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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Looping State of Mind

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  1. SFGate: Mark Morford: Top 10 Most Awesome Records of 2011
  2. Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2011
  3. XLR8R: 30 Best Albums of 2011
  4. Drowned in Sound: Favourite Albums of 2011
  5. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2011
  6. Rise: Records of the Year 2011
  7. NME: Best Albums of 2011
  8. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2011
  9. Piccadilly Records: Albums of 2011
  10. PopMatters: 75 Best Albums of 2011

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