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2023 Music

The Skinny: Albums of 2023

14 December 2023

Heavy Heavy - Young Fathers

The Skinny: Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

  1. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
  2. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  3. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  4. the record
    boygenius
  5. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  6. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  7. Raven
    Kelela
  8. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  9. False Lankum
    Lankum
  10. This Is Why
    Paramore

Didn't quite make the cut

  1. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  2. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  3. Angel Numbers
    Hamish Hawk
  4. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
  5. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
  6. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
  7. Crazymad, for Me
    CMAT
  8. Lahai
    Sampha
  9. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
    Chappell Roan
  10. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday

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