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Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2023

13 December 2023

Raven - Kelela

Beats Per Minute: Top 50 Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2012]

  1. Raven
    Kelela
  2. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  3. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  4. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  5. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
  6. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  7. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
  8. the record
    boygenius
  9. Dogsbody
    Model/Actriz
  10. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  11. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
  12. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  13. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
  14. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
  15. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  16. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
  17. Isn't It Now?
    Animal Collective
  18. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  19. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
  20. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  21. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  22. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
  23. The Whaler
    Home Is Where
  24. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
  25. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
  26. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
  27. Time Ain't Accidental
    Jess Williamson
  28. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
  29. After the Magic
    Parannoul
  30. Lahai
    Sampha
  31. The Rainbow Wheel of Death
    Dougie Poole
  32. Átta
    Sigur Rós
  33. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  34. Doomscroll
    Naked Lungs
  35. Love in Exile
    Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily
  36. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
  37. Generational Curse
    ICECOLDBISHOP
  38. Let's Start Here
    Lil Yachty
  39. Softscars
    yeule
  40. Messages To God
    Sarah Mary Chadwick
  41. Vidrio
    Titanic
  42. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
  43. No Joy
    Spanish Love Songs
  44. Blómi
    Susanne Sundfør
  45. The Land, The Water, The Sky
    Black Belt Eagle Scout
  46. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
  47. Devil Music
    portrayal of guilt
  48. in​||FLUX
    Anna B Savage
  49. Formal Growth In The Desert
    Protomartyr
  50. Voir Dire
    Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist

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