The Roots Music Report's
Top Alternative Album Chart
for the Year of 2023
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Soft Machine | Arlo Parks | Transgressive |
| 2 | I Walked with You a Ways | Plains | Anti |
| 3 | Dropout Boogie | The Black Keys | Nonesuch |
| 4 | Okemah Rising | Dropkick Murphys | Dummy Luck |
| 5 | And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow | Weyes Blood | Sub Pop |
| 6 | SEA/SONS | Abraham Alexander | Dualtone |
| 7 | Blue Rev | Alvvays | Transgressive |
| 8 | Reset | Panda Bear | Domino |
| 9 | Lavender Days | Caamp | By and By |
| 10 | I Inside the Old Year Dying | PJ Harvey | Partisan |
| 11 | 1982 | A Certain Ratio | Mute |
| 12 | Life and Life Only | The Heavy Heavy | ATO |
| 13 | Norm | Andy Shauf | Anti |
| 14 | Waiting to Spill | The Backseat Lovers | UMG |
| 15 | We've Been Going About This All Wrong | Sharon Van Etten | Unknown |
| 16 | Freewheelin' Woman | Jewel | Words Matter |
| 17 | Careful of Your Keepers | This Is the Kit | Rough Trade |
| 18 | Last Night in the Bittersweet | Paolo Nutini | Atlantic |
| 19 | BRIGHTSIDE | The Lumineers | Dualtone |
| 20 | Mercy | John Cale | Domino |
| 21 | Sometimes, Forever | Soccer Mommy | Loma Vista |
| 22 | Second Nature | Lucius | MOM + POP |
| 23 | Game Changing | Tuomo & Markus | Grandpop |
| 24 | Big Time | Angel Olsen | Jagjaguwar |
| 25 | Cruel Country | Wilco | dBPM |
| 26 | Meet the Moonlight | Jack Johnson | Republic |
| 27 | Household Name | Momma | Polyvinyl |
| 28 | Inside Problems | Andrew Bird | Loma Vista |
| 29 | Long Lost | Lord Huron | UMG |
| 30 | Ivory | Omar Apollo | Warner |
| 31 | The Sun | Joseph | ATO |
| 32 | When the Wind Forgets Your Name | Built To Spill | Sub Pop |
| 33 | The Last Goodbye | ODESZA | Foreign Family Collective |
| 34 | Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever) | Noah Kahan | Mercury |
| 35 | Dance Fever | Florence + the Machine | Universal |
| 36 | Henry St. | The Tallest Man On Earth | Anti |
| 37 | Campanita | Summer Salt | Cherry Lime |
| 38 | Surrender | Maggie Rogers | Capitol |
| 39 | The Great White Sea Eagle | James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand Orchestra | Domino |
| 40 | Wandering Rebel | Juan Wauters | Captured Tracks |
| 41 | Bad Days and Heartaches | Inyaki Leigh | Self-Release |
| 42 | Chloe and the Next 20th Century | Father John Misty | Sub Pop |
| 43 | Strange Illusion | The Copper Children | Self-Release |
| 44 | Frame | Charlie Cunningham | BMG |
| 45 | This is Why | Paramore | Atlantic |
| 46 | WAKAAN Mixtape (Live) | STS9 | Wakaan |
| 47 | New Year's | Wildermiss | Self-Release |
| 48 | ILYSM | Wild Pink | Royal Mountain |
| 49 | Genius Killer | The Mommyheads | Self-Release |
| 50 | Being Funny in a Foreign Language | The 1975 | Dirty Hit |
| 51 | Underdressed at the Symphony | Faye Webster | Secretly Canadian |
| 52 | Paradigmes : Suppléments | La Femme | Disque Pointu |
| 53 | Pollen | Tennis | Mutually Detrimental |
| 54 | Forever Means | Angel Olsen | Jagjaguwar |
| 55 | OK to Wonder | Arkansauce | Self-Release |
| 56 | Sisyphus Happy | M. Lockwood Porterr | Black Mesa |
| 57 | Pompeii | Cate Le Bon | Mexican Summer |
| 58 | Unlimited Love | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Warner |
| 59 | Living in a Haze | Milky Chance | Muggelig |
| 60 | Swiss Army Knife | The Mommyheads | Self-Release |
| 61 | Too Late for Edelweiss | The Tallest Man On Earth | Anti |
| 62 | Jubilee | Japanese Breakfast | Dead Oceans |
| 63 | World's Most Stressed out Gardener | Chad VanGaalen | Sub Pop |
| 64 | Aboogi | Imarhan | City Slang |
| 65 | The Bible | Lambchop | Merge |
| 66 | Lullaby for a Stranger | Jamie Stillway | Fluff and Gravy |
| 67 | Happier Than Ever | Billie Eilish | Darkroom |
| 68 | The Jungle | Plants and Animals | Secret City |
| 69 | The Gods We Can Touch | AURORA | Glassnote |
| 70 | New Kings of Pop | The Mommyheads | Self-Release |
| 71 | Age of Isolation | The Mommyheads | Self-Release |
| 72 | Misadventures of Doomscroller | Dawes | Rounder |
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