Album of the Year 2023

For further information on the run down of 2023’s best albums, please see The Listening Spree’s Top 50 Albums of 2023

Ranking	Artist	Album	Rating
1	Kelela	Raven	9
2	Yves Tumor	Hot Between Worlds	9
3	Billy Woods & Kenny Segal	Maps	9
4	Tennis	Pollen	9
5	Sufjan Stevens	Javelin	9
6	Model/Actriz	Dogsbody	8
7	JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown	Scaring The Hoes	8
8	Snõõper	Super Snõõper	8
9	Julie Byrne	The Greater Wings	8
10	Mitski	The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We	8
11	Samantha Urbani	Showing Up	8
12	Wednesday	Rat Saw God	8
13	Ana Frango Elétrico	Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua	8
14	Mick Jenkins	The Patience	8
15	Paramore	This Is Why	8
16	Slowthai	UGLY	8
17	Water From Your Eyes	Everyone’s Crushed	8
18	Danny Brown	Quaranta	8
19	Sampha	Lahai	8
20	Genesis Owusu	Struggler	8
21	Armand Hammer	We Buy Diabetic Test Strips	8
22	MIKE	Burning Desire	8
23	Wiki & Tony Seltzer	14K Figaro	8
24	Olivia Rodrigo	GUTS	8
25	Nourished By Time	Erotic Probiotic	8
26	Sofia Kourtesis	Madres	8
27	ICECOLDBISHOP	Generational Curse	8
28	ANOHNI	My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross	8
29	Protomartyr	Formal Growth In The Desert	7
30	King Krule	Space Heavy	7
31	Carly Rae Jepsen	The Loveliest Time	7
32	Jessie Ware	That! Feels Good!	7
33	HMLTD	The Worm	7
34	Tinashe	BB/ANG3L	7
35	Young Fathers	Heavy Heavy	7
36	Kali Uchis	Red Moon In Venus	7
37	Queens Of The Stone Age	In Times New Roman	7
38	Lankum	False Lankum	7
39	Billie Marten	Drop Cherries	7
40	George Clanton	Ooh Rap I Ya	7
41	Lana Del Rey	Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd	7
42	Jalen Ngonda	Come Around and Love Me	7
43	Cleo Sol	Gold	7
44	Altın Gün	Aşk	7
45	Shame	Food For Worms	7
46	Bar Italia	Tracey Denim	7
47	Daughter	Stereo Mind Game	7
48	The Lemon Twigs	Everything Harmony	7
49	Lil Yachty	Let’s Start Here	7
50	Slow Pulp	Yard	7
51	Blonde Redhead	Sit Down for Dinner	7
52	Helena Deland	Goodnight Summerland	7
53	Black Country, New Road	Live At Bush Hall	7
54	CMAT	Crazymad, For Me	7
55	Mhaol	Attachment Styles	7
56	Ethan P. Flynn	Abandon All Hope	7
57	The Hives	The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons	7
58	Peter Gabriel	i/o	7
59	Alison Goldfrapp	The Love Invention	7
60	Kaytraminé	Kaytraminé	7
61	SG Lewis	AudioLust & HigherLove	7
62	Haley Blais	Wisecrack	7
63	Candelabro	Ahora o Nunca	7
64	Kara Jackson	Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?	6
65	Overmono	Good Lies	6
66	Grian Chatten	Chaos For The Fly	6
67	A. Savage	Several Songs About Fire	6
68	Nation of Language	Strange Disciple	6
69	Caroline Polachek	Desire, I Want To Turn Into You	6
70	Geese	3D Country	6
71	Squid	O Monolith	6
72	Disclosure	Alchemy	6
73	Slowdive	Everything Is Alive	6
74	Tkay Maidza	Sweet Justice	6
75	Blur	The Ballad Of Darren	6
76	Biig Piig	Bubblegum	6
77	Jeff Rosenstock	HELLMODE	6
78	John Francis Flynn	Look Over the Wall, See the Sky	6
79	Caroline Rose	The Art Of Forgetting	6
80	Maeta	When I Hear Your Name	6
81	MIKE, Wiki & The Alchemist	Faith is a Rock	6
82	Paris Texas	Mid Air	6
83	Larry June & The Alchemist	The Great Escape	6
84	Bombay Bicycle Club	My Big Day	6
85	Westside Gunn	And Then You Pray For Me	6
86	Kojaque	Phantom of the Afters	6
87	El Michels Affair & Black Thought	Glorious Game	6
88	Hozier	Unreal Unearth	6
89	PJ Harvey	I Inside the Old Year Dying	6
90	Animal Collective	Isn’t It Now	6
91	Aesop Rock	Integrated Tech Solutions	6
92	Jamila Woods	Water Made Us	6
93	Noname	Sundial	6
94	Boygenius	The Record	6
95	Spiritual Cramp	Spiritual Cramp	6
96	The Murder Capital	Gigi’s Recovery	5
97	Roosevelt	Embrace	5
98	Wild Nothing	Hold	5
99	Mandy, Indiana	I’ve Seen A Way	5
100	Alice Phoebe Lou	Shelter	5
101	Flyte	Flyte	5
102	Kylie Minogue	Tension	5
103	Nabihah Iqbal	Dreamer	5
104	Estee Nack	Nacksaw Jim Duggan	5
105	Jane Remover	Census Designated	5
106	Jorja Smith	Falling or Flying	5
107	Blondshell	Blondshell	5
108	Daniel Caesar	Never Enough	5
109	James Blake	Playing Robots Into Heaven	5
110	Navy Blue	Ways Of Knowing	5
111	SBTRKT	The Rat Road	5
112	Ben Howard	Is It?	5
113	Paul Wall & Termanology	Start Finish Repeat	5
114	L’Rain	I Killed Your Dog	5
115	Travis Scott	Utopia	5
116	Mac Ayres	Comfortable Enough	5
117	McKinley Dixon	Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?	5
118	Sprain	The Lamb As Effigy	4
119	Róisín Murphy	Hit Parade	4
120	Jungle	Volcano	4
121	Lastlings	Perfect World	4
122	Victoria Monét	Jaguar II	4
123	Brent Faiyaz	Larger Than Life	4
124	Beach Fossils	Bunny	4
125	Do Nothing	Snake Sideways	4
126	Amaarae	Fountain Baby	4
127	Liv.e	Girl In The Half Pearl	4
128	Indigo De Souza	All Of This Will End	4
129	Arlo Parks	My Soft Machine	4
130	The Chemical Brothers	For That Beautiful Feeling	4
131	M83	Fantasy	4
132	PinkPantheress	Heaven Knows	4
133	The National	Laugh Track	3
134	6LACK	Since I Have A Lover	3
135	Troye Sivan	Something To Give Each Other	3
136	Gorillaz	Cracker Island	3
137	Samia	Honey	3
138	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	V	3
139	Fever Ray	Radical Romantics	3
140	The National	First Two Pages Of Frankenstein	3
141	Romy	Mid Air	3
142	Glüme	Main Character	3
143	Dinner Party	Enigmatic Society	3
144	Jesse James Solomon	Sunfall	3
145	The Go! Team	Get Up Sequences Part Two	2
146	JMSN	Soft Spot	2
147	Sleaford Mods	UK GRIM	2
148	Royal Blood	Back to the Water Below	2
149	Alex Lahey	The Answer Is Always Yes	2
150	U.S. Girls	Bless This Mess	2