Year-End Lists

Bleeds

2. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: The Best Albums of 2025
2. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2025
2. Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: The Best Albums of 2025
4. Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
4. Our Culture: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
4. Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
5. The Ringer: The 25 Best Albums of 2025
5. PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2025
6. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
6. Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2025
8. Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
8. Flood: The Best Albums of 2025
12. New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Albums of 2025
12. No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2025
12. Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
13. The Skinny: Albums of 2025
17. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
18. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
24. The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2025
25. The Forty-Five: The 45 Best Albums of 2025
33. Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2025
42. NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025

• Vulture: Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2025
• Glide: 20 Best Albums of 2025
• AP: Top Albums of 2025
• Slate: Carl Wilson: The Best Music of 2025
• NPR Music: Ann Powers: Top 10 Albums of 2025
• NPR Music: Best Albums of 2025

Rat Saw God

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

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

Twin Plagues

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

• Vinyl Me, Please: The Best Albums of 2021

I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone

52. Hanif Abdurraqib: 93 Favorite Albums Of 2020