Year-End Lists

Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2012]

1. Raven
   Kelela
2. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
3. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
4. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
   Anohni and the Johnsons
5. Heaven Is a Junkyard
   Youth Lagoon
6. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
7. Radical Romantics
   Fever Ray
8. the record
   boygenius
9. Dogsbody
   Model/Actriz
10. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
11. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
12. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
13. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
14. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
15. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
16. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
17. Isn't It Now?
    Animal Collective
18. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
19. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
20. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
21. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
22. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
23. The Whaler
    Home Is Where
24. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
25. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
26. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
27. Time Ain't Accidental
    Jess Williamson
28. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
29. After the Magic
    Parannoul
30. Lahai
    Sampha
31. The Rainbow Wheel of Death
    Dougie Poole
32. Átta
    Sigur Rós
33. everything is alive
    Slowdive
34. Doomscroll
    Naked Lungs
35. Love in Exile
    Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily
36. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
37. Generational Curse
    ICECOLDBISHOP
38. Let's Start Here
    Lil Yachty
39. Softscars
    yeule
40. Messages To God
    Sarah Mary Chadwick
41. Vidrio
    Titanic
42. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
43. No Joy
    Spanish Love Songs
44. Blómi
    Susanne Sundfør
45. The Land, The Water, The Sky
    Black Belt Eagle Scout
46. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
47. Devil Music
    portrayal of guilt
48. in​||FLUX
    Anna B Savage
49. Formal Growth In The Desert
    Protomartyr
50. Voir Dire
    Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist