Best of 2023 Album Collections

MOJO's 75 Best Albums of 2023

Paul McCartney and Ringo speak to MOJO about the full story behind the last Beatles song, Now And Then. Plus, the best albums of 2023 and more!

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MondoSonoro's Best Albums of 2023

Este mes Boygenius, es decir, el proyecto emprendido por Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus y Julien Baker, protagoniza  nuestra portada

Published: November 30, 2023 07:49 Source

musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2023

Lists: musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2023

Published: December 08, 2023 15:09 Source

NME's Best Albums of 2023

NME present our 50 albums of 2023 that encapsulated the full human experience and are worth treasuring and holding tightly.

Published: December 08, 2023 09:00 Source

NME's Best Albums of 2023... So Far!

As we hit the year’s midway point, we take a look back at the biggest and best albums released in 2023 so far

Published: July 04, 2023 09:44 Source

Northern Transmissions Best Albums of 2023

We've collected the best albums of 2023 on one list so you don't have to miss, featuring Beach Fossils, Wednesday, boygenius and many more!

Published: December 19, 2023 15:00 Source

NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2023

The album's not dead! Want proof? NPR Music's list of the best albums of 2023 features masterworks by veterans, newcomers, iconoclasts and at least one supergroup.

Published: December 05, 2023 08:00 Source

OOR's 20 Best Albums of 2023

Het is weer zover: 55 popjournalisten, radio-dj’s en prominente muziekvolgers stuurden hun top 10 in en het beste album van 2023 is…

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Paste's 25 Best Albums of 2023 (So Far)

We're almost halfway through the year—time for the Best Albums of 2023 so far.

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Paste's 25 Best Electronic Albums of 2023

From Laurel Halo to Mega Bog to Sofia Kourtesis to underscores, here are Paste's picks for the 25 best electronic albums of 2023.

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Paste's 30 Best Rock Albums of 2023

From Bully to Wednesday to Model/Actriz to The Rolling Stones, here are Paste's picks for the 30 best rock albums of 2023.

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Paste's 50 Best Albums of 2023

Featuring gems from Ratboys, boygenius, Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, here are Paste's 50 best albums of 2023.

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People's Top 10 Albums of 2023

The PEOPLE music team shares its list of the 10 best albums of 2023, including releases from Olivia Rodrigo, Lana Del Rey, Miley Cyrus and more.

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Piccadilly Records' Top 100 Albums of 2023

Born in 1978, Piccadilly Records is an independent record shop in the heart of Manchester city centre.

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Pitchfork's 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023

Our favorite unfamiliar, unsettling, provocative, transgressive, spaced-out, psychedelic, surreal, meditative, and confrontational albums of the year.

Published: December 14, 2023 14:00 Source

Pitchfork's 37 Best Rock Albums of 2023

The year in indie rock, punk, singer-songwriter and solo guitar music, shoegaze, metal, and everything in between.

Published: December 06, 2023 14:00 Source

Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2023

Featuring Sufjan Stevens, Kali Uchis, SZA, boygenius, Caroline Polachek, André 3000, and more

Published: December 05, 2023 14:00 Source

Pitchfork's Best Electronic Music of 2023

Yaeji, Aphex Twin, Skrillex, Tirzah, Avalon Emerson, and more: these are the songs and albums that defined the year in electronic music.

Published: December 07, 2023 14:00 Source

Pitchfork's Best Pop Music of 2023

Opulent disco-pop, R&B hook-up jams, raging hot-mess anthems: These are the songs and albums that defined the year in pop music.

Published: December 12, 2023 14:00 Source

PopMatters' 10 Best Ambient Albums of 2023

In a digital landscape where consumption methods are constantly fracturing, leave it to the best ambient artists to excel and innovate despite impossible odds.

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PopMatters' 15 Best Country Albums of 2023

This year's best country albums spring from hard-country bands to traditional true believers and from alternative country renegades to pop-country superstars.

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PopMatters' 20 Best Metal Albums of 2023

This has proved a fantastic year for heavy music and metal, with masters impressing and newer artists shining. These are the best metal albums of 2023.

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PopMatters' 20 Best Pop Albums of 2023

The 20 best pop albums of 2023 radiate with unstoppable playlist power, much-needed sweet escapism, self-reflection, self-criticism, and killer melodies.

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PopMatters' 80 Best Albums of 2023

The best albums of 2023 challenged orthodoxies, blended and created new genres, and spanned a vast range of musical styles and traditions, while looking forward.

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Radio X's 25 Best Albums of 2023

Here are Radio X's picks of the finest albums of the past 12 months... from the return of Blur and The Rolling Stones to great new music by Royal Blood and Paramore.

Published: November 10, 2023 18:17 Source

Resident Advisor's Best Albums of 2023

Our selections include big crossover pop and R&B moments, heady Krautrock explorations and techno guided meditations.

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Revolver's 30 Best Albums of 2023

Sleep Token, A7X, Better Lovers and more

Published: December 04, 2023 15:56 Source

RIFF's 45 Best Albums of 2023

RIFF’s best albums of 2023 include the Rolling Stones, Blink-182, Cleo Sol, Miley Cyrus, Allison Russell, Victoria Monét, Kali Uchis,…

Published: December 01, 2023 17:24 Source

Rock Sound's Top 50 Albums Of 2023

For our final The Album Story feature of 2023, we are counting down our top 50 favourite records from the last 12 months.

Published: December 15, 2023 10:06 Source

Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of 2023

We Rank the best albums of the year, from Lil Yatchy to Olivia Rodrigo to Lana Del Rey

Published: November 30, 2023 15:00 Source

Rolling Stone's 25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2023

The Best Country Music and Americana Albums of 2023, including Megan Moroney, Brandy Clark, Jason Isbell, and Zach Bryan.

Published: December 15, 2023 14:28 Source

Rough Trade UK's Albums of the Year 2023

The 100 best albums from 2023 based on a year of listening, months of consideration, weeks of discussion and days of compiling. Every one of these albums has made an impact on us this year but to learn more about the ones that made the top 20, please click here for UK and here for US.

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Slant Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2023

Many of the artists who appear our list of the best albums of the year seek to shatter interpersonal and emotional barriers.

Published: December 07, 2023 16:33 Source

Slant Magazine's Best Albums of 2023… So Far

We’ll be unpacking these dense and rewarding albums for the rest of the year and beyond.

Published: June 22, 2023 15:00 Source

Slate's 12 Best Albums of 2023

Get listening.

Published: December 11, 2023 10:50 Source

Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis's Best Albums of 2023

This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their highly-anticipated “Best Albums” of 2023. Plus, they’ll also hear selections from production staff.

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SPIN's Best Albums of 2023 (So Far)

This year has been strong for new music. Here, we list what we think are the best albums of 2023, at least so far.

Published: June 05, 2023 12:00 Source

Stereogum's 10 Best Electronic Albums Of 2023

2023 found humanity wandering back into a rut after a brief interim of post-lockdown joy. Over the course of the year, we were forced to confront systemic violence, economic uncertainty, ongoing challenges posed by the climate crisis, and, frankly, too much other shit to count on both hands. It seems like most people I know are ending this year feeling fairly downtrodden and nervous, myself included.

Published: December 07, 2023 18:50 Source

Stereogum's 10 Best Experimental Albums of 2023

In a year where tentpole superhero movies are scored by Haxan Cloak and third-world ambient-jazz woodwind opuses are released by André 3000, does the phrase “experimental music” even remotely carry any weight in 2023? As always, the answer is “Look, I clicked the link, please just tell me about some albums I can listen to at work.” Here are my personal picks for the year’s best in drone suites, improv throwdowns, archival treasures, alien soundscapes, modern classical and more.

Published: December 15, 2023 14:59 Source

Stereogum's 10 Best Hardcore Albums of 2023

From a certain perspective, the hardcore band of 2023 was one that hasn’t released any music since 2017. Baltimore bruiser brigade Trapped Under Ice have long loomed enormous over the underground landscape. Turnstile, now the most popular hardcore band that has ever existed, essentially started off as a TUI side project. TUI’s blend of elements — knucklehead swagger, metallic crunch, irrepressible singalong parts, hidden vulnerability — remain hugely influential; their style is all over present-day heavyweights like Pain Of Truth, Speed, and Never Ending Game. When TUI returned at the beginning of 2023, it was an event.

Published: December 11, 2023 16:03 Source

Stereogum's 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2023

Plus: Picks from some of the best jazz musicians today.

Published: December 13, 2023 17:23 Source

Stereogum's 10 Best Metal Albums of 2023

Huzzah, the listpocalypse is upon us. Behold, the Black Market is here to confuse and annoy you with the annual list of our favorite metal albums. Column writers, past and present, once again voted for their most-loved releases of 2023. This top 10 is the result. Is your most-loved album here? It is not. Did we list any albums that normal people listen to? Again, probably not. Is this a list so frustratingly niche and packed with impenetrable metal that it asks why we’re even allowed to do this? Yes, of course. In fact, this might be one of our most infuriating countdowns, so much so that the metal powers that be have taken notice. As soon as I sent this list to the Stereogum mothership, I was indicted on 666 counts of poser fraud and must surrender myself to Metal Law authorities immediately. This is what we get for not listening to Tomb Mold.

Published: December 14, 2023 15:51 Source

Stereogum's 10 Best Rap Albums of 2023

As the old saying goes, you either die a youngin or live long enough to see yourself become an old head. Speaking to Rolling Stone last month, Lil Boat aged prematurely when he complained that they just don’t make rap like they used to. “The place that hip-hop is in right now is a terrible place,” he explained during a chat with Tierra Whack. “It’s a lot of imitation. It’s a lot of quick, low-quality music being put out. It’s a lot less originality.”

Published: December 12, 2023 18:50 Source

Stereogum's 50 Best Albums of 2023

Stereogum started off as an indie rock-focused website, and that’s still our bread and butter. But it’s getting harder and harder to define “indie rock,” both as a genre and as a web of associations. In 2023, plenty of longtime Stereogum favorites rose to something resembling full-on pop-star status, while some actual pop stars continue to play around with sounds and aesthetics that previous generations would’ve associated with ashtray-smelling dive bars and handmade mixtapes. Context collapse is happening all over the place, and it can be hard to answer a seemingly simple question: What’s good now?

Published: December 05, 2023 14:00 Source

Stereogum's 50 Best Albums Of 2023 So Far

The records we've loved the most from January to June.

Published: June 06, 2023 14:00 Source

Stereogum's Best EPs of 2023

For the past few years, we’ve dedicated a list during our year-end coverage to shortform releases. There’s no grand through-line for these sort of lists — it’s just 25 EPs that got us hyped up from artists all across the board. There are young bands showcasing developing talents; established acts taking a much necessary breather between LPs or offering us some might-have-beens from their previous albums; splits and collaborations and one-offs that just wouldn’t make sense in a full-length incarnation. Their runtimes might be minor, but they feel major.

Published: December 06, 2023 14:00 Source