Year-End Lists

Forever Means

10. The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023

Big Time

1. Bitter Southerner: Best Southern Albums of 2022
2. Variety: Jem Aswad: The Best Albums of 2022
4. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2022
5. Northern Transmissions: Top 50 Albums of 2022
5. Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Albums of 2022
6. Autostraddle: Julie Gentile: Eight of the Best Queer Albums of 2022
6. Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood: The 20 Best Albums of 2022
7. Time: The 10 Best Albums of 2022
7. Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
7. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
8. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
9. New York Times: Lindsay Zoladz: Best Albums of 2022
9. Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
9. The Ringer: The 33 Best Albums of 2022
10. No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2022
13. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 50 Albums of 2022
14. Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2022
15. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2022
18. Albumism: The 100 Best Albums of 2022
18. Flood: The Best Albums of 2022
18. Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2022
23. NPR Music: Best Albums of 2022
24. The Forty-Five: The Best Albums of 2022
25. Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2022
26. The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2022 Ranked
29. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2022
30. Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2022
50. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2022
66. Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2022

• Uproxx: The Best Albums Of 2022
• Aquarium Drunkard: 2022 Year in Review
• Vulture: Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2022

Whole New Mess

39. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2020
70. Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2020

• AllMusic: Best Albums of 2020

All Mirrors

1. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2019
1. Albumism: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
1. Treble: The Top 50 Albums of 2019
2. NPR Music: 25 Best Albums of 2019
2. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
2. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2019
3. Rough Trade: Albums of the Year 2019
3. NPR Music: Bob Boilen: Best Albums of 2019
3. The Skinny: Top Ten Albums of 2019
4. Flood: The Best Albums of 2019
4. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
4. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2019
4. Spin: The 10 Best Albums of 2019
6. Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
6. Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2019
6. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2019
7. The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2019
8. PopMatters: The 70 Best Albums of 2019
8. No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2019
10. Q: Top 50 Albums of 2019
10. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 50 Albums of 2019
10. Northern Transmissions: Top 20 Albums of 2019
11. Thrillist: The Best Albums of 2019
11. Uproxx: The Best Albums Of 2019
13. Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2019
13. A.V. Club: The 20 Best Albums of 2019
14. Rolling Stone: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
15. Billboard: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
17. Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
24. NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2019
24. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of 2019
25. Clash: Albums of the Year 2019
26. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2019
29. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2019
32. Gorilla vs. Bear: Favorite Albums of 2019
40. Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2019
64. Consequence: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s

• Glide: Best Albums of 2019
• Slate: Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2019
• Wired: Jason Parham: The 7 Best Albums of 2019
• Vinyl Me, Please: The Best Albums of 2019
• American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums of 2019
• Our Culture: 20 Best Albums of 2019

Phases

36. Crack Magazine: The Top 100 Albums of 2017
45. Gorilla vs. Bear: 62 Favorite Albums of 2017

My Woman

1. Brooklyn Vegan: Top Albums of 2016
1. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2016
3. Austin Town Hall: Top 50 Albums of 2016
3. A.V. Club: 21 Best Albums of 2016
3. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2016
4. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2016
4. Flood: The Best Records of 2016
5. The Skinny: Top 50 Albums of 2016
6. Jordan Cronk: 30 Favorite Albums of 2016
7. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2016
7. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2016
7. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016
7. Drowned in Sound: 16 Favourite Albums of 2016
8. Q: Top 50 Albums Of 2016
9. Pitchfork: 50 Best Albums of 2016
9. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2016
9. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2016
11. Hanif Abdurraqib: 40 Favorite Albums Of 2016
12. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2016
12. Treble: The Top 50 Albums of 2016
13. NME: 50 Best Albums of 2016
14. Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2016
15. Les Inrocks: 50 Best Albums of 2016
15. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2016
15. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
20. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2016
21. Clash: Albums of the Year 2016
22. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2016
23. Consequence: Top 100 Albums of the 2010s
25. NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2016
28. Mojo: 50 Best Albums of 2016
31. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2016
32. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2016
32. Pigeons & Planes: 50 Best Albums of 2016
33. Entertainment Weekly: 50 Best Albums of 2016
33. Gorilla vs. Bear: 60 Favorite Albums of 2016
34. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2016
46. Tiny Mix Tapes: 51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016
86. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

• AllMusic: 48 Best Albums of 2016
• Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: Top Albums of 2016
• Slate: Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2016

Burn Your Fire For No Witness

1. A.V. Club: 20 Best Albums of 2014
2. Flavorwire: 30 Best Albums of 2014
3. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2014
5. Under the Radar: Top 140 Albums of 2014
5. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2014
7. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2014
8. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2014
8. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2014
9. A.V. Club: The 50 Best Albums of the 2010s
11. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2014
15. Guardian: 40 Best Albums of 2014
15. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2014
17. Mojo: 50 Best Albums of 2014
18. Gorilla vs. Bear: 35 Favorite Albums of 2014
20. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: Top 20 Albums of 2014
22. Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: Top 40 Albums of 2014
22. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2014
23. Fact: 50 Best Albums of 2014
23. Pretty Much Amazing: 60 Best Albums of 2014
24. NME: Top 50 Albums of 2014
26. Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2014
26. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
29. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
31. Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s
32. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
56. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2014
67. Les Inrocks: 100 Best Albums of 2014
74. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade

• New Yorker: Sasha Frere-Jones: 50 Most Impressive Albums of 2014
• Aquarium Drunkard: 2014 Year in Review
• Slate: Carl Wilson: Top 14 Albums of 2014
• NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2014

Half Way Home

22. Gorilla vs. Bear: 50 Best Albums of 2012
23. Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 50 Albums of 2012