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2023 Music

KCRW: The 23 Best Albums of 2023

13 December 2023

Silver - Say She She

KCRW: The 23 Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2018]

  1. Silver
    Say She She
  2. Slugs of Love
    Little Dragon
  3. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  4. Switched-On
    Pachyman
  5. Flowers At Your Feet
    Rahill
  6. Let's Start Here
    Lil Yachty
  7. Volcano
    Jungle
  8. Good Lies
    Overmono
  9. Zango
    Witch
  10. Dreamer
    Nabihah Iqbal
  11. When the Poems Do What They Do
    Aja Monet
  12. Lahai
    Sampha
  13. Raven
    Kelela
  14. Glorious Game
    El Michels Affair & Black Thought
  15. The Comeback Kid
    Marnie Stern
  16. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
  17. Pastor's Paradox
    Don Byron / Lester St. Louis / Pheeroan akLaff
  18. Curyman
    Rogê
  19. the record
    boygenius
  20. For That Beautiful Feeling
    The Chemical Brothers
  21. MOONSHOTS
    The South Hill Experiment
  22. Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall
    Nia Archives
  23. The Lamb as Effigy
    Sprain

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