Favorite New Music of 2023

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Ringing in the New Year with my annual list of my favorite releases from the past year. We’ve got three categories: New Albums, Singles/EPs, and Archival Releases (which consist of reissues/remasters, deluxe editions, box sets, compilations, and any previously-unreleased live & studio material). Happy New Year, everyone! Feel free to share your favorite releases from the year below!

Top Albums 2023:
•Sparks- The Girl is Crying in Her Latte
•Gum- Saturnia
•Wilco- Cousin
•Nick Allbrook- Manganese
•Temples- Exotico
•Bethany Cosentino- Natural Disaster
•Tu-Ner- T-1 Contact Information
•Soft Machine- Other Doors
•Peter Gabriel- I/O
•Susanna Hoffs- The Deep End
•Stewart Copeland- Police Beyond Borders
•Graham Nash- Now
•Andre 3000- New Blue Sun
•Dhani Harrison- Innerstanding
•Dogstar- Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees
•Philip Selway- Strange Dance

Top Singles 2023:
•Archer Oh- The Loneliest Surface
•Gum/Ambrose Kenny-Smith- Minor Setback/Old Transistor Radio
•The Smile- Wall of Eyes
•Melody’s Echo Chamber + Crumb- Le Temple Volant
•Thundercat + Tame Impala- No More Lies
•The Beatles- Now and Then
•Tame Impala- Wings of Time
•Sean Ono Lennon- That F***ing Feeling

Top EP 2023
•Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra- Plays Well With Others

Top Archival Releases 2023:
•Joni Mitchell- Archives Vol. 3
•Frank Zappa- Over-Nite Sensation (50th Anniversary)
•Sonic Youth- In/Out/In
•Peter Frampton- At Royal Albert Hall
•Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
•Godley & Creme- Fly Away: The Frabjoy & Runcible Spoon Sessions 1968-1969
•Frank Zappa- Funky Nothingness
•Tame Impala- Lonerism (10th Anniversary Edition)
•Charles Mingus- Incarnations
•Devo- 50 Years of De-Evolution 1973-2023
•Brian May + Friends- Star Fleet Sessions
•The Smile- Europe: Lice Recordings 2022
•Frank Zappa- Zappa ‘80 Mudd Club/Munich
•Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach- The Songs of Costello & Bacharach
•Squeeze- Best Of Squeeze: Live at the Fillmore
•Mac DeMarco- Five Easy Hot Dogs

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Been a great year for music.

Data Doom by Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Psychedelic Porn Crumpet’s Fronzoli, and Resavoir’s second self titled album were my favorite releases.

Telehealth’s Content Oscillator, and Globia’s Acid Disorder both got a lot of plays from me. I’m sure I’m forgetting some stuff but like most years I’ve spent more time discovering older releases.
 
I'm not a huge King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard fan, I just like a handful of songs from here and there and not much else (although frankly, that happens to me with a lot of bands).

However, in 2023 they released PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation which I actually quite liked all the way through.


Not much else came out this year I really liked, if remasters count then this one is a pretty good song


Edit: Forgot about this, it was ok too
 
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Fama said:
I'm not a huge King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard fan, I just like a handful of songs from here and there and not much else (although frankly, that happens to me with a lot of bands).

However, in 2023 they released PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation which I actually quite liked all the way through.


Not much else came out this year I really liked, if remasters count then this one is a pretty good song


Edit: Forgot about this, it was ok too
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10,000 years is my favorite high on fire song. I've seen them live about 10 times but they I've only seen them play it once live. Such a killer riff. One time I saw High on Fire open for Converge in Kansas City and High on Fire blew out the speakers at the venue. They killed it! Unfortunately Converge had a minor meltdown and hissy fit on stage after the speakers were blown.
 
Fama said:
I'm not a huge King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard fan, I just like a handful of songs from here and there and not much else (although frankly, that happens to me with a lot of bands).

However, in 2023 they released PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation which I actually quite liked all the way through.


Not much else came out this year I really liked, if remasters count then this one is a pretty good song


Edit: Forgot about this, it was ok too
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Oh damn it I knew I was missing something and it was Gizzard. Petrodragon is my favorite album of theirs since Nonagon
 
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