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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by John Maus

Lists

  1. Bleep: Top 10 Albums of 2011
  2. MagicRPM: Top 15 Albums of 2011
  3. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Albums of 2011
  4. Quietus: Albums of the Year 2011
  5. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2011
  6. Resident Advisor: Top 20 Albums of 2011
  7. Under the Radar: Top 80 Albums of 2011
  8. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2011
  9. Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2011
  10. Drowned in Sound: Favourite Albums of 2011
  11. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  12. Piccadilly Records: Albums of 2011
  13. Les Inrocks: 100 Best Albums of 2011
  14. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade

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