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
La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Best Films of 2022
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022
Film Comment Poll: Best Films of 2022
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018
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2020 Music
PopMatters: The 60 Best Albums of 2020
07 December 2020
PopMatters
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The 60 Best Albums of 2020
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Punisher
Phoebe Bridgers
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
What's Your Pleasure?
Jessie Ware
Women in Music Pt. III
Haim
Heaven to a Tortured Mind
Yves Tumor
RTJ4
Run the Jewels
Outland
Ital Tek
Untitled (Black Is)
Sault
Saint Cloud
Waxahatchee
A Hero's Death
Fontaines D.C.
Future Nostalgia
Dua Lipa
It Is What It Is
Thundercat
A Written Testimony
Jay Electronica
3.15.20
Childish Gambino
YHLQMDLG
Bad Bunny
Rough and Rowdy Ways
Bob Dylan
Folklore
Taylor Swift
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
Perfume Genius
songs
Adrianne Lenker
instrumentals
Adrianne Lenker
Ohms
Deftones
Gaslighter
The Chicks
Workaround
Beatrice Dillon
Shore
Fleet Foxes
Good Souls Better Angels
Lucinda Williams
Reunions
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
Inner Song
Kelly Lee Owens
Private Lives
Low Cut Connie
Suddenly
Caribou
Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Gorillaz
Keleketla!
Keleketla!
Seeking Thrils
Georgia
Every Bad
Porridge Radio
I'm Your Empress Of
Empress Of
Before Love Came to Kill Us
Jessie Reyez
Róisín Machine
Róisín Murphy
The Cycle
Mourning [A] BLKstar
Microphones in 2020
The Microphones
Notes on a Conditional Form
The 1975
The Universal Want
Doves
Rejoice
Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
Mama, You Can Bet!
Jyoti
Eno Axis
H.C. McEntire
color theory
Soccer Mommy
Visions of Bodies Being Burned
clipping.
Ultrasonic
Field Works
Sixteen Oceans
Four Tet
Voices
Max Richter
On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment
Ambrose Akinmusire
Neon Cross
Jaime Wyatt
Cenizas
Nicolas Jaar
To Love Is to Live
Jehnny Beth
Amazones Power
Les Amazones d’Afrique
Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?
The Soft Pink Truth
The Piano Equation
Matthew Shipp
Making a Door Less Open
Car Seat Headrest
Silver Tongue
TORRES
BRAT
NNAMDÏ
The Night Chancers
Baxter Dury
Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me
Waylon Payne
Wooden Cave
Thin Lear