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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  1. WUOG: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  2. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2012
  3. Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  4. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  5. Spinner: 50 Best Albums of 2012
  6. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  7. Gigwise: 50 Albums of the 2012
  8. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2012
  9. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  10. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2012
  11. Frontier Psychiatrist: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  12. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2012
  13. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2012
  14. Cokemachineglow: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  15. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2012
  16. Crack Magazine: The Top 100 Albums of 2012
  17. Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2012
  18. PopMatters: 75 Best Albums of 2012
  19. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s

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