More end-of-the-year blurbing, summarizing, and list-making: For FLOOD, I penned a few words about Fiona Apple and HAIM; and at In Review, I rhapsodized about Run the Jewels and repeated my Taylor Swift/Tony Bennett joke in a capsule review of Folklore.

My top 25 album picks, along with commentary, are still available here at the blog. But if it’s raw data you’re after, I can tell you that I spent time with around 90 new releases this year, and can easily list 50 without hitting any duds.

1. Folklore | Taylor Swift
2. RTJ4 | Run the Jewels
3. Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Fiona Apple
4. Aftermath | Elizabeth Cook
5. Rough and Rowdy Ways | Bob Dylan
6. Women in Music Pt. III | HAIM
7. Who Are You? | Joel Ross
8. Blackbirds | Bettye LaVette
9. We Still Go to Rodeos | Whitney Rose
10. Felis Catus and Silence | Leo Takami
11. Rainbow Sign | Ron Miles
12. Song for Our Daughter | Laura Marling
13. Mama, You Can Bet! | Jyoti
14. Letter to You | Bruce Springsteen
15. That’s How Rumors Get Started | Margo Price
16. CHICKABOOM! | Tami Neilson
17. Headlight | Della Mae
18. We’re New Again | Makaya McCraven & Gil Scott-Heron
19. Private Lives | Low Cut Connie
20. All the Good Times | Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
21. SOURCE | Nubya Garcia
22. Half Moon Light | The Lone Bellow
23. Total Freedom | Kathleen Edwards
24. RoundAgain | Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, & Brian Blade
25. Future Nostalgia | Dua Lipa
26. Southside | Sam Hunt
27. Omega | Immanuel Wilkins
28. Evermore | Taylor Swift
29. First Rose of Spring | Willie Nelson
30. Heaven to a Tortured Mind | Yves Tumor
31. Hey Clockface | Elvis Costello
32. Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able | Black Thought
33. Serpentine Prison | Matt Berninger 
34. Punisher | Phoebe Bridgers
35. Reunions | Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
36. See You Tomorrow | The Innocence Mission
37. Your Life is a Record | Brandy Clark
38. Petals for Armor | Hayley Williams
39. Rejoice | Hugh Masekela & Tony Allen
40. We Are Sent Here By History | Shabaka & The Ancestors 
41. Saturn Return | The Secret Sisters
42. Echo Mine | Califone
43. Gaslighter | The Chicks
44. Good Souls Better Angels | Lucinda Williams
45. Italian Ice | Nicole Atkins
46. Imploding the Mirage | The Killers
47. McCartney III | Paul McCartney
48. Pick Me Up Off the Floor | Norah Jones
49. Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase? | The Soft Pink Truth
50. Mutable Set | Blake Mills