Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2021
Jordan Cronk: Top Ten Films of 2024
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2018 Music
Q: Top 50 Albums of 2018
18 December 2018
Q Magazine
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Top 50 Albums of 2018
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Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Arctic Monkeys
I’m All Ears
Let’s Eat Grandma
A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
The 1975
Honey
Robyn
Wide Awake!
Parquet Courts
Chris
Christine and the Queens
Joy as an Act of Resistance
Idles
Dirty Computer
Janelle Monáe
True Meanings
Paul Weller
Hunter
Anna Calvi
Marauder
Interpol
Golden Hour
Kacey Musgraves
Babelsberg
Gruff Rhys
Tell Me How You Really Feel
Courtney Barnett
Negro Swan
Blood Orange
Be the Cowboy
Mitski
Freedom’s Goblin
Ty Segall
Knock Knock
DJ Koze
Daytona
Pusha T
And Nothing Hurt
Spiritualized
Double Negative
Low
Hope Downs
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Record
Tracey Thorn
Look Now
Elvis Costello & The Imposters
God’s Favorite Customer
Father John Misty
In a Poem Unlimited
U.S. Girls
Song for Alpha
Daniel Avery
Hell-On
Neko Case
World’s Strongest Man
Gaz Coombes
Bottle It In
Kurt Vile
High As Hope
Florence + The Machine
Sparkle Hard
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Songs of Praise
Shame
Mozart’s Mini-Mart
Go-Kart Mozart
Aviary
Julia Holter
Rebound
Eleanor Friedberger
7
Beach House
Yawn
Bill Ryder-Jones
Wanderer
Cat Power
Kids See Ghosts
Kids See Ghosts
so sad so sexy
Lykke Li
Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
Sophie
Everything Is Recorded
Everything Is Recorded
Pray For the Wicked
Panic! At the Disco
Swimming
Mac Miller
Invasion of Privacy
Cardi B
Merrie Land
The Good, the Bad & the Queen
Heaven and Earth
Kamasi Washington
Resistance Is Futile
Manic Street Preachers
Silver Dollar Moment
The Orielles