Welcome to the Best Album Brackets, where we pick a year, pick 128 albums, and put them through the bracket wringer until we emerge with a winner. We just finished The Best Album of 2000 tournament, and crowned OutKast’s STANKONIA as the best album of that year. We are currently prepping the next tournament, The Best Album of 1989! If you’d like to help nominate albums and determine seedings or otherwise join the conversation, you can subscribe to this newsletter, leave comments here on the newsletter archive, and/or hang out with us on Bluesky. Hope to see you here or there!