Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2023

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

1. Wednesday
   Rat Saw God
2. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
   Maps
3. Hotline TNT
   Cartwheel
4. JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
   Scaring the Hoes
5. The Murder Capital
   Gigi's Recovery
6. Caroline Polachek
   Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
7. Sufjan Stevens
   Javelin
8. Shame
   Food for Worms
9. Protomartyr
   Formal Growth In The Desert
10. Feeble Little Horse
    Girl with Fish
11. Andy Shauf
    Norm
12. Squirrel Flower
    Tomorrow's Fire
13. Yves Tumor
    Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
14. Jessie Ware
    That! Feels Good!
15. Zoon
    Bekka Ma'iingan
16. The Lemon Twigs
    Everything Harmony
17. Mitski
    The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
18. Young Fathers
    Heavy Heavy
19. Liv.e
    Girl In The Half Pearl
20. The Clientele
    I Am Not There Anymore
21. Meg Baird
    Furling
22. Bully
    Lucky for You
23. Blondshell
    Blondshell
24. Mandy, Indiana
    I've Seen a Way
25. Miss Grit
    Follow the Cyborg
26. Jaimie Branch
    Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
27. Yo La Tengo
    This Stupid World
28. L'Rain
    I Killed Your Dog
29. Palehound
    Eye On The Bat
30. Water From Your Eyes
    Everyone's Crushed
31. Diners
    Domino
32. Corinne Bailey Rae
    Black Rainbows
33. Greg Mendez
    Greg Mendez
34. Sarah Morrison
    Attachment Figure
35. BC Camplight
    The Last Rotation of Earth
36. Ratboys
    The Window
37. Gabriels
    Angels & Queens
38. Parannoul
    After the Magic
39. yaeji
    With A Hammer
40. Jeff Rosenstock
    Hellmode
41. Skyzoo & The Other Guys
    The Mind of A Saint
42. King Krule
    Space Heavy
43. Bar Italia
    Tracey Denim
44. Kara Jackson
    Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
45. Spellling
    Spellling & the Mystery School
46. Sparklehorse
    Bird Machine
47. Militarie Gun
    Life Under the Gun
48. Yazmin Lacey
    Voice Notes
49. 100 gecs
    10,000 gecs
50. Paramore
    This Is Why