Part 1: Ary's favourite releases of 2023
Before you ask, yes I know that Mitski and Sufjan Stevens released albums this year! I'm gonna go ahead and assume they're already on a lot of other people's lists! However, if you think I'm missing out on YOUR favourite album of 2023, let me know. If you're thinking: "63 albums isn't that many, I wish there were more" - you're in luck because there's a Part 2. Part 2 has a different (more pop? upbeat? accessible?) vibe. Don't think too hard about it...
The chart isn't ranked, just arranged in a way that looked nice to me. Metal, hardcore, rap, emo, skramz, bedroom pop and more!!!
Here are Bandcamp links to all of the albums (for those not on BC there's a YouTube or Spotify link). Honestly I'm never quite sure what genre something is, but there's a lot of metal in any case.
Row 1
Lauren Bousfield - Salesforce [digital hardcore]
Dead Times - Dead Times [harsh noise extreme metal]
Danny Brown - Quaranta [rap/hiphop]
Underdark - Managed Decline [post black metal]
Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease [psychedelic heavy metal]
PUPIL SLICER - BLOSSOM [blackened mathcore]
Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy [death metal]
Row 2
Full of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination [death metal/grindcore]
Radeloos//Ziedend - Doodsverachting [blackened crust]
Agriculture - Agriculture [ecstatic black metal]
Victory Over the Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! [progressive black metal]
fog lake - midnight society [bedroom pop]
Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate [funeral doom]
Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2 - The Kinetic Infinite [progressive black metal]
Row 3
Svalbard - The Weight Of The Mask [postmetal]
Terzij de Horde & Ggu:ll - Van Grond [vitalistic black metal]
portrayal of guilt - Devil Music [blackened post-hardcore]
SAINT VEHK - Practice/Doubt I&II [occult death industrial]
Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar [dub/power electronics]
Designer Violence - We Gave Peace A Chance [electropunk]
geronimostilton - The Vampyre [skramz]
Row 4
Chat Pile & Nerver - Brothers in Christ [sludgey death metal]
Afsky - Om hundrede år [depressive black metal]
Full of Hell & Gasp - FOH/Gasp (Split) [death metal/grindcore]
Solar Temple - The Great Star Above Provides [blackgaze]
Fluisteraars - De Kronieken Van Het Verdwenen Kasteel - II - Nergena [atmospheric black metal]
Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel - I - Harslo [atmospheric black metal]
Andre 3000 - New Blue Sun [spiritual flute jazz]
Row 5
Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions [rap/hiphop]
Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge [cosmic death metal]
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter (fka LINGUA IGNOTA) - SAVED! [experimental gospel metal]
Spetterpoep - Stoelgang Van Zaken [coprogrind/grindcore]
Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation Of Suffering [blackened drone metal]
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES [rap/hiphop]
The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony [70s inspired rock]
Row 6
Old Nick - "The Truest Spell" [dungeon synth/raw black metal]
Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips [rap/hiphop]
Liturgy - 93696 [transcendental black metal]
Helena Hauff - fabric presents Helena Hauff [hardcore techno]
That Same Street ⁻ Electric Angel [skramz]
That Same Street - Endgame [skramz]
the scary jokes - Retinal Bloom [dream pop]
Row 7
Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze - The Fractal Ouroboros [occult black metal]
Katie Dey - never falter hero girl [hyperpop]
Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang [grindcore/shoegaze]
All Men Unto Me - Chemical Transit [classical/doom metal]
RXK Nephew - Till I'm Dead [rap/hiphop]
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory [rabm/black metal]
Yaeji - With A Hammer [electronic]
Row 8
DRAIN - LIVING PROOF [punk/hardcore]
909 Worldwide - Hardcore Will Never Die, and Neither Will You [happy hardcore/rave]
lobsterfight, gingerbee, Cicadahead, godfuck - a lobster, bee, & cicada walk into a bar and find god [skramz]
GingerBee - Our Skies Smile [skramz/5th wave emo]
Curta'n Wall - Siege Ubsessed! [dungeon synth/raw black metal]
GEZEBELLE GABURGABLY - Gaburger [alt pop]
crisis sigil - God Cum Poltergeist [cybergrind]
Row 9
Lamp Of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm [black metal]
Crystalline Thunderbolts - Blessed Hands Touch The Ophanim Under The Golden Rainbows [experimental black metal]
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit [black/death metal]
FIRE TOOLZ - I am upset because I see something that is not there. [electro-industrial/experimental]
Angel Electronics - ULTRA PARADISE [happy post-hardcore]
Vylet Pony - Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow, and its Life as an Afterthought) [electronic]
Ada Rook - Rookie's Bustle [electronic]
This post took forever to make. Again if you have any thoughts on it please tell me!!!! And share widely with your friends :)
Love, Ary
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I was tagged by Eloise @marimobath to post 6 albums i've been listening to :) ty!!
(background img featuring deepest fish ever filmed)
notes: two of these are actually EPs! four of these are black metal! but they've all got something a little funky going on.
Agriculture are an LA band that call themselves "ecstatic black metal". Recommended for fans of the transcendental black metal project Liturgy. This EP is beautiful and intense and fills me with joy, I cannot wait for their debut album.
Old Nick makes black metal that is extremely camp and silly, but masterfully executed. If you like to brood mysteriously but also goof around rambunctiously, this is the album for you. Makes me feel like a court jester.
Another black metal album, I loved Lamp of Murmuur's previous album which was more gothic with post punk influences, this new one is raw and aggressive but still has a lot of atmosphere. They just keep getting better.
I'm not as familiar with thrash metal but I really like this Power Trip album. It rules. The intro of "Waiting Around To Die" reminds me a little of the Jaws theme. (shrug)
More fun black metal from Devil Master, track 8 "Funerary Gyre of Dreams & Madness" makes me think of surf rock.
A friend showed me GingerBee and I was immediately hooked. This EP can be described as a lot of things - 5th wave Emo, Screamo, (Hyper)Skramz, there's some Chiptune - just give it a listen. Makes me feel nostalgic and happy ^_^
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