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Loud And Quiet: Albums of the Year 2023

24 November 2023

False Lankum - Lankum

Loud And Quiet: Albums of the Year 2023, voted by contributors

[see also 2022 • 2021]

  1. False Lankum
    Lankum
  2. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  3. in​||FLUX
    Anna B Savage
  4. Vidrio
    Titanic
  5. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
  6. yew
    Rosie Carr
  7. Formal Growth In The Desert
    Protomartyr
  8. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
  9. Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
    John Francis Flynn
  10. trip9love...???
    Tirzah
  11. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
  12. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  13. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
  14. Land of Sleeper
    Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
  15. Black Classical Music
    Yussef Dayes
  16. Nails
    Benefits
  17. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
  18. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
  19. O Monolith
    Squid
  20. Mid Air
    Paris Texas
  21. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
  22. the record
    boygenius
  23. What's Bad Enough?
    Comfort
  24. Perfect Picture
    Hannah Diamond
  25. Systemic
    Divide and Dissolve
  26. Reflections Vol. 1: Let the Moon Be a Planet
    Steve Gunn & David Moore
  27. Less
    deathcrash
  28. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
  29. Standers
    Craven Faults
  30. A New Tomorrow
    Zulu
  31. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  32. End Of Everything
    Mega Bog
  33. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  34. Could Have Done Anything
    Charlotte Cornfield
  35. UK Grim
    Sleaford Mods
  36. I Get Into Trouble
    Maple Glider
  37. ს ა დ გ უ რ ი [Station]
    Beqa Ungiadze
  38. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
  39. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
  40. Good Living Is Coming For You
    Sweeping Promises

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