Best Albums 2023 edition
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- HAL9001
Name your picks!
- HAL90012
Here's my first pick
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II
- face_melter3
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.
- thumb_screws0
I wasn't the new stuff this year as I normally am.
But pretty much anything The Alchemist had a hand in this year was solid.Genesis Owusu – STRUGGLER
Slowdive – Everything Is Alive
Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Larry June and the Alchemist – The Great Escape
Danny Brown – Quaranta
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – V
Overmono – Good Lies
Bad//Dreems – HOO HA!
billy woods / Kenny Segal – Maps
Blur – The Ballad of Darren
Jpegmafia and Danny Brown – Scaring the Hoes
Earl Sweatshirt and Alchemist – Voir Dire
Squaring Circles – Circles Make Lines Spiral
Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy
Civic – Taken By Force- IMO Young Fathers 'I Saw' might be Best Song of the Yearfooler
- I wasn't across new stuff. Yeah that song is a belter, the whole album is so good.thumb_screws
- It's got an interesting video. https://www.youtube.…CyBrainX
- STRUGGLER has been spinning constantly. Class.robthelad
- CyBrainX1
Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman
PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V
Oval - Romantiq
Moby Resound NYC
Lana Del Rey - Did you know there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd.
Clark - Sus Dog
Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Future Is Your Past
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Have a Nice Life - Voids (remaster)
The album of demos that everyone downloaded from some scuffed blogspot and was compressed to all fuck gets a reworking and official release. Thom has the originals. If you know you know.HIRS Collective - We're Still Here
A pulverising grindcore circus explosion smashed together with features from Shirley Manson, Escuela Grind, SOULGLO, and others. Also responsible for the greatest gig photos I saw this year:
(by: https://www.instagram.com/larval…)
- scruffics15
it's that time of the year again when I am reminded how fucked up everyone's tastes in music are in here on QBN
- Gardener5
So much great music this year and I can recommend these 10.
https://babeterror.bandcamp.com/…
https://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.c…
https://whitecanyon5thdimension.…
https://philipjeck.bandcamp.com/…
https://juliembyrne.bandcamp.com…
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcam…
https://flaermusic.bandcamp.com/…
https://josephinefostermusic.ban…
https://crueldiagonals.bandcamp.…
https://polypores-cis.bandcamp.c…
I have a fresh mix out on 20/12 via my Mixcloud featuring 2 hours of some my fave female artists in 2023.
- love your enthusiasm Gardener. Remember arguing with some guy at the Brudenell here in Leeds a few years ago. He said "it's been a shit year for music"Ianbolton
- I said "Lazy bastard". End of story.Ianbolton
- Is your ten in order?Ianbolton
- interesting selection....
9/10 are rehashed dreariness to me, tho well worth ploughing thru all that dross for the amazing cruel diagonals. cheers!hans_glib - These are in no order I rated them on how much I've had them on driving or chilling out, best way to get where my head is at is through my mixes as always xGardener
- Are you responsible for Gardeners of the Earth using an apostrophe for a plural in their name?CyBrainX
- MrAbominable0
Mandy, Indiana "I've Seen a Way"
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- maquito1
This gem, produced by their very own Blag Dahlia. Delighted to listen current punk rock in/of 2023.