Year-End Lists

Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2023, a survey of nearly 300 music critics

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

1. the record
   boygenius
2. Guts
   Olivia Rodrigo
3. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
4. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
5. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
6. SOS
   SZA
7. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
8. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
9. Raven
   Kelela
10. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
11. Jaguar II
    Victoria Monét
12. The Window
    Ratboys
13. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
14. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
15. Sundial
    Noname
16. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
17. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
18. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
19. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
20. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
21. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
22. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
23. Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan
24. Blondshell
    Blondshell
25. This Is Why
    Paramore
26. Let's Start Here
    Lil Yachty
27. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
28. Scarlet
    Doja Cat
29. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
30. Burning Desire
    Mike
31. New Blue Sun
    André 3000
32. Lucky for You
    Bully
33. Life Under the Gun
    Militarie Gun
34. Lahai
    Sampha
35. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
36. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
37. Ganger
    Veeze
38. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
39. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
40. After the Magic
    Parannoul
41. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
42. Get Up
    NewJeans
43. Quaranta
    Danny Brown
44. Cousin
    Wilco
45. Something to Give Each Other
    Troye Sivan
46. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
47. The Whaler
    Home Is Where
48. Unreal Unearth
    Hozier
49. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
    Chappell Roan
50. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray