#i probably missed some big albums and i really did not do the listacle dive this year as i usually do

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anyway cliffnotes on my top 2023 albums late or whatever

lucky for you - bully. saw em live. lead singer was so hot she blew my mind. rock best genre to see live mayhaps. top song: "all i do"

10,000 gecs - 100 gecs. listened to this a couple times driving this particular stretch of i-15 into i-90. half-decent podcast episode on the album. top track: "frog on the floor"

everything is alive - slowdive. unexpectedly one of my favorite albums of the year. top track: "prayer remembered"

bonus singles

"autopoiética" - mon laferte. the feel of this song is just. impeccable. i wasn't super into the rest of the album but here's a nice interview with the artist.

"holidays in the sun" - mykki blanco. this is a tight little EP overall but this is my favorite track. i misheard the lyrics to this song when i first heard it as "home is the synth."

"goodness gracious" - baby gravy. bad taste whatever but also i love the lines "goodness gracious/Tito's got me beyond fucked up/it's ostentatious." endlessly funny to me.

"sepsis" - blondshell. i could recommend this whole album if i hadn't fucked up and waited too long to get my tickets to SEE HER and then the show was sold out. so many good one-liners here but i especially like "he wears a front-facing cap/the sex is almost always bad". thanks @normalgirlism for getting me hooked here.

"vampire empire" - big thief. whatever. i'm not immune.

"afraid of heights" - boygenius. lucy4eva.

"make my day" - coi leray (ft david guetta). yeah this is a interpolation of pump up the jam or whatever but i'm kind of obsessed with it i can't help it.

"i am the river" - lael neale. this entire album was recorded on cassette which imo really worked for this song and not for the rest of the work. this song is really one of my favorites of the year though.

"mbeda wella" - baaba maal (ft paco lenol). a great album by a master but i particularly liked this track.

"quarry" - wednesday. rat rock or whatever but this shit always does it for me. catchy in just the perfect dirtbag way.

"i dormenti i" - brian eno. randomly listened to this while running the other day and it wasn't an altogether awful experience. this has become my most recent migraine-music when i can handle music.

i also listened to every episode of all songs considered's new music friday this year, though i'm not sure that's an accomplishment. my dad says that show is only for old people who want to feel like they're cool. it's about the right level of keeping up with new releases for me and i don't usually go terribly far beyond it. that being said if u have any 2023 must-listens, send them my way!!