Year-End Lists

The Golden Heart Protector

• 1 Dean's List 2025: Robert Christgau

The Sun Doesn't Think

• 16 Favorite Albums of 2024: Bob Boilen

Echo the Diamond

• 42 50 Best Albums of 2023: Consequence
• 43 Dean's List 2024: Robert Christgau
• 43 Top 100 Albums of 2023: Under the Radar

• Best Albums of 2023: Jon Pareles: New York Times Another 20 worthwhile albums, alphabetically
• The 12 Best Albums of 2023: Carl Wilson: Slate Runner-up

Emotions and Math

• 27 Top 30 Albums of 2016: The Wild Honey Pie
• 41 50 Best Albums of 2016: Paste
• 45 50 Best Albums of 2016: Stereogum
• 47 Top 50 Albums of 2016: American Songwriter

• Favorite Albums of 2016: No Depression
• 100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones exceptional