The KVSC Top 88 of 2023 was voted on by the radio station’s staff and listeners. The list of all the albums that were eligible for the Top 88 can be found at this link.
- Javelin – Sufjan Stevens
- The Window – Ratboys
- the record – boygenius
- I Inside the Old Year Dying – PJ Harvey
- Everything Harmony – The Lemon Twigs
- This Is Why – Paramore
- Anarchist Gospel – Sunny War
- Rat Saw God – Wednesday
- Cracker Island – Gorillaz
- Craterellus Tubaeformis – Skinshape
- V – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
- Ooh Rap I Ya – George Clanton
- Young Hearts – Benny Sings
- The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We – Mitski
- Jenny from Thebes – The Mountain Goats
- Emotional Contracts – Deer Tick
- Ask – Altin Gun
- Radical Romantics – Fever Ray
- My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross – ANOHNI and the Johnsons
- The Love Invention – Alison Goldfrapp
- Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) – Yves Tumor
- Desire Pathway – Screaming Females
- 3D Country – Geese
- The Returner – Allison Russell
- Chronicles of a Diamond – Black Pumas
- Heaven Is a Junkyard – Youth Lagoon
- Knower Forever – KNOWER
- The Price of Progress – The Hold Steady
- Lucha – Y La Bamba
- Chaos for the Fly – Grian Chatten
- I Killed Your Dog – L’Rain
- Lucky for You – Bully
- STRUGGLER – Genesis Owusu
- The Hypnogogue – The Church
- Cousin – Wilco
- All That Was East Is West of Me Now – Glen Hansard
- I Can’t Let Go – Suki Waterhouse
- The Ones Ahead – Beverly Glenn-Copeland
- Blomi – Susanne Sundfor
- Mercy – John Cale
- All of This Will End – Indigo De Souza
- 1982 – A Certain Ratio
- Integrated Tech Solutions – Aesop Rock
- PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
- My Soft Machine – Arlo Parks
- Laugh Track – The National
- HELLMODE – Jeff Rosenstock
- Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling – Slaughter Beach, Dog
- Alchemy – Disclosure
- Paranoia, Angels, True Love – Christine and the Queens
- Black Classical Music – Yussef Dayes
- Weathervanes – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
- Memento mori – Depeche Mode
- A River Running to Your Heart – Fruit Bats
- Get Up Sequences Part Two – The Go! Team
- That! Feels Good! – Jessie Ware
- Hox – Black Market Brass
- What Matters Most – Ben Folds
- So Much (For) Stardust – Fall Out Boy
- Head West – Martin Zellar
- Smalltown Stardust – King Tuff
- Everything Is Alive – Slowdive
- Valley of Heart’s Delight – Margo Cilker
- For That Beautiful Feeling – The Chemical Brothers
- Bunny – Beach Fossils
- Some of It Was True – The Menzingers
- Formentera II – Metric
- First Two Pages of Frankenstein – The National
- City of Gold – Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
- Garden Party – Rose City Band
- But Here We Are– Foo Fighters
- Crazymad, for Me – CMAT
- Yoyo, A Beacon School
- Hit Parade, Roisin Murphy
- Workin’ on a World – Iris DeMent
- Safe to Run – Esther Rose
- Nothing Lasts Forever – Teenage Fanclub
- I’ve Got Me – Joanna Sternberg
- Beloved! Paradise! Jazz? – McKinley Dixon
- Fantasy – M83
- Space Heavy – King Krule
- Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? – Kara Jackson
- USA – Petey
- Time Ain’t Accidental – Jess Williamson
- Haunted Mansion – Buck Meek
- Bingo Queen – Cat Valley
- Dear Departed – Sam Burton
- Mid Air – Romy