Year-End Lists

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Best Albums of 2023 New York Times: Jon Caramanica

Best Albums of 2023 New York Times: Jon Pareles

Best Albums of 2023 Les Inrocks

The 50 Best Albums of 2023 Paste

25 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2023 Loudwire

Albums of the Year 2023 Loud And Quiet

Top 40 Albums of 2023 Decibel

UK Albums of the Year 2023 Rough Trade

75 Best Albums of 2023 Mojo

75 Best Albums of 2023 Uncut

Dean's List 2022 Robert Christgau

Top 50 Albums of 2022 Northern Transmissions

The Best Emo Albums Of 2022 Uproxx: Ian Cohen

The Best Music of 2022 Quietus: Jennifer Lucy Allan

Top 100 Albums of 2022 Under the Radar

100 Favorite Albums of 2022 Hanif Abdurraqib

The 10 Best Albums of 2022 USA Today

The Top 30 Albums of 2022 Jordan Cronk

The 5 Best Albums Of 2022 Essence

Top 50 Albums of 2022 The Alternative

The 50 Best Albums of 2022 Guardian

2022 Year in Review Aquarium Drunkard

Our Favorite Albums, 2022 Tone Glow

The Best Music of 2022 GCN: Steve Erickson

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.