Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. Albums of the Year 2021: Quietus
Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)
1. Albums of the Year 2018: Quietus
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1. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Quietus

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Adolescence
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Suspicious Minds
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Too Much
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
U R HERE Honesty
XXX Danny Brown
Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
Big Time Angel Olsen
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones

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