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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Ugly Season

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  1. Autostraddle: Julie Gentile: Eight of the Best Queer Albums of 2022
  2. Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2022
  3. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
  4. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
  5. Northern Transmissions: Top 50 Albums of 2022
  6. PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2022
  7. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2022

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