Year-End Lists

AllMusic: Best Albums of 2023

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• 10,000 gecs
  100 gecs
• Integrated Tech Solutions
  Aesop Rock
• Shook
  Algiers
• Aşk
  Altın Gün
• Luna
  Anna Lapwood
• April March Meets Staplin
  April March & Staplin
• My Soft Machine
  Arlo Parks
• Through and Through
  Baby Rose
• Natural Disaster
  Bethany Cosentino
• Maps
  Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
• The Ballad of Darren
  Blur
• Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
  Bonnie “Prince” Billy
• the record
  boygenius
• Brand New Life
  Brandee Younger
• Brandy Clark
  Brandy Clark
• Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
  Caroline Polachek
• Cascades
  Christian Dillingham
• Sus Dog
  Clark
• Black Rainbows
  Corinne Bailey Rae
• Mélusine
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Quaranta
  Danny Brown
• Memento Mori
  Depeche Mode
• Danse Macabre
  Duran Duran
• Wait Til I Get Over
  Durand Jones
• Behind the Tea Chronicles
  Ed Motta
• Les Égarés
  Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani
• Principia
  En Attendant Ana
• Afterpoem
  Faten Kanaan
• Multitudes
  Feist
• Radical Romantics
  Fever Ray
• Alive at the Village Vanguard
  Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding
• Angels & Queens
  Gabriels
• Struggler
  Genesis Owusu
• Dante
  Thomas Adès
• Workin' on a World
  Iris DeMent
• Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
  Jaimie Branch
• Joy'All
  Jenny Lewis
• That! Feels Good!
  Jessie Ware
• When you're this, this in love
  John Southworth
• The Greater Wings
  Julie Byrne
• Year Away
  Kacey Johansing
• Taking Shape
  Kaisa's Machine
• Red Moon in Venus
  Kali Uchis
• Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
  Kara Jackson
• Mañana Será Bonito
  Karol G
• Raven
  Kelela
• Smalltown Stardust
  King Tuff
• Endling
  Kvelertak
• Tension
  Kylie Minogue
• Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
  Lana Del Rey
• False Lankum
  Lankum
• Radio Red
  Laura Groves
• Colours of Air
  Loscil & Lawrence English
• Girl In The Half Pearl
  Liv.e
• The Comeback Kid
  Marnie Stern
• Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
  Mary Lattimore
• Ahora
  Melenas
• The Omnichord Real Book
  Meshell Ndegeocello
• Burning Desire
  Mike
• The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
  Mitski
• Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping
  Mozart Estate
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (Complete Original Score)
  John Wilson, Sinfonia of London, Nathaniel Hackmann, Sierra Boggess
• Strange Disciple
  Nation of Language
• Celebrants
  Nickel Creek
• The Great White Sea Eagle
  James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra
• Bent Sørensen: St Matthew Passion
  The Norwegian Soloists' Choir / Ensemble Allegria / Grete Pedersen
• Guts
  Olivia Rodrigo
• This Is Why
  Paramore
• After the Magic
  Parannoul
• Coast 2 Coast
  Pearl & The Oysters
• I/O
  Peter Gabriel
• Heaven Knows
  PinkPantheress
• I Inside the Old Year Dying
  PJ Harvey
• In Times New Roman...
  Queens of the Stone Age
• Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
  Raphaël Pichon / Pygmalion
• In Between Thoughts...A New World
  Rodrigo y Gabriela
• Lahai
  Sampha
• Flight of the Long Distance Healer
  Skyway Man
• UK Grim
  Sleaford Mods
• everything is alive
  Slowdive
• Madres
  Sofia Kourtesis
• Javelin
  Sufjan Stevens
• Blómi
  Susanne Sundfør
• The Third Decade: From Paris To Paris
  Art Ensemble Of Chicago
• I Am Not There Anymore
  The Clientele
• Sea of Mirrors
  The Coral
• Get Up Sequences Part Two
  The Go! Team
• God Games
  The Kills
• Tony Allen JID018
  Tony Allen, Adrian Younge
• Suk - Dvořák
  Trio Karénine
• A Cat in the Rain
  Turnpike Troubadours
• Rustin' In The Rain
  Tyler Childers
• Afternoon X
  Vanishing Twin
• Jaguar II
  Victoria Monét
• Everyone's Crushed
  Water From Your Eyes
• With A Hammer
  yaeji
• This Stupid World
  Yo La Tengo
• Heavy Heavy
  Young Fathers
• Live from The Cliburn - Liszt: Transcendental Etudes
  Yunchan Lim
• Black Classical Music
  Yussef Dayes