KEXP listeners have great taste in radio stations, obviously. They also have great taste in music! That’s why, each year, we take the time to build a listener-powered list of the best albums of the year. And now is that time! We asked our listeners to vote on their favorite albums of 2023. See what they picked list below.
This page will update throughout the day as the countdown progresses. Keep checking back to find out what album snags the #1 spot.
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90.3 Slow Pulp - Yard
90 Califone - Villagers
89 The Smile - The Smile (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022)
88 Sleaford Mods - UK GRIM
87 Daughter - Stereo Mind Game
86 Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music
85 Calibro 35 - Nouvelles Aventures
84 Caroline Rose - The Art of Forgetting
83 Shabazz Palaces - Robed in Rareness
82 Nabihah Iqbal - Dreamer
81 Smokey Brights - Broken Too EP
80 Sampha - Lahai
79 Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day
78 Beach Fossils - Bunny
77 James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven
76 DEBBY FRIDAY - GOOD LUCK
75 Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V
74 The Bug Club - Rare Birds: Hour of Song
73 Dry Cleaning - Swampy EP
72 Feist - Multitudes
71 Squid - O Monolith
70 Jamila Woods - Water Made Us
69 Spirit Award - The Fear
68 Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Data Doom
67 Palehound - Eye on the Bat
66 Polyrhythmics - Filter System
65 Small Paul - Come Alive and Live Again
64 Ratboys - The Window
63 Noname - Sundial
62 El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game
61 Osees - Intercepted Message
60 Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End
59 Jenn Champion - The Last Night of Sadness
58 Medejin - The Garden
57 Grian Chatten - Chaos for the Fly
56 WITCH - Zango
55 The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
54 bar italia - Tracey Denim
53 Everything But the Girl - Fuse
52 Killer Mike - Michael
51 Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman
50 Smokey Brights - Levitator
49 Little Dragon - Slugs of Love
48 The New Pornographers - Continue as a Guest
47 Romy - Mid Air
46 Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard
45 Jenny Lewis - Joy’All
44 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord
43 Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
42 The National - Laugh Track
41 Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
40 La Fonda - We Are Infinite
39 Blur - Ballad of Darren
38 Geese - 3D Country
37 Beach House - Become EP
36 Sigur Rós - Atta
35 Altın Gün - Aşk
34 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes
33 Cherry Glazerr - I Don’t Want You Anymore
32 Blondshell - Blondshell
31 Wednesday - Rat Saw God
30 Little Simz - NO THANK YOU
29 M83 - Fantasy
28 Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
27 Wilco - Cousin
26 PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
25 Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here.
24 Genesis Owusu - Struggler
23 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalype
22 Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
21 Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
20 Waves Crashing - The Viewing EP
19 Say She She - Silver
18 Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
17 Black Belt Eagle Scout - The Land, The Water, The Sky
16 The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling
15 The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein
14 Janelle Monae - The Age of Pleasure
13 Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
12 Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine
11 Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume…
10 Bully - Lucky For You
9 Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
8 Gorillaz - Cracker Island
7 Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond
6 Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
5 Jungle - Volcano
4 Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
3 Slowdive - everything is alive
2 Nation of Language - Strange Disciple
1 boygenius - the record
