Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
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Wolves in the Throne Room

Primordial Arcana
1. Top 40 Albums of 2021: Decibel
Thrice Woven
1. Top 50 Albums of 2017: Sputnikmusic
Celestite
1. Albums of the Year 2014: Crack Magazine
Celestial Lineage
- Favorite Albums of 2011: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Ice Tower Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Ad Astra James Gray
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut
Saint Omer Alice Diop
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
On Falling Laura Carreira
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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