‘Pitchfork’ Names , the Best 10 Albums of 2023.
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Yeule: softscars, "softscars melts a decade’s worth of alt-rock touchstones into a phantasmagoria of tone and texture." - Jayson Greene.
9.
ANOHNI and the Johnsons: My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross, "From its opening moments, the searching existentialism of My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross takes root in your core." - Eric Torres.
8.
Fever Ray: Radical Romantics, "Trace the path of Karin Dreijer’s glinting scalpel as they dissect the many mutations of love." - Madison Bloom.
7.
Amaarae: Fountain Baby, "Amaarae’s second album makes a life of Henny-soaked hedonism and thotty trysts feel like a regular Tuesday." - Isabelia Herrera.
6.
Sufjan Stevens: Javelin, "Dedicated to his late partner, the album is a humble maturation that pulls together Stevens’ career trademarks in one sweeping motion." - Nina Corcoran.
5.
Nourished by Time: Erotic Probiotic 2, "If it’s true that a musician spends their whole life making their debut album, you might wonder just how many lives Marcus Brown has lived." - Jeremy D.
Larson.
4.
Wednesday: Rat Saw God, "On Rat Saw God, the band reaches shoegaze transcendence, screamo heaven, and the kind of catharsis that leaves you exhausted in the most glorious way." - Jill Mapes.
3.
Billy woods / Kenny Segal: Maps, "Kenny Segal’s beats are the backbone—switching between gentle and hard, kooky and sublime—and give [billy] woods the space to lay out the life lessons, sly jokes, and observations that make the mundane sound profound." - Alphonse Pierre .
3.
Billy woods / Kenny Segal: Maps, "Kenny Segal’s beats are the backbone—switching between gentle and hard, kooky and sublime—and give [billy] woods the space to lay out the life lessons, sly jokes, and observations that make the mundane sound profound." - Alphonse Pierre .
2.
Caroline Polachek: Desire, I Want to Turn Into You, "Released on Valentine’s Day, Caroline Polachek’s second solo album drags a key through the Hallmark holiday polish and imagines a version of love altogether more carnal and consuming." - Olivia Horn.
1.
SZA: SOS, "SOS is an indulgence of the masochistic instinct to rage and break s--- and deal with the consequences later." - Clover Hope
