Best of 2023
- Yearly review
50 records worth spending time with from 2023: major releases and discoveries across several genres. Curated with reference to multiple critics' year-end selections; unranked and alphabetised by artist. Includes full-length mixtapes, excludes EPs and repeat editions.
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2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inFountain Baby
Amaarae
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inNew Blue Sun
André 3000
2023
Replayd5Your scoreSign inMy Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
ANOHNI and the Johnsons
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inMaps
billy woods & Kenny Segal
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inThe Ballad of Darren
Blur
2023
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boygenius
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inLucky for You
Bully
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inDesire, I Want to Turn Into You
Caroline Polachek
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inThe Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Chappell Roan
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inVoir Dire
Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inGirl with Fish
feeble little horse
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inMultitudes
Feist
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inRadical Romantics
Fever Ray
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inDeath Is Nothing to Us
Fiddlehead
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inCartwheel
Hotline TNT
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inFly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
jaimie branch
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inWeathervanes
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inTime Ain't Accidental
Jess Williamson
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inThat! Feels Good!
Jessie Ware
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inScaring the Hoes
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inThe Greater Wings
Julie Byrne
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inRed Moon in Venus
Kali Uchis
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inWhy Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
Kara Jackson
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inRaven
Kelela
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inFalse Lankum
Lankum
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inLife Under the Gun
Militarie Gun
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inThe Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Mitski
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inDogsbody
Model/Actriz
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inSundial
Noname
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inErotic Probiotic 2
Nourished by Time
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inGUTS
Olivia Rodrigo
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inThis Is Why
Paramore
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inAfter the Magic
Parannoul
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inI Inside the Old Year Dying
PJ Harvey
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inThe Window
Ratboys
2023
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inLahai
Sampha
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inYard
Slow Pulp
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign ineverything is alive
Slowdive
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inMadres
Sofia Kourtesis
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inJavelin
Sufjan Stevens
2023
Replayd10Your scoreSign inSomething to Give Each Other
Troye Sivan
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inJaguar II
Victoria Monét
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inEveryone's Crushed
Water From Your Eyes
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inRat Saw God
Wednesday
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign insoftscars
yeule
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inThis Stupid World
Yo La Tengo
2023
Replayd—Your scoreSign inHeavy Heavy
Young Fathers
2023
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