The Best Albums Of 2023

 Top 50

 

1. Radical romantics - FEVER RAY     
2. This stupid world - YO LA TENGO
3. Formal growth in the desert - PROTOMARTYR
4. Tracey denim / The twits - BAR ITALIA
5. Rat saw God - WEDNESDAY
6. The record - BOYGENIUS
7. First two pages of Frankenstein / Laugh track - THE NATIONAL
8. I've seen a way - MANDY, INDIANA
9. Everyone's crushed - WATER FROM YOUR EYES
10. I inside the old year dying - PJ HARVEY
11. Brain worms - RVG
12. Everything is alive - SLOWDIVE
13. The beggar - SWANS
14. Sit down for dinner - BLONDE REDHEAD
15. Stereo mind game - DAUGHTER
16. O monolith - SQUID
17. Shook - ALGIERS
18. The ballad of Darren - BLUR
19. Javelin - SUFJAN STEVENS
20. Cacti - BILLY NOMATES
21. UK grim - SLEAFORD MODS
22. Medicine - GOAT
23. The death of Randy Fitzsimmons - THE HIVES
24. Plastic eternity - MUDHONEY
25. In times new roman - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
26. I don't want you anymore - CHERRY GLAZERR
27. Bobbie - PIP BLOM
28. Food for worms - SHAME
29. Gigi's recovery - THE MURDER CAPITAL
30. Breaking the balls of history - QUASI
31. Careful of your keepers - THIS IS THE KIT
32. Clear pond road - KRISTIN HERSH
33. Islands in the sky - DEATH VALLEY GIRLS
34. House Of All - HOUSE OF ALL
35. Sea of mirrors - THE CORAL
36. The land is inhospitable and so are we - MITSKI
37. Chaos for the fly - GRIAN CHATTEN
38. Strange disciple - NATION OF LANGUAGE
39. Rabbit rabbit - SPEEDY ORTIZ
40. Michael - KILLER MIKE
41. Mommy - BE YOUR OWN PET
42. Weathervanes - JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT
43. God games - THE KILLS
44. Bless this mess - U.S. GIRLS
45. Time's arrow - LADYTRON
46. Mid air - ROMY
47. Isn't it now? - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
48. All her plans - CABLE TIES
49. The price of progress - THE HOLD STEADY
50. On grace & dignity - THE GOLDEN DREGS

Also recommended:

Bird machine - SPARKLEHORSE, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert - CAT POWER, Formentera II - METRIC, I thought I was better than you - BAXTER DURY, The candle and the flame - ROBERT FORSTER, Several songs about fire - A SAVAGE, New York City - THE MEN, Continue as a guest - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Lucky for you - BULLY, Holy Joe’s Coral Island medicine show - THE CORAL, Dead meat - THE TUBS, Intercepted message – OSEES, Blondshell – BLONDSHELL, Madres - SOFIA KOURTESIS, The last rotation of earth - BC CAMPLIGHT, Cousin - WILCO, Nothing lasts forever - TEENAGE FANCLUB, Late developers - BELLE & SEBASTIAN, Turn the car around - GAZ COOMBES, The WAEVE - THE WAEVE, in|FLUX - ANNA B SAVAGE, Hard light - DROP NINETEENS, The future is your past - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, Land of sleeper - PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS, Nowhere to go but up - GUIDED BY VOICES, Welshpool frillies - GUIDED BY VOICES, La La Land - GUIDED BY VOICES, Jenny from Thebes - THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, 24 songs - THE WEDDING PRESENT, A life diagrammatic - JOHN, Expired candy - BODY TYPE, 3D country - GEESE, Joy’all - JENNY LEWIS, I killed your dog - L'RAIN, The greater wings - JULIE BYRNE, Star eaters delight - LAEL NEALE, Black rainbows - CORINNE BAILEY RAE, Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - LANA DEL REY, Desire, I want to turn into you - CAROLINE POLACHEK, Cracker island - GORILLAZ, Get up sequences Part Two - THE GO! TEAM, Heavy heavy - YOUNG FATHERS, Fuse - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL, Multitudes - FEIST, Bolted - FOREST SWORDS, For that beautiful feeling - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Optical delusion - ORBITAL, 1982 - A CERTAIN RATIO, Memento mori - DEPECHE MODE, Fantasy - M83, Prestige - GIRL RAY, Silver - SAY SHE SHE, What will you grow now? - MODERN COSMOLOGY, Living human treasure - ITALIA 90, This house - PALE BLUE EYES, Love as projection - FRANKIE ROSE, Brothers and sisters - STEVE MASON, i/o  - PETER GABRIEL, Keeping secrets will destroy you - BONNIE “PRINCE” BILLY, Hyacinth - DAVID EUGENE EDWARDS, Jump for joy - HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, Haunted mountain - BUCK MEEK, My back was a bridge for you to cross - ANOHNI AND THE JOHNSONS, Strays - MARGO PRICE, False Lankum - LANKUM, Play my bass loud - GINA BIRCH, Every loser - IGGY POP, Mercy - JOHN CALE, But here we are - FOO FIGHTERS, Atum: A rock opera in three acts - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, Council skies - NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS, Exotico - TEMPLES, One man band - MILES KANE, Relentless - PRETENDERS, Last rays of a dying sun - RAIN PARADE, Of tomorrow - THE TELESCOPES, Fase luna - LA PRIEST, Everything harmony - THE LEMON TWIGS, My soft machine - ARLO PARKS, Seven psalms - PAUL SIMON, The girl is crying in her latte - SPARKS, Off planet - DJANGO DJANGO, Social lubrication - DREAM WIFE, Miracle-level - DEERHOOF, Nails - BENEFITS, Life under the gun - MILITARIE GUN, V - UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, Milk for flowers - H HAWKLINE, The love invention - ALISON GOLDFRAPP, Sometimes you hurt the ones you hate - DAMIEN JURADO, Let the moon be a planet - STEVE GUNN / DAVID MOORE, Ignore grief - XIU XIU, Praise a lord who chews but which does not consume; (or simply, hot between worlds) - YVES TUMOR, Flying wig - DEVENDRA BANHART, Doom loop - DREAM NAILS, Hit parade - RÓISÍN MURPHY, Atlas - LAUREL HALO, Crux - GLASSER, Selvutsletter - LOST GIRLS, Pearlies - EMMA ANDERSON, Hold - WILD NOTHING, Hadsel - BEIRUT, Live at Bush Hall - BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD, This new noise - PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING, Chronicles of a diamond - BLACK PUMAS, Los Angeles - LOL TOLHURST X BUDGIE X JACKNIFE LEE, End of world - PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED, For forever - THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET, The silver cord - KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD, Zuma 85 - ALLAH LAS, Jonny - THE DRUMS, My big day - BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, Afternoon X - VANISHING TWIN, Tomorrow's fire - SQUIRREL FLOWER, The comeback kid - MARNIE STERN, Villagers - CALIFONE, Ask - ALTIN GUN, I am the river, the river is me - JEN CLOHER, The art of forgetting - CAROLINE ROSE, Daydreamer - MOLLY BURCH, Left hand - BECCA MANCARI, Ahora - MELENAS, Aging - KEVIN DREW, Integrated tech solutions - AESOP ROCK, Sweet justice - TKAY MAIDZA, Return to archive - MATMOS, Robed in rareness - SHABAZZ PALACES, For who the bell tolls for - JONATHAN RADO, The town that cursed your name - THE REDS, PINKS & PURPLES, Yard - SLOW PULP, They live in my head - BUSH TETRAS, Eye on the bat - PALEHOUND, Hands across the creek - HOTEL LUX, Space heavy - KING KRULE, I am not there anymore - THE CLIENTELE, ÁTTA - SIGUR ROS, Submersive behaviour - TROPICAL FUCK STORM, One day - FUCKED UP, Surgery channel - THE C.I.A., Perfect saviors - THE ARMED, New blue sun - ANDRÉ 3000, Maps - BILLY WOODS & KENNY SEGAL, Guts - OLIVIA RODRIGO, This is why - PARAMORE, 10,000 Gecs - 100 GECS, That! Feels good - JESSIE WARE, Softscars - YEULE, Become EP - BEACH HOUSE