Year-End Lists

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  1. Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
  2. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2025
  3. Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2025
  4. Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2025
  5. The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
  6. Nialler9: Niall Byrne: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  7. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 55 Albums of 2025
  8. KCRW: Best Albums of 2025
  9. Flood: The Best Albums of 2025
  10. Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2025
  11. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: The Best Albums of 2025
  12. God Is In The TV: Albums of the Year 2025
  13. Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: The Best Albums of 2025
  14. Quietus: Albums of the Year 2025
  15. Obscure Sound: Best Albums of 2025
  16. Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2025

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