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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by Valerie June

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  1. Daily Beast: 10 Best Albums of 2017
  2. Listening Through The Lens: 20 Favorite Albums of 2017
  3. New York Times: Jon Pareles: 10 Best Albums of 2017
  4. Mercury News: Jim Harrington: Best Albums of 2017
  5. Albumism: 50 Best Albums of 2017
  6. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2017
  7. Slant: 25 Best Albums of 2017
  8. Rolling Stone: 51 Best Albums of 2017
  9. PopMatters: 60 Best Albums of 2017
  10. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2017

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