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
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2022
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
Slant: 25 Best Films of 2012
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2022
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019
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2012 Music
Crack Magazine: The Top 100 Albums of 2012
11 December 2012
Crack Magazine
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The Top 100 Albums of 2012
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Fin
John Talabot
Lonerism
Tame Impala
Portico Quartet
Portico Quartet
Open Your Heart
The Men
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Kendrick Lamar
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
Until the Quiet Comes
Flying Lotus
Metz
Metz
Dream On
Ital
The Seer
Swans
Tender New Signs
Tamaryn
A+E
Graham Coxon
World Music
Goat
Visions
Grimes
fabric 64
Guy Gerber
Dependent and Happy
Ricardo Villalobos
They!Live
Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka
Brothers Fowl
Dam Mantle
Black Radio
Robert Glasper Experiment
Mantasy
Michael Mayer
Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Patrick Watson
Teklife Vol. 1: Welcome to the Chi
DJ Rashad
Future Rhythm Machine
Auntie Flo
R.I.P.
Actress
Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp
Spaceghostpurrp
Wixiw
Liars
Kill for Love
Chromatics
Swing Lo Magellan
Dirty Projectors
Shields
Grizzly Bear
Never
Micachu & The Shapes
There’s No Leaving Now
The Tallest Man on Earth
Nocturne
Wild Nothing
Blondes
Blondes
Tourist / Sleeper
Seams
Melody’s Echo Chamber
Melody’s Echo Chamber
Phèdre
Phèdre
Things That Fade
Greeen Linez
Total Loss
How to Dress Well
Key To The Kuffs
JJ DOOM
Rispah
The Invisible
The Cherry Thing
Neneh Cherry & the Thing
Devotion
Jessie Ware
Standing at the Sky’s Edge
Richard Hawley
Versus
Wolf + Lamb
Oshin
DIIV
Galaxy Garden
Lone
Bloom
Beach House
World, You Need a Change of Mind
Kindness
Fear Fun
Father John Misty
I Bet on Sky
Dinosaur Jr.
Heaven
Walkmen
State of Flux
Mr. G
Celebration Rock
Japandroids
Shrines
Purity Ring
Tender Leaf
Erdbeerschnitzel
NZCA/LINES
NZCA/LINES
The Integration LP
LA Vampires with Maria Minerva
Held
Holy Other
Everything Touching
Tall Ships
Awe Naturale
THEESatisfaction
Mala in Cuba
Mala
Transverse
Carter Tutti Void
Tramp
Sharon Van Etten
Personality
Scuba
Twins
Ty Segall
R.A.P. Music
Killer Mike
Centipede Hz
Animal Collective
2
Mac DeMarco
BEAK>
Beak>
Love this Giant
David Byrne & St. Vincent
Black Propaganda
Oscar Mulero
Pink
Four Tet
Off!
Off!
An Awesome Wave
alt-J
The Killer
Shed
Transistor Rhythm
Addison Groove
Sees the Light
La Sera
Order of Noise
Vessel
Breakup Song
Deerhoof
Piramida
Efterklang
Life Is Good
Nas
Putrifiers II
Thee Oh Sees
Luxury Problems
Andy Stott
Beams
Matthew Dear
Sun
Cat Power
All We Love We Leave Behind
Converge
Give You the Ghost
Poliça
Instrumental Tourist
Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin
Towers
Baltic Fleet
No Love Deep Web
Death Grips
Free Time!
Pinkunoizu
Jiaolong
Daphni
The Haunted Man
Bat for Lashes
Good Don’t Sleep
Egyptian Hip Hop
The Very Last of the Saints
Ghosting Season
Falling
Seapony
Steam Days
Nathan Fake
Solo Piano II
Chilly Gonzales
Work is Love Made Visible
Typesun
Hot Doctor
Dagger Brothers