Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

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1. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
   Lana Del Rey
2. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
3. That! Feels Good!
   Jessie Ware
4. Fountain Baby
   Amaarae
5. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
6. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
7. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
8. Raven
   Kelela
9. 10,000 gecs
   100 gecs
10. WOW
    Kate NV
11. the record
    boygenius
12. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
13. The Window
    Ratboys
14. The Loveliest Time
    Carly Rae Jepsen
15. A Great Chaos
    Ken Carson
16. Gag Order
    Kesha
17. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
18. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
19. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
20. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
21. Like..?
    Ice Spice
22. Quest for Fire
    Skrillex
23. Fuse
    Everything but the Girl
24. 12
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
25. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
26. Strays
    Margo Price
27. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
28. Perspective
    Jlin
29. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
30. Heaven Knows
    PinkPantheress
31. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
32. The Ones Ahead
    Beverly Glenn-Copeland
33. Wallsocket
    underscores
34. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
35. False Lankum
    Lankum
36. Perfect Picture
    Hannah Diamond
37. Space Heavy
    King Krule
38. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
39. Water Made Us
    Jamila Woods
40. Softscars
    yeule
41. Paranoia, Angels, True Love
    Christine and the Queens
42. With A Hammer
    yaeji
43. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
44. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
45. Blómi
    Susanne Sundfør
46. Red Moon in Venus
    Kali Uchis
47. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
48. Hit Parade
    Róisín Murphy
49. One Day
    Fucked Up
50. Girl In The Half Pearl
    Liv.e