Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2023

1. Olivia Rodrigo
   Guts
2. Buck 65
   Super Dope
3. CMAT
   If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
4. Iris DeMent
   Workin' on a World
5. Taj Mahal
   Savoy
6. Boygenius
   The Record
7. Corook
   serious person (part 1)
8. Zach Bryan
   Zach Bryan
9. Lewis Capaldi
   Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent
10. Robert Forster
    The Candle And The Flame
11. Gina Birch
    I Play My Bass Loud
12. Tyler Childers
    Rustin' In The Rain
13. The Feelies
    Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
14. Dolly Parton
    Rockstar
15. A. Savage
    Several Songs About Fire
16. Ashley McBryde
    The Devil I Know
17. Hamell On Trial
    Bring The Kids
18. Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
    Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89
19. 100 gecs
    10,000 gecs
20. Withered Hand
    How to Love
21. Tyvek
    Overground
22. Wednesday
    Rat Saw God
23. Speedy Ortiz
    Rabbit Rabbit
24. Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
    I Love You
25. Amanda Shires & Bobbie Nelson
    Loving You
26. Megan Moroney
    Lucky
27. The Human Hearts
    Viable
28. Alvvays
    Blue Rev
29. Lori McKenna
    1988
30. Jinx lennon
    Pet Rent
31. JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
    Scaring the Hoes
32. The Baseball Project
    Grand Salami TIme!
33. Corook
    best of corook (so far)
34. Girl Scout
    Real Life Human Garbage
35. Water From Your Eyes
    Everyone's Crushed
36. Danny Brown
    Quaranta
37. Balka Sound
    Balka Sound
38. Lucinda Williams
    Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart
39. Buck 65
    Punk Rock B-Boy
40. Bill Scorzari
    The Crosswinds of Kansas
41. Piconema
    East African Hits On The Colombian Coast
42. David Murray, Brad Jones, & Hamid Drake
    Seriana Promethea
43. Rodney Crowell
    The Chicago Sessions
44. DJ Shadow
    Action Adventure
45. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
    Maps
46. The Moldy Peaches
    Origin Story: 1994-1999
47. Ice Spice
    Like..?
48. Big Joanie
    Back Home
49. Morgan Wade
    Psychopath
50. Nia Archives
    Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall
51. Willie Nelson
    I Don't Know A Thing About Love
52. Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra
    America: The Rough Cut
53. Baaba Maal
    Being
54. Bombino
    Sahel
55. Brandy Clark
    Brandy Clark
56. CMAT
    Crazymad, for Me
57. Elle King
    Come Get Your Wife
58. Jeffrey Lewis
    Asides & B-Sides (2014-2018)
59. Ahl Nana
    L'Orchestre National Mauritanien
60. África Negra
    Antologia Vol. 1
61. Algiers
    Shook
62. Janelle Monáe
    The Age of Pleasure
63. Amaarae
    Fountain Baby
64. Quasi
    Breaking the Balls of History
65. Azuka Moweta and His Anioma Brothers Band of Africa
    Nwanne Bu Ife
66. Bailey Zimmerman
    Religiously. The Album.
67. Grrrl Gang
    Spunky!
68. Bar Italia
    Tracey Denim
69. Nicki Minaj
    Pink Friday 2
70. Chai
    Chai
71. Gurf Morlix
    Caveman
72. Lil Wayne
    Tha Fix Before Tha VI
73. Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward
    Happy Hearts
74. Shygirl
    Nymph
75. Lyrics Born
    Vision Board
76. Blondshell
    Blondshell
77. PONY
    Velveteen
78. Low Cut Connie
    Art Dealers
79. PJ Harvey
    I Inside the Old Year Dying
80. PinkPantheress
    Take me home
81. Maggie Rogers
    Surrender
82. Hemlocke Springs
    going...going...GONE!
83. Zach Bryan
    Boys of Faith
84. Stephen Ulrich
    Music From This American Life