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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Reign of Terror

by Sleigh Bells

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  1. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2012
  2. Stereogum: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  3. WUOG: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  4. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2012
  5. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2012
  6. PopMatters: 75 Best Albums of 2012
  7. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2012
  8. Barnes & Noble Review: Robert Christgau: Top 102 Albums of 2012

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