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.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Observer: Mark Kermode: 10 Best Films of 2022
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2022
RogerEbert.com: Christina Newland: Top Ten Films of 2017
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2011 Music
PopMatters: 75 Best Albums of 2011
12 December 2011
PopMatters
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75 Best Albums of 2011
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Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes
Bon Iver
Bon Iver
David Comes to Life
Fucked Up
Whokill
Tune-Yards
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
M83
House of Balloons
The Weeknd
Strange Mercy
St. Vincent
Let England Shake
PJ Harvey
The Harrow & The Harvest
Gillian Welch
The King of Limbs
Radiohead
Smoke Ring for My Halo
Kurt Vile
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Adele
The King is Dead
The Decemberists
James Blake
James Blake
Yuck
Yuck
Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Girls
Stone Rollin’
Raphael Saadiq
American Legacies
Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band
Bad as Me
Tom Waits
Build a Rocket Boys!
Elbow
Burst Apart
The Antlers
Wild Flag
Wild Flag
Wounded Rhymes
Lykke Li
Kaputt
Destroyer
Ceremonials
Florence + The Machine
Gimme Some
Peter Bjorn and John
The Whole Love
Wilco
Nine Types of Light
TV on the Radio
Ashes & Fire
Ryan Adams
Black Up
Shabazz Palaces
All Eternals Deck
The Mountain Goats
Within and Without
Washed Out
So Beautiful or So What
Paul Simon
Return of 4Eva
Big K.R.I.T.
Past Life Martyred Saints
EMA
Tomboy
Panda Bear
Cults
Cults
The Book of David
DJ Quik
I Am Very Far
Okkervil River
Slave Ambient
The War on Drugs
Wasting Light
Foo Fighters
Skying
The Horrors
When the Heart Emerges Glistening
Ambrose Akinmusire
Last Summer
Eleanor Friedberger
No Time for Dreaming
Charles Bradley
17th Street
Hammers of Misfortune
Go-Go Boots
Drive-By Truckers
Ravedeath, 1972
Tim Hecker
The Inside Room
Watt Sun
Civilian
Wye Oak
Dye It Blonde
Smith Westerns
Arabia Mountain
Black Lips
New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Colin Stetson
Circuital
My Morning Jacket
Join Us
They Might Be Giants
Watch the Throne
Jay-Z and Kanye West
Gloss Drop
Battles
Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
Mogwai
The People’s Key
Bright Eyes
Metals
Feist
The Hunter
Mastodon
Feel It Break
Austra
The Big Roar
Joy Formidable
Nothing is Wrong
Dawes
How Do You Do?
Mayer Hawthorne
Parallax
Atlas Sound
All at Once
The Airborne Toxic Event
Paradise
Slow Club
Blessed
Lucinda Williams
Looping State of Mind
The Field
Eye Contact
Gang Gang Dance
What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
The Vaccines
Conatus
Zola Jesus
ISAM
Amon Tobin
All Things Will Unwind
My Brightest Diamond