Year-End Lists

Consequence: 50 Best Albums of 2023

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1. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
   Yves Tumor
2. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
3. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
4. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
5. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
6. Weathervanes
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
7. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
   McKinley Dixon
8. Zach Bryan
   Zach Bryan
9. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
10. Härvest
    Poison Ruïn
11. The Window
    Ratboys
12. Mid Air
    Paris Texas
13. Raven
    Kelela
14. After the Magic
    Parannoul
15. Proof of Life
    Joy Oladokun
16. Softscars
    yeule
17. Water Made Us
    Jamila Woods
18. everything is alive
    Slowdive
19. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
20. 72 Seasons
    Metallica
21. Sundial
    Noname
22. My 21st Century Blues
    Raye
23. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
24. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
25. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
26. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
27. D-DAY
    Agust D
28. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
29. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
30. Voir Dire
    Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist
31. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
32. Blondshell
    Blondshell
33. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
34. Love in Exile
    Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily
35. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
36. Michael
    Killer Mike
37. Struggler
    Genesis Owusu
38. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
39. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
40. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
41. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
42. Echo the Diamond
    Margaret Glaspy
43. The Lamb as Effigy
    Sprain
44. the record
    boygenius
45. Work of Art
    Asake
46. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
47. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
48. Stone
    Baroness
49. Careful!
    Deeper
50. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey