Year-End Lists

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023, as posted on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop

1. Jeff Rosenstock
   Hellmode
2. JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
   Scaring the Hoes
3. Lana Del Rey
   Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
4. Sufjan Stevens
   Javelin
5. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
   Maps
6. Sampha
   Lahai
7. Sprain
   The Lamb as Effigy
8. Liturgy
   93696
9. Anohni and the Johnsons
   My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
10. The Lemon Twigs
    Everything Harmony
11. Armand Hammer
    We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
12. Genesis Owusu
    Struggler
13. underscores
    Wallsocket
14. Geese
    3D Country
15. Amaarae
    Fountain Baby
16. grouptherapy.
    I Was Mature For My Age, But I Was Still a Child
17. Kara Jackson
    Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
18. Caroline Polachek
    Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
19. 100 gecs
    10,000 gecs
20. Sexyy Red
    Hood Hottest Princess (Deluxe)
21. King Krule
    Space Heavy
22. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
    PetroDragonic Apocalypse
23. Snooper
    Super Snõõper
24. Lonnie Holley
    Oh Me Oh My
25. McKinley Dixon
    Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
26. Model/Actriz
    Dogsbody
27. Olivia Rodrigo
    Guts
28. Paramore
    This Is Why
29. Feeble Little Horse
    Girl with Fish
30. Squid
    O Monolith
31. The Hirs Collective
    We're Still Here
32. Parannoul
    After the Magic
33. Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan
34. PinkPantheress
    Heaven Knows
35. Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
    Saved!
36. Mitski
    The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
37. Snow Strippers
    April Mixtape 3
38. Wiki & Tony Seltzer
    14K Figaro
39. Tinashe
    BB/Ang3l
40. Colin Stetson
    When we were that what wept for the sea
41. Joanna Sternberg
    I've Got Me
42. Tomb Mold
    The Enduring Spirit
43. Mon Laferte
    Autopoiética
44. Autopsy
    Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts
45. Mike
    Burning Desire
46. Ana Frango Elétrico
    Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua
47. Key Glock
    Glockoma 2
48. George Clanton
    Ooh Rap I Ya
49. Jessie Ware
    That! Feels Good!
50. Navy Blue
    Ways of Knowing

Top 15 EPs

1. Alice Longyu Gao
   Let's Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire
2. Hemlocke Springs
   going...going...GONE!
3. Maruja
   Knocknarea
4. JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
   Scaring the Hoes: DLC Pack
5. Geese
   4D Country
6. Haru Nemuri
   Insaint
7. Quadeca
   Scrapyard III
7. Quadeca
   Scrapyard II
7. Quadeca
   Scrapyard I
8. Nia Archives
   Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall
9. Franek Warzywa & Młody Budda
   Wykopki
10. Angel Olsen
    Forever Means
11. Yukika
    Time-Lapse
12. Chat Pile & Nerver
    Brothers in Christ
13. The Alchemist
    Flying High
14. Spirit of the Beehive
    i'm so lucky
15. June McDoom
    With Strings

Honorable Mentions

• Jeromes Dream
  The Gray In Between
• Real Bad Man & Blu
  Bad News
• Foo Fighters
  But Here We Are
• Thantifaxath
  Hive Mind Narcosis
• Witch
  Zango
• Young Fathers
  Heavy Heavy
• Lil Yachty
  Let's Start Here
• Black Country, New Road
  Live at Bush Hall
• Boygenius
  The Record
• Teezo Touchdown
  How Do You Sleep at Night?
• Swans
  The Beggar
• Matana Roberts
  Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…
• André 3000
  New Blue Sun