Best Albums of 2023
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are WeCountry arrangements, a seventeen piece choir and an album about love as a hard practical fact.Read the review
The Great EscapeThe right producer at the right time. Forty seven minutes of luxury and dust, and not a wasted second.
For All the Dogs Scary Hours EditionSix songs bolted onto a bad album, and they hold the best pure rapping he does all decade.
Magic 3The sixth and last of the Hit-Boy run, landing on his fiftieth birthday and knowing it.
LahaiSix years later he returns weightless and airborne, and loses a little of the gravity that made him.
Jackman.Twenty four minutes, no singles, no guests, and the first record where he sounds like a person.
a Gift & a CurseThe comeback nobody wanted him to make, and easily the most interesting thing he has recorded.
Magic 2The fifth record with the same producer in three years, and the first one where the formula shows.
For All the DogsEighty five minutes with no editor, no ideas and a lead performance that sounds actively bored.
New Blue SunEighty seven minutes of flutes from the best rapper alive, and the joke in the first track title is the honest part.