Your Favorite Music of 2023?

[s_mcsleazy]

no need - mass of the fermenting dregs

probably my favorite song that came out during the year. kinda a shame i don't think it's going to be on the setlist for the upcoming tour but defo a band i listened to a lot this year. especially in the last 6 weeks or so constantly riding back and forth from the hospital.

if we're going by spotify's idea of most listened to, for the 3rd year in a row, it was sewerslvt in my top artist.

[ThePearDream]

I didn't take much time to explore new music last year, and mostly listened to old favorites. I added some stuff from a few of the artists from upthread, and am looking forward to exploring those more. I did find MACHO at the end of December though and am loving all of their stuff.

MACHO - Info Bros
MACHO - Rats & Larceny

[tqi]

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[Straight6DOHC]

GÅS: Vol 1
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Land of Sleeper
Slowdive: Everything is Alive
QOTSA: In Times New Roman
Ghostwoman: Hindsight is 50/50
The Streets: The Darker the Shadow, the Brighter the Light
Just Mustard - for being easily one the best live acts I've seen in 35 years of going to gigs.

[MayTheFuzzBeWithYou]

Honestly 2023 was the year that I really didn’t care for new music and did only buy records on two occasions, the Surfer Joe Summer Festival in Livorno, Italy and a concert of my band‘s new trumpeter‘s multi-instrumental solo concert (he replaced a guitarist). In comparison to 20-50 a year during the pandemic)

Hell even The Wytches (who used to be one of my absolute favorite bands) put out a new album - and I didn‘t even care to listen… I wanted to buy it straight away… but their Distribution failed. It‘s not available in mainland Europe (at least not in my top 5 shops) and I‘m not paying 20€ for shipping + custom fees for a brand new album.

But Also I don‘t use Spotify - and I currently don‘t have proper headphones - so listening to music happens mostly in the car (cds…so yeah mostly stuff I own for several years) or at home listening to actual records…

So my top 5 (most listened to, in no particular order) artists 2023 are:

• Langhorns (Mission Exotica - I have that CD since 2008 and it‘s my favorite car drive music)

• Messer Chups (Don‘t Say Cheese & Visiting the Skeleton in the Closet, bought both CDs at Surfer Joe‘s)

• The Akulas (Rustines. Saw the 60s inspired cover and had to have it, also from Surfer Joe…even they didn‘t play there. Glad I got this on Vinyl - also I feel connected to their name through my own band (Tentacula))

• Gaye Su Akyol (Anadolu Ejderi, great album, actually my girlfriend‘s favorite - but I love her music too! We even saw her and her (reduced) band live)

• Calexico - Feast of Wire (we‘ve been at the 20th Anniversary show… great intimate concert! But sadly they played exactly my two favorite songs from that album not as great as on they could have…but I guess I‘m hard to please whenever I have real favorite tunes)

Maybe I find more joy in discovering new music (again) in 2024. or at least more time for listening to some…hopefully.

[budda12ax7]

Wow, a lot of great music posted already..for me wildly diverse maybe:

Racquet Club ...offshoot of The Jealous Sound...offshoot of Knapsack-love the Les Pauls into Marshalls approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TujaAZRD7zo

Orchid...Sab worship at its best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTygdeTwZ9U

Hotel Pools- my vapor wave hangover continues...great chillwave music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFXw67Sg-nw

[Jonesie]

My top albums of last year:

The Armed - Modern Saviors
The New Pornographers - Continue as a Guest
Lydia Loveless - Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way
The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Chris Farren - Doom Singer
Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode
The Hold Steady - The Price of Progress

[distressed]

In no particular order:

Wombo - Slab
Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
Teksti-TV 666 - Vapauden tasavalta
Flat Worms - Witness Marks
FACS - Still Life In Decay
Modern Nature - No Fixed Point in Space
The Necks - Travel
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
Holy Wave - Five of Cups
Trees Speak - Mind Maze
Numb.er - Regressions
Ulrika Spacek - Compact Trauma
Osees - Intercepted Message

[interceptör]

Not my usual bag, but I liked this a lot:

The Leap - Exit Signs: https://youtu.be/J-3B1Fm7Ueg?si=jsRLT2pD_xcca97V

[Owl]

This year, Thurston Moore was on heavy rotation...
A good band I discovered : Being Dead. Being Dead
Janelle Monàe ... nice album to listen to while driving to the ocean.

[Maggieo]

Apparently, I listened to a bunch of podcasts and an Imperial Shit-ton of Phillip Glass.

[ThePearDream]

Apparently, I listened to a bunch of podcasts and an Imperial Shit-ton of Phillip Glass.

Haha, that was me too! Mishima, Company, and Glassworks over and over. And many, many episodes of Stuff You Should Know.

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Also, just found the band Dick Move last week and have been loving their 2023 album, Wet.
Dick Move - Small Man, Big Tweet
Dick Move - Wet

[dc]

improbably, AmAnSet reappeared after an 18-year layoff with the new album

American Analog Set – For Forever

and a series of B-sides that keep rolling out. it's massive, in that understated AmAnSet kind of way

[marqueemoon]

improbably, AmAnSet reappeared after an 18-year layoff with the new album

American Analog Set – For Forever

and a series of B-sides that keep rolling out. it's massive, in that understated AmAnSet kind of way

I was completely unaware of this. Awesome!

I’d also like to nominate Hayden Pedigo’s The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored for my picks. It came out in 2023, but I only heard it for the first time yesterday. It’s a very cool mix of old timey and modern fingerstyle guitar.

[sal paradise]

One album took over a lot of my listening: Slow Pulp - Yard