Year-End Lists

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Top 50 Albums of 2016 The Skinny

Best Albums of 2016 Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis

50 Best Albums of 2016 Entertainment Weekly

48 Best Albums of 2016 AllMusic

25 Best Albums of 2016 Slant

The Top 50 Albums of 2016 Treble

Best 50 Albums of 2016 NPR Music

Top 10 Albums of 2016 Observer: Kitty Empire

Top 50 Albums of 2016 Consequence

60 Favorite Albums of 2016 Gorilla vs. Bear

50 Best Albums of 2016 Stereogum

Top 50 Albums of 2016 American Songwriter

50 Best Albums of 2016 Paste

50 Best Albums of 2016 Les Inrocks

Top Albums of 2016 Sound Opinions: Greg Kot

Albums of the Year 2016 Crack Magazine

50 Best Albums of 2016 Rolling Stone

Top 100 Albums of 2015 Pazz & Jop

50 Best Albums of 2015 Diffuser

31 Favorite Albums of 2015 Dennis Cooper

Top 20 Albums of 2015 gal-dem

Favorite Albums of 2015 Jeremy D. Larson

Top 25 Albums of 2015 Magnet

Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 Tiny Mix Tapes

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