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  1. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  2. Time Out: The 25 Best Albums of 2025
  3. Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  4. Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Albums of 2025
  5. Flood: The Best Albums of 2025
  6. Grace Robins-Somerville: Favorite Albums of 2025
  7. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  8. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: The Best Albums of 2025
  9. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2025
  10. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  11. Drowned in Sound: 25 Favourite Albums of 2025
  12. PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2025
  13. Our Culture: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
  14. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2025
  15. Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  16. Northern Transmissions: Best Albums of 2025
  17. Clash: Albums of the Year 2025
  18. The Fader: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
  19. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2025

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