Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023

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1. This Stupid World
   Yo La Tengo
2. Oxmardyke
   Philip Jeck & Chris Watson
3. fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s suite but sacred)
   Darius Jones
4. To Be Cruel
   Khanate
5. Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…
   Matana Roberts
6. BOWN
   Mariam Rezaei
7. Protect Your Light
   Irreversible Entanglements
8. Echolocation
   Mendoza Hoff Revels
9. Traveller Song / Thanksong
   Cassandra Miller
10. Une aventure de VV (Songspiel)
    Aksak Maboul
11. Talàn
    Raphael Rogiński
12. Tête-à-tête
    Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood
13. Skultura
    Nick Dunston
14. Potential
    Sunik Kim
15. Last Calls
    AMM
16. Under an Endless Sky
    Dorothy Moskowitz & The United States of Alchemy
17. I Am Not There Anymore
    The Clientele
18. Sundial
    Noname
19. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
20. 12
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
21. Smoke Rings Shimmers Endless Blur
    Laura Ortman
22. The Holy Mother (Plays The Rudra Veena)
    Madhuvanti Pal
23. Rhizomes
    Aho Ssan
24. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
25. Requiem for Jazz
    Angel Bat Dawid
26. Eye of the Sea
    Svitlana Nianio & Tom James Scott
27. The Anxiety of Symmetry
    Bill Orcutt
28. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
29. Laughing
    Coffin Prick
30. Hotel Spojár
    Škvíry & Spoje
31. Fire Illuminations
    Wadada Leo Smith and Orange Wave Electric
32. Girl In The Half Pearl
    Liv.e
33. Isn't It Now?
    Animal Collective
34. Agua Dulce
    Ale Hop & Laura Robles
35. From the Dancehall to the Battlefield
    Jason Moran
36. Drift
    Gaika
37. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
38. Leather Blvd
    B. Cool-Aid
39. Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping
    Mozart Estate
40. Reconfiguring the Landscape
    Natasha Barrett
41. Marjaa: The Battle Of The Hotels
    Mayssa Jallad
42. Modern and Unique
    Position Normal
43. Sister Time
    Amy Cutler
44. Since Time Is Gravity
    Natural Information Society
45. Mirage FM
    patten
46. Travel
    The Necks
47. Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
    James Holden
48. Psykor
    Avola
49. Direct Action
    Alternative TV
50. For Mahalia, With Love
    James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet