Year-End Lists

The Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

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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