Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

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1. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
2. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
3. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
   McKinley Dixon
4. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
5. The Window
   Ratboys
6. The Greater Wings
   Julie Byrne
7. I Killed Your Dog
   L'Rain
8. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
9. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
   Anohni and the Johnsons
10. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
11. Lucky for You
    Bully
12. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
13. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
14. Spike Field
    Maria BC
15. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
16. Raven
    Kelela
17. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
18. the record
    boygenius
19. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
20. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
21. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
22. Greg Mendez
    Greg Mendez
23. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
24. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
25. Sundial
    Noname
26. Time Ain't Accidental
    Jess Williamson
27. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
28. Desolation's Flower
    Ragana
29. Softscars
    yeule
30. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
31. Jenny from Thebes
    The Mountain Goats
32. Saved!
    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
33. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
34. Good Living Is Coming For You
    Sweeping Promises
35. Strange Disciple
    Nation of Language
36. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
37. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
38. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
39. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
40. Cut Worms
    Cut Worms
41. Vidrio
    Titanic
42. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
43. Oh Me Oh My
    Lonnie Holley
44. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
45. Tomorrow's Fire
    Squirrel Flower
46. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
47. Yard
    Slow Pulp
48. Fish Bowl
    Kate Davis
49. Sun Arcs
    Blue Lake
50. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo