Year-End Lists

PopMatters: The 80 Best Albums of 2023

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1. That! Feels Good!
   Jessie Ware
2. Wait Til I Get Over
   Durand Jones
3. the record
   boygenius
4. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
5. Heavy Heavy
   Young Fathers
6. ٣ (Trois)
   Acid Arab
7. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
8. Weathervanes
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
9. Falling or Flying
   Jorja Smith
10. Volcano
    Jungle
11. Aşk
    Altın Gün
12. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
13. Gentle Confrontation
    Loraine James
14. Sundial
    Noname
15. Bunny
    Beach Fossils
16. Tension
    Kylie Minogue
17. City of Gold
    Molly Tuttle
18. Strays
    Margo Price
19. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
20. everything is alive
    Slowdive
21. Dancing While Falling
    Quantic
22. Black Classical Music
    Yussef Dayes
23. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
24. Blondshell
    Blondshell
25. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
26. Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again
    Lydia Loveless
27. The Omnichord Real Book
    Meshell Ndegeocello
28. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
29. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
30. London Ko
    Fatoumata Diawara
31. Strange Disciple
    Nation of Language
32. Proof of Life
    Joy Oladokun
33. Lahai
    Sampha
34. Voir Dire
    Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist
35. Drum Money
    Ekiti Sound
36. Shook
    Algiers
37. Space Heavy
    King Krule
38. Blight Year
    Anti-God Hand
39. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
40. Atlas
    Laurel Halo
41. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
42. Jenny from Thebes
    The Mountain Goats
43. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
44. Exit Simulation
    Niecy Blues
45. Zango
    Witch
46. Jupiter
    Upper Wilds
47. Homo Anxietatem
    Shamir
48. Anarchist Gospel
    Sunny War
49. The Window
    Ratboys
50. Cracker Island
    Gorillaz
51. End
    Explosions in the Sky
52. Raven
    Kelela
53. Integrated Tech Solutions
    Aesop Rock
54. Memento Mori
    Depeche Mode
55. Water Made Us
    Jamila Woods
56. Driving
    Sam Wilkes
57. The Enduring Spirit
    Tomb Mold
58. Higher
    Chris Stapleton
59. Playing Robots into Heaven
    James Blake
60. Isn't It Now?
    Animal Collective
61. Get Up
    NewJeans
62. Bolted
    Forest Swords
63. This Is Why
    Paramore
64. Diagonal Musik II
    Prins Emanuel
65. The Good Witch
    Maisie Peters
66. Sit Down for Dinner
    Blonde Redhead
67. The Hypnogogue
    The Church
68. Trustfall
    Pink
69. Afterpoem
    Faten Kanaan
70. Workin' on a World
    Iris DeMent
71. Fantasy
    M83
72. Continue as a Guest
    The New Pornographers
73. Saved!
    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
74. Endless Summer Vacation
    Miley Cyrus
75. One Day
    Fucked Up
76. The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored
    Hayden Pedigo
77. With A Hammer
    yaeji
78. I Am Not There Anymore
    The Clientele
79. Romantic Piano
    Gia Margaret
80. Data Doom
    Frankie and the Witch Fingers