Ashcrash 2023 List
top 50 albums plus some other stuff. more info in comments |
| 53 |  | The Replacements
Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)
delighted to announce tim no longer sounds like you're hearing it underwater |
| 52 |  | Thrice
The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited)
listened to this more than anything NEW new this year oops. best concert I saw in 2023 tho |
| 51 |  | BINGE
Toothache
EP of the Year, math rock/noise rock stuff see review |
| 50 |  | The St Pierre Snake Invasion
Galore
meaty, loud, lumbering post-hardcore |
| 49 |  | BrokenTeeth
How to Sink Slowly
slowcore/shoegaze/better than the new parannoul album don't at me |
| 48 |  | Holding Absence
The Noble Art of Self-Destruction
alt-rock with the roof-raising choruses and the reverby wall of guitars and a killer vocalist |
| 47 |  | Model/Actriz
Dogsbody
an exercise of genre (the genre is post-punk. at least the guitars sound like subway disasters) |
| 46 |  | Sampha
LAHAI
r&b/pop/need more time with this but it's solid |
| 45 |  | Pile
All Fiction
twangy curdling desert wind indie rock |
| 44 |  | Jeromes Dream
The Gray In Between
oh cool they're screaming again |
| 43 |  | Narrow Head
Moments of Clarity
running in the 90's |
| 42 |  | Andrea
Due In Color
electronic (idk subgenres man but it wubbles and fubbles and does the wuuuuuush in slow-mo it's cool) |
| 41 |  | Steven Wilson
The Harmony Codex
he put some prog in your prog so you can prog while you prog |
| 40 |  | Empty Country
Empty Country II
singer-songwriter, EC1 had the better music, EC2 has the better lore. I can appreciate both but prefer the former |
| 39 |  | Great Falls
Objects Without Pain
sludgy mucky life falling apart-core |
| 38 |  | Aesop Rock
Integrated Tech Solutions
YOU HAVE REACHED LOQUACIOUS HIP-HOP CRUISING ALTITUDE |
| 37 |  | Tim Hecker
No Highs
anti-ambient ambient |
| 36 |  | George Clanton
Ooh Rap I Ya
chillwave, also I thought this guy and george clinton were the same person for way too long oops |
| 35 |  | The Hives
The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons
dumb fun nonsense garage punk rock let's go |
| 34 |  | GridLink
Coronet Juniper
"casual's grind" shut up it's still good. half that chepang one gave me a headache. I choose my battles |
| 33 |  | Johnny Booth
Moments Elsewhere
prog metalcore |
| 32 |  | PJ Harvey
I Inside the Old Year Dying
folk but like the kind of folk where you pull up in your time machine to a medieval english village and show them pepsi and they go "aye it fells the gallorp in yer staumarch. whaets the trunket do?" and you're like "sorry I don't know what the fuck you're on about" so you get taken to the lord and the lord decides to put you in the dungeon but the dungeon has one of those ground-level holes you can peer outside of so you watch people's feet as the days pass and try convincing the children to let you out. you learn to appreciate dewy mornings. type of album, yeah |
| 31 |  | Hail The Sun
Divine Inner Tension
swancore goes to therapy |
| 30 |  | Rodrigo Ogi
Aleatoriamente
brazilian abstract horrorcore stuff? think I got here from recs of recs of recs but it kicks ass |
| 29 |  | Night Verses
Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night...
instrumental prog metal - so glad justin chancellor could be part of a good comeback album |
| 28 |  | Yves Tumor
Praise a Lord Who Chews, But Does Not Consume...
soul/pop/funk/new wave - someone should review this |
| 27 |  | Periphery
Periphery V: Djent is Not a Genre
the notes themselves are not a genre |
| 26 |  | Paramore
This Is Why
alternative & punk - apple, probably |
| 25 |  | Jessie Ware
That! Feels Good!
it! feels like! she did it again |
| 24 |  | Home Is Where
The Whaler
nth-wave emo + indie folk |
| 23 |  | The Gaslight Anthem
History Books
heartland rock comeback and the feels never go away |
| 22 |  | Alfa Mist
Variables
youtube algorithm jazz |
| 21 |  | Fireworks
Higher Lonely Power
gracefully-aged pop-punkers bust out the synths and mope about america things hell yeah I'll drink to that brother |
| 20 |  | James Holden
Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities
I'm imagining it. it sounds like dope electronica |
| 19 |  | Billy Woods and Kenny Segal
Maps
BROKEN LIKE THE ICE CREAM MACHINE |
| 18 |  | The Veils
...And Out of the Void Came Love
chamber rock about time and space and shit idk sounds majestic as fuck though |
| 17 |  | King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of...
campy thrash (is this the first KGLW to feature wizards AND lizards?) |
| 16 |  | McKinley Dixon
Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
jazz-hop. arrangements on here outshine the rapping tbh |
| 15 |  | Origami Angel
The Brightest Days
rainy summer party emo |
| 14 |  | Panopticon
The Rime of Memory
cold blizzard metal |
| 13 |  | Powers/Pulice/Rolin
Prism
warm sunbeam jazz |
| 12 |  | Caroline Polachek
Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
post-hyperpop (observationally) |
| 11 |  | Paul Simon
Seven Psalms
dude is over 80 and can still play some mean fingerstyle |
| 10 |  | Gezan with Million Wish Collective
Anochi
nails on chalkboard vocalist charity compilation-ass album made me feel things, check that off the bingo card |
| 9 |  | underscores
Wallsocket
post-hyperpop (complimentary) |
| 8 |  | Ben Howard
Is It?
folktronica rehab album |
| 7 |  | Maria BC
Spike Field
singer-songwriter/ambient - phoebe bridgers for people over the age of 25 and/or emotionally distant weirdos (i am both) |
| 6 |  | Geese
3D Country
rock - and prog - but not prog rock? does that make sense? |
| 5 |  | Young Fathers
Heavy Heavy
soul/pop - euphoria put to music |
| 4 |  | Jason Isbell
Weathervanes
alt country/southern rock - isbell's best since the GOATed southeastern |
| 3 |  | Foo Fighters
But Here We Are
rock n fuckin roll baby |
| 2 |  | Lonnie Holley
Oh Me Oh My
genre buzzwords really don't describe this |
| 1 |  | Sufjan Stevens
Javelin
sufjan's sufjaniest sufjanisms LITE edition, single-portion size sadness but also his career's whole ethos summed up in one exceptionally fluid stroke |
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