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Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2023

26 December 2023

The Window - Ratboys

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2011]

  1. The Window
    Ratboys
  2. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  3. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  4. The Land, The Water, The Sky
    Black Belt Eagle Scout
  5. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  6. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  7. the record
    boygenius
  8. The Waeve
    The Waeve
  9. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  10. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  11. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  12. Strange Disciple
    Nation of Language
  13. The Art of Forgetting
    Caroline Rose
  14. Follow the Cyborg
    Miss Grit
  15. Cousin
    Wilco
  16. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  17. Lucky for You
    Bully
  18. Sit Down for Dinner
    Blonde Redhead
  19. The Answer Is Always Yes
    Alex Lahey
  20. Blondshell
    Blondshell
  21. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
  22. Pure Music
    Strange Ranger
  23. This Is Why
    Paramore
  24. Sucker
    IAN SWEET
  25. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
  26. Time Ain't Accidental
    Jess Williamson
  27. Mercy
    John Cale
  28. Prestige
    Girl Ray
  29. Star Eaters Delight
    Lael Neale
  30. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
  31. I/O
    Peter Gabriel
  32. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  33. Pearlies
    Emma Anderson
  34. Fantasy
    M83
  35. Be Good The Crazy Boys
    Art Feynman
  36. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
  37. Eye On The Bat
    Palehound
  38. Chaos For The Fly
    Grian Chatten
  39. Careful Of Your Keepers
    This Is the Kit
  40. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
  41. Food for Worms
    Shame
  42. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
  43. Echo the Diamond
    Margaret Glaspy
  44. Crazymad, for Me
    CMAT
  45. Hold
    Wild Nothing
  46. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  47. Lahai
    Sampha
  48. Growing at the Edges
    Mutual Benefit
  49. A New Reality Mind
    Madeline Kenney
  50. 3D Country
    Geese
  51. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
  52. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  53. Water Made Us
    Jamila Woods
  54. Tomorrow's Fire
    Squirrel Flower
  55. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
  56. O Monolith
    Squid
  57. The Harmony Codex
    Steven Wilson
  58. Killjoy
    Coach Party
  59. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  60. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
  61. Laugh Track
    The National
  62. Nothing Lasts Forever
    Teenage Fanclub
  63. Jenny from Thebes
    The Mountain Goats
  64. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
  65. End
    Explosions in the Sky
  66. I Don't Want You Anymore
    Cherry Glazerr
  67. Glorious Game
    El Michels Affair & Black Thought
  68. I Am Not There Anymore
    The Clientele
  69. Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
    Slaughter Beach, Dog
  70. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
  71. My Soft Machine
    Arlo Parks
  72. Versions Of Us
    Lanterns on the Lake
  73. Hard Light
    Drop Nineteens
  74. Late Developers
    Belle and Sebastian
  75. Formentera II
    Metric
  76. Once Upon A Time In Montréal
    Murray A. Lightburn
  77. Bless This Mess
    U.S. Girls
  78. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
  79. Gigi's Recovery
    The Murder Capital
  80. Big Picture
    Fenne Lily
  81. The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
    Sparks
  82. Several Songs About Fire
    A. Savage
  83. Joy'All
    Jenny Lewis
  84. Life Is Infinite
    Wings of Desire
  85. Honey
    Samia
  86. I Don't Know
    bdrmm
  87. Chaos Magic
    Jaakko Eino Kalevi
  88. Norm
    Andy Shauf
  89. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  90. Milk For Flowers
    H. Hawkline
  91. Euphoric Recall
    Braids
  92. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
  93. Barefoot On Diamond Road
    Amber Arcades
  94. End Of Everything
    Mega Bog
  95. Yard
    Slow Pulp
  96. I Thought I Was Better Than You
    Baxter Dury
  97. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
  98. Continue as a Guest
    The New Pornographers
  99. No Fixed Point In Space
    Modern Nature
  100. Diagnosis
    Sen Morimoto

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