McQ's Best Of will be updating its best of 2023 album rankings throughout 2023 and 2024, and also updating which albums are in the listening pool below.
Jessie Ware's fantastic return to the Donna Summer/Teena Marie days of disco That! Feels! Good! (more fun than any other 2023 album I've heard to date), Runner's glorious twee-indie-folk outing like dying stars, we're reaching out and Garage/Alt-Rock upstarts Wednesday's very solid but maybe a bit overpraised Rat Saw God our the latest additions to our rankings.
Highest Recommends
None To Date
Strong Recommends
1. That! Feels! Good! - Jessie Ware
2. Desire, I Want To Turn Into You - Caroline Polachek
Solid Recommends
5. Two Pages Of Frankenstein - The National
6. SOS - SZA
7. the record - boygenius
8. This Is Why - Paramore
9. Heavy Heavy - Young Fathers
10. MERCY - John Cale
11. Rat Saw God - Wednesday
Mild Recommends
12. Turn The Car Around - Gaz Coombes
13. This Stupid World - Yo La Tengo
2023 Albums In The Pool (# listens in/• strong early impression)
10,000 gecs (1) - 100 gecs
A Kiss For The Whole World (1) - Enter Shakari
Angel Numbers (1) - Hamish Hawk
ATTA (4) - Sigur Ros
Breaking The Balls Of History (1) - QUASI
But Here We Are (4•) - Foo Fighters
Desire Pathway (1) - Screaming Females
Euphoric Recall (1•) - Braids
False Lankum (1) - Lankum
Fountain Baby (2•) - Amaarae
Gigi's Recovery (4) - The Murder Capital
Guts (1•) - Olivia Rodrigo
I Am Not There Anymore (3•) - The Clientele
I Inside The Old Year Dying (4) - PJ Harvey
In Times New Roman (3) - Queens Of The Stone Age
Maps (1) - Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
Memento Mori (1) - Depeche Mode
My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross (1•) - ANOHNI
Radical Romantics (1•) - Fever Ray
Raving Ghost (1) - Olivia Jean
The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (1) - Sparks
The Great Wings (1) - Julia Byrne
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (1) - Mitski
Toxic Positivity (1) - The Used
Wait Til I Get Over (4•) - Durand Jones
Weathervanes (3•) - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
Last Updated 09.23.23
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