Still Listening's Top 50 Albums Of 2023

The moment is here. Unveiling our favourite records from 2023.

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# 1

SCARING THE HOES by JPEGMAFIA + Danny Brown

Album • Mar 24 / 2023 Experimental Hip Hop Hardcore Hip Hop

# 2

Javelin by Sufjan Stevens

Album • Oct 06 / 2023 Indie Folk Singer-Songwriter Chamber Folk

# 3

Rat Saw God by Wednesday

Album • Apr 07 / 2023 Indie Rock Noise Rock

# 4

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

Album • Apr 14 / 2023 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk Chamber Folk

# 5

3D Country by Geese

Album • Jun 23 / 2023 Indie Rock Art Punk

# 6

Desire, I Want To Turn Into You by Caroline Polachek

Album • Feb 14 / 2023 Art Pop Alt-Pop Electronic

# 7

Maps by Billy Woods + Kenny Segal

Album • May 05 / 2023 Abstract Hip Hop Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 8

With a Hammer by Yaeji

Album • Apr 07 / 2023 Glitch Pop

# 9

My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross by ANOHNI

Album • Jul 06 / 2023 Soul Singer-Songwriter

# 10

SPELLLING & the Mystery School by SPELLLING

Album • Aug 25 / 2023 Art Rock Art Pop

# 11

O Monolith by Squid

Album • Jun 09 / 2023 Experimental Rock Art Punk

# 12

Everything Harmony by The Lemon Twigs

Album • May 05 / 2023 Soft Rock Pop Rock

# 13

All of This Will End by Indigo De Souza

Album • Apr 28 / 2023 Indie Rock

# 14

Bunny by Willie J Healey

Album • Aug 25 / 2023 Indie Rock Neo-Psychedelia

# 15

Sweet Justice by Tkay Maidza

Album • Nov 03 / 2023 Contemporary R&B Pop Rap

# 16

The Greater Wings by Julie Byrne

Album • Jul 07 / 2023 Chamber Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 17

Girl with Fish by feeble little horse

Album • Jun 09 / 2023 Slacker Rock Noise Pop

# 18

Spike Field by Maria BC

Album • Oct 20 / 2023 Psychedelic Folk Singer-Songwriter

# 19

We Buy Diabetic Test Strips by Armand Hammer + billy woods + E L U C I D

Album • Sep 29 / 2023 Experimental Hip Hop Abstract Hip Hop East Coast Hip Hop

# 20

Wallsocket by underscores

Album • Sep 22 / 2023 Indietronica Indie Rock Electropop

# 21

New Excellent Woman by Asher White

Album • May 26 / 2023 Indie Pop

# 22

align with Nature's Intelligence by muva of Earth

EP • Sep 22 / 2023 Jazz Fusion

# 23

softscars by yeule

Album • Sep 22 / 2023 Dream Pop Indietronica Indie Rock

# 24

Tracey Denim by bar italia

Album • May 19 / 2023 Slacker Rock

# 25

Super Snõõper by Snõõper

Album • Jul 14 / 2023 Garage Punk

# 26

Sundial by Noname

Album • Aug 11 / 2023 Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop Political Hip Hop

# 27

Madres by Sofia Kourtesis

Album • Oct 27 / 2023 Deep House Latin House

# 28

Blómi by Susanne Sundfør

Album • Apr 28 / 2023 Singer-Songwriter Contemporary Folk

# 29

Radical Romantics by Fever Ray

Album • Mar 10 / 2023 Art Pop Synthpop

# 30

Prize by Rozi Plain

Album • Jan 13 / 2023 Art Pop Chamber Pop Ambient Pop

# 31

I Killed Your Dog by L’Rain

Album • Oct 13 / 2023 Neo-Psychedelia

# 32

I Inside the Old Year Dying by PJ Harvey

Album • Jul 07 / 2023 Singer-Songwriter Art Rock

# 33

Chaos For The Fly by Grian Chatten

Album • Jun 30 / 2023 Singer-Songwriter Chamber Pop

# 34

The Worm by HMLTD

Album • Apr 07 / 2023 Rock Opera Art Rock Progressive Rock

# 35

Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) by Jaimie Branch

Album • Aug 25 / 2023 Avant-Garde Jazz

# 36

Erotic Probiotic 2 by Nourished by Time

Album • Mar 21 / 2023

# 37

VOIR DIRE by Earl Sweatshirt + The Alchemist

Album • Oct 06 / 2023 Abstract Hip Hop Drumless West Coast Hip Hop

# 38

Compact Trauma by Ulrika Spacek

Album • Mar 10 / 2023 Indie Rock Neo-Psychedelia

# 39

i've seen a way by Mandy, Indiana

Album • May 19 / 2023 Post-Industrial

# 40

Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? by McKinley Dixon

Album • Jun 02 / 2023 Jazz Rap Conscious Hip Hop

# 41

Hurting by sign crushes motorist

Album • Jun 30 / 2023 Slowcore Bedroom Pop

# 42

Shelter by Alice Phoebe Lou

Album • Jul 07 / 2023 Singer-Songwriter Soft Rock

# 43

Fase Luna by LA Priest

Album • May 05 / 2023 Hypnagogic Pop Neo-Psychedelia

# 44

Illusion by Kira Linn + Linntett

Album • Apr 07 / 2023 Jazz Fusion Post-Bop

# 45

Famous Last Words by CASISDEAD

Album • Oct 27 / 2023 UK Hip Hop

# 46

Dull Days by Kipper Gillespie

Album • Jul 21 / 2023

# 47

Yard by Slow Pulp

Album • Sep 29 / 2023 Indie Rock Slacker Rock

# 48

Stillness, Softness... by Hinako Omori

Album • Oct 27 / 2023 Ambient Pop Art Pop

# 49

Shirley Hurt by Shirley Hurt

Album • Dec 02 / 2022 Singer-Songwriter Chamber Pop

# 50

Babble by Bishopskin

Album • Oct 13 / 2023