2023: Your favourite music

Top 15 albums (in no special order):

Nicole Dollanganger - Married in Mount Airy 

Ricochets - Closer to the Light

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

Erik Hall - Canto Ostinato

William Tyler & The Impossible Truth - Secret Stratosphere

Tim Hecker - No Highs

Wednesday - Rat Saw God

OZmotic | Fennesz - Senzatempo

Fruit Bats - A River Running to Your Heart 

Foo Fighters - But Here We Are 

PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

Alva Noto - HYbr:ID II 

Forest Swords - Bolted 
 

Honorable mentions:

André 3000 - New Blue Sun

Actress - LXXXVIII 

KMRU - Stupor 

Israel Nash - Ozarker

Oval - Romantiq

Orbital - Optical Delusion

Loscil // Lawrence English - Colours of Air 

Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12

Singles, EPs, Mixes, Live, etc.

Autechre - AE_LIVE_LONDON_071022_B

Skee Mask - ISS009 

Abul Mogard - Savoy Theatre, Helsinki

Tim Hecker - Tim Hecker 23/03/23

Aphex Twin - Barcelona 16.06.23

Alva Noto - Xerrox Selected

Blawan - Dismantled Into Juice

Kieran Hebden & William Tyler - Darkness, Darkness / No Services

Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760  

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Australian Carnage: Live at the Sydney Opera House

Four Tet - Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023

Traumprinz - Extra Life

Been a great year for music, at least in my eyes. One of the best in recent times. Lookin' forward to exploring this thread. Post mine in due course. 

I'm still considering how to arrange all my favs, but I built this grab bag that gives you 10 albums I that I liked, at random (tho I need to add stuff from the past month), and I also just built a 2023 music critic simulator that will generate some potentially questionable opinions about music from the year, so if anyone's looking for a novel way to find stuff from this year, I think it's a fun one

Surgeon - Crash Recoil

Yamaneko - Escape artists never die

Autechre - AE live 22

Aphex twin - Blackbox life recorder extended (the ep plus other bits he put out this year been like a top new afx album!) 

Sleep Token- Take me back to eden 

Dj Sabrina the Teenage Dj- Destiny 

Evian Christ - Revanchist

Shackleton - The Scandle of time

Lee Gamble - Models 

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Seeker

Cassisdead - Famous last words

Currents- The death we seek

Mineral Stunting - Stones and Mud

Romance - Face into you

Actress - LXXXVIII & the NTS sessions

Crosses - Goodnight, God bless, I love you. Delete 

Steve Roach - Sanctuary of Desire 

Spirtbox- The Fear of Fear

https://www.folkloretapes.co.uk/product/when-the-frog-sees-the-ocean

Autechre - AE live 22

SDEM - Vortices / STEM / LUT

Carrier - Lazy Mechanics / Neither Curve Nor Edge / Fathom

Synalegg - Patchwork 03

Mantle of Gets - Lisbon D300422D5409 / Porto D311022D5810

Blawan - Dismantled Into Juice

Kindohm - Prompt 3 / GET

JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes / Scaring The Hoes : DLC Pack

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps

Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire

Godflesh - Purge

  On 12/3/2023 at 10:32 AM, d-a-m-o said:

Godflesh - Purge

One of the best things they have ever done imo

This definitely applies

Seeing as I'm lurking about on here, this was one of my favourite things this year

As always I am flabbergasted by the amount of new music people here explore each year. I guess I'm mostly focused on older stuff...

Anyway my 2023 music charts go something like this :

• Ae Live 22 (of course)
• KNOWER - KNOWER FOREVER (awesome album)
• OPN - Again
• Gorillaz - Cracker Island (might be their best since Plastic Beach)
• Actress - LXXXVIII

Honorable mentions :

• Blur - The Ballad of Darren (very solid album, couldn't find the willpower to go back at it after they cancelled the show I was supposed to go to)
• Aphex Twin - Blackbox Recorder (incredible tracks, the best thing was probably the WATMM hype surrounding it anyway haha)
• Death Dynamic Shroud - Keys to the Gate

Most entertaining aoty 

The usual suspects-
Slowdive - Everything is Alive

Rrose - Please Touch

SDEM - Vortices

Always love this thread for catching awesome shit I've missed

Currently listening to SDEM - Vortices after seeing it on a few lists above...so good! Thanks all  

Surgeon - Crash Recoil

Jpegmafia and Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes

Overmono - Good Lies

Clark - Sus/ Cave Dog

Hudson Mohawke and Nikki Nair - Set The Roof

Aphex Twin - BBLR

Kai Campos - City Planning Deluxe 

James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven

OPN - Again

Kamaal Williams - Stings

Joy Orbison- Archive 09-10

Pangaea - Changing Channels

Actress - LXXXVIII

Danny Brown - Quaranta

And lots of older music discovered this year...

  On 12/3/2023 at 12:04 PM, Stock said:

As always I am flabbergasted by the amount of new music people here explore each year. I guess I'm mostly focused on older stuff...

Yeah I think for me, I've always had a lot of fun focusing on the new music, though I think I found a better balance for new and old this year

This got me to 438 releases from 2023, so about 1.3 a day so far. Though I'm probably going to go wild digging through all the stuff that people mention in their lists, like I just found out about this very peculiar mix of synthy arabic popular music and jazz, so psyched for all the coming discoveries like this one

https://raedyassin.bandcamp.com/album/kaf-afrit

Did everyone hear the Hakushi Hasegawa single that came out this year on brainfeeder? It's less IDM-adjacent than his single from last year, but I think it should still be of interest to many ppl here

Rrose - Please Touch
Aisha Devi - Death is Home
Synalegg - Patchwork-03
Kindohm - Prompt 3
nebulo - MMXXII
3OP
AE_LIVE
Carrier's EPs
Mosca's singles

Still undecided on that Overmono album. Sometimes I play it and it hits a spot, other times I can't stand it. Would like an instrumental version. Though I guess the vocals is part of their signature sound. 

  On 12/4/2023 at 9:33 AM, beerwolf said:

Still undecided on that Overmono album. Sometimes I play it and it hits a spot, other times I can't stand it. Would like an instrumental version. Though I guess the vocals is part of their signature sound. 

I hear you. I do really love the album because it feels like its the culmination of their modern sound, and seeing the development of that sound with their prior singles was great but I do think that moving forward they need a change of sound because this type of electronic music falls intro repetition and mediocrity very easily and I feel like they are already walking a fine line when it comes to that.

Artists who put out music that I loved in any format, not ranked (incl. a few old ones on new comps)

Aphex Twin

April Heigths

Autechre

African Head Charge

Basic Rhythm

Ben Pest

Blawan

Client_03

Coco Bryce

Cult 48

Dgohn & Badun

El Michels Affair & Black Thought

E.R.P.

The Exaltics

Fiesta Soundsystem

FFF

Fluid Haunts

Global Goon

Gooooose

Heinrich Mueller

Hieroglyphic Being

The House Of Web

Humanoid

Hannah Account

Jackbeast

Jack Lever

James Holden

Jodey Kendrick (JK/Lord Of The D/EDM)

King Krule

Lankum

Marco Bernardi

Meat Beat Manifesto

Mike Paradinas (Tusken Raiders/Mu-ZiQ)

MOY

MPU 420

Naix

Operating Theatre

Ordinance Survey

Øxn

Pepsi Slammer

Pete Cannon

Redray

Refreshers

Rezzett

Róisín Murphy

RTR

Russ Brooker

Seba & Paradox

Seekers International

Sully

Surgeon

The Smile

Tirzah

Vromm

V/Z

Wots My Code

3mperor Augustu5

  On 12/3/2023 at 11:01 PM, taphead said:

Yeah I think for me, I've always had a lot of fun focusing on the new music, though I think I found a better balance for new and old this year

This got me to 438 releases from 2023, so about 1.3 a day so far. Though I'm probably going to go wild digging through all the stuff that people mention in their lists, like I just found out about this very peculiar mix of synthy arabic popular music and jazz, so psyched for all the coming discoveries like this one

https://raedyassin.bandcamp.com/album/kaf-afrit

 

Did everyone hear the Hakushi Hasegawa single that came out this year on brainfeeder? It's less IDM-adjacent than his single from last year, but I think it should still be of interest to many ppl here

 

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Very nice, it speaks to my inner weeb.

i guess its that time of year already!

  On 12/4/2023 at 9:42 PM, species8472 said:

i guess its that time of year already!

Yep I'm waiting patiently

Klein - Touched by an Angel
Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12
Mediafired - Div@s Paradise
Akh - Amon

And the new Depeche Mode album was pretty dope.
 

DJ Trystero - Castillo

Tujiko Noriko - Crépuscule I + II

Fennesz + OZmotic - Senzatempo

Tirzah - trip9love???

Nondi_ - Flood City Trax

Teresa Winter - Proserpine

Flesh & The Dream - Choose Mortality

Jodey Kendrick - EDM X &Y

Joanne Robertson - Blue Car

Dream Dolphin - Gaia (Selected Ambient and Downtempo Works 1996-2003)

Lee Gamble - Models

Face of Another - 808 Sunset 90

WATMM I'm kinda disappointed that I found out from mixmag rather than you lot that i had missed a Peverlist EP and a new DJ Manny album!

They also reminded me I have more 2023 Shackleton to still explore properly. Some good stuff in here tbf to them!

https://mixmag.net/feature/best-albums-eps-dance-electronic-music-2023-house-techno-amapiano-drum-bass-rap-rnb

i think i fell in love with more tracks than entire albums this year, but i'll list some nice records anyway...

top 3 lps:

umo - v
opn - again
king gizz - petrodragonic apocalypse

honourable mentions:

knower - knower forever
andre 3000 - new blue sun
yves tumor - whateverthefuckitscalled