Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2023

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 2023

Listing for 147 records from 2023 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A	Gina Birch: *I Play My Bass Loud* [Third Man] Boygenius: *The Record* [Interscope] Zach Bryan: *Zach Bryan* [Warner] Buck 65: *Super Dope* [Handsmade] Buck 65, Doseone, Jel: *North American Adonis* [Handsmade] Lewis Capaldi: *Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent* [Capitol] Tyler Childers: *Rustin' in the Rain* [RCA/Hickman Holler] Corook: *Serious Person (Part 1)* [Atlantic EP] The Feelies: *Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground* [Bar/None] Robert Forster: *The Candle and the Flame* [Tapete] Hamell on Trial: *Bring the Kids* [Saustex] JPEGMafia & Danny Brown: *Scaring the Hoes* [AWAL] Jon Langford & the Men of Gwent: *Lost on Land & Sea* [Country Mile] Taj Mahal: *Savoy* [Stony Plain] Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens: *Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-1989* [Umsakazo/Gallo] Ashley McBryde: *The Devil I Know* [Warner Music Nashville] Lori McKenna: *1988* [CN/Thirty Tigers] Jason Moran: *From the Dancehall to the Battlefield* [Yes] Bobbie Nelson and Amanda Shires: *Loving You* [ATO] 100 Gecs: *10,000 Gecs* [Dog Show/Atlantic] The Quintet [Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie/Bud Powell/Charles Mingus/Max Roach]: *Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings* [Craft] Ren: *Sick Boi* [The Other Songs] Chappell Roan: *The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess* [Island] Olivia Rodrigo: *Guts* [Geffen] A. Savage: *Several Songs About Fire* [Rough Trade] Speedy Ortiz: *Rabbit Rabbit* [Carpark] Water From Your Eyes: *Everyone's Crushed* [Matador] Wednesday: *Rat Saw God* [Dead Oceans] Withered Hand: *How to Love* [Reveal]
A-	Algiers: *Shook* [Matador] Amaarae: *Fountain Baby* [Interscope] Bar Italia: *Tracey Denim* [Matador] The Baseball Project: *Grand Salami Time* [Yep Roc] Blondshell: *Blondshell* [Partisan] Bombino: *Sahel* [Partisan] Danny Brown: *Quaranta* [Warp] Zach Bryan: *Boys of Faith* [Warner EP] Buck 65: *Punk Rock B-Boy* [self-released] Chai: *Chai* [Sub Pop] Brandy Clark: *Brandy Clark* [Warner] CMAT: *Crazymad, for Me* [Cmatbaby] Rodney Crowell: *The Chicago Sessions* [New West] The Cucumbers: *Old Shoes* [self-released] Iris DeMent: *Workin' on a World* [Flariella] DJ Shadow: *Action Adventure* [Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber] El Michels Affair & Black Thought: *Glorious Game* [Big Crown] Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward: *Happy Hearts* [Kill Rock Stars] Robert Finley: *Black Bayou* [Easy Eye Sound] Girl Scout: *Real Life Human Garbage* [Made EP] Margaret Glaspy: *Echo the Diamond* [ATO] Grrrl Gang: *Spunky!* [Kill Rock Stars] Jack Harlow: *Jackman* [Atlantic] Hemlocke Springs: *Going . . . Going . . . Gone!* [AWAL EP] The Human Hearts: *Viable* [Open Boat] Ice Spice: *Like . . ?* [10K Projects/Capitol EP] Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: *Weathervanes* [Southeastern] Elle King: *Come Get Your Wife* [RCA] Jon Langford: *Gubbins* [self-released] Lil Wayne: *Tha Fix Before Tha VI* [Young Money/Republic] L'Orchestre National Mauritanien: *Ahl Nana* [Radio Martiko] Low Cut Connie: *Art Dealers* [Contender] Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: *America: The Rough Cut* [ESP-Disk'] Baaba Maal: *Being* [Atelier Live] Nicki Minaj: *Pink Friday 2* [Young Money/Republic] Janelle Monáe: *The Age of Pleasure* [Wondaland Arts Society/Atlantic] Megan Moroney: *Lucky* [Columbia] Azuka Moweta & Aniome Brothers Band: *Nwanne Bu Ife* [Palenque] Willie Nelson: *I Don't Know a Thing About Love* [Legacy] Nia Archives: *Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against the Wall* [Hijinx/Island] Nobro: *Set Your Pussy Free* [Dine Alone] Dolly Parton: *Rockstar* [Butterfly/Big Machine] Pony: *Velveteen* [Take This to Heart] Quasi: *Breaking the Balls of History* [Sub Pop] Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: *I Love You* [Domestic La La] Tyvek: *Overground* [Ginkgo] Stephen Ulrich: *Music From This American Life* [Barbès] Morgan Wade: *Psychopath* [RCA] Lucinda Williams: *Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart* [Thirty Tigers] Wimps: *City Lights* [Youth Riot] Billy Woods and Kenny Segal: *Maps* [Backwoodz Studioz] Jamila Woods: *Water Made Us* [Jagjaguwar] Bailey Zimmerman: *Religiously* [Warner Music Nashville/Elektra] *Piconema: East African Hits on the Colombian Coast* [Rocafort] *A Way to Make a Living: The Dolly Parton Songbook* [Ace]
B+	Aesop Rock: *ITS: Integrated Tech Solutions* [Rhymesayers] Armand Hammer: *We Buy Diabetic Test Strips* [Fat Possum] Dave and Central Cee: *Split Decision* [Neighbourhood] The Fugs: *Dancing in the Universe* [Fugs] PJ Harvey: *I Inside the Old Year Dying* [Partisan] The Hives: *The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons* [Fuga] The Hold Steady: *The Price of Progress* [Thirty Tigers/Positive Jams] MIKE/Wiki/The Alchemist: *Faith Is a Rock* [ALC] The Mountain Goats: *Jenny From Thebes* [Merge] Nakhane: *Bastard Jargon* [Star Red/BMG] Todd Snider: *Crank It, We're Doomed* [Aimless/30 Tigers] Uncle Waffles: *Asylum* [Kreativekorner] Yo La Tengo: *This Stupid World* [Matador]
*******	African Head Charge: *A Trip to Bolgatanga* [On-U Sound] Bar Italia: *The Twits* [Matador] BKtherula: *LVL5 P!* [Warner] Robert Sarazin Blake: *One Summer Night* [Same Room] Bounaly: *Dimanche á Bamako* [Sahel Sounds] Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band: *Dancing on the Edge* [Repressed] The Ekphrastics: *Special Delivery* [Harriet] Gloss Up: *Shades of Gloss* [Quality Control] Malcolm Holcombe: *Bits and Pieces* [Proper Music/Need to Know] Horse Lords: *Live in Leipzig* [Northern Spy] Killer Mike: *Michael* [Loma Vista] Jenny Lewis: *Joy'All* [Blue Note] Gurf Morlix: *I Challenge the Beast* [Rootball] Billy Nomates: *Cacti* [Invada] Noname: *Sundial* [self-released] Palehound: *Eye on the Bat* [Polyvinyl] Parchman Prison Prayer: *Some Mississippi Sunday Morning* [Glitterbeat] Romy: *Mid Air* [Young] Ed Sanders: *The Sanders-Olufsen Poetry and Classical Music Project* [Olufsen] Shabazz Palaces: *Robed in Rareness* [Sub Pop] Tinariwen: *Amatssou* [Wedge] Uncle Waffles: *Solace* [Kreativekorner] Young Fathers: *Heavy Heavy* [Ninja Tune]
**	Asake: *Work of Art* [Empire] Boygenius: *The Rest* [Interscope EP] Dan Ex Machina: *Ex's Sexts* [self-released] Doja Cat: *Scarlet* [RCA] The Front Bottoms: *You Are Who You Hang Out With* [Fueled by Ramen] Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: *Live in London* [Alligator] Jinx Lennon: *Walk Lightly When the Jug Is Full* [Septic Tiger] Memphis LK: *True Love and Its Consequences* [Dot Dash EP] Willie Nelson: *Bluegrass* [Columbia] The Nude Party: *Rides On* [New West] Grant Peeples: *A Murder of Songs* [self-released] Margo Price: *Strays* [Loma Vista] R. Ring: *War Poems, We Rested* [Don Giovanni] Rust Dust: *Twere but It Were So Simple* [Omad] Homeboy Sandman: *Rich* [Mello Music] Slow Pulp: *Yard* [Anti-] Chris Stamey: *. . . The Great Escape* [Schoolkids/Car] *Barbie the Album* [Atlantic]
*	Atmosphere: *Sad Clown Bad Dub II* [Rhymesayers] Fever Ray: *Radical Romantics* [Rabid] Terry Klein: *Leave the Light On* [self-released] Sofia Kourtesis: *Madres* [Ninja Tune] Lil Yachty: *Let's Start Here* [Quality Control] Me'shell Ndegéocello: *The Omnichord Real Book* [Blue Note] Pardoner: *Peace Loving People* [Bar/None] Tele Novella: *Poet's Tooth* [Kill Rock Stars] Wreckless Eric: *Leisureland: The 2023 Wreckless Eric Album* [Tapete]

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