Year-End Lists

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2023 Music

Les Inrocks: Best Albums of 2023

29 November 2023

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You - Caroline Polachek

Les Inrockuptibles: Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  2. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  3. Chaos For The Fly
    Grian Chatten
  4. Again
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  5. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
  6. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  7. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
  8. trip9love...???
    Tirzah
  9. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  10. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
  11. The Twits
    Bar Italia
  12. Raven
    Kelela
  13. Fuse
    Everything but the Girl
  14. Paranoia, Angels, True Love
    Christine and the Queens
  15. Sit Down for Dinner
    Blonde Redhead
  16. Tirer la nuit sur les étoiles
    Étienne Daho
  17. O Monolith
    Squid
  18. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  19. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  20. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
  21. Carnaval
    Lucie Antunes
  22. Flowers At Your Feet
    Rahill
  23. Dreamer
    Nabihah Iqbal
  24. L'Idiophone
    Forever Pavot
  25. Dragging the Needlework for The Kids at Uphole
    Index for Working Musik
  26. Isn't It Now?
    Animal Collective

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