pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2023

50. André 3000 - New Blue Sun

49. Sweeping Promises - Good Living Is Coming for You

48. Purelink - Signs

47. Parannoul - After the Magic

46. Bluke Lake - Sun Arcs

45. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit

44. Jess Williamson - Time Ain't Accidental

43. Kali Uchis - Red Moon In Venus

42. Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is a Junkyard

41. Sexyy Red - Hood Hottest Princess

40. Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12

39. Liv.e - Girl In The Half Pearl

38. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

37. Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My

36. Pangaea - Changing Channels

35. Veeze - Ganger

34. Joanna Sternberg - I've Got Me

33. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody

32. Ice Spice - Like...?

31. Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

30. Avalon Emerson - & The Charm

29. HiTech - DÉTWAT

28. jaimie branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))

27. Water From Your Eyes - Everyone's Crushed

26. Laurel Halo - Atlas

25. Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily - Love in Exile

24. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

23. Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We

22. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!

21. Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

20. Mandy, Indiana - i've seen a way

19. Kara Jackson - Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love

18. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs

17. Kelela - Raven

16. boygenius - the record

15. Yaeji - With a Hammer

14. Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS

13. Noname - Sundial

12. L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog

11. Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

10. yeule - softscars

9. ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross

8. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

7. Amaarae - Fountain Baby

6. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

5. Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2

4. Wednesday - Rat Saw God

3. billy woods / Kenny Segal - Maps

2. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

1. SZA - SOS

Already out at number 50....

they could never make me hate you

drama!

NOURISHED BY TIME TOP 5 ON THE DEBUT PROJECT.

the top 10 is very solid. only played Rat Saw God once but really enjoyed all those other albums

i've been seeing the Sexyy Red tape everywhere and not the Ice Spice project, glad that it's included here

still need to hear that fever ray album but other than that, i'm not mad at these picks

the rest of their list is pretty easy to guess if you happen to come across their reviews often, which happens on here a lot, because everyone is obsessed with Pitchfork lol

shoutout L'Rain at #12 and Lana at #11 tho

it's good, especially the top half

WOMEN! YES! YES! YES!

Black queen at the top, all I need to see. It's still f*** pitchfork

Sza album came out last year which mean Caroline #1 to me

They included EPs on here but didn’t add Newjeans lol

Awful

This is usually the list I run through for projects i didn't listen to so I'm glad it's out early

fr it's a good way to catchup

Sexy red sucks. Where’s afterlyfe

switch 3 and 2 and the top 5 is correct

Is Travis being blackballed?

That HiTech album is so f***ing good, surprised I haven’t seen yall talking about it

love sos but it came out last year lol

Erotic Probiotic 2 thats right

interesting what didn’t get a spot tbh, there were a couple of well-scored projects I expected to see here (eg Snooper)

worst year for music since the start of the 21st century