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Dean's List: 2023
The 83 best albums of the past year (or so)
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- Olivia Rodrigo: Guts (Geffen)
- Buck 65: Super Dope (Handsmade)
- CMAT: If My Wife New I'd Be Dead (Cmatbaby '22)
- Iris DeMent: Workin' on a World (Flariella)
- Taj Mahal: Savoy (Stony Plain)
- Boygenius: The Record (Interscope)
- Corook: Serious Person (Part 1) (Atlantic)
- Zach Bryan: Zach Bryan (Warner)
- Lewis Capaldi: Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent (Capitol)
- Robert Forster: The Candle and the Flame (Tapete)
- Gina Birch: I Play My Bass Loud (Third Man)
- Tyler Childers: Rustin' in the Rain (RCA/Hickman Holler)
- The Feelies: Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground (Bar/None)
- Dolly Parton: Rockstar (Butterfly/Big Machine)
- A. Savage: Several Songs About Fire (Rough Trade)
- Ashley McBryde: The Devil I Know (Warner Music Nashville)
- Hamell on Trial: Bring the Kids (Saustex)
- Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens: Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-1989 (Umsakazo/Gallo)
- 100 Gecs: 10,000 Gecs (Dog Show/Atlantic)
- Withered Hand: How to Love (Reveal)
- Tyvek: Overground (Ginkgo)
- Wednesday: Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
- Speedy Ortiz: Rabbit Rabbit (Carpark)
- Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers: I Love You (Domestic La La)
- Bobbie Nelson and Amanda Shires: Loving You (ATO)
- Megan Moroney: Lucky (Columbia)
- The Human Hearts: Viable (Open Boat)
- Alvvays: Blue Rev (Polyvinyl/Transgressive '22)
- Lori McKenna: 1988 (CN/Thirty Tigers)
- Jinx Lennon: Pet Rent (Septic Tiger '22)
- JPEGMafia & Danny Brown: Scaring the Hoes (AWAL)
- The Baseball Project: Grand Salami Time (Yep Roc)
- Corook: Best of Corook (So Far) (Atlantic '22)
- Girl Scout: Real Life Human Garbage (Made)
- Water From Your Eyes: Everyone's Crushed (Matador)
- Danny Brown: Quaranta (Warp)
- Balka Sound: Balka Sound (Strut '22)
- Lucinda Williams: Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart (Thirty Tigers)
- Buck 65: Punk Rock B-Boy (self-released)
- Bill Scorzari: The Crosswinds of Kansas (self-released '22)
- Piconema: East African Hits on the Colombian Coast (Rocafort)
- David Murray/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake: Seriana Promethea (Intakt '22)
- Rodney Crowell: The Chicago Sessions (New West)
- DJ Shadow: Action Adventure (Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber)
- Billy Woods and Kenny Segal: Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)
- The Moldy Peaches: Origin Story 1994-1999 (Org Music '22)
- Ice Spice: Like . . ? (10K Projects/Capitol)
- Big Joanie: Back Home (Kill Rock Stars '22)
- Morgan Wade: Psychopath (RCA)
- Nia Archives: Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against the Wall (Hijinx/Island)
- Willie Nelson: I Don't Know a Thing About Love (Legacy)
- Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra: America: The Rough Cut (ESP-Disk')
- Baaba Maal: Being (Atelier Live)
- Bombino: Sahel (Partisan)
- Brandy Clark: Brandy Clark (Warner)
- CMAT: Crazymad, for Me (Cmatbaby)
- Elle King: Come Get Your Wife (RCA)
- Jeffrey Lewis: Asides & B-Sides (2014-2018) (self-released)
- Ahl Nana: L'Orchestre National Mauritanien (Radio Martiko)
- África Negra: Antologia Vol. 1 (Bongo Joe '22)
- Algiers: Shook (Matador)
- Janelle Monáe: The Age of Pleasure (Wondaland Arts Society/Atlantic)
- Amaarae: Fountain Baby (Interscope)
- Quasi: Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)
- Azuka Moweta & Aniome Brothers Band: Nwanne Bu Ife (Palenque)
- Bailey Zimmerman: Religiously (Warner Music Nashville/Elektra)
- Grrrl Gang: Spunky! (Kill Rock Stars)
- Bar Italia: Tracey Denim (Matador)
- Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2 (Young Money/Republic)
- Chai: Chai (Sub Pop)
- Gurf Morlix: Caveman (Rootball '22)
- Lil Wayne: Tha Fix Before Tha VI (Young Money/Republic)
- Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward: Happy Hearts (Kill Rock Stars)
- Shygirl: Nymph (Because Music '22)
- Lyrics Born: Vision Board (Mobile Home '22)
- Blondshell: Blondshell (Partisan)
- Pony: Velveteen (Take This to Heart)
- Low Cut Connie: Art Dealers (Contender)
- PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)
- Maggie Rogers: Surrender (Capitol '22)
- Hemlocke Springs: Going . . . Going . . . Gone! (AWAL)
- Zach Bryan: Boys of Faith (Warner)
- Stephen Ulrich: Music From This American Life (Barbès)
And It Don't Stop, Jan. 26, 2024
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