If one thread connects the best albums from this year, it's honesty: No matter their genre, artists confronting the world head-on and telling the truth about what they saw made the most satisfying music of 2023.
Paramore's follow-up to 2017's After Laughter takes the spikier impulses lurking under that album's confections and combines them with the last six years' worth of global upheavals to fuel jagged jams.
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