Year-End Lists

The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2024 • 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