Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Middle Kids

New Songs for Old Problems
Faith Crisis Pt 1
1. Best 50 Releases of 2024: The Alternative
Today We're the Greatest
1. Top 100 Albums of 2021: Under the Radar
Middle Kids
1. 100 Best Albums of 2017: Earbuddy

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Country Music Albums of 2025 Holler
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Pig Michael Sarnoski
Dry Ground Burning Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Box for Buddy, Box for Star This Is Lorelei
Fargo
Her Spike Jonze
Edits Chuquimamani-Condori
Promises Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
Pluribus
Not Tight Domi and JD Beck
Xenotaph Fallujah
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto

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