Year-End Lists

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023, as posted on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Hellmode
   Jeff Rosenstock
2. Scaring the Hoes
   JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
3. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
   Lana Del Rey
4. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
5. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
6. Lahai
   Sampha
7. The Lamb as Effigy
   Sprain
8. 93696
   Liturgy
9. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
   Anohni and the Johnsons
10. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
11. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
12. Struggler
    Genesis Owusu
13. Wallsocket
    underscores
14. 3D Country
    Geese
15. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
16. I Was Mature For My Age, But I Was Still a Child
    grouptherapy.
17. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
18. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
19. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
20. Hood Hottest Princess (Deluxe)
    Sexyy Red
21. Space Heavy
    King Krule
22. PetroDragonic Apocalypse
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
23. Super Snõõper
    Snooper
24. Oh Me Oh My
    Lonnie Holley
25. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
    McKinley Dixon
26. Dogsbody
    Model/Actriz
27. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
28. This Is Why
    Paramore
29. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
30. O Monolith
    Squid
31. We're Still Here
    The Hirs Collective
32. After the Magic
    Parannoul
33. Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan
34. Heaven Knows
    PinkPantheress
35. Saved!
    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
36. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
37. April Mixtape 3
    Snow Strippers
38. 14K Figaro
    Wiki & Tony Seltzer
39. BB/Ang3l
    Tinashe
40. When we were that what wept for the sea
    Colin Stetson
41. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
42. The Enduring Spirit
    Tomb Mold
43. Autopoiética
    Mon Laferte
44. Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
    Autopsy
45. Burning Desire
    Mike
46. Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua
    Ana Frango Elétrico
47. Glockoma 2
    Key Glock
48. Ooh Rap I Ya
    George Clanton
49. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
50. Ways of Knowing
    Navy Blue

Top 15 EPs

1. Let's Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire
   Alice Longyu Gao
2. going...going...GONE!
   Hemlocke Springs
3. Knocknarea
   Maruja
4. Scaring the Hoes: DLC Pack
   JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
5. 4D Country
   Geese
6. Insaint
   Haru Nemuri
7. Scrapyard III
   Quadeca
7. Scrapyard II
   Quadeca
7. Scrapyard I
   Quadeca
8. Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall
   Nia Archives
9. Wykopki
   Franek Warzywa & Młody Budda
10. Forever Means
    Angel Olsen
11. Time-Lapse
    Yukika
12. Brothers in Christ
    Chat Pile & Nerver
13. Flying High
    The Alchemist
14. i'm so lucky
    Spirit of the Beehive
15. With Strings
    June McDoom

Honorable Mentions

• The Gray In Between
  Jeromes Dream
• Bad News
  Real Bad Man & Blu
• But Here We Are
  Foo Fighters
• Hive Mind Narcosis
  Thantifaxath
• Zango
  Witch
• Heavy Heavy
  Young Fathers
• Let's Start Here
  Lil Yachty
• Live at Bush Hall
  Black Country, New Road
• the record
  boygenius
• How Do You Sleep at Night?
  Teezo Touchdown
• The Beggar
  Swans
• Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…
  Matana Roberts
• New Blue Sun
  André 3000