The report, the debut album by the indie supergroup that includes Julien Baker (left), Phoebe Bridgers (middle) and Lucy Dacus, was launched in March, greater than 4 years after the trio’s debut EP.
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If nothing else, the season of list-making is an efficient gut-check: After one other breakneck 12 months throughout which tens of hundreds of recent albums dropped, which of them are nonetheless capturing our imaginations, shifting us to tears or giving us life?
Once we put the query to NPR’s listeners, respondents in our on-line ballot picked a transparent favourite for 2023: the debut album from boygenius known as, merely, the report. No shade after all to all the opposite favorites, however the trio that includes Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus introduced in additional than twice the variety of votes as the subsequent closest contender, Sufjan Stevens’ Javelin.
Under you may see a listing of the highest 50, most-selected albums in our ballot, ranked by variety of votes. Our because of everybody who participated. Be sure you additionally take a look at NPR Music’s favourite 50 albums of 2023, together with our finest songs checklist and all the opposite protection in our year-end package deal, together with the highest 10 classical albums, our critics’ roundtable deep-dive into the 12 months’s most notable albums and extra.
2023 Listeners ballot outcomes
1. boygenius: the report
2. Sufjan Stevens: Javelin
3. Caroline Polachek: Want, I Need To Flip Into You
4. The Nationwide: Snicker Observe
5. Mitski: The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
6. Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS
7. Lana Del Rey: Do you know that there is a tunnel below Ocean Blvd
8. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Weathervanes
9. Hozier: Unreal Unearth
10. SZA: SOS
11. Janelle Monae: The Age of Pleasure
12. 100 gecs: 10,000 gecs
13. Bully: Fortunate for You
14. Agust D: D-Day
15. Wednesday: Rat Noticed God
16. JPEGMafia & Danny Brown: Scaring The Hoes
17. Feist: Multitudes
18. Jessie Ware: That! Feels Good!
19. billy woods & Kenny Segal: Maps
20. Paramore: This Is Why
21. Lankum: False Lankum
22. Pleasure Oladokun: Proof Of Life
23. Peter Gabriel: i/o
24. Sampha: Lahai
25. Troye Sivan: One thing to Give Every Different
26. Zach Bryan: Zach Bryan
27. Blondshell: Blondshell
28. Noname: Sundial
29. Nickel Creek: Celebrants
30. Chappell Roan: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
31. Youth Lagoon: Heaven Is a Junkyard
32. Foo Fighters: However Right here We Are
33. Arlo Parks: My Gentle Machine
34. Palehound: Eye On The Bat
35. Margo Worth: Strays
36. Ratboys: The Window
37. Indigo De Souza: All of This Will Finish
38. Gorillaz: Cracker Island
39. Jess Williamson: Time Ain’t Unintentional
40. Miya Folick: Roach
41. Gia Margaret: Romantic Piano
42. Jeff Rosenstock: HELLMODE
43. Samia: Honey
44. Brandy Clark: Brandy Clark
45. Blur: The Ballad of Darren
46. Queens of the Stone Age: In Occasions New Roman…
47. Belle and Sebastian: Late Builders
48. Jenny Lewis: Pleasure’all
49. Laufey: Bewitched
50. Travis Scott: Utopia
