Year-End Lists

mxdwn: Top 40 Best Albums Of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024]

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