Year-End Lists

No Ripcord: The Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021]

1. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
2. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
3. Cartwheel
   Hotline TNT
4. Scaring the Hoes
   JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
5. Gigi's Recovery
   The Murder Capital
6. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
7. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
8. Food for Worms
   Shame
9. Formal Growth In The Desert
   Protomartyr
10. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
11. Norm
    Andy Shauf
12. Tomorrow's Fire
    Squirrel Flower
13. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
14. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
15. Bekka Ma'iingan
    Zoon
16. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
17. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
18. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
19. Girl In The Half Pearl
    Liv.e
20. I Am Not There Anymore
    The Clientele
21. Furling
    Meg Baird
22. Lucky for You
    Bully
23. Blondshell
    Blondshell
24. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
25. Follow the Cyborg
    Miss Grit
26. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
27. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo
28. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
29. Eye On The Bat
    Palehound
30. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
31. Domino
    Diners
32. Black Rainbows
    Corinne Bailey Rae
33. Greg Mendez
    Greg Mendez
34. Attachment Figure
    Sarah Morrison
35. The Last Rotation Of Earth
    BC Camplight
36. The Window
    Ratboys
37. Angels & Queens
    Gabriels
38. After the Magic
    Parannoul
39. With A Hammer
    yaeji
40. Hellmode
    Jeff Rosenstock
41. The Mind of A Saint
    Skyzoo & The Other Guys
42. Space Heavy
    King Krule
43. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
44. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
45. Spellling & the Mystery School
    Spellling
46. Bird Machine
    Sparklehorse
47. Life Under the Gun
    Militarie Gun
48. Voice Notes
    Yazmin Lacey
49. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
50. This Is Why
    Paramore