Year-End Lists

Tigers Blood

1. The 25 Best Albums of 2024: A.V. Club
2. The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Kearse: Time
2. The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Paste
3. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Consequence
3. The Top 30 Albums of 2024: Jordan Cronk
3. Best 50 Releases of 2024: The Alternative
3. Best Pop Music Albums of 2024: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
3. Favorite Roots Albums of 2024: No Depression
3. 50 Best Albums of 2024: Exclaim
4. Favorite Albums of 2024: Bob Boilen
4. Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
4. Best Albums of 2024: Stereogum
5. Albums of the Year 2024: Loud And Quiet
5. Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Our Culture
5. The Best Albums of 2024: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Slant
6. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Pitchfork
6. Best International Albums of 2024: Mondo Sonoro
7. The Best Albums of 2024: Flood
8. The Best Albums of 2024: The Forty-Five
9. Best Albums of 2024: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
9. The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters
9. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Treble
10. Top 50 Albums Of 2024: Fire Note
10. The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Rolling Stone
10. 80 Best Albums of 2024: Uncut
12. Top 20 Albums of 2024: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone
12. Top 50 Albums of 2024: Brooklyn Vegan
13. Favorite Albums of 2024: Grace Robins-Somerville
13. The Best Country Music Albums of 2024: Holler
13. Albums of 2024: The Skinny
14. Favorite Albums Of 2024: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
14. Best Albums of 2024: Greg Kot: Sound Opinions
17. Top 100 Albums of 2024: Under the Radar
17. 30 Best Albums of 2024: The Ringer
18. Best Albums of 2024: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
18. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Guardian
19. Albums of the Year 2024: Clash
20. The Best Albums of 2024: The Line of Best Fit
20. Best Albums of 2024: Folk Alley
21. Best Albums of 2024: Billboard
25. UK Albums of the Year 2024: Rough Trade
26. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: The Fader
28. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
30. 75 Best Albums of 2024: Mojo
35. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NME
48. Best Albums of 2024: Obscure Sound
55. Dean's List 2024: Robert Christgau

• The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Entertainment Weekly
• The 60 Best Albums of 2024: Josh Terry
• 20 Best Albums of 2024: Glide
• The Best Albums of 2024: David Hajdu: The Nation
• The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music
• The 12 Best Albums of 2024: Carl Wilson: Slate
• The Best Music of 2024: Mark Richardson: Wall Street Journal
• The Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx

Saint Cloud

1. Favorite Albums of 2020: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
1. The Top 30 Albums of 2020: Jordan Cronk
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Paste
2. Top 30 Albums of 2020: The Wild Honey Pie
2. The 50 Best Albums Of 2020: Stereogum
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Pitchfork
2. The Best Albums of 2020: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
2. The Best Albums of 2020: Andrew Barker: Variety
3. Favorite Albums of 2020: Jeremy D. Larson
3. Best Albums of 2020: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
4. Best Albums of 2020: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
5. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Far Out
6. Top 10 Albums of 2020: The Skinny
6. Top 50 Albums of 2020: Consequence
6. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Guardian
6. Top 100 Albums of 2020: Under the Radar
6. 75 Best Albums of 2020: Uncut
7. Top 30 Albums of 2020: Northern Transmissions
7. Top 20 Albums of 2020: Spectrum Culture
7. The Best Albums Of 2020: Uproxx
7. Best Albums of 2020: Rolling Stone
8. The Best Albums of 2020: Flood
8. Top 50 Albums of 2020: Treble
9. The 60 Best Albums of 2020: PopMatters
9. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Vice: Noisey
9. The 30 Best Albums of 2020: Spin
12. The Best Albums of 2020 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit
12. Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade
12. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Slant
14. Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2020: No Depression
14. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Our Culture
18. 50 Best Albums of 2020: Exclaim
19. The 20 Best Albums of 2020: A.V. Club
20. Albums of the Year 2020: Holler
24. Top 55 Albums of 2020: Brooklyn Vegan
26. 51 Best Albums of 2020: Gigwise
33. Albums of the Year 2020: Clash
35. Dean's List 2020: Robert Christgau
36. Top 50 Albums of 2020: Beats Per Minute
37. The 45 Best Albums of 2020: The Forty-Five
47. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: NPR: NPR Music
71. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Albumism

• 20 Best Albums of 2020: Glide
• The 15 Best Albums of 2020: Entertainment Weekly
• Top Albums of 2020: American Songwriter
• The Best Music of 2020: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
• Best Albums of 2020: Jon Caramanica: New York Times

American Weekend

5. Jordan Cronk: 50 Favorite Albums of the 2010s

Out in the Storm

1. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2017
7. Jordan Cronk: Favorite Albums of 2017
8. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2017
9. Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2017
10. A.V. Club: 20 Best Albums of 2017
10. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2017
14. Rolling Stone: 51 Best Albums of 2017
18. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2017
27. Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2017
41. NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2017
50. Earbuddy: 100 Best Albums of 2017
54. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2017

• Stranger: Top Ten Albums of 2017
• Austin Town Hall: Top 50 Albums of 2017
• Slate: Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2017

Ivy Tripp

6. 50 Best Albums of 2015: Spin
8. 15 Best Albums of 2015: A.V. Club
13. The 50 Best Albums of 2015: The Skinny
19. 50 Best Albums of 2015: Stereogum
23. 50 Best Albums of 2015: Time Out London
24. The 50 Best Albums of 2015: Treble
37. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
38. Albums of the Year 2015: Crack Magazine

• 89 Favorite Albums of 2015: Sasha Frere-Jones
• Top 25 Albums of 2015: Carl Wilson: Slate

Cerulean Salt

16. 50 Best Albums of 2013: Stereogum
17. Best Albums of 2013: NME
19. 50 Best Albums of 2013: Paste
22. 40 Best Albums of 2013: Pretty Much Amazing
22. Top 50 Albums of 2013: Cokemachineglow
22. Top 50 Albums of 2013: Pitchfork
31. Top 100 Albums of 2013: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
36. 50 Best Albums of 2013: Rolling Stone
36. Top 50 Albums of 2013: Consequence
47. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Stereogum
61. 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Rolling Stone
70. Albums of the Year 2013: Crack Magazine
104. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork