Dave 3000's Top 25 (or so) New Releases of 2023
(Just my opinion!)
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1 | Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra "Lightning Dreamers" (International Anthem) | |
2
(tie)
| U.S. Girls "Bless This Mess" (4AD) and "Lives" (4AD) | |
3 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra "V" (Jagjaguwar) | |
4 | Jaimie Branch "Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War))" (International Anthem) (Jaimie Branch died in 2022 shortly after recording this posthumously released album) | |
5
(tie)
| Goat "Medicine" (Rocket) and "The Gallows Pole: Original Score" (Rocket) | |
6 |
Osees "Intercepted Message" (Castle Face) | |
7 | Public Image Ltd. "End Of World" (PIL Official) | |
8 |
HANABIE. "Reborn Superstar!" (Epic/Sony Japan) (The band's name literally means "a frost that comes after the flowers have started blooming" --- but it is easier to call them "Chilly Flowers") |
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9 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "The Silver Cord" (KGLW) | |
10 | Woods "Perennial" (Woodsist) | |
11 | The Orb "Prism" (Cooking Vinyl) | |
12 | ano "Neko Neko Terutu" (Toy's Factory) ("Cat Cat Vomit") | |
13 |
Sparks "The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte" (Island) | |
14 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard "PetroDragonic Apocalypse Or, Dawn Of Eternal Night: An Annihilation Of Planet Earth And The Beginning Of Merciless Damnation" (KGLW) | |
15 |
Descartes A Kant "After Destruction" (Cleopatra) | |
16 | Holy Wave "Five Of Cups" (Suicide Squeeze) | |
17 | Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real "Sticks And Stones" (6Ace/Thirty Tigers) | |
18 | Scott McMicken & The Ever-Expanding "Shabang" (Anti-) | |
19
(tie)
| Guided By Voices "La La Land" (GBV Inc.) and "Welshpool Frillies" (GBV Inc.) | |
20 | The Damned "Darkadelic" (EARMUSIC) | |
21 | The Ducks "High Flyin'" (Shakey Pictures) (Debut album by a Neil Young band that only played gigs in Santa Cruz for 7 weeks in 1977) | |
22 | Kurt Vile "Back To Moon Beach" (Verve) | |
23 | Quasi "Breaking The Balls Of History" (Sub Pop) | |
24 | Swans "The Beggar" (Young God) | |
25 | Black Country, New Road "Live At Bush Hall" (Ninja Tune) |
Plus the Top Archival release of the year:
Neil Young "Chrome Dreams" (Reprise) 1977 album pulled from release at the last minute and replaced with "American Stars & Bars" |
Honorable Mentions:
(in alphabetical order)
Best Local Album (from Wisconsin):
Slow Pulp "Yard" (Anti-)