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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