Clockwise from top left: Cherry Glazerr, The Kills, Nation of Language, Slowdive
Our music critic Matt the Raven picks his favorite albums and songs of 2023
Listen to his 69-song playlist
January 31, 2024
This Spotify playlist contains the best 69 songs of 2023, IMHO, listed in order of greatness. It's kind of a departure from what you might expect Under the radar's consensus Top 100 Albums of 2023. The playlist consists mostly of my favorite songs from my favorite albums of 2023 (see list below) with a few surprises mixed in. You can't go wrong with any song on this list, so pick them up and give them a whirl!
The 25 Best Albums of 2023:
1. Cherry Glazerr: I don't want you anymore (Secretly Canadian)
2. The Kills: God games (Domino)
3. Slowdive: everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
4. Nation of Language: Strange Student ([PIAS])
5. bedroom: I do not know (Rock Action)
6. Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly (Fan)
7. Death and vanilla: Flicker (Fire)
8. Miss Grit: Follow Cyborg (Mute)
9. WAEVE: The WAEVE (Participle)
10. Glasser: knot (One Little Independent)
11. Blonde Redheads: Sit down to dinner (section 1)
12. Fever Ray: Radical Romantics (Mute)
13. Peter Gabriel: i/o (Real World)
14. Be Your Own Pet: mum (Third Person)
15. Coach: KILLJOY (Chess Club Record)
16. K. Flay: ONLY (Music Giants)
17. Bully: Lucky for you (Sub Pop)
18. The album Leaf: Future fall (Network)
19. Beach House: Become (EP) (Sub Pop)
20. Poppy Jean Crawford: The acquisition (EP) (Anniversary Group)
21. Blur: The Ballad of Darren (Parlophone Records)
22. Indigo De Souza: All this will end (Saddle Creek)
23. Eagle Black Belt Tracker: The land, the water, the sky (Saddle Creek)
24. Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Los Angeles (Play it again Sam)
25. Ratboys: The window (Top shelf)
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