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