Year-End Lists

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The 10 Best Albums of 2025 Entertainment Weekly

Best Albums of 2025 KCRW

The Best Albums of 2025 Sound Opinions: Greg Kot

The Best Albums of 2025 Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis

The 25 Best Albums of 2025 Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Best Albums of 2025 New York Times: Lindsay Zoladz

Best Albums of 2025 New York Times: Jon Caramanica

Best Albums of 2025 Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex

The 10 Best Albums of 2025 Time: Jenn Pelly

Albums of 2025 The Skinny

The Best Country Music Albums of 2025 Holler

Top Albums of 2025 AP

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

The 45 Best Albums of 2025 The Forty-Five

The Best Albums of 2025 Coup De Main

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Treble

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Our Culture

The Best Albums of 2025 Vulture: Craig Jenkins

The 50 Best Albums Of 2025 Stereogum

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

20 Best Albums of 2025 Glide

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.