KVSC Top 88 Albums of 2023

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.

  1. Javelin – Sufjan Stevens
  2. The Window – Ratboys
  3. the record – boygenius
  4. I Inside the Old Year Dying – PJ Harvey
  5. Everything Harmony – The Lemon Twigs
  6. This Is Why – Paramore
  7. Anarchist Gospel – Sunny War
  8. Rat Saw God – Wednesday
  9. Cracker Island – Gorillaz
  10. Craterellus Tubaeformis – Skinshape
  11. V – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  12. Ooh Rap I Ya – George Clanton
  13. Young Hearts – Benny Sings
  14. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We – Mitski
  15. Jenny from Thebes – The Mountain Goats
  16. Emotional Contracts – Deer Tick
  17. Ask – Altin Gun
  18. Radical Romantics – Fever Ray
  19. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross – ANOHNI and the Johnsons
  20. The Love Invention – Alison Goldfrapp
  21. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) – Yves Tumor
  22. Desire Pathway – Screaming Females
  23. 3D Country – Geese
  24. The Returner – Allison Russell
  25. Chronicles of a Diamond – Black Pumas
  26. Heaven Is a Junkyard – Youth Lagoon
  27. Knower Forever – KNOWER
  28. The Price of Progress – The Hold Steady
  29. Lucha – Y La Bamba
  30. Chaos for the Fly – Grian Chatten
  31. I Killed Your Dog – L’Rain
  32. Lucky for You – Bully
  33. STRUGGLER – Genesis Owusu
  34. The Hypnogogue – The Church
  35. Cousin – Wilco
  36. All That Was East Is West of Me Now – Glen Hansard
  37. I Can’t Let Go – Suki Waterhouse
  38. The Ones Ahead – Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  39. Blomi – Susanne Sundfor
  40. Mercy – John Cale
  41. All of This Will End – Indigo De Souza
  42. 1982 – A Certain Ratio
  43. Integrated Tech Solutions – Aesop Rock
  44. PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation – King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
  45. My Soft Machine – Arlo Parks
  46. Laugh Track – The National
  47. HELLMODE – Jeff Rosenstock
  48. Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling – Slaughter Beach, Dog
  49. Alchemy – Disclosure
  50. Paranoia, Angels, True Love – Christine and the Queens
  51. Black Classical Music – Yussef Dayes
  52. Weathervanes – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
  53. Memento mori – Depeche Mode
  54. A River Running to Your Heart – Fruit Bats
  55. Get Up Sequences Part Two – The Go! Team
  56. That! Feels Good! – Jessie Ware
  57. Hox – Black Market Brass
  58. What Matters Most – Ben Folds
  59. So Much (For) Stardust – Fall Out Boy
  60. Head West – Martin Zellar
  61. Smalltown Stardust – King Tuff
  62. Everything Is Alive – Slowdive
  63. Valley of Heart’s Delight – Margo Cilker
  64. For That Beautiful Feeling – The Chemical Brothers
  65. Bunny – Beach Fossils
  66. Some of It Was True – The Menzingers
  67. Formentera II – Metric
  68. First Two Pages of Frankenstein – The National
  69. City of Gold – Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
  70. Garden Party – Rose City Band
  71. But Here We Are– Foo Fighters
  72. Crazymad, for Me – CMAT
  73. Yoyo, A Beacon School
  74. Hit Parade, Roisin Murphy
  75. Workin’ on a World – Iris DeMent
  76. Safe to Run – Esther Rose
  77. Nothing Lasts Forever – Teenage Fanclub
  78. I’ve Got Me – Joanna Sternberg
  79. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz? – McKinley Dixon
  80. Fantasy – M83
  81. Space Heavy – King Krule
  82. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? – Kara Jackson
  83. USA – Petey
  84. Time Ain’t Accidental – Jess Williamson
  85. Haunted Mansion – Buck Meek
  86. Bingo Queen – Cat Valley
  87. Dear Departed – Sam Burton
  88. Mid Air – Romy