Year-End Lists

Josh Terry: The 60 Best Albums of 2023, "according to some guy in Chicago"

[see also 2024 • 2022]

• I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
  Allegra Krieger
• In The Air
  Anna St. Louis
• Yonder
  Arbor Labor Union
• Among Other Things
  Bella White
• Let There Be Music
  Bonny Doon
• Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
  Bonnie “Prince” Billy
• Southern Star
  Brent Cobb
• Rare Birds: Hour of Song
  The Bug Club
• Western Cum
  Cory Hanson
• Another Blue
  Crosslegged
• You Can Do It All
  Cusp
• Longest Day of the Year
  Dari Bay
• Careful!
  Deeper
• Emotional Contracts
  Deer Tick
• Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
  The Drin
• Glass Pastures
  Dusk
• Principia
  En Attendant Ana
• The Holey Bible
  Florry
• Midnight Society
  Fog Lake
• Practice
  Free Range
• 3D Country
  Geese
• Romantic Piano
  Gia Margaret
• Bananasugarfire
  Golden Apples
• Greg Mendez
  Greg Mendez
• Singing into Darkness
  Hataalii
• Old Friend
  Hazel City
• Goodnight Summerland
  Helena Deland
• Your Own Adventure
  Hollow Hand
• Water Made Us
  Jamila Woods
• Long Way From Home
  JD Clayton
• Time Ain't Accidental
  Jess Williamson
• Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
  Kara Jackson
• Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing
  Kassi Valazza
• Good Grief
  Magic AL
• Swinging Stars
  Mapache
• I Get Into Trouble
  Maple Glider
• Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
  McKinley Dixon
• And Southern Star
  Mikaela Davis
• The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
  Mitski
• Post-American
  MSPAINT
• Cyclamen
  Núria Graham
• We Cater To Cowards
  Oozing Wound
• Through the Window
  Prewn
• The Window
  Ratboys
• Resavoir
  Resavoir
• Turtle Rock
  Sharp Pins
• Flight of the Long Distance Healer
  Skyway Man
• Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
  Slaughter Beach, Dog
• Yard
  Slow Pulp
• Tomorrow's Fire
  Squirrel Flower
• Freak Frequency
  Stuck
• Javelin
  Sufjan Stevens
• Anarchist Gospel
  Sunny War
• Infinite Spring
  superviolet
• Running From the Chase
  Truth Club
• Compact Trauma
  Ulrika Spacek
• Like Leaves
  villagerrr
• Rat Saw God
  Wednesday
• Cousin
  Wilco
• Heaven Is a Junkyard
  Youth Lagoon

The Other 40 (Honorable Mentions - Top 100)

• When You Lose The Light
  Braden Lawrence
• Chuck Pond
  Charlie Hill
• Could Have Done Anything
  Charlotte Cornfield
• I Am Not There Anymore
  The Clientele
• It's Always A Time Like This
  defprez
• The Rainbow Wheel of Death
  Dougie Poole
• Light Is Gone 2
  Field Medic
• Somewhere Down Below
  Gaadge
• Weathervanes
  Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
• The Search for God
  Jimmy Whispers
• Portrait of a Dog
  Jonah Yano
• The Greater Wings
  Julie Byrne
• A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
  Katie Von Schleicher
• The Silver Cord
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
• Smalltown Stardust
  King Tuff
• Looking Out
  Lane Beckstrom
• Bewitched
  Laufey
• S/T
  Liquid Mike
• I'm Green
  Mali Velasquez
• The Patience
  Mick Jenkins
• Growing at the Edges
  Mutual Benefit
• North Georgia Rounder
  Pony Bradshaw
• Formal Growth In The Desert
  Protomartyr
• Signs
  Purelink
• Common Nation of Sorrow
  Rachel Baiman
• Radar Peak
  Radar Peak
• Off My Stars
  Sam Blasucci
• Diagnosis
  Sen Morimoto
• Food for Worms
  Shame
• Radial Gate
  Sluice
• Madres
  Sofia Kourtesis
• O Monolith
  Squid
• Pure Music
  Strange Ranger
• Lay Me Down to Rest
  The Stacks
• Rustin' In The Rain
  Tyler Childers
• V
  Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• Virtuoso
  Valee and Harry Fraud
• Lover's Game
  The War and Treaty
• Hometown Hero
  Warm Human
• This Stupid World
  Yo La Tengo