Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2023. In his opening essay, Luke Turner writes:

Indeed, intelligence reaches us that end-of-year album charts in other publications have been far less predictable than usual, with no consensus and a bewildering array of records in contention. We are happy to see our comrades joining us in chaos and disorder.

1. Lankum
   False Lankum
2. PJ Harvey
   I Inside the Old Year Dying
3. Teeth of the Sea
   Hive
4. La Nòvia
   La Baracande
5. John Francis Flynn
   Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
6. Musta Huone
   Valosaasteen sekaan
7. Khanate
   To Be Cruel
8. Abstract Concrete
   Abstract Concrete
9. Danny Brown
   Quaranta
10. Mariam Rezaei
    BOWN
11. Shit and Shine
    2222 AND AIRPORT
12. The Inward Circles
    Before We Lie Down in Darknesse
13. Brighde Chaimbeul
    Carry Them With Us
14. Slauson Malone 1
    Excelsior
15. Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective
    *1
16. PoiL Ueda
    PoiL Ueda
17. Bill Orcutt
    The Anxiety of Symmetry
18. La Tène
    Ecorcha/Taillée
19. Surgeon
    Crash Recoil
20. babybaby_explores
    Food Near Me, Weather Tomorrow
21. Philip Jeck & Chris Watson
    Oxmardyke
22. L'Rain
    I Killed Your Dog
23. Shirley Collins
    Archangel Hill
24. Lost Girls
    Selvutsletter
25. Annelies Monseré
    Mares
26. Gazelle Twin
    Black Dog
27. Moundabout
    An Cnoc Mór
28. Apostille
    Prisoners Of Love And Hate
29. MC Yallah
    Yallah Beibe
30. James Ellis Ford
    The Hum
31. Lunch Money Life
    The God Phone
32. Nabihah Iqbal
    Dreamer
33. Lisa O'Neill
    All of This Is Chance
34. UKAEA
    Birds Catching Fire in the Sky
35. Hey Colossus
    In Blood
36. Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins
    Fifth Continent
37. yaeji
    With A Hammer
38. Aho Ssan
    Rhizomes
39. Benefits
    Nails
40. Nuovo Testamento
    Love Lines
41. Kelela
    Raven
42. Babau
    Flatland Explorations Vol.2
43. EP/64
    EP/64-63
44. Oxn
    CYRM
45. Sleaford Mods
    UK Grim
46. JAAW
    Supercluster
47. Skull Practitioners
    Negative Stars
48. Raphael Rogiński
    Talàn
49. Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters
    Abri Cyclonique
50. Enola Gay
    Casement
51. Matana Roberts
    Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…
52. Bell Witch
    Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
53. Algiers
    Shook
54. oyamao
    Galo
55. Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood
    Tête-à-tête
56. KMRU
    Dissolution Grip
57. Mendoza Hoff Revels
    Echolocation
58. Fever Ray
    Radical Romantics
59. James Holden
    Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
60. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
    Maps
61. Noname
    Sundial
62. a.P.A.t.T.
    We
63. Natalia Beylis
    Mermaids
64. Cassandra Miller
    Traveller Song / Thanksong
65. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
    Land of Sleeper
66. Sourdurent
    L'Herbe de Détourne
67. Flesh & The Dream
    Choose Mortality
68. Torpor
    Abscission
69. Årabrot
    Of Darkness and Light
70. Sparks
    The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
71. Yfory
    Yfory
72. Mozart Estate
    Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping
73. Synthfreq
    Vol. 1
74. Nihiloxica
    Source of Denial
75. House of All
    House of All
76. One More Grain
    Modern Music
77. Colin Stetson
    When we were that what wept for the sea
78. Nicky Wire
    Intimism
79. jellyskin
    In Brine
80. Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
    Saved!
81. Kevin Richard Martin
    Black
82. Yossari Baby
    Inferiority Complex
83. Zhao Cong
    55355
84. Stephen O'Malley & Anthony Pateras
    Sept duos pour guitar acoustique et piano préparé
85. Spirit Possession
    Of The Sign...
86. Kasai
    J/P/N
87. Godflesh
    Purge
88. Anjimile
    The King
89. Moussa Tchingou
    Tamiditine
90. deVon Russell Gray / Nathan Hanson / Davu Seru
    We Sick
91. MXLX
    Saint
92. Maxo
    Even God Has A Sense Of Humor
93. Dodo Resurrection II
    A Treatise on Ceremonial Magic
94. The Stargazer’s Assistant
    Fire Worshipper
95. Rezzett
    Meant Like This
96. John Zorn
    Homenaje a Remedios Varo
97. Anohni and the Johnsons
    My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
98. Oozing Wound
    We Cater To Cowards
99. Niecy Blues
    Exit Simulation
100. Call Super
     Eulo Cramps

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• The Best Of 2023 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus