Car Seat Headrest
- #6 in Paste Magazine’s “25 Best Live Acts of 2016”
“Teens of Denial”
- #1 (Album of the Year) in NPR host Bob Boilen’s “Top 10 Albums of 2016”
- #1 in Steven Hyden’s “50 Best Albums of 2016”
- #1 in On Pirate Satellite’s “Best Albums of 2016”
- #1 in 107.7 The End’s “Best Seattle Albums in 2016”
- #2 in ABC News’s “50 Best Albums of 2016”
- #2 in CEG’s “Top 16 Albums of 2016”
- #2 in the (San Jose) Mercury News’s “Top 10 Albums of 2016”
- #3 in Paste’s “50 Best Albums of 2016”
- #3 in The Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Best Pop Music of 2016”
- #3 in KEXP Listeners’ “Top 90.3 Albums of 2016”
- #3 in BestNewBands.com’s “10 Albums You Might Have Missed in 2016”
- #4 in Rolling Stone’s “50 Best Albums of 2016”
- #5 in USA Today’s “50 Best Albums of 2016”
- #5 in NPR’s “Listeners’ Favorite 100 Albums of 2016”
- #5 in Uproxxx’s “20 Best Albums of 2016”
- #6 in the Arizona Republic’s “Best Albums of 2016”
- #6 in GIGsoup’s “Top 13 Albums of 2016”
- #7 in Magnet’s “Best of 2016”
- #7 in Under the Radar’s “Top 100 Albums of 2016”
- #7 in The Key’s (Philadelphia) “Top 15 Albums of 2016”
- #8 in NPR Music’s “Best Albums of 2016”
- #8 in BBC Radio 6’s “Albums of the Year 2016”
- #8 in Rob Sheffield’s “Top 20 Albums of 2016” in Rolling Stone
- #9 in Pitchfork Readers’ Poll, “Top 50 Albums of 2016”
- #9 in StGA’s “Top 20 Albums of 2016”
- #10 in Rough Trade’s “Albums of the Year”
- #11 in Stereogum’s “50 Best Albums of 2016”
- #12 in The Skinny’s “Top 50 Albums of 2016”
- #14 in Bitter Southerner’s “Best Southern Records of 2016”
- #18 in Consequence of Sound’s “Top 50 Albums of 2016”
- #18 in Noisey’s “100 Best Albums of 2016”
- #19 in The A.V. Club’s “20 Best Albums of 2016”
- #21 in Entertainment Weekly’s “Best Albums of 2016”
- #24 in Pitchfork’s “50 Best Albums of 2016”
- #24 in The Record Shop’s “Top 30 Albums of 2016”
- #25 on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s “Top Albums of 2016”
- #35 in Spin’s “50 Best Albums of 2016”
- #36 in American Songwriter’s “Top 50 Albums of 2016”
- #45 in NME’s “Albums of the Year 2016”
- #69 in Bandcamp’s “Best Albums of 2016”
“Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales”
- #1 in Northern Transmission’s “Top 10 Singles of 2016”
- #3 in Consequence of Sound’s “Top 50 Songs of 2016”
- #3 in WXPN-FM’s (Philadelphia) “Top 100 Songs of 2016”
- #3 in Farce the Music’s “Top 10 Songs of 2016”
- #6 in Kalporz’s (Italy) “Top 7 Songs of 2016”
- #17 in Spectrum Culture’s “Top 25 Songs of 2016”
- #36 in The 405’s “Top 38 Songs of 2016” (single version)
- #45 in Rolling Stone’s “50 Best Songs of 2016”
- #54 in Spin’s “101 Best Songs of 2016”
“Vincent”
- #13 in New York Times critic Jon Pareles’s “The Best Songs of 2016”
- #16 in NPR Music’s “Top 100 Songs of 2016”
- #40 in Pitchfork Readers’ Poll, “Top 50 Songs of 2016”
“Fill in the Blank”
- #1 in Sirius XMU’s “Top 41 Songs of 2016”
- #1 (Song of the Year) in Twin Sheep’s “Songs of 2016”
- #11 in Spectrum Culture’s “Top 25 Songs of 2016”
- #18 in Pitchfork Readers’ Poll, “Top 50 Songs of 2016”
“Cosmic Hero”
“Destroyed by Hippie Powers”
“The Ballad of the Costa Concordia”