Year-End Lists

NPR: The 50 Best Albums of 2023. They explain that "for the first time since 2015, our 50 best albums of the year aren't ranked, but listed in chronological order by release date."

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• SOS
  SZA
• Eyes Of The World
  The Latin Dead
• Terror
  Tianna Esperanza
• Workin' on a World
  Iris DeMent
• Dark with Excessive Bright
  Missy Mazzoli with Peter Herresthal
• Forward
  Jordan Ward
• Radical Romantics
  Fever Ray
• 10,000 gecs
  100 gecs
• False Lankum
  Lankum
• Scaring the Hoes
  JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
• the record
  boygenius
• Rat Saw God
  Wednesday
• Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
  Kara Jackson
• Multitudes
  Feist
• Dante
  Thomas Adès
• That! Feels Good!
  Jessie Ware
• Proof of Life
  Joy Oladokun
• Jump On It
  Bill Orcutt
• Maps
  Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
• EADDA9223
  Fito Páez
• Fountain Baby
  Amaarae
• The Age of Pleasure
  Janelle Monáe
• Diamonds & Freaks
  Blk Odyssy
• Hood Hottest Princess
  Sexyy Red
• The Omnichord Real Book
  Meshell Ndegeocello
• Good Living Is Coming For You
  Sweeping Promises
• In the End It Always Does
  The Japanese House
• I Inside the Old Year Dying
  PJ Harvey
• I Am Not There Anymore
  The Clientele
• Sundial
  Noname
• The Patience
  Mick Jenkins
• Jaguar II
  Victoria Monét
• STILLPOINT
  Awadagin Pratt
• Guts
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Black Classical Music
  Yussef Dayes
• Mid Air
  Romy
• Dynamic Maximum Tension
  Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
• SUPERNOVA
  Ralphie Choo
• Valley Of Heart's Delight
  Margo Cilker
• Black Rainbows
  Corinne Bailey Rae
• Heaven
  Cleo Sol
• Scarlet
  Doja Cat
• fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s suite but sacred)
  Darius Jones
• Falling or Flying
  Jorja Smith
• Rivers In Our Veins
  Allison Miller
• Something to Give Each Other
  Troye Sivan
• chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger
  awakebutstillinbed
• Lahai
  Sampha
• ULTRABELLEZA
  María José Llergo
• Autopoiética
  Mon Laferte