- Mitski — Be the Cowboy
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Beach House — 7
- Noname — Room 25
- Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
- Low — Double Negative
- Emma Ruth Rundle — On Dark Horses
- Nine Inch Nails — Bad Witch
- Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
- Kamasi Washington — Heaven and Earth
- Iceage — Beyondless
- Julia Holter — Aviary
- Mount Eerie — Now Only
- Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
- Father John Misty — God’s Favorite Customer
- Gas — Rausch
- Parquet Courts — Wide Awake!
- Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love
- Vince Staples — FM!
- Tribulation — Down Below
- Sumac — Love In Shadow
- Anna von Hausswolff — Dead Magic
- Kurt Vile — Bottle It In
- Kacey Musgraves — Golden Hour
- YOB — Our Raw Heart
- Saba — Care for Me
- Against All Logic — 2012-2017
- Sleep — The Sciences
- Tim Hecker — Konoyo
- Thou — Magus
- The Internet — Hive Mind
- Robyn — Honey
- Bambara — Shadow on Everything
- boygenius — boygenius
- Jeane Grae & Quelle Chris — Everything's Fine
- Shopping — The Official Body
- Janelle Monáe — Dirty Computer
- Voivod — The Wake
- Jon Hopkins — Singularity
- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks — Sparkle Hard
- JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
- U.S. Girls — In a Poem Unlimited
- Flasher — Constant Image
- John Coltrane — Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
- Daughters — You Won't Get What You Want
- Khruangbin — Con Todo El Mundo
- Fucked Up — Dose Your Dreams
- Yo La Tengo — There’s a Riot Going On
- Shame — Songs of Praise
- Adrianne Lenker — abysskiss
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.