Year-End Lists

Hanif Abdurraqib: 108 Favorite Albums Of 2023, posted with links to good writing and a list of favorite EPs

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. The Land, The Water, The Sky
   Black Belt Eagle Scout
2. Ready When You Are
   Planet Giza
3. A New Tomorrow
   Zulu
4. Higher Lonely Power
   Fireworks
5. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
   McKinley Dixon
6. Black Rainbows
   Corinne Bailey Rae
7. Quaranta
   Danny Brown
7. Scaring the Hoes
   JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
8. Fountain Baby
   Amaarae
9. Silver
   Say She She
10. Proof of Life
    Joy Oladokun
11. somebody in hell loves you
    Sydney Sprague
12. No Joy
    Spanish Love Songs
13. Bliss Station
    Bliss Station
14. Drive Home
    Portraits Of Tracy
15. Shook
    Algiers
16. The Window
    Ratboys
17. Girl In The Half Pearl
    Liv.e
18. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
19. Heaven
    Cleo Sol
19. Gold
    Cleo Sol
20. Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…
    Matana Roberts
21. It Wasn't Supposed To Be Like This
    pulses.
22. Sundial
    Noname
23. Leather Blvd
    B. Cool-Aid
24. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
25. The Ones Ahead
    Beverly Glenn-Copeland
26. the record
    boygenius
27. Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning
    Chief Adjuah
28. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
29. Flowers At Your Feet
    Rahill
30. Spunky!
    Grrrl Gang
31. Sublimation
    Shalom
32. Gentle Confrontation
    Loraine James
33. The Returner
    Allison Russell
34. The King
    Anjimile
35. love is a dying
    Bailey Miller
36. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
37. The Omnichord Real Book
    Meshell Ndegeocello
38. This and Other Gestures
    gal pal
39. Big Mess
    Public Body
40. ...So Unknown
    Jesus Piece
41. Desire Pathway
    Screaming Females
42. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
43. Heaven Knows
    PinkPantheress
44. Flood City Trax
    Nondi_
45. Eye On The Bat
    Palehound
46. Bravo!
    Sorry Girls
47. Yellow Brick Road
    Lo Village
48. Belongs on a Place Called Earth
    Secret Night Gang
49. The OPEN-HEARTED
    Arlissa
50. History Books
    The Gaslight Anthem
51. Protect Your Light
    Irreversible Entanglements
52. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
53. Sweet Justice
    Tkay Maidza
54. Diamonds & Freaks
    Blk Odyssy
55. City of Gold
    Molly Tuttle
56. Mid Air
    Paris Texas
57. Strawberry Runners
    Strawberry Runners
58. Raíces
    Spine
59. No Tempo da Intolerância
    Elza Soares
60. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
61. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
62. I Held the Shape While I Could
    Bodywash
63. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
64. Lotus Glow
    Adi Oasis
65. Warm Blanket
    Worriers
66. Blondshell
    Blondshell
67. With A Hammer
    yaeji
68. The Private World Of Correspondence
    African-American Sound Recordings
69. Come Around and Love Me
    Jalen Ngonda
70. Good Luck
    Debby Friday
71. Concrete Cowboys
    Buggin
72. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
73. Voir Dire
    Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist
74. Voice Notes
    Yazmin Lacey
75. CLUSTERFUNK
    Ric Wilson, Chromeo & A-Trak
76. What Still Gets Me
    Shit Present
77. ROACH
    Miya Folick
78. Mourning Due
    Nappy Nina
79. Chemistry
    Kelly Clarkson
80. Growing In Strange Places
    thank you, im sorry
81. Love/Hate Pt.1
    Xenia Manasseh
82. Dreamer
    Nabihah Iqbal
83. Lovers Lane
    Thanks! I Hate It
84. love has never been a popular movement.
    TYGAPAW
85. Forever Forever
    Genevieve Artadi
86. Raven
    Kelela
87. I've Loved You for So Long
    The Aces
88. Rabbit Rabbit
    Speedy Ortiz
89. We Just Wanna Be Alright
    Dog Breath
90. Your Life and Nothing Else
    FAIM
91. Jaguar II
    Victoria Monét
92. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
93. Don't Look Back
    Hurry
94. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
95. Yard
    Slow Pulp
96. Penelope
    Small Crush
97. Creation and the Timeless Order of Things
    Racetraitor
98. Sorry I Haven't Called
    Vagabon
99. The View From The Sky
    insyt
100. The Great Dystopian Songbook III: Songs For The Homeland
     Golden Hymns Sing 'Hurrah'
101. Further Out Than The Edge
     Speakers Corner Quartet
102. A Brief Nirvana
     Khamari
103. Systemic
     Divide and Dissolve
104. That! Feels Good!
     Jessie Ware
105. Drag On Girard
     Purling Hiss
106. Messy
     Olivia Dean
107. Oh Me Oh My
     Lonnie Holley
108. I Was Mature For My Age, But I Was Still a Child
     grouptherapy.