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
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Nick Levine: BBC: Best Albums of 2020

19 November 2020

Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

Nick Levine: Best Albums of 2020 as published by BBC Culture

Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Fiona Apple
Ungodly Hour

Chloe x Halle
Rough and Rowdy Ways

Bob Dylan
Future Nostalgia

Dua Lipa
Róisín Machine

Róisín Murphy
RTJ4

Run the Jewels
Sawayama

Rina Sawayama
Kitchen Sink

Nadine Shah
Folklore

Taylor Swift

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Trending Works

I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Anti Rihanna
Petite Maman Céline Sciamma
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
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Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Lux Rosalía
Rakshak Bloodywood
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Fetch the Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple
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Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert

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