Favorite Albums That I Listened to in 2023
I'm not a huge fan of listening to albums, so I'm actually surprised as to how many I listened to in the past year: though that's mostly because a friend and I started giving each other album recommendations.
Cracker Island Gorillaz, 2023
I was excitedly anticipating this one, though I'm a pretty moderate Gorillaz fan. They had some great collaborations on this one, such as Bootie Brown, Beck, Bad Bunny, and Stevie Nicks! It's not my favorite Gorillaz album but still a pretty solid one.
Favorite songs: "Cracker Island", "Oil", "Skinny Ape", and "Silent Running".
Bella Donna Stevie Nicks, 1981
In contrast to Cracker Island and Gorillaz, I am a huge Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac fan. Bella Donna is Nicks' debut solo album, and I absolutely love how powerful it feels, and the Nicks era that it ushered in.
Favorite songs: "Edge of Seventeen", "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
The Kick Inside Kate Bush, 1978
Kate Bush is an artist that I love dearly, though I usually prefer to cherry-pick her songs rather than listening to entire albums of hers, usually because each individual song on her albums vary greatly by tone. I would say that The Kick Inside is one of the few that I do enjoy listening to from beginning-to-end. Some of my absolute favorites of Kate Bush come from this album, and overall, it does have a pretty consistent tone. It's airid, ethereal, comedic and whimsical.
Favorite songs: "The Saxophone Song", "Wuthering Heights" (!!!!!!) "Oh to Be in Love", "L'Amour Looks Something Like You" (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The Queen is Dead The Smiths, 1986
Very appropriate listen for 2023.
I don't know much about The Smiths lore or what it says about me that I like them or whatever, I just enjoy listening to their music :).
Favorite songs: "I Know It's Over", "Cemetery Gates", "Bigmouth Strikes Again"
Melt My Eyez See Your Future Denzel Curry, 2022
This was one that was recommended to me by a friend based on his personal taste, which is pretty different from mine. I absolutely adore this album's sound. It has a sort of vulnerable charm to it.
Favorite songs: "Walkin", "Mental"
Are You Experienced Jimi Hendrix, 1967
I only started listening to Jimi Hendrix in 2023, and boy have I been missing out. His voice!!! His sound!!!! His guitar!!!!! Him!!!! Absolutely spectacular. This is Exhibit A in music that changes you. I feel like that scene in Elvis where all the girls lose their minds when I listen to this album.
Favorite songs: "Purple Haze", "Manic Depression", "Hey Joe", "Love Or Confusion", "The Wind Cries Mary" (!!!!!!) "Are You Experienced", "Highway Chile"
Hozier Hozier, 2014
I listen to this one and I think, "Yep, this is a Hozier album." Idk how else to describe it. Quintessential Hozier: ethereal, folksy, bee-boppy.
Favorite songs: "Jackie And Wilson", "From Eden", "Someone New", "Sedated", "Work Song" (!!!!!!!!)
Wasteland, Baby! Hozier, 2019
Again, quintessential Hozier, yet a bit more refined, more dark and romantic. Hozier's artistry is aging like wine. Transcendent.
Favorite songs: "Almost (Sweet Music)" (!!!!!) "Movement" (!!!!!) "Would That I", "Sunlight"
Never for Ever Kate Bush, 1980
Kate Bush at her finest. She is my everything. Similar to The Kick Inside, this one is whimsical and comedic, yet it differs with a much heavier weight and increased closeness.
Favorite songs: "Babooshka", "The Wedding List", "Army Dreamers" (!!!!!)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars David Bowie, 1972
I want this buried with me. My absolute favorite of Bowie's albums. It has a transcendent proximity, a sentence which makes no sense. It feels close and far away at the same time (what I am pretentiously describing is called an echo).
Favorite songs: "Five Years", "Soul Love", "Starman", "It Ain't Easy", "Lady Stardust", "Star", "Ziggy Stardust", "Suffragette City", "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide"
Superclean, Vol. II The Marías, 2018
Another one of my friend's recommendations. This one puts me in a good mood and clears my mind. :)
Favorite songs: All of them.
Unreal Unearth Hozier, 2023
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Favorite songs: "De Selby (Part 2)", "First Time", "Francesca", "I, Carrion (Icarian)", "Who We Are" (RASDHFKASDJGSDKGFGNASJDDSJGAFVLDFEJRGAOLFNVASGNWRG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), "Abstract (Psychopomp)", "Unknown / Nth", "First Light"
Thee Sacred Souls Thee Sacred Souls, 2022
The Greta Van Fleet of soul, taking it back to one of the most recognizable sounds from the genre. They're just so sweet.
Favorite songs: "Lady Love", "Easier Said Than Done", "Future Lover" (I have a t-shirt of theirs with this song's lyrics)
Also, it's not on this album but "Running Away" is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC AND I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF IT.
Mozart: Requiem Mozart, Karitta Mattila, Sara Minguardo, Michael Schade, Bryn Terfel, Berliner Philharmoniker
It has the drama. It'll make you feel like you're in a Donna Tartt novel. I have a bit of a hard time sitting through classical albums but this one is endlessly captivating.
Favorite songs: "Requiem, K. 626: I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam", "Requiem, K. 626: III. Sequentia: f. Lacrimosa", "Requiem, K. 626: V. Sanctus"
Final Thoughts: Quite a wide range of genres this year, though I must say I enjoyed stepping out of my usual listening tendencies and exploring some genres I was heavily deprived in.
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here’s some singles and albums i was listening to in march
(in no particular order other than color)
anak ko // jay som (alternative)
band wagon // shigeru suzuki (japanese rock)
thunder, lightning, strike // the go! team (british alt / indie pop)
0 // ichiko aoba (japanese contemporary folk)
weather // ginger root (alt / funk)
new kind of man // ogre you asshole (japanese rock)
apollo xxi // steve lacy (funk / r&b)
si me voy // cuco (ft. the marías) (indie rock / pop)
sailorfag // sailorfag (mexican reggaeton)
corazón de cerdo con ginseng al vapor // putochinomaricón (spanish pop)
era extraña // neon indian (alt / electronic)
blackbraid i // blackbraid (kanienʼkehá꞉ka black metal)
scaring the hoes // jpegmafia x danny brown (alt hip-hop)
mama’s gun // erykah badu (neo soul)
mm...food // mf doom (british-american alt hip-hop)
soulpop 1 // tony velour (alt hip-hop)
gizmo // tanukichan (rock)
bothered / unbothered // jer (new tone / pop punk)
superclean, vol ii // the marías (neo soul / bedroom pop)
praise a lord who chews but which does not consume; (or simply, hot between worlds) // yves tumor (alternative)
carousel / cry wolf // skylar spence (electronic)
time ‘n’ place // kero kero bonito (british dancehall / electro pop)
neutropical // mark redito (experimental electronic)
taiyou to icarus // buck-tick (japanese digital / experimental rock)
radical romantics // fever ray (swedish electronic / experimental pop)
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