Year-End Lists

Josh Terry: The 60 Best Albums of 2023, "according to some guy in Chicago"

• Allegra Krieger
  I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
• Anna St. Louis
  In The Air
• Arbor Labor Union
  Yonder
• Bella White
  Among Other Things
• Bonny Doon
  Let There Be Music
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy
  Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
• Brent Cobb
  Southern Star
• The Bug Club
  Rare Birds: Hour of Song
• Cory Hanson
  Western Cum
• Crosslegged
  Another Blue
• Cusp
  You Can Do It All
• Dari Bay
  Longest Day of the Year
• Deeper
  Careful!
• Deer Tick
  Emotional Contracts
• The Drin
  Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
• Dusk
  Glass Pastures
• En Attendant Ana
  Principia
• Florry
  The Holey Bible
• Fog Lake
  Midnight Society
• Free Range
  Practice
• Geese
  3D Country
• Gia Margaret
  Romantic Piano
• Golden Apples
  Bananasugarfire
• Greg Mendez
  Greg Mendez
• Hataalii
  Singing into Darkness
• Hazel City
  Old Friend
• Helena Deland
  Goodnight Summerland
• Hollow Hand
  Your Own Adventure
• Jamila Woods
  Water Made Us
• JD Clayton
  Long Way From Home
• Jess Williamson
  Time Ain't Accidental
• Kara Jackson
  Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
• Kassi Valazza
  Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing
• Magic AL
  Good Grief
• Mapache
  Swinging Stars
• Maple Glider
  I Get Into Trouble
• McKinley Dixon
  Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
• Mikaela Davis
  And Southern Star
• Mitski
  The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
• MSPAINT
  Post-American
• Núria Graham
  Cyclamen
• Oozing Wound
  We Cater To Cowards
• Prewn
  Through the Window
• Ratboys
  The Window
• Resavoir
  Resavoir
• Sharp Pins
  Turtle Rock
• Skyway Man
  Flight of the Long Distance Healer
• Slaughter Beach, Dog
  Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
• Slow Pulp
  Yard
• Squirrel Flower
  Tomorrow's Fire
• Stuck
  Freak Frequency
• Sufjan Stevens
  Javelin
• Sunny War
  Anarchist Gospel
• superviolet
  Infinite Spring
• Truth Club
  Running From the Chase
• Ulrika Spacek
  Compact Trauma
• villagerrr
  Like Leaves
• Wednesday
  Rat Saw God
• Wilco
  Cousin
• Youth Lagoon
  Heaven Is a Junkyard

The Other 40 (Honorable Mentions - Top 100)

• Braden Lawrence
  When You Lose The Light
• Charlie Hill
  Chuck Pond
• Charlotte Cornfield
  Could Have Done Anything
• The Clientele
  I Am Not There Anymore
• defprez
  It's Always A Time Like This
• Dougie Poole
  The Rainbow Wheel of Death
• Field Medic
  Light Is Gone 2
• Gaadge
  Somewhere Down Below
• Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
  Weathervanes
• Jimmy Whispers
  The Search for God
• Jonah Yano
  Portrait of a Dog
• Julie Byrne
  The Greater Wings
• Katie Von Schleicher
  A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
  The Silver Cord
• King Tuff
  Smalltown Stardust
• Lane Beckstrom
  Looking Out
• Laufey
  Bewitched
• Liquid Mike
  S/T
• Mali Velasquez
  I'm Green
• Mick Jenkins
  The Patience
• Mutual Benefit
  Growing at the Edges
• Pony Bradshaw
  North Georgia Rounder
• Protomartyr
  Formal Growth In The Desert
• Purelink
  Signs
• Rachel Baiman
  Common Nation of Sorrow
• Radar Peak
  Radar Peak
• Sam Blasucci
  Off My Stars
• Sen Morimoto
  Diagnosis
• Shame
  Food for Worms
• Sluice
  Radial Gate
• Sofia Kourtesis
  Madres
• Squid
  O Monolith
• Strange Ranger
  Pure Music
• The Stacks
  Lay Me Down to Rest
• Tyler Childers
  Rustin' In The Rain
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  V
• Valee and Harry Fraud
  Virtuoso
• The War and Treaty
  Lover's Game
• Warm Human
  Hometown Hero
• Yo La Tengo
  This Stupid World