This is part 2 of Under the Radar‘s Top 100 Albums of 2023 list, featuring #51-100 and various honorable mentions. Check out part 1 featuring #1-50 here.
51
Youth Lagoon
Heaven Is a Junkyard
Fat Possum
52
PJ Harvey
I Inside the Old Year Dying
Partisan
53
Jamila Woods
Water Made Us
Jagjaguwar
54
Squirrel Flower
Tomorrow’s Fire
Polyvinyl
55
Hotline TNT
Cartwheel
Third Man
56
Squid
O Monolith
Warp
57
Steven Wilson
The Harmony Codex
Virgin
58
Coach Party
KILLJOY
Chess Club
59
Kara Jackson
Why Does The Earth Give Us People to Love?
September
60
Jeff Rosenstock
HELLMODE
Polyvinyl
61
The National
Laugh Track
4AD
62
Teenage Fanclub
Nothing Lasts Forever
Merge
63
The Mountain Goats
Jenny from Thebes
Merge
64
Foo Fighters
But Here We Are
Roswell/RCA
65
Explosions in the Sky
End
Temporary Residence
66
Cherry Glazerr
I Don’t Want You Anymore
Secretly Canadian
67
El Michels Affair & Black Thought
Glorious Game
Big Crown
68
The Clientele
I Am Not There Anymore
Merge
69
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
Lame-O
70
Julie Byrne
The Greater Wings
Ghostly International
71
Arlo Parks
My Soft Machine
Transgressive
72
Lanterns on the Lake
Versions of Us
Bella Union
73
Drop Nineteens
Hard Light
Wharf Cat
74
Belle and Sebastian
Late Developers
Matador
75
Metric
Formentera II
Metric Music International/Thirty Tigers
76
Murray A. Lightburn
Once Upon a Time in Montréal
Dangerbird
77
U.S. Girls
Bless This Mess
4AD
78
Yves Tumor
Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Warp
79
The Murder Capital
Gigi’s Recovery
Human Season
80
Fenne Lily
Big Picture
Dead Oceans
81
Sparks
The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
Island
82
A. Savage
Several Songs About Fire
Rough Trade
83
Jenny Lewis
Joy’All
Blue Note
84
Wings of Desire
Life is Infinite
WMD
85
Samia
Honey
Grand Jury
86
bdrmm
I Don’t Know
Rock Action
87
Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Chaos Magic
Weird World
88
Andy Shauf
Norm
ANTI-
89
ANOHNI and the Johnsons
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
Secretly Canadian
90
H. Hawkline
Milk For Flowers
Heavenly
91
Braids
Euphoric Recall
Secret City
92
Mandy, Indiana
i’ve seen a way
Fire Talk
93
Amber Arcades
Barefoot on Diamond Road
Fire
94
Mega Bog
End of Everything
Mexican Summer
95
Slow Pulp
Yard
ANTI-
96
Baxter Dury
I Thought I Was Better Than You
Heavenly
97
bar italia
Tracey Denim
Matador
98
The New Pornographers
Continue as a Guest
Merge
99
Modern Nature
No Fixed Point in Space
Bella Union
100
Sen Morimoto
Diagnosis
City Slang/Sooper
Honorable Mentions: The following2023 albums were also liked by some of our writers and editors and almost made the Top 100. 100 Gecs: 10,000 Gecs (Dog Show/Atlantic), CHAI: CHAI (Sub Pop), Clark: Sus Dog (Throttle), Devendra Banhart: Flying Wig (Mexican Summer), Heather Woods Broderick:Labyrinth (Western Vinyl), Gaz Coombes: Turn the Car Around (Hot Fruit/Virgin), Death and Vanilla: Flicker (Fire), Decisive Pink: Ticket to Fame (Fire),Deerhoof: Miracle-Level (Joyful Noise),Django Django: Off Planet (Because), Dutch Uncles: True Entertainment (Memphis Industries), Feist: Multitudes (Interscope), Fucked Up: One Day (Merge), The GOLDEN DREGS: On Grace & Dignity (4AD), Alison Goldfrapp: The Love Invention (Skint/BMG), Hannah Jadagu: Aperture (Sub Pop), King Krule: Space Heavy (XL/Matador), Ladytron: Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl), Lightning Dust: Nostalgia Killer (Western Vinyl), Little Dragon: Slugs of Love (Ninja Tune), Model/Actriz: Dogsbody (True Panther),Genesis Owusu: STRUGGLER (Ourness), Pearla: Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming (Spacebomb), Pip Blom: Bobbie (Heavenly), Margo Price: Strays (Loma Vista), Queens of the Stone Age: In Times New Roman… (Matador), Silver Moth: Black Bay (Bella Union), Sleaford Mods: UK GRIM (Rough Trade), Joanna Sternberg: I’ve Got Me (Fat Possum), Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Los Angeles (Play It Again Sam), Viji: So Vanilla (Speedy Wunderground), M. Ward: Supernatural Thing (ANTI-), and James Yorkston, Nina Persson, and the Second Hand Orchestra: The Great White Sea Eagle (Domino).
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