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The 20 best pop albums of 2023 radiate with unstoppable playlist power, much-needed sweet escapism, self-reflection, self-criticism, and killer melodies.

Andy Shauf in Studio A.

Andy Schaufs Norm offers journeys down sonic trails that start in the same hallway but change from room to room as he ponders the big topic of love.

This burgeoning Austin cross-genre four-piece just released their debut pair of studio singles last Saturday.

For the first time in three years, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass will return to the western meadows of Golden Gate Park the weekend of September 30, and we now have the full lineup of artists and "Out of the Park" night shows.

From iconoclast jazz to astral punk, minimal psychedelia to raw soul, knockout debuts to long-anticipated returns, these are the albums that defined the triumphs, defiance, and surreality of 2021.