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2023 Music

Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2023

15 December 2023

Welshpool Frillies - Guided By Voices

Magnet Magazine: Top 25 Albums of 2023

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

  1. Nowhere To Go But Up
    Guided By Voices
  2. Welshpool Frillies
    Guided By Voices
  3. La La Land
    Guided By Voices
  4. Blondshell
    Blondshell
  5. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
  6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  7. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  8. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
  9. First Two Pages of Frankenstein
    The National
  10. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  11. I Am Not There Anymore
    The Clientele
  12. the record
    boygenius
  13. Bird Machine
    Sparklehorse
  14. War Poems, We Rested
    R. Ring
  15. The Window
    Ratboys
  16. The Town That Cursed Your Name
    The Reds, Pinks & Purples
  17. Lucky for You
    Bully
  18. Jump for Joy
    Hiss Golden Messenger
  19. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  20. A Colossal Waste Of Light
    Eyelids
  21. Manzanita
    Shana Cleveland
  22. Don't Look Back
    Hurry
  23. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
  24. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  25. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  26. Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
    Slaughter Beach, Dog
  27. Desire Pathway
    Screaming Females

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