Complex UK's Best Albums of 2023
Did your favourite make the cut?
Published: December 15, 2023

The Independent's 30 Best Albums of 2023
The best albums of the year 2023
Published: December 15, 2023

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

Complex's Best Albums of 2023
From smooth R&B projects to hard-hitting rap albums and an unexpected project that made its way to the top—these are Complex’s picks for the best albums of 2023.
Published: December 14, 2023

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

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

Dazed's 20 Best Albums of 2023
Featuring Kelela’s long-awaited return, Jim Legxacy’s eccentric portrait of Black Britain, and Lana Del Rey’s era-defining Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Published: December 14, 2023

MAGNET's Top 25 Albums of 2023
MAGNET's Top 25 Albums Of 2023
Published: December 14, 2023

Stereogum's 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2023
Plus: Picks from some of the best jazz musicians today.
Published: December 13, 2023

Clash's Albums of the Year 2023
And so, another year. For many, 2023 won’t be something they’ll look back on with much fondness – the increasingly unhinged UK government, the appalling
Published: December 13, 2023

A.V. Club's 27 Best Albums of 2023
From legends like The Rolling Stones to up-and-comers like Chappell Roan and of-the-moment stars like Olivia Rodrigo, here are the albums we loved in 2023
Published: December 13, 2023

The Atlantic's 10 Best Albums of 2023
A year of great music offers a reminder that more really can be more: more melodies, more breakthroughs, more art.
Published: December 13, 2023

HuffPost's Best Albums of 2023
There was so much that happened in music this year — from fiascos to women reclaiming their power — and we got many impressive albums out of it.
Published: December 13, 2023

DJ Mag's Top Albums of 2023
In 2023, electronic artists around the world used albums to demonstrate both dialled-in genre specialism and incredible range
Published: December 13, 2023

Coup De Main's Best Albums of 2023
2023 has contained multitudes, but the one constant that we could depend on were the albums that we lived in, for, and through - each one soundtracking and housing our most important memories of the year.
Published: December 13, 2023

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

Double J's 50 Best Albums of 2023
These 50 works of art helped us escape, make sense of the world, and kept us thankful for those who make it.
Published: December 12, 2023

Alternative Press's 50 Best Albums of 2023
Here are 50 of the best albums of 2023. From hardcore to alt-rock records and more, these are Alternative Press' favorite albums of the year.
Published: December 12, 2023

The FADER's 50 Best Albums of 2023
From bar italia to billy woods and yeule to Yves Tumor, these are the albums The FADER loved in 2023.
Published: December 12, 2023

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

Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2023

Published: December 12, 2023

Variety: Jem Aswad's Top 10 Albums of 2023
The Variety music staff's album picks include Boygenius, Olivia Rodrigo, Karol G, Victoria Monét, Lana Del Rey, Brent Faiyaz, 100 Gecs and Zach Bryan.
Published: December 11, 2023

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

Far Out Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2023
From Mitski and Boygenius to The Lemon Twigs and Slowdive, with shoegaze, Japanese acid folk, and Sudanese synth, these are Far Out's 50 best albums of
Published: December 11, 2023

Kerrang!'s 50 Best Albums of 2023
The Kerrang! verdict on the 50 albums that shaped 2023.
Published: December 11, 2023

Slate's 12 Best Albums of 2023
Get listening.
Published: December 11, 2023

The Forty-Five's Albums of the Year 2023
How do you vote on the best albums of 2023 – get a bunch of music editors and critics in the room to battle it out, that's how.
Published: December 10, 2023

Business Insider's Best Albums of 2023
This year's best albums were made by big rock bands, new-age pop stars, and a whole mess of indie darlings.
Published: December 09, 2023

The Economist's Best Albums of 2023
Throwback sounds such as folk, punk and soul dominate our list this year | Culture
Published: December 08, 2023

musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2023
Lists: musicOMH's Top 50 Albums Of 2023
Published: December 08, 2023

Bandcamp Daily's Essential Releases of 2023
The ten key albums of 2023.
Published: December 08, 2023

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

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

DIY's Albums of the Year 2023
It’s safe to say that it’s been a stellar twelve months on the musical front, but what have DIY’s writers had on repeat?
Published: December 07, 2023

Metal Injection's Top 20 Albums Of 2023
Featuring Orbit Culture, Gridlink, Cannibal Corpse, Metallica, Sleep Token, and more!
Published: December 07, 2023

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

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

KCRW's Best Albums of 2023
From LA noise, to Soundcloud rap gone skyward, to skintight discodelia, these are the albums that defined our 2023.
Published: December 07, 2023

KCRW's Best Albums of 2024
We screamed, cried, danced, and caught feels throughout the year–and that’s just from listening to good music. Here’s our Top Albums list, hand-picked and wrapped by our very human DJs.
Published: December 07, 2023

Billboard's 50 Best Albums of 2023
The 50 best albums of 2023 -- Olivia Rodrigo, Boygenius, Drake and more.
Published: December 06, 2023

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

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

The Ringer's 27 Best Albums of 2023
They tell us new music is dying. From Lana to Olivia to a few dozen others, these great releases from the past 12 months tell us otherwise.
Published: December 06, 2023

The Washington Post's Best Albums of 2023
The year’s most electrifying and engaging pop albums also include the otherworldly rap of Ken Carson and the medieval punk of Poison Ruin.
Published: December 06, 2023

Los Angeles Times' 20 Best Albums of 2023
Our top albums of 2023 come courtesy of a diverse group of women: an R&B superstar, a rising Colombian American and a sassy country newcomer.
Published: December 06, 2023

Treble's 50 Best Albums of 2023
The year's just about over, so it's time to share our list of the 50 best albums of 2023, including Wednesday, Kelela, Ratboys and Yves Tumor
Published: December 05, 2023

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

Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2023
Featuring Sufjan Stevens, Kali Uchis, SZA, boygenius, Caroline Polachek, André 3000, and more
Published: December 05, 2023

Vulture's Best Albums of 2023
Vulture music critic Craig Jenkins picks the best albums of 2023, including releases from Boygenius, Sampha, Depeche Mode, Janelle Monáe, Blur, and more.
Published: December 05, 2023

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