Another year has come and gone and that includes The FADER's annual lists of our favorite albums and songs. While compiling our 2024 selections, we suddenly had the thought of wanting to know what our ...

As a challenge in personal reflection and critical thinking, I always at least try to look for some kind of connective tissue in these picks. Anything that might explain, beyond mere taste, why these ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

Pitchfork’s editors are already sorting, compiling, and straining to remember all the music that’s been released this year. So we’re spotlighting some of 2025’s most outstanding records to date by ...