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. Pretty Much Amazing: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  2. Pigeons & Planes: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  3. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  4. Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: 40 Favorite Albums of 2015
  5. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2015
  6. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  7. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2015
  8. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  9. Entertainment Weekly: 40 Best Albums of 2015
  10. Diffuser: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  11. Billboard: 25 Best Albums of 2015
  12. FasterLouder: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  13. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2015
  14. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2015
  15. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2015

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