Year-End Lists

The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2023. In his opening essay, Luke Turner writes:

Indeed, intelligence reaches us that end-of-year album charts in other publications have been far less predictable than usual, with no consensus and a bewildering array of records in contention. We are happy to see our comrades joining us in chaos and disorder.

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. False Lankum
   Lankum
2. I Inside the Old Year Dying
   PJ Harvey
3. Hive
   Teeth of the Sea
4. La Baracande
   La Nòvia
5. Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
   John Francis Flynn
6. Valosaasteen sekaan
   Musta Huone
7. To Be Cruel
   Khanate
8. Abstract Concrete
   Abstract Concrete
9. Quaranta
   Danny Brown
10. BOWN
    Mariam Rezaei
11. 2222 AND AIRPORT
    Shit and Shine
12. Before We Lie Down in Darknesse
    The Inward Circles
13. Carry Them With Us
    Brighde Chaimbeul
14. Excelsior
    Slauson Malone 1
15. *1
    Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective
16. PoiL Ueda
    PoiL Ueda
17. The Anxiety of Symmetry
    Bill Orcutt
18. Ecorcha/Taillée
    La Tène
19. Crash Recoil
    Surgeon
20. Food Near Me, Weather Tomorrow
    babybaby_explores
21. Oxmardyke
    Philip Jeck & Chris Watson
22. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
23. Archangel Hill
    Shirley Collins
24. Selvutsletter
    Lost Girls
25. Mares
    Annelies Monseré
26. Black Dog
    Gazelle Twin
27. An Cnoc Mór
    Moundabout
28. Prisoners Of Love And Hate
    Apostille
29. Yallah Beibe
    MC Yallah
30. The Hum
    James Ellis Ford
31. The God Phone
    Lunch Money Life
32. Dreamer
    Nabihah Iqbal
33. All Of This Is Chance
    Lisa O'Neill
34. Birds Catching Fire in the Sky
    UKAEA
35. In Blood
    Hey Colossus
36. Fifth Continent
    Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins
37. With A Hammer
    yaeji
38. Rhizomes
    Aho Ssan
39. Nails
    Benefits
40. Love Lines
    Nuovo Testamento
41. Raven
    Kelela
42. Flatland Explorations Vol.2
    Babau
43. EP/64-63
    EP/64
44. CYRM
    Oxn
45. UK Grim
    Sleaford Mods
46. Supercluster
    JAAW
47. Negative Stars
    Skull Practitioners
48. Talàn
    Raphael Rogiński
49. Abri Cyclonique
    Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters
50. Casement
    Enola Gay
51. Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…
    Matana Roberts
52. Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
    Bell Witch
53. Shook
    Algiers
54. Galo
    oyamao
55. Tête-à-tête
    Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood
56. Dissolution Grip
    KMRU
57. Echolocation
    Mendoza Hoff Revels
58. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
59. Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
    James Holden
60. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
61. Sundial
    Noname
62. We
    a.P.A.t.T.
63. Mermaids
    Natalia Beylis
64. Traveller Song / Thanksong
    Cassandra Miller
65. Land of Sleeper
    Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
66. L'Herbe de Détourne
    Sourdurent
67. Choose Mortality
    Flesh & The Dream
68. Abscission
    Torpor
69. Of Darkness and Light
    Årabrot
70. The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
    Sparks
71. Yfory
    Yfory
72. Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! and the Possibilities of Modern Shopping
    Mozart Estate
73. Vol. 1
    Synthfreq
74. Source of Denial
    Nihiloxica
75. House of All
    House of All
76. Modern Music
    One More Grain
77. When we were that what wept for the sea
    Colin Stetson
78. Intimism
    Nicky Wire
79. In Brine
    jellyskin
80. Saved!
    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
81. Black
    Kevin Richard Martin
82. Inferiority Complex
    Yossari Baby
83. 55355
    Zhao Cong
84. Sept Duos Pour Guitar Acoustique Et Piano Préparé
    Stephen O'Malley & Anthony Pateras
85. Of The Sign...
    Spirit Possession
86. J/P/N
    Kasai
87. Purge
    Godflesh
88. The King
    Anjimile
89. Tamiditine
    Moussa Tchingou
90. We Sick
    deVon Russell Gray / Nathan Hanson / Davu Seru
91. Saint
    MXLX
92. Even God Has A Sense Of Humor
    Maxo
93. A Treatise on Ceremonial Magic
    Dodo Resurrection II
94. Fire Worshipper
    The Stargazer’s Assistant
95. Meant Like This
    Rezzett
96. Homenaje a Remedios Varo
    John Zorn
97. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
98. We Cater To Cowards
    Oozing Wound
99. Exit Simulation
    Niecy Blues
100. Eulo Cramps
     Call Super

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Quietus: Jennifer Lucy Allan: The Best Of 2023