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2023 Music

The Fader: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

12 December 2023

The Fader: The 50 Best Albums of 2023

[see also 2024 • 2022 • 2021]

  1. a.s.o.
    a.s.o
  2. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
  3. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
  4. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
  5. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
  6. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
  7. CBD Reiki Moonbeam
    Neggy Gemmy
  8. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
  9. Spirit World Tour
    Sword II
  10. Détwat
    HiTech
  11. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
  12. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
  13. Hood Hottest Princess
    Sexyy Red
  14. Heaven
    Cleo Sol
  15. Génesis
    Peso Pluma
  16. Red Moon in Venus
    Kali Uchis
  17. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
  18. Saved!
    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
  19. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
  20. Ganger
    Veeze
  21. Hypochondriac
    Brakence
  22. Perfect Saviors
    The Armed
  23. Panico No Submundo
    DJ K
  24. Revanchist
    Evian Christ
  25. SOS
    SZA
  26. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
  27. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
  28. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
  29. High School Football
    Brevin Kim
  30. Spike Field
    Maria BC
  31. Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
    John Francis Flynn
  32. Perspective
    Jlin
  33. Softscars
    yeule
  34. Sundial
    Noname
  35. Yo No Era Así, Pero de Ahora en Adelante, Sí
    Diego Raposo
  36. Living
    mark william lewis
  37. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
  38. Notorious Dump Legends, Vol. 2
    Mach-Hommy and Tha God Fahim
  39. Sugar World
    jonatan leandoer96
  40. Pressure Sensitive
    Anysia Kym & Jadasea
  41. Atlas
    Laurel Halo
  42. Raven
    Kelela
  43. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
  44. Work of Art
    Asake
  45. Romantic Piano
    Gia Margaret
  46. homeless n***a pop music
    Jim Legxacy
  47. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
  48. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
  49. Honey
    Samia
  50. Burning Desire
    Mike

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