Year-End Lists

Birthing

• #6 Top 100 Albums of 2025: Louder Than War
• #14 Best Albums of 2025: Obscure Sound
• #16 The Top 50 Albums Of 2025: Still Listening
• #25 Top 50 Albums of 2025: Beats Per Minute
• #40 The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Slant
• #76 The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters

The Beggar

• Top 50 Albums of 2023: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop Honorable mention

leaving meaning.

• #19 Albums of the Year 2019: Rough Trade
• #23 Top 25 Albums of 2019: Magnet
• #47 The 50 Best Albums of 2019: Far Out

The Glowing Man

• #28 60 Best Albums of 2016: Pretty Much Amazing
• #32 The Top 50 Albums of 2016: Treble
• #46 75 Best Albums of 2016: Uncut
• #87 Top 100 Albums of 2016: Quietus

• 100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones stayed with me

To Be Kind

• #3 Top 50 Albums of 2014: The Wire
• #3 Top 100 Albums of 2014: Quietus
• #6 Top 50 Albums of 2014: Pitchfork
• #7 Top 50 Albums of 2014: Treble
• #8 60 Best Albums of 2014: Pretty Much Amazing
• #10 51 Favourite Albums of 2014: Drowned in Sound
• #12 Albums of the Year 2014: Crack Magazine
• #13 50 Best Albums of 2014: Stereogum
• #18 75 Best Albums of 2014: Uncut
• #18 20 Best Albums of 2014: A.V. Club
• #19 Top 100 Albums of 2014: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
• #20 Top 25 Albums of 2014: Magnet
• #22 Top 50 Albums of 2014: NME
• #22 Top 140 Albums of 2014: Under the Radar
• #23 Top 40 Albums of 2014: Clash
• #28 Top 50 Albums of 2014: Consequence of Sound
• #30 Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014: Tiny Mix Tapes
• #42 50 Best Albums of 2014: Mojo
• #58 100 Best Albums of 2014: Les Inrocks

• 10 Albums We Loved Most in 2014: Cokemachineglow
• 2014 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

Not Here/Not Now

• 42 Best Albums of 2013: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker I have lost sensation in my extremities.

We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head

• 40 Best Albums of 2012: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker

The Seer

• #1 75 Favorite Albums of 2012: Quietus
• #1 100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound
• #1 Top 50 Albums of 2012: Cokemachineglow
• #2 50 Favorite Albums of the 2010s: Jordan Cronk
• #3 Favorite 50 Albums of 2012: Tiny Mix Tapes
• #4 Top 50 Albums of 2012: Stereogum
• #5 Top 50 Albums of 2012: Pitchfork
• #5 75 Best Albums of 2012: PopMatters
• #6 Top 10 Albums of 2012: Douglas Wolk: Time
• #7 Top 100 Albums of 2012: Village Voice: Pazz & Jop
• #7 Top 25 Albums of 2012: Magnet
• #7 50 Best Albums of 2012: Spin
• #7 25 Best Albums of 2012: A.V. Club
• #8 20 Best Albums of 2012: L Magazine
• #9 Top 50 Albums of 2012: WUOG
• #9 50 Best Albums of 2012: Fact
• #10 Top 50 Albums of 2012: Beats Per Minute
• #10 20 Favorite Albums of 2012: Dennis Cooper
• #10 The Top 100 Albums of 2012: Crack Magazine
• #12 Top 50 Albums of 2012: Treble
• #12 25 Best Albums of 2012: Slant
• #15 Top 25 Albums of 2012: BBC: BBC Music
• #18 Top 50 Albums of 2012: Frontier Psychiatrist
• #22 Top 40 Albums of 2012: Clash
• #24 Top 40 Albums of 2012: Decibel
• #35 Top 100 Albums of 2012: musicOMH
• #38 Top 100 Albums of 2012: Piccadilly Records
• #39 Top 50 Albums of 2012: The Wire
• #41 Top 100 Albums of 2012: Les Inrocks
• #43 50 Best Albums of 2012: AllMusic
• #52 60 Best Albums of 2012: Pretty Much Amazing

• 40 Best Albums of 2012: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker
• 50 Favorite Albums of 2012: NPR: NPR Music