More favorites from 2023

I posted these lists to Substack Notes before I published by year end post, so I will move these over to the main site, so everyone can see them.

Some albums that didn’t make my list of 2023 favorites, but I still really enjoyed:

Alternative/Indie

• Pure Music by Strange Ranger (Listen)
• Infinite Spring by Superviolet (Listen)
• s/t by Liquid Mike (Listen)
• In the End It Always Does by The Japanese House (Listen)
• Limestone Ritual by Doom Flower (Listen)
• A New Reality Mind by Madeline Kenney (Listen)
• Lucky for You by Bully (Listen)
• Careful of Your Keepers by This is the Kit (Listen)
• Stereo Mind Game by Daughter (Listen)
• Continue as a Guest by The New Pornographers (Listen)
• Honey by Samia (Listen)
• My Big Day by Bombay Bicycle Club (Listen)
• 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs (Listen)
• 3D Country by Geese (Listen)
• Gizmo by Tanukichan (Listen)
• Cousin by Wilco (Listen)

R&B Adjacent

• The Age of Pleasure by Janelle Monae (Listen)
• Red Moon in Venus by Kali Uchis (Listen)
• Falling or Flying by Jorja Smith (Listen)
• Fountain Baby by Amaarae (Listen)
• Raven by Kelela (Listen)
• Heaven by Cleo Sol (Listen)
• My Soft Machine by Arlo Parks (Listen)

Hip Hop

• To What End by Oddisee (Listen)
• And Then You Pray for Me by Westside Gunn (Listen)
• Scaring the Hoes by JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown (Listen)
• Sundial by Noname (Listen)
• Indiana Jones by Boldy James & RichGains (Listen)
• We Buy Diabetic Test Strips by Armand Hammer, Billy Woods, and ELUCID (Listen)
• Maps by Billy Woods and Kenny Segal (Listen)

Enjoy!