Year-End Lists

Northern Transmissions: Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Bunny
   Beach Fossils
2. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
3. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
4. the record
   boygenius
5. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
6. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
7. Lahai
   Sampha
8. Tracey Denim
   Bar Italia
9. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
   Lana Del Rey
10. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
11. Yard
    Slow Pulp
12. The Window
    Ratboys
13. V
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra
14. Space Heavy
    King Krule
15. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
16. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
17. False Lankum
    Lankum
18. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
19. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
20. Perfect Saviors
    The Armed
21. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
22. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
23. Mid Air
    Romy
24. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
25. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
26. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
27. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
28. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
29. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
30. Quaranta
    Danny Brown
31. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
32. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
33. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
34. Lucky for You
    Bully
35. Hit Parade
    Róisín Murphy
36. 3D Country
    Geese
37. First Two Pages of Frankenstein
    The National
38. Hold
    Wild Nothing
39. everything is alive
    Slowdive
40. UK Grim
    Sleaford Mods
41. Strange Disciple
    Nation of Language
42. Food for Worms
    Shame
43. The Ballad of Darren
    Blur
44. All Fiction
    Pile
45. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
46. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
47. Velveteen
    PONY
48. O Monolith
    Squid
49. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
50. Greg Mendez
    Greg Mendez