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
Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2019
Economist: The Best Books of 2021
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2021
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2021
2018 Music
Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2018
31 December 2018
Under the Radar
:
Top 100 Albums of 2018
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2017
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2015
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2011
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Heaven and Earth
Kamasi Washington
Be the Cowboy
Mitski
boygenius
boygenius
Double Negative
Low
Tell Me How You Really Feel
Courtney Barnett
7
Beach House
God’s Favorite Customer
Father John Misty
Wide Awake!
Parquet Courts
Bottle It In
Kurt Vile
Aviary
Julia Holter
Cocoa Sugar
Young Fathers
In a Poem Unlimited
U.S. Girls
Hope Downs
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Lump
Lump
The Future and the Past
Natalie Prass
Loma
Loma
Little Dark Age
MGMT
I’m All Ears
Let’s Eat Grandma
Indigo
Wild Nothing
Joy as an Act of Resistance
Idles
Love is Magic
John Grant
Tracyanne & Danny
Tracyanne & Danny
The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Wye Oak
Now Only
Mount Eerie
Lush
Snail Mail
Singularity
Jon Hopkins
LONER
Caroline Rose
World’s Strongest Man
Gaz Coombes
And Nothing Hurt
Spiritualized
Dirty Computer
Janelle Monáe
Songs of Praise
Shame
Chris
Christine and the Queens
Sparkle Hard
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Arctic Monkeys
Clean
Soccer Mommy
Sugar & Spice
Hatchie
Le Kov
Gwenno
C’est La Vie
Phosphorescent
Negro Swan
Blood Orange
Beyondless
Iceage
Room Inside the World
Ought
Hunter
Anna Calvi
Historian
Lucy Dacus
Dose Your Dreams
Fucked Up
Broken Politics
Neneh Cherry
Riddles
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
There’s a Riot Going On
Yo La Tengo
Babelsberg
Gruff Rhys
Transangelic Exodus
Ezra Furman
Superorganism
Superorganism
How to Solve Our Human Problems
Belle and Sebastian
Room 25
Noname
Make Way for Love
Marlon Williams
abysskiss
Adrianne Lenker
Freedom
Amen Dunes
All Melody
Nils Frahm
High As Hope
Florence + The Machine
Post-
Jeff Rosenstock
Slow Air
Still Corners
Always Ascending
Franz Ferdinand
I can feel you creep into my private life
Tune-Yards
Merrie Land
The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Hell-On
Neko Case
The Lamb
Lala Lala
Your Queen Is a Reptile
Sons of Kemet
Mother of My Children
Black Belt Eagle Scout
soil
serpentwithfeet
Sex & Food
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Honey
Robyn
Deafman Glance
Ryley Walker
Dance Music
Mastersystem
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Beak>
Perfect Shapes
Madeline Kenney
Cosmic Wink
Jess Williamson
This One’s for the Dancer & This One’s for the Dancer’s Bouquet
Moonface
Wanderer
Cat Power
Constant Image
Flasher
Open Here
Field Music
The Blue Hour
Suede
Frontrunner
Frontperson
Rebound
Eleanor Friedberger
Parcels
Parcels
Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Hop Along
Dead Magic
Anna von Hausswolff
Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film)
Thom Yorke
The More I Sleep the Less I Dream
We Were Promised Jetpacks
Love Is Dead
Chvrches
White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood
of Montreal
The Whole Thing Is Just There
Young Jesus
Bon Voyage
Melody’s Echo Chamber
Out of Touch
Jaakko Eino Kalevi
We’re Not Talking
The Goon Sax
Quit the Curse
Anna Burch
Marble Skies
Django Django
Goat Girl
Goat Girl
Konoyo
Tim Hecker
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Deafheaven
Future Me Hates Me
The Beths
Songs You Make at Night
Tunng
The Art of Pretending to Swim
Villagers