Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It

by The 1975

I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It - The 1975

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  1. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  2. Drowned in Sound: 16 Favourite Albums of 2016
  3. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  4. NME: Greatest Albums of the Decade
  5. Clash: Albums of the Year 2016
  6. Q: Top 50 Albums Of 2016
  7. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  8. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  9. NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2016
  10. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016
  11. The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  12. Entertainment Weekly: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  13. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  14. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2016
  15. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
  16. Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
  17. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

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