Year-End Lists

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The Booker Prize: 2026 Award
Polaris Music Prize: 2026 Award
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2026
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Appears on two lists

#10 The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020: Eliana Dockterman: Time
#15 The 50 Best Podcasts of 2020: Atlantic

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2026 Jordan Cronk · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
75 Best Albums of 2023 Uncut
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
80 Best Albums of 2026 Uncut
80 Best Albums of 2024 Uncut
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
75 Best Albums of 2022 Uncut
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
2026 Award The Booker Prize

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Punching the Clown Lambchop
America Dan Deacon
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Spontaneous Music Live SML
You’re Not You Anymore Counterparts
Barton Hollow The Civil Wars
The Great
The End of Everything M. John Harrison
Train on the Island Aldous Harding
Love Is Colder Than Death Romance
Ode to Joy Wilco
Cafés Holly Pester
Lost Weekend Phoebe Bridgers
#RICHAXXHAITIAN Mach-Hommy

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