Year-End Lists

Man's Best Friend

• 5 Best Albums of 2025: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
• 6 The Best Albums of 2025: Coup De Main
• 6 The Best 50 Albums of 2025: Billboard
• 6 The Best Albums of 2025: Steven J. Horowitz: Variety
• 13 The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone
• 16 The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
• 22 Dean's List 2025: Robert Christgau
• 22 Albums of the Year 2025: Clash
• 31 The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
• 44 The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Guardian
• 49 Albums of the Year 2025: Dork
• 57 The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters

• Albums of the Year 2025: New Statesman
• Best Albums of 2025: Passerby More of our favorite albums include
• Top 25 Standout Albums of 2025: Melodic Magazine
• The Best Albums of 2025: Chris Willman: Variety Honorable mention
• The 45 Best Albums of 2025: Vogue
• The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine

Short n' Sweet

• 1 The 20 Best Albums of 2024: Mikael Wood: Los Angeles Times
• 2 The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Alan Light: Esquire
• 2 Best Albums of 2024: Jon Caramanica: New York Times
• 3 Top 10 Albums of 2024: Jeff Nelson: People
• 3 The Best Albums of 2024: Thania Garcia: Variety
• 3 The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Entertainment Weekly
• 3 The Best Albums of 2024: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
• 3 Best Albums of 2024: Billboard
• 4 The Best Albums of 2024: Steven J. Horowitz: Variety
• 4 The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Mesfin Fekadu: Hollywood Reporter
• 4 The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Rolling Stone
• 5 Albums of the Year 2024: Dork
• 6 Best Pop Music Albums of 2024: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
• 8 The Best Albums of 2024: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
• 9 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Guardian
• 10 The 10 Best Albums of 2024: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
• 10 Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
• 16 The Best Albums of 2024: Independent
• 16 The 25 Best Albums of 2024: Sunday Times
• 19 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Complex
• 20 Top 20 Albums of 2024: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone
• 23 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Yardbarker
• 23 40 Favorite Albums of My 2024: Brad Luen
• 24 30 Best Albums of 2024: The Ringer
• 25 50 Best Albums of 2024: Exclaim
• 28 Albums of the Year 2024: Clash
• 29 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Slant
• 34 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Consequence
• 35 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Pitchfork
• 35 The Best Albums of 2024: The Forty-Five
• 42 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NME
• 43 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
• 44 The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters
• 45 Best Albums of 2024: Stereogum

• Albums of the Year 2024: Spin
• 10 Best Albums of 2024: Melodic Magazine
• 10 Favorite New Albums of 2024: Hazel Cills
• Best Albums of 2024: Passerby More of our favorite albums include
• The Best Albums Of 2024: HuffPost
• The 36 Best Albums of 2024: Vogue
• The 12 Best Albums of 2024: Carl Wilson: Slate Plus 20 More (alphabetical)
• The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music
• The Best Albums of 2024: Atwood Magazine
• The Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx
• Best Albums of 2024: AllMusic

Emails I Can't Send

• 19 Best Albums of 2022: Billboard
• 44 The 100 Best Albums of 2022: Rolling Stone