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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Light Upon the Lake

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Lists

  1. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2016
  2. Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2016
  3. Flood: The Best Records of 2016
  4. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2016
  5. Clash: Albums of the Year 2016
  6. Gorilla vs. Bear: 60 Favorite Albums of 2016
  7. Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  8. Brooklyn Vegan: Top Albums of 2016
  9. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  10. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016
  11. The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  12. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2016
  13. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  14. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  15. Entertainment Weekly: 50 Best Albums of 2016
  16. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  17. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2016
  18. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2016

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