Year-End Lists

Bleeds

2. The 50 Best Albums Of 2025: Stereogum
2. Best Pop Music Albums of 2025: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
2. The Best Albums of 2025: Greg Kot: Sound Opinions
2. 50 Best Albums of 2025: The Alternative
2. The Best Albums of 2025: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
3. Favorite Albums of 2025: Grace Robins-Somerville
4. 80 Best Albums of 2025: Uncut
4. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Treble
4. Top 55 Albums of 2025: Brooklyn Vegan
4. Top 20 Albums of 2025: Spectrum Culture
5. The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters
5. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: The Ringer
6. 50 Best Albums of 2025: Exclaim
6. Best Albums of 2025: Obscure Sound
6. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Pitchfork
8. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Rolling Stone
8. The Best Albums of 2025: Flood
10. Top 50 Albums of 2025: Beats Per Minute
10. Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions
12. The Best Albums of 2025: Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker
12. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
12. The Best Albums of 2025: No Ripcord
12. Top 30 Albums of 2025: Jordan Cronk
12. Top Albums of 2025: Emilie Hanskamp
13. Albums of 2025: The Skinny
15. Favorite Albums of 2025: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
17. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Slant
17. 45 Favorite Albums of My 2025: Brad Luen
18. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Paste
21. Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
24. The Best Albums of 2025: The Line of Best Fit
25. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Guardian
25. The 45 Best Albums of 2025: The Forty-Five
30. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Far Out
33. Best Albums of 2025: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
37. 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib
42. The 50 Best Albums of 2025: NME
50. Albums of the Year 2025: Clash

• The 10 Best Albums of 2025: Alan Light: Esquire
• The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine
• The Best Albums of 2025: Craig Jenkins: New York: Vulture
• 20 Best Albums of 2025: Glide
• Top Albums of 2025: AP
• The Best Music of 2025: Carl Wilson: Slate
• Top 10 Albums of 2025: Ann Powers: NPR: NPR Music
• Best Albums of 2025: NPR: NPR Music
• Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
• My Favorite Albums of 2025: Kelsie Herzog: The Yellow Button
• The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry
• 10 Favorite New Albums of 2025: Hazel Cills

Rat Saw God

1. Favorite Albums Of 2023: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
1. The Best Albums of 2023: Greg Kot: Sound Opinions
1. The 50 Best Albums Of 2023: Stereogum
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Paste
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Our Culture
2. The Best Albums of 2023: The Line of Best Fit
2. The Best Albums of 2023: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
2. The 10 Best Albums of 2023: Spencer Kornhaber: Atlantic
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: The Fader
2. Best Albums of 2023: Northern Transmissions
2. Top 55 Releases of 2023: The Alternative
2. 50 Best Albums of 2023: Consequence
3. Best Albums of 2023: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
4. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Pitchfork
6. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Slant
6. 50 Best Albums of 2023: Exclaim
6. Top 50 Albums of 2023: Beats Per Minute
6. The Best Albums of 2023: Flood
7. Top 55 Albums of 2023: Brooklyn Vegan
7. Best Southern Albums of 2023: Bitter Southerner
7. Best Pop Music Albums of 2023: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer
7. The 80 Best Albums of 2023: PopMatters
9. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Treble
9. Top 100 Albums of 2023: Under the Radar
11. Albums of the Year 2023: DIY
11. UK Albums of the Year 2023: Rough Trade
11. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Guardian
15. The 27 Best Albums of 2023: The Ringer
17. The 45 Best Albums of 2023: The Forty-Five
17. Top 25 Albums of 2023: Magnet
20. Albums of 2023: The Skinny
22. Dean's List 2023: Robert Christgau
27. The 100 Best Albums of 2023: Rolling Stone
30. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Yardbarker
30. 75 Best Albums of 2023: Uncut
34. The Best Albums of 2023: NME
36. Albums of the Year 2023: Clash
42. 108 Favorite Albums Of 2023: Hanif Abdurraqib
42. Albums of the Year for 2023: God Is In The TV

• Top Albums of 2023: Maria Sherman: AP
• The Best Albums Of 2023: Uproxx
• The 50 Best Albums of 2023: NPR: NPR Music
• The 12 Best Albums of 2023: Carl Wilson: Slate
• 20 Best Album for 2023: Glide
• The Best Albums of 2023: Chris Willman: Variety
• Best Albums of 2023: Adrian Spinelli: San Francisco Chronicle
• The 60 Best Albums of 2023: Josh Terry

Twin Plagues

11. The 50 Best Albums Of 2021: Stereogum
18. Albums of 2021: Gorilla vs. Bear
31. The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Paste
41. 83 Favorite Albums Of 2021: Hanif Abdurraqib
50. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Brooklyn Vegan
59. Top 100 Albums of 2021: Under the Radar

• The Best Albums of 2021: Vinyl Me, Please

I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone

52. 93 Favorite Albums Of 2020: Hanif Abdurraqib