The 10 best albums of 2023
1 year ago

The 10 best albums of 2023

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Pop music’s biggest A-listers largely sat on the sidelines in 2023. Olivia Rodrigo, ‘Guts’ Three years ago, Olivia Rodrigo introduced herself to the world as Gen-Z teen idol with Sour, a melancholic breakup album brimming with grunge guitar distortion and power-ballad intimacy. Noname, ‘Sundial’ Chicago rapper Noname spent the five years since her 2018 album Room 25 hinting that she was done with rap, even as she dove headfirst into revolutionary politics and community activism. Arooj Aftab, Shahzad Ismaily, Vijay Iyer, ‘Love In Exile’ Grammy-winning Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab already established herself as one of the most exciting South Asian voices in global music with Vulture Prince, her breakout 2021 album that re-imagined the ghazal for ambient music and minimalistic folk. Ruhail Qaisar, ‘Fatima’ For the past half-decade, one of Indian music’s best-kept secrets has been its underground experimental music scene, grungy-looking music nerds in grimy dive bars and DIY art galleries fiddling with laptops and synths to create abrasive, shape-shifting structures of atonal noise and harsh sonic texture.

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The 20 best albums of 2023
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