Top Rock Album Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2023

	Album Title	Band/Artist Name	Label	Sub Genre
1	Heart is the Hero	The Wood Brothers	Honey Jar	Roots Rock
2	Weathervanes	Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit	Southeastern	Roots Rock
3	The Record	Boygenius	Interscope	Alternative Rock
4	Electrophonic Chronic	The Arcs	Easy Eye Sound	Soft Rock
5	Simple Things	The Band of Heathens	BoH	Roots Rock
6	Lucky for You	Bully	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
7	Get Behind the Wheel	Eilen Jewell	Signature Sounds	Roots Rock
8	Blood Harmony	Larkin Poe	Tricki-Woo	Roots Rock
9	Moments in Time	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Self-Release	Roots Rock
10	Roots of the Rev. (Volume One)	The Reverend Horton Heat	Fun-Guy	Rock & Roll
11	Hackney Diamonds	The Rolling Stones	Polydor	Roots Rock
12	Pour It out into the Night	The Revivalists	Concord	Roots Rock
13	First Two Pages of Frankenstein	The National	4AD	Alternative Rock
14	Love Hope Trust	Roger Street Friedman	Self-Release	Roots Rock
15	Keep on Pushin'	Johnny Wheels & the Swamp Donkeys	Lightning in a Bottle	Roots Rock
16	Bloodline Maintenance	Ben Harper	Chrysali	Roots Rock
17	Lucky 13	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Self-Release	Roots Rock
18	O Sun O Moon	Bruce Cockburn	True North	Roots Rock
19	Cool It Down	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Secretly Canadian	Alternative Rock
20	Tunes for a Dime	David Ronaldo	Fandango Music Belgium	Roots Rock
21	Stories from a Rock and Roll Heart	Lucinda Williams	Highway 20	Roots Rock
22	Continue As a Guest	The New Pornographers	Merge	Alternative Rock
23	Love You Anyway	Devon Gilfillian	Fantasy	Alternative Rock
24	Smalltown Stardust	King Tuff	Subpop	Alternative Rock
25	End of the World	Wild Child	Reba's Ranch	Alternative Rock
26	Grass Roots	Leftover Salmon	Compass	Roots Rock
27	The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We	Mitski	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
28	Time Ain't Accidental	Jess Williamson	Mexican Summer	Roots Rock
29	This Stupid World	Yo La Tengo	Matador	Alternative Rock
30	The Beginning of the End	The Pleasures	MGM	Roots Rock
31	New Space	The Ventures	Hi-Tide	Surf
32	Only the Strong Survive	Bruce Springsteen	Columbia	Roots Rock
33	Lucifer on the Sofa	Spoon	Matador	Alternative Rock
34	Honest Lies	Justin Saladino Band	Self-Release	Roots Rock
35	In a Roomful of Blood with a Sleeping Tiger	Bob Schneider	Shockorama	Roots Rock
36	Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown	Seth Avett	Ramseur	Roots Rock
37	Palomino	First Aid Kit	Columbia	Roots Rock
38	Breakless Heart	Brett Spaulding	Self-Release	Roots Rock
39	A River Running to Your Heart	Fruit Bats	Merge	Alternative Rock
40	Multitudes	Feist	Polydor	Alternative Rock
41	Alone at Sea	Jeff Plankenhorn	Blue Corn	Roots Rock
42	Wet Leg	Wet Leg	Domino	Alternative Rock
43	Turn My Radio Up	The Coffis Brothers	Blue Rose	Roots Rock
44	Echo the Diamond	Margaret Glaspy	ATO	Alternative Rock
45	Young Blood	Marcus King	American Recordings	Roots Rock
46	Movie of the Week	Shakey Graves	Dualtone	Alternative Rock
47	Everything is Alive	Slowdive	Dead Oceans	Alternative Rock
48	V	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	Jagjaguwar	Alternative Rock
49	Mother Road	Grace Potter	Fantasy	Roots Rock
50	On the Blind Side	Ray Bonneville	Self-Release	Roots Rock
51	This Far South	Tommy Prine	Nameless Knight	Roots Rock
52	The 4th Album	The Record Company	Round Hill	Alternative Rock
53	Should've Learned by Now	Lucero	Liberty & Lament	Roots Rock
54	Blondshell	Blondshell	Partisan	Alternative Rock
55	El Mirador	Calexico	Anti	Roots Rock
56	Handled with Care	Jason Lang	Famgroup	Roots Rock
57	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Self-Release	Roots Rock
58	Rajan	Night Beats	Suicide Squeeze	Alternative Rock
59	The Future	Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats	Stax	Roots Rock
60	Say Less	Raul Malo	Mono Mundo	Soft Rock
61	Remote Transmissions, Vol. 1	The Band of Heathens	BOH	Roots Rock
62	Unreal Unearth	Hozier	Columbia	Alternative Rock
63	The Last Perfect Performance	Paul Bibbins	Self-Release	Classic Rock
64	Changes	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	KGLW	Alternative Rock
65	The Price of Progress	The Hold Steady	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Rock
66	I Am Not There Anymore	The Clientele	Merge	Alternative Rock
67	Planet Zero	Shinedown	Atlantic	Hard Rock
68	Nobody Owns You	Joan Osborne	Womanly Hips	Roots Rock
69	The Devil Always Collects	Brian Setzer	Surfdog	Rockabilly
70	Live at the Shamrock Lounge	Dustin Arbuckle & the Damnations	Self-Release	Roots Rock
71	Times Have Changed	Charlie Mars	Foxgate	Roots Rock
72	Going Places	Josh Rouse	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
73	Eye on the Bat	Palehound	Polyvinyl	Alternative Rock
74	Breaking the Balls of History	Quasi	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
75	Joy'All	Jenny Lewis	Blue Note	Alternative Rock
76	Time's Arrow	Ladytron	Cooking Vinyl	Progressive Rock
77	Jenny from Thebes	The Mountain Goats	Merge	Alternative Rock
78	Everyone's Crushed	Water From Your Eyes	Matador	Alternative Rock
79	Little Songs	Colter Wall	Black Hole	Roots Rock
80	Bunny	Beach Fossils	Bayonet	Alternative Rock
81	Islands in the Sky	Death Valley Girls	Suicide Squeeze	Psychedelic
82	When Horses Would Run	Being Dead	Bayonet	Alternative Rock
83	Chris Black Changed My Life	Portugal. The Man	Atlantic	Alternative Rock
84	Surfing with a Vintage Lady	The B. Christopher Band	Guitar One	Surf
85	Old Cane Back Rocker	Darrell Scott	Soundly	Roots Rock
86	3D Country	Geese	Partisan	Alternative Rock
87	Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?	Tyler Childers	Sony	Roots Rock
88	The Land, the Water, the Sky	Black Belt Eagle Scout	Saddle Creek	Alternative Rock
89	Love Songs for Losers	The Lone Bellow	Dualtone	Roots Rock
90	That and Change	Kelly Fitzgerald	Self-Release	Roots Rock
91	Wilderness of Mirrors	The Black Angels	Partisan	Alternative Rock
92	The Land That Time Forgot	Chuck Prophet	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
93	Zuma 85	Allah-Las	Innovative Leisure	Alternative Rock
94	Rat Saw God	Wednesday	Dead Oceans	Roots Rock
95	God Games	The Kills	Domino	Alternative Rock
96	On and on and Gone	Gringo Star	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
97	Late Night Polaroids	Bruce Hughes	Broke Dick	Pop Rock
98	Manzanita	Shana Cleveland	Hardly Art	Alternative Rock
99	Milky Stars	Michael McArthur	Transoceanic	Roots Rock
100	The Window	Ratboys	Topshelf	Alternative Rock
101	No Gods No Masters	Garbage	Infectious	Alternative Rock
102	This Machine Still Kills Fascists	Dropkick Murphys	Dummy Luck	Alternative Rock
103	Taken by Force	Civic	ATO	Alternative Rock
104	You Know Who	The Pink Stones	Normalltown	Roots Rock
105	Pieces of Treasure	Rickie Lee Jones	BMG	Roots Rock
106	Black and Gold	Thundermother	AFM	Hard Rock
107	Coyote	Dylan LeBlanc	ATO	Roots Rock
108	Darkfighter	Rival Sons	Atlantic	Rock & Roll
109	Darkadelic	The Damned	earMUSIC	Punk Rock
110	Star Eaters Delight	Lael Neale	Sub Pop	Roots Rock
111	Festival Eyes	Lillie Mae	s\|\|c	Roots Rock
112	The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons	The Hives	Self-Release	Progressive Rock
113	Hellmode	Jeff Rosenstock	Polyvinyl	Alternative Rock
114	Everything Harmony	The Lemon Twigs	Captured Tracks	Alternative Rock
115	Good Time	DAIISTAR	Fuzz Club	Alternative Rock
116	Good Thing Goin'	Dex Romweber	Propeller Sound	Rockabilly
117	Plastic Eternity	Mudhoney	Sub Pop	Alternative Rock
118	Garden Party	Rose City Band	Thrill Jockey	Roots Rock
119	Glowing Lantern	The Mother Hips	Blue Rose	Alternative Rock
120	In Heaven	Strand of Oaks	Thirty Tigers	Alternative Rock
121	The Power & the Glory	The Bad Ends	New West	Alternative Rock
122	Pleasure Beast	Haiku Hands	Spinning Top	Alternative Rock
123	Cracker Island	Gorillaz	Warner	Alternative Rock
124	External Combustion	Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs	BMG	Alternative Rock
125	Amer Rouge	Steakhouse	Self-Release	Alternative Rock
126	Downhill from Everywhere	Jackson Browne	Inside	Roots Rock
127	Lucifer on the Moon	Spoon	Matador	Alternative Rock
128	Swinging Stars	Mapache	Innovative Leisure	Roots Rock
129	Ten Small Fractures	Human Drama	Bob Frank Ent	Alternative Rock
130	Reason in Decline	Archers of Loaf	Merge	Alternative Rock
131	In the End It Always Does	The Japanese House	Dirty Hit	Alternative Rock
132	Around the Bend (40th Anniversary Remastered Edition)	Love Tractor	Propeller	Alternative Rock
133	Supernatural Thing	M. Ward	Anti	Alternative Rock
134	Bright Blues	Ripe	Glassnote	Alternative Rock
135	Smiling with No Teeth	Genesis Owusu	House Anxiety	Alternative Rock
136	Isn’t It Now?	Animal Collective	Domino	Alternative Rock
137	All of This Will End	Indigo De Souza	Saddle Creek	Alternative Rock
138	From a Dark Corner	Nathan Mongol Wells	State Fair	Roots Rock
139	Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)	Yves Tumor	Warp	Alternative Rock
140	Radical Romantic	Fever Ray	Rabid	Alternative Rock
141	Late Night TV Gold	Shinyribs	Easy Street	Roots Rock
142	Bird Machine	Sparklehorse	Anti	Alternative Rock
143	Hollywood Dog	Fixtures	Bobo Integral	Alternative Rock
144	Ain't It Tragic	Dead Sara	Atlantic	Alternative Rock
145	Where’s My Utopia?	Yard Act	Island	Alternative Rock
146	What Matters Most	Ben Folds	New West	Roots Rock
147	Dreamland	Amos Lee	Dualtone	Roots Rock
148	Purple, Blue & Crimson	Oberon Rose	ThouArt	Psychedelic
149	Late Developers	Belle & Sebastian	Matador	Alternative Rock
150	Stardust and Satellites	Steve Poltz	Red House	Roots Rock
151	Avondale Drive	Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers	Compass	Roots Rock
152	Intercepted Message	Thee Oh Sees	In The Red	Alternative Rock
153	24 Songs	The Wedding Present	Scopitones	Alternative Rock
154	Data Doom	Frankie and the Witch Fingers	Greenway	Psychedelic
155	Street Sermons	Daddy Long Legs	Yep Roc	Alternative Rock
156	Rockabilly Revival	Lucky 757	Scad	Rockabilly
157	Tracey Denim	bar italia	Matador	Alternative Rock
158	Blaspheme Queen	Blair Gun	sonaBLAST!	Alternative Rock
159	Ten Paces	Ruen Brothers	Yep Roc	Roots Rock
160	Shadow Kingdom	Bob Dylan	Columbia	Roots Rock
161	In Times New Roman...	Queens of the Stone Age	Matador	Alternative Rock
162	Paper Hearts and Broken Arrows	Rod Picott	Welding Rod	Roots Rock
163	Heaven is a Junkyard	Youth Lagoon	Fat Possum	Alternative Rock
164	Transit Damage	Shinyribs	Hardcharger	Roots Rock
165	Emergency Leisure	The Bright Light Social Hour	Escondido Sound	Alternative Rock
166	Exit Wounds	The Wallflowers	New West	Roots Rock
167	Nashville Again	The Youngers	Let It Roll	Roots Rock
168	Lifetime Achievement	Loudon Wainwright III	StorySound	Roots Rock
169	Expert in a Dying Field	The Beths	Carpark	Alternative Rock

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The Roots Music Report's Top Rock Album Chart for the Year of 2023

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2023