Year-End Lists

mxdwn: Top 40 Best Albums Of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024]

1. Rat Wars
   Health
2. Struggler
   Genesis Owusu
3. Mono
   K.Flay
4. Radical Romantics
   Fever Ray
5. Psychic Dance Routine
   Scowl
6. The Algorithm
   Filter
7. Michael
   Killer Mike
8. Cracker Island
   Gorillaz
9. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
   Lana Del Rey
10. Jubilee
    Old Crow Medicine Show
11. Rivers of Heresy
    Empire State Bastard
12. Mid Air
    Romy
13. Unicorn
    Gunship
14. Chrome Dreams
    Neil Young
15. Venom
    Wargasm
16. But Here We Are
    Foo Fighters
17. Integrated Tech Solutions
    Aesop Rock
18. Stone
    Baroness
19. One More Time
    Blink-182
20. Echosmith
    Echosmith
21. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
22. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
23. Endless Summer Vacation
    Miley Cyrus
24. the record
    Boygenius
25. Spine
    Myrkur
26. Dethalbum IV
    Dethklok
27. So Much (For) Stardust
    Fall Out Boy
28. Mammoth II
    Mammoth WVH
29. Bird Machine
    Sparklehorse
30. Cold War Kids
    Cold War Kids
31. Club Romantech
    Icona Pop
32. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
33. A Reckoning
    Kimbra
34. TZIA
    Meg Myers
35. God Made Me An Animal
    Better Lovers
36. When No Birds Sang
    Full of Hell and Nothing
37. The Future Is Your Past
    The Brian Jonestown Massacre
38. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
39. Concept Album
    Dwarves
40. Phantomime
    Ghost