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Natural Music's Top 100 Albums of 2023

Our 100 Favorite Albums of 2023

This list comes late because every year we sift through every other list we can get our hands on before finishing ours. This list is a result of that deep digging, that I love to do so others don’t have to. Our goal is to lift up the most interesting and engaging music from the year across every genre. It’s also a result of some selective culling, there’s no need to reiterate albums on every other year end list. 100 is an arbitrary number and this list should be thought of, at best, as loosely ordered. There isn’t an album on this list that will be a waste of your time °₊·ˈ∗♡( ˃̶᷇ ‧̫ ˂̶᷆ )♡∗ˈ‧₊°

Full list with blurbs here - 
www.naturalmusic.co/top-100-albums-2023

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    Black Country, New Road -
    Live at Bush Hall
    Ninja Tune
    Buy
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    Water From Your Eyes -
    Everyone's Crushed
    Matador Records
    Buy
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    JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown -
    SCARING THE HOES
    Buy
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    Niecy Blues -
    Exit Simulation
    kranky
    Buy
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    Tirzah -
    trip9love...???
    Domino Recording Co
    Buy
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    feeble little horse -
    Girl with Fish
    Saddle Creek
    Buy
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    MIKE -
    Burning Desire
    10k
    Buy
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    Kelela -
    Raven
    Warp Records
    Buy
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    V/Z -
    Suono Assente
    Buy
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    Joanne Robertson -
    Blue Car
    AD 93
    Buy
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    Rainy Miller x Space Afrika -
    A Grisaille Wedding
    SUPERNATURE
    Buy
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    Lost Girls -
    Selvutsletter
    Smalltown Supersound
    Buy
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    ML Buch -
    Suntub
    15 love
    Buy
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    Brother May -
    Pattern With Force
    Buy
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    John Francis Flynn -
    Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
    Buy
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    Amaarae -
    Fountain Baby
    Buy
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    Chunky -
    Somebody's Child
    Eglo Records
    Buy
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    Purelink -
    Signs
    peak oil
    Buy
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    Hotline TNT -
    Cartwheel
    Third Man Records
    Buy
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    quinn -
    i used to just cry about it
    Buy
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    billy woods & Kenny Segal -
    Maps
    BackwoodzStudioz
    Buy
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    Avalon Emerson -
    & the Charm
    Another Dove
    Buy
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    Evian Christ -
    Revanchist
    Warp Records
    Buy
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    Mandy, Indiana -
    i've seen a way
    Fire Talk
    Buy
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    Jonah Yano -
    portrait of a dog
    Innovative Leisure
    Buy
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    Klein -
    touched by an angel
    Buy
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    Sprain -
    The Lamb As Effigy
    The Flenser
    Buy
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    7038634357 -
    Neo Seven
    Buy
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    Sampha -
    Lahai
    Young
    Buy
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    Lunch Money Life -
    The God Phone
    Buy
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    Susanne Sundfør -
    blómi
    Bella Union
    Buy
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    Natural Wonder Beauty Concept -
    Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
    Mexican Summer
    Buy
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    Speakers Corner Quartet -
    Further Out Than The Edge
    OTIH Records
    Buy
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    Jeff Rosenstock -
    HELLMODE
    Polyvinyl Records
    Buy
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    REZZETT -
    Meant Like This
    Buy
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    Yves Tumor -
    Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Warp Records
    Buy
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    Armand Hammer -
    We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Fat Possum Records
    Buy
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    Loraine James -
    Gentle Confrontation
    Hyperdub
    Buy
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    ANOHNI and the Johnsons -
    My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
    Secretly Canadian
    Buy
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    Actress -
    LXXXVIII
    Ninja Tune
    Buy
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    Thy Slaughter -
    Soft Rock
    PC Music
    Buy
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    HMLTD -
    The Worm
    Lucky Number
    Buy
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    Model/Actriz -
    Dogsbody
    True Panther
    Buy
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    Lonnie Holley -
    Oh Me Oh My
    Jagjaguwar
    Buy
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    Hannah Jadagu -
    Aperture
    Sub Pop Records
    Buy
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    Honour -
    Àlááfíà
    PAN
    Buy
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    Chiminyo -
    NRG 1
    Buy
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    Tara Clerkin Trio -
    On The Turning Ground
    World of Echo
    Buy
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    Nabihah Iqbal -
    DREAMER
    Ninja Tune
    Buy
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    George Clanton -
    Ooh Rap I Ya
    100% ELECTRONICA
    Buy
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    Parannoul -
    After the Magic
    Buy
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    Genesis Owusu -
    Smiling With No Teeth
    Ourness
    Buy
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    Kara Jackson -
    Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?
    September Recordings
    Buy
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    jaimie branch -
    Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Buy
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    Sufjan Stevens -
    Javelin
    Asthmatic Kitty Records
    Buy
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    IAN SWEET -
    SUCKER
    Polyvinyl Records
    Buy
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    YOUTH -
    SSIEGE - Beautiful Age - Y19TH
    Buy
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    Neutral Milk Hotel -
    Ferris Wheel on Fire
    Merge Records
    Buy
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    Diego Raposo -
    YO NO ERA ASÍ PERO DE AHORA EN ADELANTE, SÍ
    Buy
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    Flaty -
    Intuitive Word
    Buy
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    mu tate -
    they're with you always
    3XL
    Buy
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    Sofia Kourtesis -
    Madres
    Ninja Tune
    Buy
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    UNITY VEGA -
    Two Sword
    Buy
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    Yussef Dayes -
    Black Classical Music
    Brownswood Recordings
    Buy
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    Caroline Polachek -
    Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
    Buy
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    Julie Byrne -
    The Greater Wings
    Ghostly International
    Buy
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    a.s.o. -
    a.s.o.
    Buy
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    Approaching Mountains -
    Col
    Buy
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    Sword II -
    Spirit World Tour
    Buy
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    Nourished By Time -
    Erotic Probiotic 2
    Scenic Route
    Buy
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    McKinley Dixon -
    Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
    City Slang
    Buy
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    Deeper -
    Careful!
    Sub Pop Records
    Buy
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    Kosaya Gora -
    Kosogor
    2MR
    Buy
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    Yaeji -
    With A Hammer
    XL Recordings
    Buy
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    underscores -
    Wallsocket
    Mom+Pop
    Buy
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    Russell Ellington Langston Butler -
    Call Me G
    T4T LUV NRG
    Buy
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    Croatian Amor -
    A Part of You in Everything
    Posh Isolation
    Buy
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    Headache -
    The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth
    Buy
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    Pontiac Streator -
    Select Works . vol IIII
    Buy
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    Hamish Hawk -
    Angel Numbers
    Buy
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    Angel Bat Dawid -
    Requiem for Jazz
    Buy
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    SQÜRL -
    Silver Haze
    Sacred Bones Records
    Buy
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    Kevin Abstract -
    Blanket
    Buy
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    Puma Blue -
    Holy Waters
    Buy
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    Rebecca Nash -
    Redefining Element 78
    Whirlwind Recordings
    Buy
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    Chuquimamani-Condori -
    DJ E
    Buy
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    Anna B Savage -
    in|FLUX
    City Slang
    Buy
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    Hollie Kenniff -
    We All Have Places That We Miss
    Buy
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    Kira Linn -
    Illusion
    Whirlwind Recordings
    Buy
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    Snooper -
    Super Snõõper
    Third Man Records
    Buy
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    abriction -
    Interstates
    Buy
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    Ben Chasny & Rick Tomlinson -
    Waves
    Buy
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