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9 May 2024

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Corinne Bailey Rae’s Black Rainbows is the most acclaimed album of the year.

The ADM Report 2023

Now everyone's had their say with the Best Albums of 2023 roundups, it's time to take stock of the cold hard facts of what really were the most critically-acclaimed albums over the past 12 months.

The AnyDecentMusic top 10 of 2023 is the most reliable guide to what earned the most extensive overall praise from reviewers.

We have excluded from the rankings any albums with fewer than ten reviews from our list of more than 50 sources from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Ireland, and the formula we apply to arrive at the ADM rating takes the number of reviews into account.

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8.73

Corinne Bailey Rae

Black Rainbows

"A hugely impressive, frequently stunning return, 'Black Rainbows' ranks as one of the year's most imposing comebacks"
Clash

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8.62

Sufjan Stevens

Javelin

"Continuing his prolific run, this magical, magnificent album is both blissfully sad and gloriously uplifting"
musicOMH

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8.58

Sampha

Lahai

"A generational talent who has once again delivered a rich, emotional work for us to process. Lahai is phenomenal"
The Line Of Best Fit

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8.57

Mitski

The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We

"Mitski's seventh record is a brutally honest chronicle of the struggle to find self-love"
The Skinny

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8.50

boygenius

The Record

"Ambitious and inimitable, their first debut album is an earth-shattering feat"
Dork

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8.47

Young Fathers

Heavy Heavy

"Unique, raw and totally joyous"
DIY

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8.45

Caroline Polachek

Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

"In its sensual world - at once humid and arid, shadowy and blinding, silky and jagged - you feel the endless, vividly destructive possibility of all-consuming desire"
Exclaim

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8.42

Olivia Rodrigo

Guts

"This is the album of a truly brilliant rock star"
Rolling Stone

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8.37

Paramore

This Is Why

"The trio's clear-eyed and powerful sixth album encapsulates their journey to becoming a generation-defining band"
NME

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8.36

The Murder Capital

Gigi's Recovery

"The Irish post-punk band go bigger and deeper on a second album that exudes muscular drama"
The Observer

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