Year-End Lists

Steve Erickson: Best Music of 2023, where it's posted alongside 40 singles and archival releases/reissues

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

Top 10 albums (in alphabetical order)

• Perfect Picture
  Hannah Diamond
• The Ones Ahead
  Beverly Glenn-Copeland
• Perspective
  Jlin
• Raven
  Kelela
• Space Heavy
  King Krule
• False Lankum
  Lankum
• Guts
  Olivia Rodrigo
• River of Dreams
  Romance & Dean Hurley
• Fade Into You
  Romance
• Dead Meat
  The Tubs
• Wallsocket
  underscores

Runners-up

• Ison
  Abadir
• Owl Song
  Ambrose Akinmusire
• Beauty Is Enough
  Ambrose Akinmusire
• New Blue Sun
  André 3000
• We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
  Armand Hammer
• AE_LONDON_071022_B
  Autechre
• Rolling Up the Welcome Mat
  Kelsea Ballerini
• The Twits
  Bar Italia
• Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
  Jaimie Branch
• Dozage
  Chrisman
• I Am Not There Anymore
  The Clientele
• Gettin' Old
  Luke Combs
• Systemic
  Divide and Dissolve
• A Lenda
  DJ Blakes
• Resolve
  Arnold Dreyblatt
• Plus One
  Fielded
• Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
  John Francis Flynn
• Clear Pond Road
  Kristin Hersh
• The Loveliest Time
  Carly Rae Jepsen
• WOW
  Kate NV
• Wind and Sun
  Sinikka Langeland
• homeless n***a pop music
  Jim Legxacy
• Ex Machina
  Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz
• Eye Of I
  James Brandon Lewis
• For Mahalia, With Love
  James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
• Every Acre
  H.C. McEntire
• Yallah Beibe
  MC Yallah
• Echolocation
  Mendoza Hoff Revels
• Dogsbody
  Model/Actriz
• An Cnoc Mór
  Moundabout
• Post-American
  MSPAINT
• Animals
  Kassa Overall
• Heaven Knows
  PinkPantheress
• el espacio entre
  Refree
• The Returner
  Allison Russell
• 12
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Psychic Dance Routine
  Scowl
• Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
  Yves Tumor
• Destroyer
  Justin Walter
• Shimmer Wince
  Anna Webber
• Asking for a Ride
  White Reaper
• Maps
  Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
• Eyeroll
  Ziúr