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
Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2021
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2018
RogerEbert.com: The Best Films of the 2010s
Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2022
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2022 Music
PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2022
06 December 2022
PopMatters
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The 80 Best Albums of 2022
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2018
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2012
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Renaissance
Beyoncé
Fear of the Dawn
Jack White
Entering Heaven Alive
Jack White
A Light for Attracting Attention
The Smile
As Above, So Below
Sampa the Great
Midnights
Taylor Swift
The Power In Us
Poppy Ajudha
The Last Goodbye
Odesza
Hold the Girl
Rina Sawayama
Profound Mysteries
Röyksopp
Ants From Up There
Black Country, New Road
Farm to Table
Bartees Strange
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Big Thief
Once Twice Melody
Beach House
Wet Leg
Wet Leg
Ultra Truth
Daniel Avery
Stumpwork
Dry Cleaning
Angels & Queens – Part I
Gabriels
The Overload
Yard Act
Motomami
Rosalía
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Kendrick Lamar
Take It Like a Man
Amanda Shires
Freakout/Release
Hot Chip
Nothing To Declare
700 Bliss
Let's Say for Instance
Emeli Sandé
Hellfire
black midi
Where's The One?
Congotronics International
Life on Earth
Hurray for the Riff Raff
Skinty Fia
Fontaines D.C.
Natural Brown Prom Queen
Sudan Archives
Tableau
The Orielles
Weather Alive
Beth Orton
God Save the Animals
Alex G
Reason to Smile
Kojey Radical
The New Faith
Jake Blount
Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Denzel Curry
Angel in Realtime
Gang of Youths
Breaking The Thermometer
Leyla McCalla
Loggerhead
Wu-Lu
The Loneliest Time
Carly Rae Jepsen
a tape called component system with the auto reverse
Open Mike Eagle
Expert in a Dying Field
The Beths
Greenzone 108
Greentea Peng
Ugly Season
Perfume Genius
Out of Heart
Flohio
Surrender
Maggie Rogers
Queen of Sheba
Ibrahim Maalouf & Angelique Kidjo
I Love You Jennifer B
Jockstrap
Warm Chris
Aldous Harding
En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog
Dungen
Heterosexuality
Shamir
Dance Fever
Florence + The Machine
Giving the World Away
Hatchie
Electricity
Ibibio Sound Machine
Crash
Charli XCX
The Tipping Point
Tears for Fears
Dawn FM
The Weeknd
Ali
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
This Is A Photograph
Kevin Morby
Classic Objects
Jenny Hval
Teeth Marks
S.G. Goodman
We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Sharon Van Etten
In Amber
Hercules and Love Affair
Cheat Codes
Danger Mouse and Black Thought
Antidawn
Burial
Streetlands
Burial
Blue Rev
Alvvays
Apocalypse Love
Black Lips
Nightroamer
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
Impera
Ghost
Tilt
Confidence Man
View with a Room
Julian Lage
Holy Fvck
Demi Lovato
Harry's House
Harry Styles
White Jesus Black Problems
Fantastic Negrito
If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
CMAT
Crystal Nuns Cathedral
Guided By Voices
The Alien Coast
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Crooked Tree
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
Autofiction
Suede
Get Fucked
The Chats
Few Good Things
Saba