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Top 50 Albums of 2023 pt. 1

Scroll through the page to see Honorable Mentions - #26 of Calliope Music's top albums of the year!

(Not Included: EPs, Mixtapes, and Archival/Live releases without substantial new material)

Honorable Mentions

McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?

#50

Asian Glow & sonhos tomam conta - Dreamglow


Genres: Shoegaze, Post-Hardcore

Best Track: hangthemall

#49

Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE


Genres: Indie Rock, Pop Punk

Best Track: 3 SUMMERS

#48

MSPAINT - Post-American


Genres: Synth Punk

Best Track: Titan of Hope

#47

Monika Roscher Bigband - Witchy Activities and the Maple Death


Genres: Experimental Bigband

Best Track: A Taste of the Apocalypse

#46

Paramore - This is Why


Genres: Post-Punk Revival

Best Track: Figure 8

#45

MF Tomlinson - We Are Still Wild Horses


Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Alt-Country

Best Track: We Are Still Wild Horses

#44

Chuquimamani-Condori - DJ E


Genres: Epic Collage, Latin Electronic, Indigenous Andean Music

Best Track: Eat My Cum

#43

2 0 2 1 - Like a Paper Plane


Genres: Breakbeat, Indietronica

Best Track: lovestory

#42

#42

Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music


Genres: Jazz Fusion

Best Track: Rust (feat. Tom Misch)

#41

#41

#42

Fromjoy - Fromjoy


Genres: Metalcore, Atmospheric Drum and Bass

Best Track: seraph

#40

#41

#40

Foo Fighters - But Here We Are


Genres: Alternative Rock

Best Track: Rest

#39

#41

#40

Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We


Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Indie Folk

Best Track: My Love Mine All Mine

#38

#38

#38

Danny Brown - Quaranta


Genres: Conscious Hip Hop

Best Track: Jenn's Terrific Vacation

#37

#38

#38

Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here.


Genres: Neo-Psychedelia, Psychedelic Rock

Best Track: the BLACK seminole.

#36

#38

#36

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse


Genres: Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal

Best Track: Dragon

#35

#35

#36

Ostraca - Disaster


Genres: Screamo, Post-Metal

Best Track: Stage Whisper

#34

#35

#34

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody


Genres: Noise Rock, Dance-Punk

Best Track: Mosquito

#33

#35

#34

Vylet Pony - Carousel


Genres: Art Pop, EDM, Alternative Rock

Best Track: The Carrion Child

#32

Asia Menor - Enola Gay


Genres: Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Art Punk

Best Track: 1920


"Sputtered Punk cleanses the pallet of a sinking world; A splintering vicissitude make a harrowing, but extensively comforting Post-Punk project."

#31

Candelabro - Ahora o Nunca


Genres: Indie Rock, Art Rock

Best Track: Bonva


"A dense set of gorgeously crafted Chilean Rock serenades; Punchy, pulpy, and memorable in all the right places."

#30

#30

#30

Jeromes Dream - The Gray in Between


Genres: Screamo, Noise Rock

Best Track: Pines on the Hill (with Guests)


"Radically shrill landscapes of blistering anger and willowing misery keep the 24 minute LP's beauty in purgative rescue, making for an enrapturing modern Screamo project."

#29

#30

#30

betcover!! - 馬 (Uma)


Genres: Jazz-Rock, Art-Rock, Progressive Rock

Best Track: 火祭りの踊り


"There is no denying the infectious head-bobbing nature of 'Uma'; A bold and burning display of light-hearted and fiery Prog."

#28

#28

#28

Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire


Genres: Abstract Hip Hop, Drumless

Best Track: 27 Braids


"A treasure trove of cultivated loops and a comprehensive subtlety to stoical poetry forms an upmost urbane Hip Hop encounter."

#27

#28

#28

Forest Spirit, Sun on your Back - Forest Spirit, Sun on Your Back


Genres: Emo, Slacker Rock, Noise Rock

Best Track: Index of First Lines


"Raucous lo-fi production emphasizes brazen Emo anthems; like wandering into a pixie ridden woodland with some dark (and heavily distorted) secrets laying about."

#26

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Sparklehorse - Bird Machine


Genres: Indie Rock, Indie Pop

Best Track: Chaos of the Universe


"An incredibly well crafted posthumous album; the fuzzing intimacy of a melancholic stargazer."

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