Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2018 Albums

Bob Boilen: Top Ten Albums of 2018

20 December 2018

Bob Boilen: Top Ten Albums of 2018, as published by NPR’s NPR Music

[see also 2017, 2011]

  1. Lucy Dacus — Historian
  2. Superorganism — Superorganism
  3. Ólafur Arnalds — re:member
  4. Darlingside — Extralife
  5. Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
  6. David Byrne — American Utopia
  7. Niklas Paschburg — Oceanic
  8. John Prine — The Tree of Forgiveness
  9. serpentwithfeet — soil
  10. The Low Anthem — The Salt Doll Went to Measure the Depth of the Sea

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