The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Rock Album Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Record | Boygenius | Interscope |
| 2 | Lucky for You | Bully | Sub Pop |
| 3 | First Two Pages of Frankenstein | The National | 4AD |
| 4 | Cool It Down | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Secretly Canadian |
| 5 | Continue As a Guest | The New Pornographers | Merge |
| 6 | Love You Anyway | Devon Gilfillian | Fantasy |
| 7 | Smalltown Stardust | King Tuff | Subpop |
| 8 | End of the World | Wild Child | Reba's Ranch |
| 9 | The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We | Mitski | Dead Oceans |
| 10 | This Stupid World | Yo La Tengo | Matador |
| 11 | Lucifer on the Sofa | Spoon | Matador |
| 12 | A River Running to Your Heart | Fruit Bats | Merge |
| 13 | Multitudes | Feist | Polydor |
| 14 | Wet Leg | Wet Leg | Domino |
| 15 | Echo the Diamond | Margaret Glaspy | ATO |
| 16 | Movie of the Week | Shakey Graves | Dualtone |
| 17 | Everything is Alive | Slowdive | Dead Oceans |
| 18 | V | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Jagjaguwar |
| 19 | The 4th Album | The Record Company | Round Hill |
| 20 | Blondshell | Blondshell | Partisan |
| 21 | Rajan | Night Beats | Suicide Squeeze |
| 22 | Unreal Unearth | Hozier | Columbia |
| 23 | Changes | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | KGLW |
| 24 | The Price of Progress | The Hold Steady | Thirty Tigers |
| 25 | I Am Not There Anymore | The Clientele | Merge |
| 26 | Eye on the Bat | Palehound | Polyvinyl |
| 27 | Breaking the Balls of History | Quasi | Sub Pop |
| 28 | Joy'All | Jenny Lewis | Blue Note |
| 29 | Jenny from Thebes | The Mountain Goats | Merge |
| 30 | Everyone's Crushed | Water From Your Eyes | Matador |
| 31 | Bunny | Beach Fossils | Bayonet |
| 32 | When Horses Would Run | Being Dead | Bayonet |
| 33 | Chris Black Changed My Life | Portugal. The Man | Atlantic |
| 34 | 3D Country | Geese | Partisan |
| 35 | The Land, the Water, the Sky | Black Belt Eagle Scout | Saddle Creek |
| 36 | Wilderness of Mirrors | The Black Angels | Partisan |
| 37 | Zuma 85 | Allah-Las | Innovative Leisure |
| 38 | God Games | The Kills | Domino |
| 39 | On and on and Gone | Gringo Star | Self-Release |
| 40 | Manzanita | Shana Cleveland | Hardly Art |
| 41 | The Window | Ratboys | Topshelf |
| 42 | No Gods No Masters | Garbage | Infectious |
| 43 | This Machine Still Kills Fascists | Dropkick Murphys | Dummy Luck |
| 44 | Taken by Force | Civic | ATO |
| 45 | Hellmode | Jeff Rosenstock | Polyvinyl |
| 46 | Everything Harmony | The Lemon Twigs | Captured Tracks |
| 47 | Good Time | DAIISTAR | Fuzz Club |
| 48 | Plastic Eternity | Mudhoney | Sub Pop |
| 49 | Glowing Lantern | The Mother Hips | Blue Rose |
| 50 | In Heaven | Strand of Oaks | Thirty Tigers |
| 51 | The Power & the Glory | The Bad Ends | New West |
| 52 | Pleasure Beast | Haiku Hands | Spinning Top |
| 53 | Cracker Island | Gorillaz | Warner |
| 54 | External Combustion | Mike Campbell & Dirty Knobs | BMG |
| 55 | Amer Rouge | Steakhouse | Self-Release |
| 56 | Lucifer on the Moon | Spoon | Matador |
| 57 | Ten Small Fractures | Human Drama | Bob Frank Ent |
| 58 | Reason in Decline | Archers of Loaf | Merge |
| 59 | In the End It Always Does | The Japanese House | Dirty Hit |
| 60 | Around the Bend (40th Anniversary Remastered Edition) | Love Tractor | Propeller |
| 61 | Supernatural Thing | M. Ward | Anti |
| 62 | Bright Blues | Ripe | Glassnote |
| 63 | Smiling with No Teeth | Genesis Owusu | House Anxiety |
| 64 | Isn’t It Now? | Animal Collective | Domino |
| 65 | All of This Will End | Indigo De Souza | Saddle Creek |
| 66 | Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) | Yves Tumor | Warp |
| 67 | Radical Romantic | Fever Ray | Rabid |
| 68 | Bird Machine | Sparklehorse | Anti |
| 69 | Hollywood Dog | Fixtures | Bobo Integral |
| 70 | Ain't It Tragic | Dead Sara | Atlantic |
| 71 | Where’s My Utopia? | Yard Act | Island |
| 72 | Late Developers | Belle & Sebastian | Matador |
| 73 | Intercepted Message | Thee Oh Sees | In The Red |
| 74 | 24 Songs | The Wedding Present | Scopitones |
| 75 | Street Sermons | Daddy Long Legs | Yep Roc |
| 76 | Tracey Denim | bar italia | Matador |
| 77 | Blaspheme Queen | Blair Gun | sonaBLAST! |
| 78 | In Times New Roman... | Queens of the Stone Age | Matador |
| 79 | Heaven is a Junkyard | Youth Lagoon | Fat Possum |
| 80 | Emergency Leisure | The Bright Light Social Hour | Escondido Sound |
| 81 | Expert in a Dying Field | The Beths | Carpark |
| 82 | The Fooler | Nick Waterhouse | Innovative Leisure |
| 83 | Memory Dust | Spoon | Matador |
| 84 | Bootcut | Bahamas | Brushfire |
| 85 | Gulp! | Sports Team | Bright Antenna |
| 86 | Steady | SLOAN | Yep Roc |
| 87 | FEVER / SKY | Wilder Woods | Dualtone |
| 88 | Laugh Track | The National | 4AD |
| 89 | Fantasy Gateway | Cuco | Interscope |
| 90 | The Silver Cord | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Self-Release |
| 91 | Soberish | Liz Phair | Chrysalis |
| 92 | Live in Brooklyn, Ny. | Sonic Youth | Goofin' |
| 93 | Goddess Energy | Who Is She? | Father/Daughter |
| 94 | Flicker | Death and Vanilla | Fire |
| 95 | Fun Machine: the Sequel | Lake Street Dive | UMG |
| 96 | The Art of Forgetting | Caroline Rose | New West |
| 97 | Ritual Howls (10 Year Deluxe Edition) | Ritual Howls | felte |
| 98 | All Her Plans | Cable Ties | Merge |
| 99 | Digital Dream | Deap Vally | Cooking Viny |
| 100 | Commander Trainwreck | Skinner | Faction |
| 101 | No Guarantee | Never | Feels So Good |
| 102 | Raving Ghost | Olivia Jean | Third Man |
| 103 | Food for Worms | Shame | Dead Oceans |
| 104 | Rose Pink Cadillac | Dope Lemon | BMG |
| 105 | More Photographs (A Continuum) | Kevin Morby | Dead Oceans |
| 106 | Snake Sideways | Do Nothing | Exact Truth |
| 107 | The Juice | G. Love & Special Sauce | Thirty Tigers |
| 108 | Nothin' but Time | Breanna Barbara | Fuzz Club |
| 109 | Pray 4 Tomorrow | Dumb | Mint |
| 110 | Daylight | Grace Potter | Concord |
| 111 | Say I Won't | Bass Drum of Death | Fat Possum |
| 112 | Doggerel | Pixies | BMG |
| 113 | Negative Stars | Skull Practitioners | In The Red |
| 114 | Accessible Beauty | Walker Lukens | Lucky Hound |
| 115 | Sympathy for Life | Parquet Courts | Rough Trade |
| 116 | End | Explosions In The Sky | Self-Release |
| 117 | Tropical Gothclub | Tropical Gothclub | Third Man |
| 118 | You Are Who You Hang out with | The Front Bottoms | Fueled by Ramen |
| 119 | What Now | Brittany Howard | Island |
| 120 | Stumpwork | Dry Cleaning | 4AD |
| 121 | Marriage | Deap Vally | Cooking Vinyl Limited |
| 122 | Bananasugarfire | Golden Apples | Lame-O |
| 123 | Laff It off | Pony Girl | Paper Bag |
| 124 | As All Get out | Matthew Logan Vasquez | Nine Mile |
| 125 | Welshpool Frillies | Guided By Voices | GBV Inc. |
| 126 | Entering Heaven Alive | Jack White | Third Man |
| 127 | Struggler | Genesis Owusu | AWAL |
| 128 | Space Heavy | King Krule | XL Recordings |
| 129 | But I'll Wait for You | Local Natives | Loma Vista |
| 130 | Nightmare Daydream | The Velveteers | Easy Eye Sound |
| 131 | Sunshine | The Black Moods | STEELHORSE |
| 132 | The Ballad of Darren | Blur | Parlophone |
| 133 | The Boy Named if | Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Universal |
| 134 | Stay Gold | 1st Base Runner | Self-Release |
| 135 | Black Bay | Silver Moth | Bella Union |
| 136 | Call a Doctor | Girl and Girl | Sub Pop |
| 137 | Apocalypse Love | The Black Lips | Fire |
| 138 | Je'Texas | je'Texas | Self-Release |
| 139 | This is a Photograph | Kevin Morby | Dead Oceans |
| 140 | Monte Carlo | Abraxas | Suicide Squeeze |
| 141 | Sea of Sorrow | Tombstones in Their Eyes | Kitten Robot |
| 142 | Blue Skies | Dehd | Fat Possum |
| 143 | The WAEVE | The WAEVE | Transgressive |
| 144 | When I'm Alone | girlpuppy | Royal Mountain |
| 145 | This House is Made of Corners | Brigitte Calls Me Baby | ATO |
| 146 | Follow Your Heart | Michael Franti & Spearhead | Thirty Tigers |
| 147 | Beigeification | Darksoft | Self-Release |
| 148 | Social Lubrication | Dream Wife | Lucky Number |
| 149 | Jane Leo | Jane Leo | Native Fiction |
| 150 | Big Plans for a Blue World | Wylderness | Succulent |
| 151 | Song Machine | The Exbats | Goner |
| 152 | Head of Pomegranate | Flamingods | The Liquid Label |
| 153 | Apartment Life (25th Anniversary Edition) | Ivy | Bar None |
| 154 | Laurel Hell | Mitski | Dead Oceans |
| 155 | 7s | Avey Tare | Domino |
| 156 | Asphalt Meadows | Death Cab for Cutie | Atlantic |
| 157 | Careful! | Deeper | Sub Pop |
| 158 | Surface Sounds | Kaleo | Electra |
| 159 | Everything Was Beautiful | Spiritualized | Fat Possum |
| 160 | A Light for Attracting Attention | The Smile | Self Help Tapes |
| 161 | Success | Oneida | Joyful Noise |
| 162 | Inner World Peace | Frankie Cosmos | Sub Pop |
| 163 | The Dream | Alt-J | Atlantic |
| 164 | Speech Free: Recorded Music for Film, Radio, Internet and Television | Negativland | Seeland |
| 165 | Peacock Pools | Pink Mountaintops | ATO |
| 166 | Yarn the Hours Away | Foyer Red | Carpark |
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