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2023 Music

The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2023

04 December 2023

Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? - Kara Jackson

The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2023

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

  1. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  2. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  3. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
  4. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  5. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  6. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  7. Sundial
    Noname
  8. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  9. Blondshell
    Blondshell
  10. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  11. Famous Last Words
    CASISDEAD
  12. Am I British Yet?
    V V Brown
  13. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
    McKinley Dixon
  14. I Don't Know
    bdrmm
  15. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
  16. The Patience
    Mick Jenkins
  17. Raven
    Kelela
  18. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
  19. With A Hammer
    yaeji
  20. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
  21. Life Under the Gun
    Militarie Gun
  22. Lahai
    Sampha
  23. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
  24. The Window
    Ratboys
  25. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
  26. Honey
    Samia
  27. Softscars
    yeule
  28. Time Ain't Accidental
    Jess Williamson
  29. Black Rainbows
    Corinne Bailey Rae
  30. Quaranta
    Danny Brown
  31. The Whaler
    Home Is Where
  32. Beautiful and Brutal Yard
    J Hus
  33. False Lankum
    Lankum
  34. In the End It Always Does
    The Japanese House
  35. everything is alive
    Slowdive
  36. Messy
    Olivia Dean
  37. Mid Air
    Paris Texas
  38. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  39. The Worm
    HMLTD
  40. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
  41. Kaytraminé
    Kaytraminé
  42. Nails
    Benefits
  43. Quest for Fire
    Skrillex
  44. trip9love...???
    Tirzah
  45. Stillness, Softness...
    hinako omori
  46. Perfect Picture
    Hannah Diamond
  47. Chaos For The Fly
    Grian Chatten
  48. Sorry I Haven't Called
    Vagabon
  49. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  50. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo

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