Year-End Lists

Essex Honey

1. Best Albums of 2025: Les Inrocks
2. Best Albums of 2025: Passerby
3. The 10 Best Albums of 2025: Jenn Pelly: Time
3. Albums of the Year 2025: Clash
3. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Guardian
4. Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions
7. The 20 Best Albums of 2025: Dazed
9. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
9. The Best Albums of 2025: Jem Aswad: Variety
10. Albums of the Year 2025: Loud And Quiet
15. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: NME
16. Albums of 2025: The Skinny
19. 2025 Albums of the Year: DIY
20. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Crack Magazine
21. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Time Out
24. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Pitchfork
24. The Best 50 Albums of 2025: Billboard
25. 50 Best Albums of 2025: Exclaim
27. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
28. Top 50 Albums of 2025: Beats Per Minute
31. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
31. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Far Out
34. The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters
37. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: The Fader
45. The 50 Best Albums Of 2025: Stereogum
45. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Slant
46. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Paste
46. Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
49. 80 Best Albums of 2025: Uncut

• The Best Albums of 2025: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
• Top Ten Albums of 2025: Clémence Polès Farhang

Angel's Pulse

38. Top 50 Albums of 2019: Les Inrocks
68. The 100 Best Albums of 2019: Vice: Noisey

• The Year in Music: Steve Erickson: GCN

Negro Swan

4. Albums of the Year 2018: Clash
5. 51 Best Albums of 2018: Spin
5. Top 10 Albums of 2018: Northern Transmissions
6. Top Ten Albums of 2018: Clémence Polès Farhang
6. Top 20 Albums of 2018: Spectrum Culture
9. Best Albums of 2018: Complex
12. Best Albums of the Year 2018: NME
12. 15 Favourite Albums of 2018: Drowned in Sound
13. Top 25 Albums of 2018: Magnet
13. Top 50 Albums of 2018: The Skinny
14. 15 Best Albums of 2018: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
14. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Consequence
15. The Best Albums of 2018: The Line of Best Fit
15. 25 Best Albums of 2018: Slant
15. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Q
15. Top 50 Albums of 2018: 405
16. Top 30 Albums of 2018: The Wild Honey Pie
17. Best Albums of 2018: Vinyl Me, Please
18. 20 Best Albums of 2018: Entertainment Weekly
18. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Les Inrocks
26. The 50 Best Albums of 2018: Far Out
29. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Guardian
31. 70 Best Albums of 2018: PopMatters
39. Top 100 Albums of 2018: Under the Radar
46. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Pitchfork
49. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
49. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Paste
50. Top 100 Albums of 2018: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
58. Top 100 Albums of the 2010s: Consequence
65. 75 Best Albums of 2018: Uncut

• Best Albums of 2018: AllMusic
• Favourite Albums of 2018: gal-dem

Freetown Sound

5. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Under the Radar
7. Albums of the Year 2016: Crack Magazine
7. Top 30 Albums of 2016: The Wild Honey Pie
10. 40 Favorite Albums Of 2016: Hanif Abdurraqib
11. The Top 50 Albums of 2016: Treble
11. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Spin
13. 60 Best Albums of 2016: Pretty Much Amazing
14. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Pitchfork
14. Top 50 Albums of 2016: Consequence
16. Top 50 Albums of 2016: The Skinny
17. Albums of the Year 2016: Clash
18. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Paste
18. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Entertainment Weekly
19. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
20. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Pigeons & Planes
21. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Les Inrocks
24. 25 Best Albums of 2016: Slant
25. Top Albums of 2016: Brooklyn Vegan
28. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Rolling Stone
31. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Quietus
45. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Complex

• 100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones

Cupid Deluxe

9. 50 Best Albums of 2013: Complex
20. 50 Best Albums of 2013: Stereogum
21. Top 50 Albums of 2013: Pitchfork
25. Top 50 Albums of 2013: Cokemachineglow
35. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork
38. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Vice: Noisey
55. Top 100 Albums of 2013: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
57. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Slant
61. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Paste
64. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Stereogum

Coastal Grooves

24. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Gigwise
38. Records of the Year 2011: Rise
62. 100 Best Albums of 2011: Les Inrocks