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2023 Music

Tone Glow: Our Favorite Albums, 2023

28 December 2023

DJ E - Chuquimamani-Condori

Tone Glow: Our Favorite Albums, 2023 as voted by their writers and grouped by the number of votes each received

[see also 2022 • 2021]

Received Thirteen Votes

Received Eight Votes

Received Seven Votes

Received Three Votes

Received Two Votes

2023 Music

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

Honorable Mentions

2023 Music

The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023

24 December 2023

Hellmode - Jeff Rosenstock

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023, as posted on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
  2. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  3. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  4. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  5. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  6. Lahai
    Sampha
  7. The Lamb as Effigy
    Sprain
  8. 93696
    Liturgy
  9. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  10. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
  11. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
  12. Struggler
    Genesis Owusu
  13. Wallsocket
    underscores
  14. 3D Country
    Geese
  15. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  16. I Was Mature For My Age, But I Was Still a Child
    grouptherapy.
  17. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  18. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  19. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
  20. Hood Hottest Princess (Deluxe)
    Sexyy Red
  21. Space Heavy
    King Krule
  22. PetroDragonic Apocalypse
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  23. Super Snõõper
    Snooper
  24. Oh Me Oh My
    Lonnie Holley
  25. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
    McKinley Dixon
  26. Dogsbody
    Model/Actriz
  27. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  28. This Is Why
    Paramore
  29. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
  30. O Monolith
    Squid
  31. We're Still Here
    The Hirs Collective
  32. After the Magic
    Parannoul
  33. Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan
  34. Heaven Knows
    PinkPantheress
  35. Saved!
    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
  36. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  37. April Mixtape 3
    Snow Strippers
  38. 14K Figaro
    Wiki & Tony Seltzer
  39. BB/Ang3l
    Tinashe
  40. When we were that what wept for the sea
    Colin Stetson
  41. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
  42. The Enduring Spirit
    Tomb Mold
  43. Autopoiética
    Mon Laferte
  44. Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
    Autopsy
  45. Burning Desire
    Mike
  46. Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua
    Ana Frango Elétrico
  47. Glockoma 2
    Key Glock
  48. Ooh Rap I Ya
    George Clanton
  49. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  50. Ways of Knowing
    Navy Blue

Top 15 EPs

  1. Let's Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire
    Alice Longyu Gao
  2. going...going...GONE!
    Hemlocke Springs
  3. Knocknarea
    Maruja
  4. Scaring the Hoes: DLC Pack
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  5. 4D Country
    Geese
  6. Insaint
    Haru Nemuri
  7. Scrapyard III
    Quadeca
  8. Scrapyard II
    Quadeca
  9. Scrapyard I
    Quadeca
  10. Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall
    Nia Archives
  11. Wykopki
    Franek Warzywa & Młody Budda
  12. Forever Means
    Angel Olsen
  13. Time-Lapse
    Yukika
  14. Brothers in Christ
    Chat Pile & Nerver
  15. Flying High
    The Alchemist
  16. i'm so lucky
    Spirit of the Beehive
  17. With Strings
    June McDoom

Honorable Mentions

2023 Music

The Alternative: Top 55 Releases of 2023

22 December 2023

Lucky for You - Bully

The Alternative: Top 55 Releases of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. Lucky for You
    Bully
  2. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  3. Post-American
    MSPAINT
  4. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
  5. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
    Chappell Roan
  6. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  7. The Window
    Ratboys
  8. Death is Nothing to Us
    Fiddlehead
  9. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
  10. Bitch Unlimited
    Star 99
  11. Freak of Nature
    Heart Attack Man
  12. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  13. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
  14. Domino
    Diners
  15. Infinite Spring
    superviolet
  16. The Whaler
    Home Is Where
  17. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  18. Greg Mendez
    Greg Mendez
  19. This Is Why
    Paramore
  20. Dial M For Meds
    Taking Meds
  21. Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
    Slaughter Beach, Dog
  22. USA
    Petey
  23. The Maine
    The Maine
  24. Genevieve
    Fust
  25. Life Under the Gun
    Militarie Gun
  26. Yard
    Slow Pulp
  27. Otherbody
    Dazy
  28. S/T
    Liquid Mike
  29. Chalk
    Cigarette Camp
  30. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  31. the record
    boygenius
  32. No Joy
    Spanish Love Songs
  33. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  34. Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever)
    Noah Kahan
  35. Blondshell
    Blondshell
  36. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
  37. Oblivion Will Own Me and Death Alone Will Love Me (Void Filler)
    Short Fictions
  38. The Land, The Water, The Sky
    Black Belt Eagle Scout
  39. One More Time
    Blink-182
  40. Alt. Account
    Equipment
  41. Continue as a Guest
    The New Pornographers
  42. The Brightest Days
    Origami Angel
  43. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  44. Pyrophonics
    Heavenward
  45. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  46. Reverie
    Sweet Gloom
  47. Spiritual Cramp
    Spiritual Cramp
  48. Everything Perfect
    James Ivy
  49. False Lankum
    Lankum
  50. Cerebral Circus
    Initiate
  51. RUCKUS!
    Movements
  52. 3D Country
    Geese
  53. Concrete Cowboys
    Buggin
  54. History Books
    The Gaslight Anthem
  55. Doom Singer
    Chris Farren
2023 Music

mxdwn: Top 40 Best Albums Of 2023

22 December 2023

Rat Wars - HEALTH

mxdwn: Top 40 Best Albums Of 2023

  1. Rat Wars
    HEALTH
  2. Struggler
    Genesis Owusu
  3. Mono
    K.Flay
  4. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
  5. Psychic Dance Routine
    Scowl
  6. The Algorithm
    Filter
  7. Michael
    Killer Mike
  8. Cracker Island
    Gorillaz
  9. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  10. Jubilee
    Old Crow Medicine Show
  11. Rivers of Heresy
    Empire State Bastard
  12. Mid Air
    Romy
  13. Unicorn
    Gunship
  14. Chrome Dreams
    Neil Young
  15. Venom
    Wargasm
  16. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
  17. Integrated Tech Solutions
    Aesop Rock
  18. Stone
    Baroness
  19. One More Time
    Blink-182
  20. Echosmith
    Echosmith
  21. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
  22. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  23. Endless Summer Vacation
    Miley Cyrus
  24. the record
    boygenius
  25. Spine
    Myrkur
  26. Dethalbum IV
    Dethklok
  27. So Much (For) Stardust
    Fall Out Boy
  28. Mammoth II
    Mammoth WVH
  29. Bird Machine
    Sparklehorse
  30. Cold War Kids
    Cold War Kids
  31. Club Romantech
    Icona Pop
  32. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  33. A Reckoning
    Kimbra
  34. TZIA
    Meg Myers
  35. God Made Me An Animal
    Better Lovers
  36. When No Birds Sang
    Full of Hell and Nothing
  37. The Future Is Your Past
    The Brian Jonestown Massacre
  38. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
  39. Concept Album
    Dwarves
  40. Phantomime
    Ghost
2023 Music

Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

22 December 2023

False Lankum - Lankum

The Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. False Lankum
    Lankum
  2. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
  3. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  4. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  5. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  6. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  7. With A Hammer
    yaeji
  8. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
  9. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  10. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  11. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  12. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  13. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
  14. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  15. the record
    boygenius
  16. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
  17. Sundial
    Noname
  18. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
  19. Raven
    Kelela
  20. Dreamer
    Nabihah Iqbal
  21. This Is Why
    Paramore
  22. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  23. Red Moon in Venus
    Kali Uchis
  24. Tension
    Kylie Minogue
  25. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
  26. Lahai
    Sampha
  27. Changing Channels
    Pangaea
  28. Fuse
    Everything but the Girl
  29. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  30. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
  31. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  32. First Two Pages of Frankenstein
    The National
  33. Chaos For The Fly
    Grian Chatten
  34. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  35. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
  36. Gentle Confrontation
    Loraine James
  37. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
  38. Quaranta
    Danny Brown
  39. Laugh Track
    The National
  40. Sundown
    Eddie Chacon
  41. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
  42. homeless n***a pop music
    Jim Legxacy
  43. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
  44. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
  45. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  46. Perfect Picture
    Hannah Diamond
  47. I Play My Bass Loud
    Gina Birch
  48. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
  49. Mid Air
    Romy
  50. Crazymad, for Me
    CMAT
2023 Music

Albumism: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

20 December 2023

The Omnichord Real Book - Meshell Ndegeocello

Albumism: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. The Omnichord Real Book
    Meshell Ndegeocello
  2. Fuse
    Everything but the Girl
  3. Black Rainbows
    Corinne Bailey Rae
  4. Memento Mori
    Depeche Mode
  5. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
  6. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  7. First Two Pages of Frankenstein
    The National
  8. The Love Invention
    Alison Goldfrapp
  9. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  10. Hit Parade
    Róisín Murphy
  11. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  12. Tension
    Kylie Minogue
  13. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
  14. Hana
    Sophie Ellis-Bextor
  15. Council Skies
    Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
  16. Heaven
    Cleo Sol
  17. the record
    boygenius
  18. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
  19. Gold
    Cleo Sol
  20. I Hope You Can Forgive Me
    Madison McFerrin
  21. Married in Mount Airy
    Nicole Dollanganger
  22. Playing Robots into Heaven
    James Blake
  23. Magic 2
    Nas
  24. Special Occasion
    Emily King
  25. Glorious Game
    El Michels Affair & Black Thought
  26. Parallel Universe
    Isaiah Collier
  27. Strays
    Margo Price
  28. Black Classical Music
    Yussef Dayes
  29. Mid Air
    Romy
  30. The Returner
    Allison Russell
  31. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  32. The Great White Sea Eagle
    James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra
  33. Slugs of Love
    Little Dragon
  34. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
  35. Euphoric
    Georgia
  36. Folkocracy
    Rufus Wainwright
  37. Voice Notes
    Yazmin Lacey
  38. Queen of Me
    Shania Twain
  39. Love & Money
    Katie Melua
  40. Magic 3
    Nas
  41. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  42. Cracker Island
    Gorillaz
  43. Learn To Swim, A Mixtape
    Joshua Idehen
  44. What Matters Most
    Ben Folds
  45. Joy'All
    Jenny Lewis
  46. The Weakness
    Ruston Kelly
  47. My Soft Machine
    Arlo Parks
  48. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  49. Such Ferocious Beauty
    Cowboy Junkies
  50. Danse Macabre
    Duran Duran
2023 Music

San Francisco Chronicle: Adrian Spinelli: Best Albums of 2023

19 December 2023

7 Estrelas quem arrancou o céu? - Luiza Lian

Adrian Spinelli: Best Albums of 2023, as published by The San Francisco Chronicle

[see also 2022]

2023 Music

Entertainment Weekly: The Best Albums of 2023

19 December 2023

Javelin - Sufjan Stevens

Entertainment Weekly: The Best Albums of 2023

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

  1. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  2. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  3. the record
    boygenius
  4. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  5. Water Made Us
    Jamila Woods
  6. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  7. Jaguar II
    Victoria Monét
  8. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
  9. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  10. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
2023 Music

HuffPost: The Best Albums Of 2023

19 December 2023

This Is Why - Paramore

HuffPost: The Best Albums Of 2023

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