Year-End Lists

Still Listening: The Top 50 Albums Of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022]

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