![]() But thank heaven for the effin’ around that led to the only album of 2023 that feels like a lawfully wedded union of the Breeders and Crosby, Stills and Nash. Sings Dacus: “When you don’t know who you are, you fuck around and find out.” These three very much already knew who they were, to the extent that any twentysomething prodigies do. And that holds true whether it’s the songs that most feel like individual excursions into a trio member’s singular heart With Very Special Guest Harmonizers (Bridgers’ “Letter to an Old Poet,” Baker’s “Anti-Curse,” Dacus’ “True Blue”) or the truest full-band collabs. There’s hardly anything among the 12 tracks on Boygenius’ first full-length collaboration that doesn’t stand with the very best stuff Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus have done on their own. ![]() ![]() If that’s so, we could only wish that other contemporary greats would similarly congregate as supergroups and “cheat” their way to the top of our best albums lists. Maybe it’s an unfair advantage, when three superior singer-songwriters team up and each bring their A-game instead of selections from the discard pile to a supposed side project. The reteaming of part-time supergroup Boygenius brought strength in numbers Karol G, Kali Uchis and Tainy pushed the Latin revolution ever forward Lana Del Rey mesmerized fans even more than before with true confessions Kelela and Raye raised the flag for invigorating R&B Jason Isbell and Brandy Clark held down the classic storytelling fort and Sam Smith and Christine & the Queens didn’t just represent for gender-fluid artists but for great nonconformers generally.Īmong the dozens, even hundreds, of albums we’ve fallen for this year, here are some unranked picks as selected by executive music editor Jem Aswad, senior writer and chief music critic Chris Willman and associate music editor Thania Garcia - all attesting that, in the realm of music, it’s anything but a cruel summer. From Ice Spice making a splash at the beginning of her career to Paul Simon pushing the envelope at the other end of his, the year in music has already brought riches galore, even before we get into what is likely to be a superstar-strewn back half.
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