Year-End Lists

Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2023

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Slowdive
   everything is alive
2. Sufjan Stevens
   Javelin
3. Lankum
   False Lankum
4. Yo La Tengo
   This Stupid World
5. Feist
   Multitudes
6. PJ Harvey
   I Inside the Old Year Dying
7. Boygenius
   The Record
8. Caroline Polachek
   Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
9. Blonde Redhead
   Sit Down for Dinner
10. Natalie Merchant
    Keep Your Courage
11. Kara Jackson
    Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
12. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
    Weathervanes
13. Beverly Glenn-Copeland
    The Ones Ahead
14. Lana Del Rey
    Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
15. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
    Maps
16. Bill Orcutt
    Jump On It
17. Romy
    Mid Air
18. Mitski
    The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
19. Anohni and the Johnsons
    My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
20. Laurel Halo
    Atlas