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2023 Music

Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

01 December 2023

Rat Saw God - Wednesday

Our Culture: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

  1. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  2. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  3. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  4. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  5. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  6. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
  7. the record
    boygenius
  8. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  9. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  10. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
  11. After the Magic
    Parannoul
  12. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
  13. Raven
    Kelela
  14. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  15. Married in Mount Airy
    Nicole Dollanganger
  16. Red Moon in Venus
    Kali Uchis
  17. The Window
    Ratboys
  18. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  19. Softscars
    yeule
  20. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
  21. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
  22. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
  23. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
  24. With A Hammer
    yaeji
  25. Norm
    Andy Shauf
  26. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
  27. Honey
    Samia
  28. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
  29. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
  30. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
  31. Lahai
    Sampha
  32. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
  33. Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
    Slaughter Beach, Dog
  34. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
  35. An Inbuilt Fault
    Westerman
  36. I Am Not There Anymore
    The Clientele
  37. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
  38. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
  39. Post-American
    MSPAINT
  40. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
  41. I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
    Allegra Krieger
  42. Yard
    Slow Pulp
  43. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  44. Girl In The Half Pearl
    Liv.e
  45. Again
    Oneohtrix Point Never
  46. Black Rainbows
    Corinne Bailey Rae
  47. Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
    Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  48. Super Snõõper
    Snooper
  49. Atlas
    Laurel Halo
  50. Destiny
    DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ

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