Year-End Lists

Carl Wilson: The 12 Best Albums of 2023, as published by Slate, alphabetical by artist

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

• Love in Exile
  Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily
• the record
  boygenius
• Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
  Jaimie Branch
• Fuse
  Everything but the Girl
• Scaring the Hoes
  JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
• See That Girl 1979-2000
  Kirsty MacColl
• Lucky
  Megan Moroney
• All Of This Is Chance
  Lisa O'Neill
• Get Up
  NewJeans
• Rabbit Rabbit
  Speedy Ortiz
• Guts
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Rat Saw God
  Wednesday

Two Dozen Runners-Up (alphabetical by artist)

• Abstract Concrete
  Abstract Concrete
• Fountain Baby
  Amaarae
• Catching Ghosts
  Peter Brötzmann / Majid Bekkas / Hamid Drake
• Rare Birds: Hour of Song
  The Bug Club
• Crazymad, for Me
  CMAT
• Could Have Done Anything
  Charlotte Cornfield
• Workin' on a World
  Iris DeMent
• Echo the Diamond
  Margaret Glaspy
• Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
  Kara Jackson
• Madres
  Sofia Kourtesis
• Eye Of I
  James Brandon Lewis
• For Mahalia, With Love
  James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
• The Devil I Know
  Ashley McBryde
• Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles
  Brad Mehldau
• Jenny from Thebes
  The Mountain Goats
• The Omnichord Real Book
  Meshell Ndegeocello
• Erotic Probiotic 2
  Nourished By Time
• Trouble On Big Beat Street
  Pere Ubu
• Mélusine
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Hood Hottest Princess
  Sexyy Red
• Live in Brooklyn 2011
  Sonic Youth
• SOS
  SZA
• Time Ain't Accidental
  Jess Williamson
• Heavy Heavy
  Young Fathers
• Maps
  Billy Woods & Kenny Segal