 50 Best Albums of 2015: The Skinny
34. 100 Best Albums of 2015: Les Inrocks
37. 75 Best Albums of 2015: Uncut
46. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop

• 89 Favorite Albums of 2015: Sasha Frere-Jones
• 50 Favorite Albums of 2015: NPR: NPR Music
• Top 10 Albums of 2015: Kitty Empire: Observer

The Invisible Way

10. Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: The Best Albums of 2013
36. Mojo: Top 50 Albums of 2013
41. Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2013
71. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2013

C’mon

4. Best Music of 2011: A.V. Club
14. Favourite Albums of 2011: Drowned in Sound
20. Top Albums of 2011: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions
33. Top 40 Albums of 2011: Epitonic
66. Top 80 Albums of 2011: Under the Radar
72. Top 100 Albums of 2011: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop