Best Albums of the Years: 2023

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Original Top 30

  1. Dieter Ammann – Core – Turn – Boost & Unbalanced Instability
  2. Katie Gately – Fawn / Brute
  3. Liza Lim – Annunciation Triptych
  4. Śniedź – Zero Prawdy
  5. Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
  6. Autechre – AE_LIVE_MILAN_010722
  7. Gérard Grisey – Mégalithes [NyNorsk Messingkvintett / Rønning]
  8. György Ligeti – Études / Capriccios [Han Chen]
  9. Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy
  10. Unsuk Chin – Berlin Philharmonic – The Unsuk Chin Edition
  11. Enno Poppe – Prozession
  12. Vitolo, Buoninfante, De Rosa – 171115-203145
  13. IAMX – Fault Lines¹
  14. Lotta Wennäkoski – Sigla / Flounce / Sedecim [Finnish Radio SO / Collon]
  15. Tim Hecker – Infinity Pool (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  16. Jacob Mühlrad – REMS
  17. Alex Paxton – Happy Music for Orchestra
  18. Synne Sanden – Unfold
  19. Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images
  20. Éliane Radigue – Occam Delta XV [Quatuor Bozzini]
  21. Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention
  22. Elis Hallik – Born in Waves
  23. Coppice – Draw Agreement
  24. Moyka – Movies, Cars & Heartbreak
  25. Per Nørgård – Symphony No. 8 / 3 Nocturnal Movements / Lysning [Bergen PO / Storgårds]
  26. Erlend Apneseth Trio with Maja Ratkje – Collage
  27. Toru Takemitsu – Spectral Canticle
  28. Natasha Barrett – Reconfiguring the Landscape
  29. Oh Land – Loop Soup
  30. light.box & Emil Karlsen – The Undanced Dance

Revised Top 20

  1. Dieter Ammann – Core – Turn – Boost & Unbalanced Instability
  2. Katie Gately – Fawn / Brute
  3. Liza Lim – Annunciation Triptych
  4. Śniedź – Zero Prawdy
  5. Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA
  6. Autechre – AE_LIVE_MILAN_010722
  7. Gérard Grisey – Mégalithes [NyNorsk Messingkvintett / Rønning]
  8. György Ligeti – Études / Capriccios [Han Chen]
  9. Allan Pettersson – Concerto for Violin & String Quartet / String Trio / Works for Violin & Piano [Wallin]
  10. Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy
  11. Unsuk Chin – Berlin Philharmonic – The Unsuk Chin Edition
  12. Tróndur Bogason & Aldubáran – The Distance Between Us
  13. Enno Poppe – Prozession
  14. Vitolo, Buoninfante, De Rosa – 171115-203145
  15. Klingra – …eftir
  16. IAMX – Fault Lines¹
  17. Lotta Wennäkoski – Sigla / Flounce / Sedecim [Finnish Radio SO / Collon]
  18. Tim Hecker – Infinity Pool (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  19. Jacob Mühlrad – REMS
  20. Alex Paxton – Happy Music for Orchestra