Year-End Lists

Everybody Scream

7. Top Albums of 2025: Emilie Hanskamp
19. The 45 Best Albums of 2025: The Forty-Five
25. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone
27. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: NME
29. The Best 50 Albums of 2025: Billboard
31. The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters
50. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
56. Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar

• The 10 Best Albums of 2025: Alan Light: Esquire
• Best Albums of 2025: Passerby

Dance Fever

4. The Best Albums of 2022: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
4. The Best Albums Of 2022: Coup De Main
5. Best Albums of 2022: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times
7. The 10 Best Albums of 2022: USA Today
7. Best Music of 2022: Brittany Spanos: Rolling Stone
11. The 100 Best Albums of 2022: Albumism
16. The Best Albums of 2022: The Forty-Five
21. 51 Best Albums of 2022: Gigwise
24. Top 50 Albums of 2022: Consequence
41. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Paste
51. The 80 Best Albums of 2022: PopMatters

• The 12 Best Albums of 2022: Jason Parham: Wired
• Best Albums of 2022: Passerby
• The 25 Best Albums of 2022: Esquire

High As Hope

25. Top 30 Albums of 2018: The Wild Honey Pie
28. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Rolling Stone
31. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Q
31. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Billboard
38. 47 Favorite Albums Of 2018: Hanif Abdurraqib
47. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Albumism
57. Top 100 Albums of 2018: Under the Radar
64. 70 Best Albums of 2018: PopMatters
84. Best Albums of the Year 2018: NME

• 23 Best Albums of 2018: Atlantic

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

4. Time Out London: 50 Best Albums of 2015
10. Q: Top 50 Albums Of 2015
15. Entertainment Weekly: 40 Best Albums of 2015
17. Billboard: 25 Best Albums of 2015
22. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2015
29. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2015
32. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2015
35. Diffuser: 50 Best Albums of 2015
36. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2015
39. Sputnikmusic: Top 50 Albums of 2015
40. NME: Top 50 Albums of 2015
41. Pretty Much Amazing: 50 Best Albums of 2015
41. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2015
60. Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
64. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2015
68. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

• NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2015

Ceremonials

1. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Q
2. Top 10 Albums of 2011: Claire Suddath: Time
4. Top 15 Indie/Alternative Albums of 2011: Ology
5. 20 Best Albums of 2011: Entertainment Weekly
8. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Gigwise
8. 10 Best Albums of 2011: Billboard
11. 40 Best Albums of 2011: Pretty Much Amazing
13. Top 80 Albums of 2011: Under the Radar
19. Top 30 Albums of 2011: Hot Press
20. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Fly
22. 25 Best Albums of 2011: Slant
25. Best Music of 2011: A.V. Club
25. 75 Best Albums of 2011: PopMatters
27. 50 Best Albums of 2011: Rolling Stone
28. Top 40 Albums of 2011: Clash
31. Best Albums of 2011: NME
32. Top 50 Albums of 2011: Treble
60. Top 100 Albums of 2011: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
91. Greatest Albums of the Decade: NME