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.
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A Sailor’s Guide to Earth

by Sturgill Simpson

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  1. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  2. Entertainment Weekly: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  3. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2016
  4. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2016
  5. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2016
  6. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016
  7. Uproxx: 20 Best Albums of 2016
  8. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  9. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  10. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  11. Brooklyn Vegan: Top Albums of 2016
  12. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  13. NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2016
  14. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  15. Slant: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.