Best Music of 2023

The Lounge General Discussion
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It’s year-end list season. I have a long drive home, so look for help to fill the playlist.

Me

SZA - SOS
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxA687tYuMWhgXktHabkjoh4p8kGS9Wai&si=8wJiRM-FB1GFquJA
Young Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard

Blawan - Dismantled Into Juice

The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore

Amaarae - Fountain Baby
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lPPeIeoghVRlb82nimPnDivVrwbRkB_Cc&si=VwgrbtdOaW8dIFF2
Tirzah - trip9love

Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly…

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

noname - sundial
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l3_exBHfmcZa6FNN5smECiHhd_raQ2g9k&si=7K4b8gzo0hDvncBT
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

MIKE - Burning Desire

Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC6JubzEQfaaUT4Fac4NG2kov7Nqxap5T&si=79fc09kXuVyhIKbD

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New year, new music
#2

Great call on Youth Lagoon. What an amazing record. Saw him play in London a couple of weeks ago and so lovely to hear that voice live.

Everyone here will go heavy on electronica / experimental stuff so going pop as these are all smart, amazing releases and I’m so lucky to have seen / got tickets to see all three:

Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Olivia Rodrigo - Guts
Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End

Edit: Not really bandcampy artists (though I did buy the Indigo De Souza record there) but they all have awesome videos so:

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#3

I love almost every little piece of the following albums:

future idm+
(this track with elegant voice but the whole album is worth a listening. Favorite 2023 show)

best beaten beast music

elite club

best flying techno

melodic modular

best piano lines

best french augmented electronic music

lofi love

designed glitches

chamanic noises

traditional electronic music

lofi ambient with catchy lines (8 cassettes left)

sunny day’s ambient

clouded day’s ambient (@arovane)

slow dark ambient pour insomnies

game soundtrack for catching frogs

short film soundtrack

best sound designer sound pack soundtrack ( @taro )

In the fellow Nauts category I’d like to mention

@Tchu’s tale

@Drummachinemike’s explorative IDM

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#4

My fav album of 2023.

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#6

Sorry no Andy Stott album this year so no best music in 2023. Please come back next year.

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#7

I liked the James Holden album. And Queens of the stone age for the most part.
Nas King‘s disease was surprisingly nice.

I mainly listened to old music.

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#8

Thank you so much @LyingDalai for mentioning me!

:pray::heart:

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#9

New Actress record is worth checking out.

Besides Aphex BBLR I was mostly listening to old stuff

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#10

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#11

Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
MIKE, Wiki and The Alchemist - Faith is a Rock
Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation
Ayesha - Rhythm is Memory
John Carroll Kirby - Blowout

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#12

It just landed, but…

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#13

Reminds me of Brand X. I love this stuff!

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#14

This is so cool. Could get a million samples out of this.

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#18

Really fantastic imo!

Kinda similiar hybrid jazz tip; one of my fav albums of the year is Makaya Mccraven - In these Times.

Other immediate favorites are Four Tet’s live album

and Marina Herlop‘s album.

And the Two Shell ep

Mod edit: Please no Spotify links in this forum

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#19

Many thanks for this recommendation, the Four Tet Live at Alexandra Palace hit me at just the right time here. I love hearing his great melodies in new settings, and re-hearing his work with samples has inspired yet another fresh turn with the Digitakt, a box that I always seem to be still growing into…

I haven’t listened to a lot of brand new music this year but appreciate the recs above and elsewhere—Elektronauts has been a great source for recommendations … as starting to play electronic music has me discovering and rediscovering so much music with fresh ears…

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#20

This year I kept coming back to Eprom- Syntheism

after a random YouTube recommendation

Also recently have been really digging the sounds of Femtanyl

April Mixtape 3

made me a Snow Strippers fan

Also was constantly replaying:

Rookies Bustle

Desire, I want to turn in to you

Metamorphose

Scarin the hoes

SAVED!

10000 gecs

Editing on mobile is hard. I’m stupid with posting so I ended up just linking the first/title track of most of these.

Sadly eprom link I just can’t get to work.

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#21

That Caroline Polachek album is great!

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#22

Agreed, the Caroline Polachek album was my favorite release of the year by far. I played it a ton. Also really love the Overmono album.

#23

Few faves from this year -

Bit rinsed now but definitely my club/festival tune of the year. Always got a great crowd reaction and lots of fun

Not released in 2023 but came back to this album a lot this year, so much depth to it. Big fan of everything Tom Boogizm/Michael J Blood/Rat Heart does.

Some belters on yco this year

Enjoyed all these LPs




These were probably my two most played tunes though

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#24

I really love Jeff Mills’ Metropolis Metropolis album from this year.

I love that it’s not techno but… techno “adjacent”

The whole thing sounds quite demented which I thoroughly enjoy.

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