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Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2023

26 December 2023

The Window - Ratboys

Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2023

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  1. Ratboys
    The Window
  2. Sufjan Stevens
    Javelin
  3. Caroline Polachek
    Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
  4. Black Belt Eagle Scout
    The Land, The Water, The Sky
  5. Jessie Ware
    That! Feels Good!
  6. Slowdive
    everything is alive
  7. Boygenius
    The Record
  8. The Waeve
    The Waeve
  9. Wednesday
    Rat Saw God
  10. Olivia Rodrigo
    Guts
  11. Mitski
    The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
  12. Nation of Language
    Strange Disciple
  13. Caroline Rose
    The Art of Forgetting
  14. Miss Grit
    Follow the Cyborg
  15. Wilco
    Cousin
  16. Lana Del Rey
    Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
  17. Bully
    Lucky for You
  18. Blonde Redhead
    Sit Down for Dinner
  19. Alex Lahey
    The Answer Is Always Yes
  20. Blondshell
    Blondshell
  21. Indigo De Souza
    All of This Will End
  22. Strange Ranger
    Pure Music
  23. Paramore
    This Is Why
  24. IAN SWEET
    Sucker
  25. Yo La Tengo
    This Stupid World
  26. Jess Williamson
    Time Ain't Accidental
  27. John Cale
    Mercy
  28. Girl Ray
    Prestige
  29. Lael Neale
    Star Eaters Delight
  30. Blur
    The Ballad of Darren
  31. Peter Gabriel
    I/O
  32. JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
    Scaring the Hoes
  33. Emma Anderson
    Pearlies
  34. M83
    Fantasy
  35. Art Feynman
    Be Good The Crazy Boys
  36. Water From Your Eyes
    Everyone's Crushed
  37. Palehound
    Eye On The Bat
  38. Grian Chatten
    Chaos for the Fly
  39. This Is the Kit
    Careful Of Your Keepers
  40. Young Fathers
    Heavy Heavy
  41. Shame
    Food for Worms
  42. The Lemon Twigs
    Everything Harmony
  43. Margaret Glaspy
    Echo the Diamond
  44. CMAT
    Crazymad, for Me
  45. Wild Nothing
    Hold
  46. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
    Maps
  47. Sampha
    Lahai
  48. Mutual Benefit
    Growing at the Edges
  49. Madeline Kenney
    A New Reality Mind
  50. Geese
    3D Country
  51. Youth Lagoon
    Heaven Is a Junkyard
  52. PJ Harvey
    I Inside the Old Year Dying
  53. Jamila Woods
    Water Made Us
  54. Squirrel Flower
    Tomorrow's Fire
  55. Hotline TNT
    Cartwheel
  56. Squid
    O Monolith
  57. Steven Wilson
    The Harmony Codex
  58. Coach Party
    Killjoy
  59. Kara Jackson
    Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
  60. Jeff Rosenstock
    Hellmode
  61. The National
    Laugh Track
  62. Teenage Fanclub
    Nothing Lasts Forever
  63. The Mountain Goats
    Jenny from Thebes
  64. Foo Fighters
    But Here We Are
  65. Explosions in the Sky
    End
  66. Cherry Glazerr
    I Don't Want You Anymore
  67. El Michels Affair & Black Thought
    Glorious Game
  68. The Clientele
    I Am Not There Anymore
  69. Slaughter Beach, Dog
    Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
  70. Julie Byrne
    The Greater Wings
  71. Arlo Parks
    My Soft Machine
  72. Lanterns on the Lake
    Versions Of Us
  73. Drop Nineteens
    Hard Light
  74. Belle and Sebastian
    Late Developers
  75. Metric
    Formentera II
  76. Murray A. Lightburn
    Once Upon A Time In Montréal
  77. U.S. Girls
    Bless This Mess
  78. Yves Tumor
    Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
  79. The Murder Capital
    Gigi's Recovery
  80. Fenne Lily
    Big Picture
  81. Sparks
    The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
  82. A. Savage
    Several Songs About Fire
  83. Jenny Lewis
    Joy'All
  84. Wings of Desire
    Life Is Infinite
  85. Samia
    Honey
  86. bdrmm
    I Don't Know
  87. Jaakko Eino Kalevi
    Chaos Magic
  88. Andy Shauf
    Norm
  89. Anohni and the Johnsons
    My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
  90. H. Hawkline
    Milk For Flowers
  91. Braids
    Euphoric Recall
  92. Mandy, Indiana
    I've Seen a Way
  93. Amber Arcades
    Barefoot On Diamond Road
  94. Mega Bog
    End Of Everything
  95. Slow Pulp
    Yard
  96. Baxter Dury
    I Thought I Was Better Than You
  97. Bar Italia
    Tracey Denim
  98. The New Pornographers
    Continue as a Guest
  99. Modern Nature
    No Fixed Point In Space
  100. Sen Morimoto
    Diagnosis

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