Year-End Lists

Tigers Blood

1. A.V. Club: The 25 Best Albums of 2024
2. Paste: The 100 Best Albums of 2024
2. Time: Stephen Kearse: The 10 Best Albums of 2024
3. Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
3. The Philadelphia Inquirer: Dan DeLuca: Best Pop Music Albums of 2024
3. Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2024
4. Stereogum: Best Albums of 2024
5. Loud And Quiet: Albums of the Year 2024
5. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
5. New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Albums of 2024
6. Mondo Sonoro: Best International Albums of 2024
6. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
7. Flood: The Best Albums of 2024
8. The Forty-Five: The Best Albums of 2024
9. New York Times: Lindsay Zoladz: Best Albums of 2024
9. Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
9. PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2024
10. Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2024
10. Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2024
10. Fire Note: Top 50 Albums Of 2024
12. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 50 Albums of 2024
13. The Skinny: Albums of 2024
14. Uproxx: Steven Hyden: Favorite Albums Of 2024
14. Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: Best Albums of 2024
17. The Ringer: 30 Best Albums of 2024
18. Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: Best Albums of 2024
18. Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
20. The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2024
20. Folk Alley: Best Albums of 2024
21. Billboard: Best Albums of 2024
25. Rough Trade: UK Albums of the Year 2024
26. The Fader: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
28. Albumism: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
30. Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2024
35. NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2024

• Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Albums of 2024
• Josh Terry: The 60 Best Albums of 2024
• NPR Music: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
• Glide: 20 Best Albums of 2024
• Uproxx: The Best Albums of 2024
• Wall Street Journal: Mark Richardson: The Best Music of 2024
• Slate: Carl Wilson: The 12 Best Albums of 2024

Saint Cloud

1. Uproxx: Steven Hyden: Favorite Albums of 2020
1. Jordan Cronk: The Top 30 Albums of 2020
2. Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
2. The Wild Honey Pie: Top 30 Albums of 2020
2. Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2020
2. Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
2. The Philadelphia Inquirer: Dan DeLuca: The Best Albums of 2020
2. Variety: Andrew Barker: The Best Albums of 2020
3. Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2020
3. New York Times: Lindsay Zoladz: Best Albums of 2020
4. Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2020
5. Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
6. The Skinny: Top 10 Albums of 2020
6. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2020
6. Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
6. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2020
6. Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2020
7. Northern Transmissions: Top 30 Albums of 2020
7. Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2020
7. Uproxx: The Best Albums Of 2020
7. Rolling Stone: Best Albums of 2020
8. Flood: The Best Albums of 2020
8. Treble: Top 50 Albums of 2020
9. PopMatters: The 60 Best Albums of 2020
9. Noisey: The 100 Best Albums of 2020
9. Spin: The 30 Best Albums of 2020
12. The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2020 Ranked
12. Rough Trade: Albums of the Year 2020
12. Slant: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
14. No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2020
14. Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
18. Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2020
19. A.V. Club: The 20 Best Albums of 2020
20. Holler: Albums of the Year 2020
24. Brooklyn Vegan: Top 55 Albums of 2020
26. Gigwise: 51 Best Albums of 2020
33. Clash: Albums of the Year 2020
35. Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2020
36. Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2020
37. The Forty-Five: The 45 Best Albums of 2020
47. NPR Music: The 50 Best Albums of 2020
71. Albumism: The 100 Best Albums of 2020

• Glide: 20 Best Albums of 2020
• Entertainment Weekly: The 15 Best Albums of 2020
• American Songwriter: Top Albums of 2020
• New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2020
• New York Times: Jon Caramanica: Best Albums of 2020

American Weekend

5. Jordan Cronk: 50 Favorite Albums of the 2010s

Out in the Storm

1. Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2017
7. Jordan Cronk: Favorite Albums of 2017
8. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2017
9. Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2017
10. A.V. Club: 20 Best Albums of 2017
10. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2017
14. Rolling Stone: 51 Best Albums of 2017
18. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2017
27. Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2017
41. NPR Music: Best 50 Albums of 2017
50. Earbuddy: 100 Best Albums of 2017
54. Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2017

• Stranger: Top Ten Albums of 2017
• Austin Town Hall: Top 50 Albums of 2017
• Slate: Carl Wilson: The Best Albums of 2017

Ivy Tripp

6. Spin: 50 Best Albums of 2015
8. A.V. Club: 15 Best Albums of 2015
13. The Skinny: The 50 Best Albums of 2015
19. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2015
23. Time Out London: 50 Best Albums of 2015
24. Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2015
37. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2015
38. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2015

• Sasha Frere-Jones: 89 Favorite Albums of 2015
• Slate: Carl Wilson: Top 25 Albums of 2015

Cerulean Salt

16. Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2013
17. NME: Best Albums of 2013
19. Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2013
22. Pretty Much Amazing: 40 Best Albums of 2013
22. Cokemachineglow: Top 50 Albums of 2013
22. Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2013
31. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2013
36. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2013
36. Consequence: Top 50 Albums of 2013
47. Stereogum: The 100 Best Albums Of The 2010s
61. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
70. Crack Magazine: Albums of the Year 2013
104. Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s