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| 2023 Favorites
Many good albums this year, but not so many which blew my mind. Maybe next year. | | 1 |  | Amplifier
Hologram
Their best record overall since Echo Street maybe, can't wait for Gargantuan. | | 2 |  | Caroline Polachek
Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Biggest surprise, this grew on me a lot. | | 3 |  | Depeche Mode
Memento Mori | | 4 |  | Yawning Man
Long Walk of the Navajo
Torrid summer jam. | | 5 |  | Acid Arab
Trois
Banger. | | 6 |  | Oxbow
Love's Holiday | | 7 |  | Katatonia
Sky Void of Stars | | 8 |  | Protomartyr
Formal Growth in the Desert | | 9 |  | Follakzoid
V
Found myself listening to this more than I thought. Seeing them live in what was probably their most intimate gig lately and chit chatting with Domingae made for a special memory lol. | | 10 |  | MxPx
Find A Way Home
How the hell didn't I listen to these guys until now, I don't know. Great record, forget about Blink-182's latest. | | 11 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
In Times New Roman...
Tight album, half of it is awesome. | | 12 |  | Filter
The Algorithm
Weird production choices aside, it's a really good LP. | | 13 |  | The Flower Kings
Look At You Now | | 14 |  | Gozu
Remedy
Gozu still slays. | | 15 |  | The National
Laugh Track
Some excellent moments on this one. | | 16 |  | Fennesz/Ozmotic
Senzatempo | | 17 |  | LE SSERAFIM
UNFORGIVEN
Did a much better job with the album than IVE. | | 18 |  | Carbon Based Lifeforms
Seeker | | 19 |  | Rotor (GER)
7
Rotor remains a constant feature with another great record. | | 20 |  | Beastwars
Tyranny Of Distance | | 21 |  | Swans
The Beggar
Too long and linear, but when it clicks it's awesome. | | 22 |  | Mondo Drag
Through The Hourglass | | 23 |  | Tim Hecker
No Highs | | 24 |  | Therapy?
Hard Cold Fire | | 25 |  | HEALTH
RAT WARS
I like it, it's a cool experiment they had to do at some point. | | 26 |  | Ozric Tentacles
Lotus Unfolding | | 27 |  | Kimbra
A Reckoning | | 28 |  | The National
First Two Pages of Frankenstein
A few awesome tracks amid your usual middle aged corporate dad sob. | | 29 |  | William Basinski
The Clocktower at the Beach (1979) | | 30 |  | Jessie Ware
That! Feels Good! | | 31 |  | Zhaoze
No Answer Blowin' in the Wind | | 32 |  | Bell Witch
Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate | | 33 |  | Anohni and the Johnsons
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross | | 34 |  | Foo Fighters
But Here We Are | | 35 |  | REZN
Solace | | 36 |  | Blur
The Ballad of Darren | | 37 |  | Wilco
Cousin | | 38 |  | Acid King
Beyond Vision | | 39 |  | VV (FIN)
Neon Noir
A slow grower for me. | | 40 |  | Great Falls
Objects Without Pain | | 41 |  | Tuber
Joyful Science | | 42 |  | Slowdive
Everything is Alive | | 43 |  | Purelink
Signs | | 44 |  | Gorillaz
Cracker Island | | 45 |  | Laibach
Sketches of the Red Districts | | 46 |  | Ryuichi Sakamoto
12 | | 47 |  | Big|Brave
nature morte | | 48 |  | KEN mode
Void | | 49 |  | Jason Isbell
Weathervanes | | 50 |  | Xiu Xiu
Ignore Grief | | 51 |  | Sleaford Mods
UK Grim | | 52 |  | Host
IX | | 53 |  | Mondo Generator
We Stand Against You | | 54 |  | The Ocean
Holocene
This didn't really click, but it's a nice listen. Maybe it will click at some point. | | 55 |  | Red Velvet
Chill Kill | | 56 |  | fromis_9
Unlock My World | | 57 |  | Motorpsycho
Yay! | | 58 |  | Steven Wilson
The Harmony Codex
Should be higher I guess, but I didn't really have the patience for it so far, there were other records I enjoyed more since it was released. | | 59 |  | Domkraft
Sonic Moons | | 60 |  | Bongzilla
Dab City
Too long, but played it frequently as background music while playing on my PC. | | 61 |  | Baxter Dury
I Thought I Was Better Than You | | 62 |  | Delerium
Signs | | 63 |  | Moby
Ambient 23 | |
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12.16.23 | Now we are talking.
Some of this stuff has made my top of the year as well 3,16,18,42,44 | kildare
12.16.23 | Your rec of Acid Arab on Sowing's 2023 Q1 playlist was golden. I hope that stuff evolves into a whole genre | Ladron93
12.17.23 | Yes. ^^
Caroline Polachek, Carbon Based Lifeforms, HEALTH, Jessie Ware, slowdive have been my liking of this year.
Katatonia, Filter, Tim Hecker, Kimbra, William Basinski, Gorillaz, Steven Wilson, Queens of the Stone Age albums were okay.
RIP Ryuichi Sakamoto. 8/
I'll give some of the albums you listed, insomniac. I'm sure not the majority of the bands can be my thing.
| insomniac15
12.17.23 | @kildare - haha, I laughed when I saw it was placed first on the Q1, quite unrepresentative of the rest of the list. If you find any other stuff like Acid Arab, please let me know, I'm curious to hear.
@ladtron - listen to Host's album or Ozric Tentacles if you haven't already, maybe you'll dig them. | kildare
12.17.23 | I'm watch'n | Ladron93
12.18.23 | @ismoniac15 Oh, I think I heard of Lotus Unfolding in October. It's just keeping up with other people's lengthy list is hard to process all of them. xP
That album is not bad. It gave me 90s vibe in a weird way, or I might be talking outta my ass.
Host's IX? Will do. ^^ |
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