It’s high time we have one of these threads! Post what you liked, what you didn’t like, recommendations for stuff released on 2023, whatever you want. I’m trying to speedrun like a million albums because so much stuff was dropped this year and I just wasn’t in the mood for keeping track of it but here are my picks for best albums of 2023 from the stuff I did get around to listen:
World’s End Girlfriend - RESISTANCE & THE BLESSING (post rock, glitch)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse (thrash metal, stoner metal)
Chini.png - El Día Libre de Polux (art pop, shoegaze)
Full of Hell, Nothing - When No Birds Sang (sludge, post metal)
Klein - Star in the Hood (Sound Collage)
I don’t listen to full albums that much anymore so this is mostly just a list of the few I actually liked enough to listen to completion
Skrillex - Quest For Fire
Kali Uchis - Red Moon In Venus
Rebecca Black - Let Her Burn
Amaarae - Fountain Baby
Jane Remover - Census Designated
100 gecs - 10,000 gecs
and here are some artists I like who released albums this year that I haven’t gotten around to listening to in full yet:
Kelela, Oneohtrix Point Never, James Blake, Yves Tumor, Hannah Diamond
- Moon Hooch - My Head & My Heart (sax rock)
- Dozer - Drifting in the Endless Void (stoner rock)
- Church of Misery - Born Under a Mad Sign (doom metal)
- Gorillaz - Cracker Island
- Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman
- Killer Mike - Michael
Here’s my favorites of the year:
- Some of it Was True by The Menzingers
- Mid Air by Paris Texas
- HELLMODE by Jeff Rosenstock
- Lucky for You by Bully
- When the Band Breaks Up Again by Walter Etc.
- III by Ismatic Guru
- Domino by Diners
- Disposable Everything by AJJ
- The Brightest Days by Origami Angel
- 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs
Mostly punk with some indie/emo/hip hpp