Best Albums 2023 edition

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    Agriculture - s/t
    One of the best avant-garde / experimental black metal releases this year. Pure and uplifting.

    Victory Over The Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song!
    Essenally a solo album, Vivian Tylinska plays all the instruments apart from a few features on violin and whatnot. Veers majestically from black metal to prog to new wave to jazz to shoegaze to grindcore to synth pop and back again.

    Liturgy - 93696
    *The* best avant-garde / experimental black metal release this year.

    Saw them three times within the space of five days this year. Utterly mindblowing, even moreso than sunn. Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix using music to attempt to physically manifest herself into a new dimension of thought and space and time. I honestly can't describe how dense and rewarding this album is.

    benefits - Nails
    An album built entirely from frustration and anger. Just a fucking great big pile of hammering noise and shouting.

    Special mentions for Vince Clarke, KEN Mode, Portrayal of Guilt, and BIG|BRAVE.

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