Sunday, January 7, 2024

Best of 2023





Top Albums of 2023:

1. Nabihah Iqbal - Dreamer
2. Bdrmm - I Don't Know
3. Blur - The Ballad of Darren
4. Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
5. Coyle Girelli - Museum Day
6. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
7. The Hives - The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons
8. The Veils - ...And Out Of The Void Came Love 
9. Lana Del Ray - Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.?
10. Zoon - Bekka Ma'iingan
11. Teleman - Good Time/Hard Time
12. The Coral - Sea of Mirrors/Holy Joe
13. DMA's - How Many Dreams?
14. Cathedral Bells - Everything At Once
15. Stephen Sanchez - Angel Face
16. Soft Kill - Metta World Peace
17. Alberta Cross - Sinking Ships
18. Metric - Formenta II
19. Tom Meighan - The Reckoning
20. Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine
21. CVC - Get Real
22. Type Two Error - Caught On The Raw
23. Daiistar - Good Time
24. Mother Tongues - Love In A Vicious Way
25. Sigur Rós - ÁTTA
26. Sparklehorse - Bird Machine
27. Daniel Land - Out Of Season
28. Temples - Exotico
29. Reverend and The Makers - Heatwave In The Cold North
30 .The National -  First Two Pages Of Frankenstein//Laugh Track
31. Night Beats - Rajan
32. Cloth - Secret Measures
33. Cherry Glazer - I Don't Want You Anymore
34. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V
35. Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day

Honourable Mentions:

Idle Garden - S/T
Free The Cynics - Bloodlines
Beach House - Become
Geese - 3D Country
Leila Moss - Internal Working Model
The Drums - Jonny
Secret Machines - The Moth, The Lizard, And The Secret Machines
Black Pumas - Chronicles Of A Diamond
Raised By Swans - Raised By Swans Is The Name Of A Man, Volume 2: Run With The Silent Wildfires
Metallica - 72 Seasons
DJ Shadow - Action Adventure
Royal Blood - Back To The Water Below
Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
King Krule - Space Heavy
Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly
cruush - Wishful Thinker
M83 - Fantasy
Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Belle and Sebastian - Late Developers
The Kills - God Games
HMLTD - The Worm
The KVB - Artefacts
Senses - Little Pictures Without Sound
Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love You, Delete.
Teenage Wrist - Still Love
Gorillaz - Cracker Island
Ron Gallo - Foreground Music
Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner
Helicon - God Intentions
slowthai - Ugly
Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman
Trampolene - Rules Of Love & War
Mac Demarco - Five Easy Hot Dogs
The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling
Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory
The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Future Is Your Past
Girl Ray - Prestige
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Be Your Own Pet - Mommy
The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery
The Tubs - Dead Meat
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
Dirty Honey - Can't Find The Brakes
Strange Ranger - Pure Music
Nation Of Language - Strange Disciple
Ladytron - Time's Arrow
Golf Alpha Bravo - Surf The Coffin (Bury Me With My Gat)
Deary - S/T
whenyoung - Paragon Songs
SZA - SOS
Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
Algiers - Shook
PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying
Spector - Here Come The Early Nights
Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard
Dark Horses - While We Were Sleeping
superviolet - Infinite Spring
Kurt Vile - Back To Moon Beach
Tribes - Rabbit Head
Motorama - Sleep, And I Will Sing
The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
Truth Club - Running From The Chase
Bar Italia - Tracey Denim/The Twits
Goat - Medicine
Palehound - Eye On The Bat
Storm Franklin - Loneliness In The Modern World
Daughter - Stereo Mind Game
Icecoldbishop - Generational Curse
Blondshell - S/T
Home Front - Games Of Power (La Vida Es Un Mus Discos)
Bloc Party - The High Life E.P.
Mandy, Indiana - I've Seen The Way
Wilco - Cousin
St . Paul & The Broken Bones - Angels In Science Fiction
Ratboys - The Window
Drop Nineteens - Hard Light
Nourished By Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
Cold War Kids - S/T
The Waeve - S/T
Steve Mason - Brothers & Sisters
André 3000 - New Blue Sun
Kelela - Raven
Ghost Of Vroom - Ghost Of Vroom 3
Skinny Pelembe - Hardly The Same Snake
Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
Sun Kill Moon - Quiet Beach House Nights
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
Film School - Field
Oliver Tree - Alone In A Crowd
Sweeping Promises - Good Living Is Coming For You
Parannoul - After The Magic
William Tyler & The Impossible Truth - Secret Stratosphere
Drab Majesty - An Object In Motion
shame - Food For Worms
Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation
Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
Feist - Multitudes
Sundara Karma - Better Luck Next Time
Wild Nothing - Hold
Laurel Halo - Atlas
Miles Kane - One Man Band
Bully - Lucky For You
Fidlar - That's Life 
southpacific - Radar Road
Vinyl Williams - Aeterna
L'Rain - I Killed Your Dog
Purelink - Signs
Blue Lake - Sun Arcs
Slow Pulp - Yard
JPEGMAFIA X Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
Ghost Woman - Hindsight Is 50/50
Liv.e - Girl In The Half Pearl
Squid - O Monolith
Nothing But Thieves - Dead Club City
Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My
Sextile - Push
Lol Tolhurst, Budgie, Jacknife Lee - Los Angeles
The Hold Steady - The Price Of Progress
Frankie and The Witch Fingers - Data Doom
Julian Winding, Peter Peter, Cliff Martinez - Copenhagen Cowboy Soundtrack
Kevin Drew - Aging
Olivia Rodriguez - Guts
The Nude Party - Ride On
Romy - Mid Air
James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven