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2023 Music

Atlantic: Spencer Kornhaber: The 10 Best Albums of 2023

13 December 2023

Fountain Baby - Amaarae

Spencer Kornhaber: The 10 Best Albums of 2023, as published by The Atlantic

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2017]

  1. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  2. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  3. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  4. SOS
    SZA
  5. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
  6. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  7. Wallsocket
    underscores
  8. Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan
  9. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  10. Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
    John Francis Flynn

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