Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Julianna Riolino

Echo in the Dust
1. 50 Best Albums of 2025: Exclaim
All Blue
1. 50 Best Albums of 2022: Exclaim
- Best Albums of 2022: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times

Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise Jaimie Branch
I Wish I Knew (2010) Jia Zhang-ke
Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick
Damn Kendrick Lamar
Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan The Mountain Goats
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Take Care BigXthaPlug
Good Luck, Take Care Terry Klein
Brahms – Schumann Yuuko Shiokawa & András Schiff
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
Yellow & Green Baroness
just like any other day (어느날) : background music for your mundane activities Okkyung Lee
Visions of Dallas Charley Crockett

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