Year-End Lists

Still Listening: The Top 50 Albums Of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022]

1. JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
   Scaring the Hoes
2. Sufjan Stevens
   Javelin
3. Wednesday
   Rat Saw God
4. Kara Jackson
   Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
5. Geese
   3D Country
6. Caroline Polachek
   Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
7. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
   Maps
8. yaeji
   With A Hammer
9. Anohni and the Johnsons
   My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
10. Spellling
    Spellling & the Mystery School
11. Squid
    O Monolith
12. The Lemon Twigs
    Everything Harmony
13. Indigo De Souza
    All of This Will End
14. Willie J Healey
    Bunny
15. Tkay Maidza
    Sweet Justice
16. Julie Byrne
    The Greater Wings
17. Feeble Little Horse
    Girl with Fish
18. Maria BC
    Spike Field
19. Armand Hammer
    We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
20. underscores
    Wallsocket
21. Asher White
    New Excellent Woman
22. Divine Earth
    align with Nature's Intelligence
23. yeule
    Softscars
24. Bar Italia
    Tracey Denim
25. Snooper
    Super Snõõper
26. Noname
    Sundial
27. Sofia Kourtesis
    Madres
28. Susanne Sundfør
    Blómi
29. Fever Ray
    Radical Romantics
30. Rozi Plain
    Prize
31. L'Rain
    I Killed Your Dog
32. PJ Harvey
    I Inside the Old Year Dying
33. Grian Chatten
    Chaos for the Fly
34. HMLTD
    The Worm
35. Jaimie Branch
    Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
36. Nourished by Time
    Erotic Probiotic 2
37. Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist
    Voir Dire
38. Ulrika Spacek
    Compact Trauma
39. Mandy, Indiana
    I've Seen a Way
40. McKinley Dixon
    Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
41. sign crushes motorist
    Hurting
42. Alice Phoebe Lou
    Shelter
43. LA Priest
    Fase Luna
44. Kira Linn's Linntett
    Illusion
45. CASISDEAD
    Famous Last Words
46. Kipper Gillespie
    Dull Days
47. Slow Pulp
    Yard
48. hinako omori
    Stillness, Softness...
49. Shirley Hurt
    Shirley Hurt
50. Bishopskin
    Babble