Year-End Lists

Carl Wilson: The 12 Best Albums of 2023, as published by Slate, alphabetical by artist

• Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily
  Love in Exile
• Boygenius
  The Record
• Jaimie Branch
  Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
• Everything but the Girl
  Fuse
• JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  Scaring the Hoes
• Kirsty MacColl
  See That Girl 1979-2000
• Megan Moroney
  Lucky
• Lisa O'Neill
  All of This Is Chance
• NewJeans
  Get Up
• Speedy Ortiz
  Rabbit Rabbit
• Olivia Rodrigo
  Guts
• Wednesday
  Rat Saw God

Two Dozen Runners-Up (alphabetical by artist)

• Abstract Concrete
  Abstract Concrete
• Amaarae
  Fountain Baby
• Peter Brötzmann / Majid Bekkas / Hamid Drake
  Catching Ghosts
• The Bug Club
  Rare Birds: Hour of Song
• CMAT
  Crazymad, for Me
• Charlotte Cornfield
  Could Have Done Anything
• Iris DeMent
  Workin' on a World
• Margaret Glaspy
  Echo the Diamond
• Kara Jackson
  Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
• Sofia Kourtesis
  Madres
• James Brandon Lewis
  Eye Of I
• James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
  For Mahalia, With Love
• Ashley McBryde
  The Devil I Know
• Brad Mehldau
  Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles
• The Mountain Goats
  Jenny from Thebes
• Meshell Ndegeocello
  The Omnichord Real Book
• Nourished by Time
  Erotic Probiotic 2
• Pere Ubu
  Trouble On Big Beat Street
• Cécile McLorin Salvant
  Mélusine
• Sexyy Red
  Hood Hottest Princess
• Sonic Youth
  Live in Brooklyn 2011
• SZA
  SOS
• Jess Williamson
  Time Ain't Accidental
• Young Fathers
  Heavy Heavy
• Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  Maps