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
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2011
more...
2012 Music
Gigwise: 50 Albums of the 2012
16 December 2012
Gigwise
:
50 Albums of the 2012
[see also
2022
•
2021
•
2020
•
2011
]
Confess
Twin Shadow
Channel Orange
Frank Ocean
An Awesome Wave
alt-J
Boys & Girls
Alabama Shakes
Valtari
Sigur Rós
The Only Place
Best Coast
Part & Parcel
The Skints
Coexist
The xx
Celebration Rock
Japandroids
Come of Age
The Vaccines
Put Your Back N 2 It
Perfume Genius
Django Django
Django Django
My Head is an Animal
Of Monsters And Men
Plumb
Field Music
Cruel Summer
G.O.O.D. Music
Votive Life
Cave Painting
TOY
TOY
R.A.P. Music
Killer Mike
Visions
Grimes
Gossamer
Passion Pit
Lonerism
Tame Impala
The 2nd Law
Muse
Given to the Wild
The Maccabees
Make Me Believe in Hope
Bright Light Bright Light
Shrines
Purity Ring
Fragments
Submotion Orchestra
Time Capsules II
Oberhofer
The Money Store
Death Grips
Playin’ Me
Cooly G
Baby
Tribes
Devotion
Jessie Ware
World, You Need a Change of Mind
Kindness
Shields
Grizzly Bear
Port of Morrow
The Shins
TNGHT EP
TNGHT
Mature Themes
Ariel Pink
In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
The Cribs
Lido
Darren Hayman
Master of My Make-Believe
Santigold
Halcyon
Ellie Goulding
Jake Bugg
Jake Bugg
Born to Die
Lana Del Rey
Portico Quartet
Portico Quartet
Attack on Memory
Cloud Nothings
Babel
Mumford & Sons
The Orbserver in the Star House
The Orb Featuring Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry
Wrecking Ball
Bruce Springsteen
Instrumental Mixtape 2
Clams Casino
Happy to You
Miike Snow
Blunderbuss
Jack White