Another rollercoaster of a year, another slew of amazing albums to soundtrack it with. We collectively spent hours and hours listening to and loving hundreds of albums this year, and narrowing our favorites down to 50 was not only difficult, we decided it was literally impossible, so this one goes to 55. (Even though we try our best to rank, the difference in how much we like our 55th pick and 46th pick is virtually non-existent, so don’t think of the 51-55 range as anything other than five albums we couldn’t make this list without expressing our love for.) (It’s also technically more than 55–we combined them into one slot if an artist released more than one of our favorite albums of 2023, to make room for as many different artists on the list as possible.) The list...
