Year-End Lists

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2023 Music

New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2023

04 December 2023

My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross - Anohni and the Johnsons

Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2023, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  2. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  3. Again
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  4. Pharoah (1977)
    Pharoah Sanders
  5. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  6. Sundial
    Noname
  7. The Basketweave Elegies
    Peter Garland
  8. Oh Me Oh My
    Lonnie Holley
  9. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  10. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  11. Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  12. First Two Pages of Frankenstein
    The National

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