Year-End Lists

Hey What

1. Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
1. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2021
2. Northern Transmissions: Top 20 Albums of 2021
2. Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
2. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2021
2. Jordan Cronk: The Top 30 Albums of 2021
2. Vulture: Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2021
2. Uproxx: Steven Hyden: Favorite Albums of 2021
3. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 50 Albums of 2021
3. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2021
3. The Skinny: Top Ten Albums of 2021
3. Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2021
4. The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2021
4. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2021
4. Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2021
4. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2021
5. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
5. Les Inrocks: Top 25 Albums of 2021
5. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
6. Flood: The Best Albums of 2021
8. New York Times: Lindsay Zoladz: Best Albums of 2021
8. New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2021
9. Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2021
12. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
12. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: The Best Albums of 2021
13. A.V. Club: The 20 Best Albums of 2021
16. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2021
17. The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2021
18. Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2021
20. Loud And Quiet: Albums of the Year 2021
21. NPR Music: 50 Best Albums of 2021
31. Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
36. Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2021
38. Clash: Albums of the Year 2021
39. Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of 2021
87. Albumism: The 100 Best Albums of 2021
98. Quietus: Albums of the Year 2021

• Slate: Carl Wilson: Top 10 Albums of 2021
• GCN: Steve Erickson: The Best Music of 2021
• Glide: 20 Best Albums of 2021
• The Philadelphia Inquirer: Dan DeLuca: The Best Albums of 2021
• Esquire: The Best Albums of 2021

Double Negative

1. 15 Favourite Albums of 2018: Drowned in Sound
1. Favorite Albums of 2018: Jeremy D. Larson
1. Albums 2018: Jordan Cronk
1. 75 Best Albums of 2018: Uncut
2. 15 Best Albums of 2018: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
2. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Brooklyn Vegan
3. Top 20 Albums of 2018: Spectrum Culture
4. Top 100 Albums of 2018: Under the Radar
6. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Treble
7. Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2018: Tiny Mix Tapes
7. 51 Best Albums of 2018: Spin
7. 50 Favorite Albums of the 2010s: Jordan Cronk
8. Albums of the Year 2018: Quietus
8. 50 Best Albums Of 2018: Stereogum
8. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Pitchfork
8. Top 100 Albums of 2018: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
9. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Guardian
9. 50 Best Albums of 2018: Paste
10. Top 50 Albums of 2018: The Wire
14. Top 50 Albums of 2018: 405
16. Best Albums of 2018: Flood
17. Best Albums of 2018: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
17. 50 Best Albums of 2018: NPR: NPR Music
18. The Best Albums of 2018: The Line of Best Fit
19. 75 Best Albums of 2018: Mojo
21. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Q
22. 70 Best Albums of 2018: PopMatters
35. The 50 Best Albums of 2018: Far Out
43. Top 50 Albums of 2018: The Skinny
45. 47 Favorite Albums Of 2018: Hanif Abdurraqib
49. Best Albums of 2018: Fact
59. Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade: Tiny Mix Tapes
71. The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s: Stereogum
96. The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s: Pitchfork

• 16 Best Albums of 2018: Time Out New York
• Best Music of 2018: Mark Richardson: Wall Street Journal
• Best Albums of 2018: Terence Cawley: Boston Globe
• Top Releases of 2018: XLR8R

Ones and Sixes

11. Top 25 Albums of 2015: Magnet
13. 50 Best Albums of 2015: Mojo
14. 40 Favorite Albums of 2015: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions
16. 100 Favourite Albums of 2015: Drowned in Sound
17. Albums of the Year 2015: Crack Magazine
24. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Under the Radar
28. The 50 Best Albums of 2015: The Skinny
34. 100 Best Albums of 2015: Les Inrocks
37. 75 Best Albums of 2015: Uncut
46. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop

• 89 Favorite Albums of 2015: Sasha Frere-Jones
• 50 Favorite Albums of 2015: NPR: NPR Music
• Top 10 Albums of 2015: Kitty Empire: Observer

The Invisible Way

10. Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: The Best Albums of 2013
36. Mojo: Top 50 Albums of 2013
41. Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2013
71. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2013

C’mon

4. Best Music of 2011: A.V. Club
14. Favourite Albums of 2011: Drowned in Sound
20. Top Albums of 2011: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions
33. Top 40 Albums of 2011: Epitonic
66. Top 80 Albums of 2011: Under the Radar
72. Top 100 Albums of 2011: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop