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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2026
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When we were that what wept for the sea

by Colin Stetson

Appears on three lists

#40 Top 50 Albums of 2023: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
#44 50 Best Albums of 2023: Exclaim
#77 Albums of the Year 2023: Quietus

Trending Lists

2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Best Films of 2021 Robert Koehler · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2016 Emily St. James · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski

Trending Works

Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
A Real Animal Emeline Atwood
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Said the Dead Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
Kitten Stacey Yu
Whidbey T Kira Madden

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