Year-End Lists
A browsable archive 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
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
Vox: Alissa Wilkinson: The 21 Best Films of 2019
A.V. Club: The Best Films of 2021
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2021
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019
2017 Music
Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2017
30 December 2017
Under the Radar
:
Top 100 Albums of 2017
[see also
2018
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2015
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2011
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A Deeper Understanding
The War on Drugs
Turn Out the Lights
Julien Baker
MASSEDUCTION
St. Vincent
Slowdive
Slowdive
Visions of a Life
Wolf Alice
DAMN.
Kendrick Lamar
Sleep Well Beast
The National
Painted Ruins
Grizzly Bear
Pure Comedy
Father John Misty
Soft Sounds from Another Planet
Japanese Breakfast
Hug of Thunder
Broken Social Scene
american dream
LCD Soundsystem
Hot Thoughts
Spoon
V
The Horrors
Rest
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Lotta Sea Lice
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
Crack-Up
Fleet Foxes
No Shape
Perfume Genius
A Crow Looked at Me
Mount Eerie
Antisocialites
Alvvays
Capacity
Big Thief
Stellular
Rose Elinor Dougall
Planetarium
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly & James McAlister
Aromanticism
Moses Sumney
Everybody Works
Jay Som
Cry Cry Cry
Wolf Parade
Hang
Foxygen
The OOZ
King Krule
Kelly Lee Owens
Kelly Lee Owens
Pleasure
Feist
Utopia
Björk
Plunge
Fever Ray
The Far Field
Future Islands
Little Fictions
Elbow
Willowbank
Yumi Zouma
The Underside of Power
Algiers
Life Will See You Now
Jens Lekman
Earl Grey
Girl Ray
I See You
The xx
Saturn Over Sunset
Midnight Sister
Whiteout Conditions
The New Pornographers
I’m Not Your Man
Marika Hackman
Relatives in Descent
Protomartyr
Love What Survives
Mount Kimbie
Bedouine
Bedouine
I Love You Like a Brother
Alex Lahey
Stranger in the Alps
Phoebe Bridgers
Room 29
Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker
Prince of Tears
Baxter Dury
Silver Eye
Goldfrapp
Ctrl
SZA
City Music
Kevin Morby
Volcano
Temples
Out in the Storm
Waxahatchee
Big Fish Theory
Vince Staples
Melodrama
Lorde
Luciferian Towers
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Semper Femina
Laura Marling
Weather Diaries
Ride
Bravado
Kirin J Callinan
RELAXER
alt-J
Drunk
Thundercat
Okovi
Zola Jesus
Process
Sampha
The Hanged Man
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors
Green Twins
Nick Hakim
Last Place
Grandaddy
Ti Amo
Phoenix
In Spades
The Afghan Whigs
Glasshouse
Jessie Ware
Not Even Happiness
Julie Byrne
Modern Kosmology
Jane Weaver
Night Night At the First Landing
Madeline Kenney
ken
Destroyer
Mountain Moves
Deerhoof
Soul of a Woman
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Ununiform
Tricky
The Weather Station
The Weather Station
Let the Dancers Inherit the Party
British Sea Power
Powerplant
girlpool
Home Counties
Saint Etienne
Future Politics
Austra
Goths
The Mountain Goats
Holiday Destination
Nadine Shah
Nothing Feels Natural
Priests
Every Country’s Sun
Mogwai
Somersault
Beach Fossils
Oczy Mlody
The Flaming Lips
Run the Jewels 3
Run the Jewels
World Eater
Blanck Mass
The Weather
Pond
Season High
Little Dragon
Harmony of Difference
Kamasi Washington
This Old Dog
Mac DeMarco
Haiku From Zero
Cut Copy
Pleasure
Sondre Lerche
Morningside
Fazerdaze
Exile In the Outer Ring
EMA
Moonshine Freeze
This Is the Kit