Year-End Lists

Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2024 • 2017]

1. The Ballad of Darren
   Blur
2. A Cat in the Rain
   Turnpike Troubadours
3. Seven Psalms
   Paul Simon
4. In Times New Roman...
   Queens of the Stone Age
5. Guts
   Olivia Rodrigo
6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
   PJ Harvey
7. Joy'All
   Jenny Lewis
8. I/O
   Peter Gabriel
9. Rustin' In The Rain
   Tyler Childers
10. Art Dealers
    Low Cut Connie
11. Hackney Diamonds
    The Rolling Stones
12. Natural Disaster
    Bethany Cosentino
13. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
14. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
15. Snow Angel
    Reneé Rapp
16. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
17. Rabbit Rabbit
    Speedy Ortiz
18. Blondshell
    Blondshell
19. Kentucky Blue
    Brit Taylor
20. What a Racket!
    Joe Jackson
21. Altitude
    Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
22. Lucky
    Megan Moroney
23. Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO
    Juliana Hatfield
24. This Is Why
    Paramore
25. Southern Star
    Brent Cobb
26. Brandy Clark
    Brandy Clark
27. Turn the Car Around
    Gaz Coombes
28. God Games
    The Kills
29. You're the One
    Rhiannon Giddens
30. the record
    boygenius
31. Smalltown Stardust
    King Tuff
32. Strays
    Margo Price
32. Strays II
    Margo Price
33. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
34. Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
    The Feelies
35. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
36. Council Skies
    Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
37. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
38. Sticks and Stones
    Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
39. Danse Macabre
    Duran Duran
40. Anarchist Gospel
    Sunny War
41. Cousin
    Wilco
42. Rosie
    Whitney Rose
43. Loving You
    Amanda Shires & Bobbie Nelson
44. I Play My Bass Loud
    Gina Birch
45. Jubilee
    Old Crow Medicine Show
46. Fuse
    Everything but the Girl
47. Lucky for You
    Bully
48. Higher Than Heaven
    Ellie Goulding
49. Equal Strain on All Parts
    Jimmy Buffett
50. Wait Til I Get Over
    Durand Jones
51. Travel
    The Necks
52. Walk Around the Moon
    Dave Matthews Band
53. Bless This Mess
    U.S. Girls
54. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
55. The Price of Progress
    The Hold Steady
56. Shadow Kingdom
    Bob Dylan
57. Cracker Island
    Gorillaz
58. Mercy
    John Cale
59. Defiance Part 1
    Ian Hunter
60. Every Loser
    Iggy Pop
61. Jump for Joy
    Hiss Golden Messenger
62. Nothing Lasts Forever
    Teenage Fanclub
63. Let There Be Music
    Bonny Doon
64. The Loveliest Time
    Carly Rae Jepsen
65. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
66. Continue as a Guest
    The New Pornographers
67. The Art of Forgetting
    Caroline Rose
68. 72 Seasons
    Metallica
69. Relentless
    The Pretenders