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. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2012
  2. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  3. Sonic: 25 Best Albums of 2012
  4. WUOG: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  5. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  6. Stereogum: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  7. Crack Magazine: The Top 100 Albums of 2012
  8. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2012
  9. Drowned in Sound: 100 Favourite Albums of 2012
  10. PopMatters: 75 Best Albums of 2012
  11. Piccadilly Records: Top 100 Albums of 2012
  12. Les Inrocks: Top 100 Albums of 2012
  13. musicOMH: Top 100 Albums of 2012

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