Rolling Stone’s year-end list named 40 indie-rock albums released in 2023, with boygenius’s the record at No. 1, Mitski’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We at No. 2, and Blondshell’s Blondshell at No. 3. The ranking below follows the order shown on Album of the Year’s page for the feature, which links to Rolling Stone’s original article. It is one publication’s selection, not a consensus ranking or an objective measure of quality.
What the ranking covers
The list spans indie rock and adjacent sounds, including indie folk, singer-songwriter music, post-punk, and art punk. That breadth reflects the boundaries of a year-end editorial selection rather than a narrow genre definition. Album titles, artist names, ordering, and dates below follow the accessible list page; its dates are presented as release dates and have not been independently verified against artist or label discographies.
The original Rolling Stone feature was not accessible for direct review; the ranking here is therefore attributed to the secondary page that reproduces it and links to it. The list page also supplies genre labels and brief descriptions for some entries, but the ranking below does not treat those classifications as definitive.
The 40 albums, ranked
- Margaret Glaspy — Echo the Diamond (August 18, 2023)
- feeble little horse — Girl with Fish (June 9, 2023)
- Lydia Loveless — Nothing’s Gonna Stand In My Way Again (September 22, 2023)
- Greg Mendez — Greg Mendez (May 5, 2023)
- Patio — Collection (September 22, 2023)
- Geese — 3D Country (June 23, 2023)
- Squirrel Flower — Tomorrow’s Fire (October 13, 2023)
- Indigo De Souza — All of This Will End (April 28, 2023)
- Allegra Krieger — I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane (July 21, 2023)
- The New Pornographers — Continue as a Guest (March 31, 2023)
- Mutual Benefit — Growing at the Edges (October 6, 2023)
- bar italia — Tracey Denim (May 19, 2023)
- Sweeping Promises — Good Living Is Coming for You (June 30, 2023)
- The Hold Steady — The Price of Progress (March 31, 2023)
- IAN SWEET — SUCKER (November 3, 2023)
- Ratboys — The Window (August 25, 2023)
- Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band — Dancing on the Edge (October 27, 2023)
- Annie Blackman — Bug (April 28, 2023)
- Pardoner — Peace Loving People (June 23, 2023)
- En Attendant Ana — Principia (February 24, 2023)
- Hotline TNT — Cartwheel (November 3, 2023)
- PJ Harvey — I Inside the Old Year Dying (July 7, 2023)
- Shamir — Homo Anxietatem (August 18, 2023)
- Katie Von Schleicher — A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night (October 20, 2023)
- Bully — Lucky for You (June 2, 2023)
- Crosslegged — Another Blue (January 27, 2023)
- Wilco — Cousin (September 29, 2023)
- The National — First Two Pages of Frankenstein (April 28, 2023)
- Joanna Sternberg — I’ve Got Me (June 30, 2023)
- Palehound — Eye On The Bat (July 14, 2023)
- Bonny Doon — Let There Be Music (June 16, 2023)
- Yo La Tengo — This Stupid World (February 10, 2023)
- Kara Jackson — Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (April 14, 2023)
- U.S. Girls — Bless This Mess (February 24, 2023)
- Water From Your Eyes — Everyone’s Crushed (May 26, 2023)
- Wednesday — Rat Saw God (April 7, 2023)
- Sufjan Stevens — Javelin (October 6, 2023)
- Blondshell — Blondshell (April 7, 2023)
- Mitski — The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (September 15, 2023)
- boygenius — the record (March 31, 2023)
How to read the list
The numbered order represents Rolling Stone’s editorial placement as reproduced by Album of the Year. It does not establish that the albums were judged using a single measurable standard, nor that listeners or other critics would rank them the same way. If you need exact discographic dates or genre classifications, check the relevant artist or label source; the dates and tags here are metadata displayed on the secondary list page.
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