2023 Listening.

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All of the albums I listened to in 2023, with ratings.

  • ’68 – Yes, and… (7.5/10)
  • 100 gecs – 10,000 gecs (8/10)
  • Abraham Alexander – SEA/SONS (7.5/10)
  • Algiers – Shook (8.5/10)
  • Alice Cooper – Road (3.5/10)
  • Amends – Our Place Amongst the Dirt (7.5/10)
  • The Amity Affliction – Not Without My Ghosts (4/10)
  • André 3000 – New Blue Sun (6/10)
  • Andrea – Due in Color (8/10)
  • Angel Du$t – BRAND NEW SOUL (7.5/10)
  • Anna B Savage – in|FLUX (7.5/10)
  • Aselefech Ashine & Getenesh Kebret – Beauties (7/10)
  • Ashley McBryde – The Devil I Know (7.5/10)
  • Austin Lucas – Reinventing Against Me! (6/10)
  • Avalon Emerson – & the Charm (7.5/10)
  • Avenged Sevenfold – Life is But a Dream… (2.5/10)
  • Avey Tare – 7s (7/10)
  • Babitha – Brighter Side of Blue (7.5/10)
  • Baby Cool – Earthling on the Road to Self Love (7.5/10)
  • Bad//Dreems – HOO HA! (7.5/10)
  • Bad Juju – Blue Heaven (3.5/10)
  • Basil’s Kite – Shooting Tsars (7.5/10)
  • BAYANG (tha Bushranger) x BRACT – REDBRICKGOTHIK (8/10)
  • be your own PET – Mommy (7.5/10)
  • Bec Stevens – Big Worry (8/10)
  • Bees in a Bottle – The Sun Left and Took the Moon With It (8/10)
  • The Belair Lip Bombs – Lush Life (8/10)
  • Belle & Sebastian – Late Developers (7/10)
  • Ben Folds – What Matters Most (7.5/10)
  • Ben Howard – Is It? (7.5/10)
  • Bewilder – From the Eyrie (7.5/10)
  • Billy Nomates – CACTI (8/10)
  • billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (8/10)
  • blink-182 – ONE MORE TIME… (7/10)
  • Blur – The Ballad of Darren (7.5/10)
  • Body Type – Expired Candy (8/10)
  • boygenius – The Album (7.5/10)
  • Bully – Lucky for You (8/10)
  • Cable Ties – All Her Plans (8/10)
  • Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys – All Night Long (7.5/10)
  • Can’t Swim – Thanks But No Thanks (8/10)
  • Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (8/10)
  • Cash Savage and the Last Drinks – So This is Love (7.5/10)
  • The Cat Empire – Where the Angels Fall (5/10)
  • The Chemical Brothers – For That Beautiful Feeling (7.5/10)
  • Chloe Chaidez – Characters. (5.5/10)
  • CIVIC – Taken by Force (8/10)
  • Classic – Did You Have Fun? (7.5/10)
  • Coco Bryce – Point of No Return (7/10)
  • Code Orange – The Above (8/10)
  • Cold War Kids – Cold War Kids (4.5/10)
  • Colin Stetson – When we were that we wept for the sea (7.5/10)
  • Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows (7/10)
  • Courtney Barnett – End of the Day (music from the film Anonymous Club) (7.5/10)
  • covet – Catharsis (7.5/10)
  • Cry Club – Spite Will Save Me (8/10)
  • Cub Sport – Jesus at the Gay Bar (7.5/10)
  • Dan Sultan – Dan Sultan (6.5/10)
  • Daughter – Stereo Mind Game (8/10)
  • deathcrash – Less (8/10)
  • Deerhoof – Miracle-Level (8/10)
  • Doja Cat – Scarlet (6/10)
  • Don’t Stop or We’ll Die – Signature Please (6.5/10)
  • Downside – Dark Patterns & Intrusive Thoughts (8/10)
  • Dragnet – The Accession (7.5/10)
  • DRAIN – LIVING PROOF (7.5/10)
  • DZ Deathrays – R.I.F.F. (7.5/10)
  • Ed Sheeran – (5.5/10)
  • Ed Sheeran – Autumn Variations (5/10)
  • Ella Hooper – Small Town Temple (7/10)
  • Emarosa – Sting (7.5/10)
  • The Empty Threats – Monster Truck Mondays (8/10)
  • Everything But the Girl – Fuse (7.5/10)
  • Explosions in the Sky – End (7.5/10)
  • Fanny Lumsden – Hey Dawn (8/10)
  • feeble little horse – Girl with Fish (7.5/10)
  • Fiddlehead – Death is Nothing to Us (8/10)
  • Filter – The Algorithm (3.5/10)
  • The Finks – Birthdays at Solo Pasta (7.5/10)
  • Fireworks – Higher Lonely Power (7.5/10)
  • Floodlights – Painting of My Time (8/10)
  • Foley – Crowd Pleaser (7.5/10)
  • follow – Old Haunts (7.5/10)
  • Foo Fighters – But Here We Are (8/10)
  • Fred again.. & Brian Eno – Secret Life (7.5/10)
  • Frenzal Rhomb – The Cup of Pestilence (7.5/10)
  • Fucked Up – One Day (7.5/10)
  • The Gaslight Anthem – History Books (7.5/10)
  • Geese – 3D Country (8/10)
  • GEL – Only Constant (8/10)
  • Geld – Currency // Castration (8/10)
  • Gena Rose Bruce – Deep is the Way (8/10)
  • Genesis Owusu – STRUGGLER (8/10)
  • Georgia Mooney – Full of Moon (7.5/10)
  • Ghost Woman – Anne If (7/10)
  • Golden Features – Sisyphus (8/10)
  • Gorillaz – Cracker Island (7.5/10)
  • Gretta Ray – Positive Spin (7.5/10)
  • Grian Chatten – Chaos for the Fly (8/10)
  • HANDSOME – HANDSOME GANG: Every Second We Try (7.5/10)
  • The Hard Aches – I Saw the Future (8/10)
  • Harrison – Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees (7/10)
  • HEALTH – RAT WARS (8/10)
  • Heart Attack Man – Freak of Nature (8/10)
  • The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons (8/10)
  • The Hirs Collective –We’re Still Here (7.5/10)
  • Hoon – Australian Dream (8/10)
  • Hot Mulligan – Why Would I Watch (7.5/10)
  • Iggy Pop – EVERY LOSER (7/10)
  • In Flames – Foregone (4.5/10)
  • Indigo De Souza – All of This Will End (8/10)
  • Inhaler – Cuts & Bruises (6.5/10)
  • Jacob – The Rock Band (7.5/10)
  • Jade Cicada – Pressure Gamut (7.5/10)
  • jaimie branch – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) (8.5/10)
  • James Holden – Imagine This is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities (7/10)
  • The Japanese House – In the End It Always Does (8/10)
  • Jeff Rosenstock – HELLMODE (7.5/10)
  • Jen Cloher – I am The River, The River is Me (8/10)
  • Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (7.5/10)
  • Jesus Piece – …So Unknown (8/10)
  • John-Allison Weiss – The Long Way (7.5/10)
  • Jonas Brothers – The Album (6.5/10)
  • The Jordan – Nowhere Near the Sky (6/10)
  • Joy Oladokun – Proof of Life (8/10)
  • JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown – SCARING THE HOES (8/10)
  • Judiciary – Flesh + Blood (7.5/10)
  • Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings (8/10)
  • Kalia Vandever – We Fell in Turn (8/10)
  • Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (8/10)
  • Kari Faux – REAL B*TCHES DON’T DIE! (7.5/10)
  • Kate Davis – Fish Bowl (7.5/10)
  • Kele – The Flames pt. 2 (6.5/10)
  • Kesha – Gag Order (5.5/10)
  • The Kills – God Games (7/10)
  • Kimbra – A Reckoning (7.5/10)
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Silver Cord (7/10)
  • Ladytron – Time’s Arrow (7.5/10)
  • Lankum – False Lankum (8/10)
  • Last Quokka – Red Dirt (8/10)
  • Laufey – Bewitched (8/10)
  • Lies – LIES (8/10)
  • Little Green – little star (7/10)
  • Luca Brasi – The World Don’t Owe You Anything (7.5/10)
  • Luke Combs – Gettin’ Old (7/10)
  • lusillón – Pensando mucho y mal (8/10)
  • Madness – Theatre of the Absurd presents: C’est La Vie (4/10)
  • Mary Lattimore – Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (7.5/10)
  • Mat Kerekes – You Look Like a Stranger (8/10)
  • Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… (8/10)
  • Matchbox Twenty – Where the Light Goes (7.5/10)
  • Meet Me @ The Altar – Past // Present // Future (7/10)
  • Megan Moroney – Lucky (8/10)
  • Metallica – 72 Seasons (4/10)
  • MF Tomlinson – We Are Still Wild Horses (6.5/10)
  • Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation (7/10)
  • Militarie Gun – Life Under the Gun (7.5/10)
  • Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 & Sui Zhen – Origin of You (8/10)
  • Mozart Estate – Pop-Up! Ker-Ching! And the Possibilities of Modern Shopping (6.5/10)
  • MSPAINT – Post-American (8/10)
  • mui zyu – Rotten Bun for An Eggless Century (8/10)
  • Nation of Language – Strange Disciple (7.5/10)
  • The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein (6/10)
  • The National – Laugh Track (7/10)
  • The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (7/10)
  • Oceanic – Choral Feeling (8/10)
  • Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS (8/10)
  • Pacifica – Freak Scene (7.5/10)
  • Paramore – This is Why (8/10)
  • Paul Simon – Seven Psalms (7/10)
  • Persecutor – Babylon’s Ashes (8/10)
  • Pia Fraus – Evening Colours (7.5/10)
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Land of Sleeper (7/10)
  • Polaris – Fatalism (8/10)
  • poolblood – mole (8/10)
  • Private Function – 370HSSV 0773H (7.5/10)
  • Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman… (6/10)
  • Rebecca Black – Let Her Burn (7/10)
  • R.M.F.C. – Club Hits (8/10)
  • The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds (7/10)
  • Rozi Plain – Prize (7.5/10)
  • RVG – Brain Worms (8/10)
  • Sampha – Lahai (8/10)
  • screensaver – Decent Shapes (8/10)
  • SebastiAn – TROPIC (7.5/10)
  • Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (7/10)
  • SG Lewis – AudioLust & HigherLove (7.5/10)
  • Shania Twain – Queen of Me (3.5/10)
  • Shit Present – What Still Gets Me (8/10)
  • Sign Language – Madison & Floral (7.5/10)
  • Sigur Rós – ÁTTA (8/10)
  • Skeleten – Under Utopia (8/10)
  • Skourge – Torrential Torment (7/10)
  • Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM (8/10)
  • Sleep Token – Take Me Back to Eden (7/10)
  • The Slingers – Sentimentalism (7.5/10)
  • slowdive – everything is alive (7.5/10)
  • slowthai – UGLY (8/10)
  • Slow Pulp – Yard (8/10)
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – ATUM (2/10)
  • Spanish Love Songs – No Joy (8/10)
  • Speedy Ortiz – Rabbit Rabbit (7.5/10)
  • Spiritual Cramp – Spiritual Cramp (7.5/10)
  • Squid – O Monolith (8/10)
  • Superviolet – Infinite Spring (8/10)
  • Swans – The Beggar (6/10)
  • The Subways – Uncertain Joys (3.5/10)
  • Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers – I Love You (8/10)
  • Teenage Joans – The Rot That Grows Inside My Chest (7/10)
  • Temple of Angels – Endless Pursit (8/10)
  • Troye Sivan – Something to Give Each Other (8/10)
  • Tyler Childers – Rustin’ in the Rain (7.5/10)
  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra – V (8/10)
  • Upsetter – DOOMGAZE (7.5/10)
  • Urthboy – Savour (7.5/10)
  • The Unknowns – East Coast Low (7/10)
  • The Vanns – Last of Your Kind (7.5/10)
  • VOIID – Watering Dead Flowers (8/10)
  • Voyager – Fearless in Love (6.5/10)
  • whenyoung – Paragon Songs (7.5/10)
  • Wolfie’s Just Fine – Everyone is Dead Except Us (7.5/10)
  • World’s End Girlfriend – Resistance & The Blessing (7/10)
  • Year of the Knife – No Love Lost (8/10)
  • Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (8.5/10)
  • Yours Are the Only Ears – We Know the Sky (8/10)
  • Yves Tumour – Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) (8/10)
  • Zach Bryan – Zach Bryan (7.5/10)
  • Ziggy Ramo – Sugar Coated Lies (5/10)
  • Zulu – A New Tomorrow (7/10)