The Chemical Brothers' "Goodbye" is my personal track of the year. The first time I heard it within the context of For That Beautiful Feeling, I knew it was gonna absolutely special. The two different iterations of the main core melody, the energetic breakbeat drums, the soulful vocal samples... there's something so compelling about it. Also, shout out to the Erol Alkan rework, which basically takes the best part of the song and extends it out into a basically-effective melodic techno remix.
It's been a rough year for me personally too, and I completely feel you on that. I hope next year will be better, and I hope you have a happy new year! Take care
To be honest, this year has been the worst year for me, and it's been extremely difficult in every way: work, hobbies, health. And although I've been enjoying older music lately and haven't listened to much music from 2023, I'm glad that BT, Orbital, and Vale-Smith made the list.
Sucks to hear you haven't been doing too well. Let's hope next year will be a lot better:) When it came to me and electronic music this year, there was a lot i listened to but not many of them were releases that actually dropped this year (i've been on a trance and acid house/techno binge lately so that means going back in time). From the electronic releases i've heard that did drop this year, here are some of my favourites in no particular order: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord (this release was what made me go on this trance and acid house/techno binge to begin with) Tim Hecker - No Highs Skrillex - Quest for Fire Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (not electronic all the way through but there is enough of it on the album for it to count imo) PinkPantheress - Heaven Knows (i guess more pop than full on electronic but it's soaked in dnb, 2-step and breakbeat influences so it counts for me) Sofia Kourtesis - Madres NewJeans - Get Up (again like PinkPantheress it's more on the pop side of things but it also shares a lot of the same influences as PinkPantheress so i'm including it.) That's all that pops to mind for me.
This has been a great year for me, personally, although I haven't been in touch with newer electronic this year. I've just been trying to catch up on as much genres as possible these days, with my time spent on AOTY really skyrocketing since January and making a few friends there. I've shown a couple of them albums I found from this channel and they've loved them, which is hella cool. Not eventful outside of that, but still great lol. Of all the albums shown on this list, I've only heard George Clanton's Ooh Rap I Ya (which I thought was great). So yeah, I got some work to do on that front lol, this list is gonna help me with that. Loved this list! Surprisingly, my (electronic) aoty was Quest for Fire by Skrillex. None of the critics I watch seem to have liked the album as much as I did upon release, but it's grown on me even further tbh and Xena's just my favorite song this year across all genres. I absolutely love the sequencing on the whole album, and I will handily take this over Scary Monsters tbh. It's the last comeback I expected this year, and it stuck with me even more than expected, it's my only electronic 9 this year so far, but that might change. My aoty in general this year was Lonnie Holley's Oh Me Oh My. I handily found it to be the most consistent, diverse and deep (both sound-wise and lyrically). Listening to it caught me off guard more than once on first listen and I'd recommend it to anyone who's interested lol. This comment section was much-needed solace for me during quarantine in 2020-2021, so I'm glad the channel had that effect on you this year. It's rough, but it's an amazing feeling to have an escape place in our hardest times. With that said, I'm quite excited for 2024! Here's to the new year, cheers.
Always find myself discovering a lot of gems with these lists, thank you for continuing to make them. Personally, for me, my top list of this year as been the least-electronic of the decade so far. I don't know if my music taste is evolving or if I just spent more time looking back at old electronica this year than keeping up with the new stuff, but there are a few electronic gems I'd like to share: Lapsung - To Turn, We Unlearn | This is a very short project containing a few 1-3 minute synthwork pieces totalling roughly 16 minutes, so it honestly feels more like an EP than an actual album. Regardless, despite it just releasing back in early October, it's one of my most replayed projects of the year. Despite each track being quite short, all of the ideas expressed in this project feel very fleshed out and immersive, and every time I put this album on I find myself lost in it again. Lapsung is an incredibly underrated artist who's been on a winning streak with me since the release of his 2022 album Is (Not) A Friend, and it definitely continues here. How to Disappear Completely - Seraphim II | While not as strong as their first album in this duology, HTDC still manages to scratch that itch for moody almost-but-not-quite dark ambient drone music. Seraphim II definitely feels like you've descended deeper than where you were before, and the music in this album feels more pessimistic and tragic than the first album's rather uplifting tone. Sun Lo - Shapes In My Head | Sun Lo is the collab alias of ATTLAS (I think you covered his album Carry It With You in a SSIM) and vocalist Richard Walters. I fell in love with ATTLAS's debut album Lavender God back in 2020, and while nothing he's put out since quite tops that album for me, this one comes pretty close. ATTLAS's blend of ambient and house music really make the songs on here feel as vast and expansive as some of the work on his first album. My only complaint is that I find Walters vocals a little fatiguing, especially since he performs in every track on the album. Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination | This album feels like the summer to Shapes In My Head's winter. The production on this album still feels drawn back and like it leans pretty heavily on ambient influences, but the production is far warmer and the beats are far more active and groovy here, while still evoking something vast and empty in my mind (especially the tracks Don't Cry On My Pillow and I Hate Myself). This album also feels late 80s and early 90s inspired in a way that doesn't feel cliche as hell, so that's nice too. Here's my top 10 list of this year: 10. Ferdous - Cool Party 9. Jane Remover - Census Designated 8. underscores - Wallsocket 7. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Destiny 6. How to Disappear Completely - Seraphim II 5. Lapsung - To Turn, We Unlearn 4. Patricia Taxxon - TECHDOG 1-7 (I count this as a single album) 3. Hammock - Love In The Void (my favorite post-rock band releases their best album since 2016). 2. Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here. (If you told me at the beginning of the year that Lil Yachty would release what was for a good time my AOTY I would've been quite dumbfounded, and I certainly was upon hearing this thing, but a psych rock album from Lil Yachty ended up being exactly what I need I guess). 1. Oneohtrix Point Never - Again
Happy New Year! I can relate to how you’ve felt during 2023. Here’s to a better 2024! My favorite completely new artist album of 2023 is Alchemy by Disclosure.
This was an awful year for me as well, but I'm lucky to have TH-cam channels like yours around to ease some of the hassle. Also, despite following your channel since the days of your Squarepusher reviews, I think this was the point where I began to watch any video you upload, no matter the length or not knowing the artists or albums. It's impressive how much your writing has developed over the time. Happy new year Tommy, and thanks for another great year of electronic music divulgation.
When it comes to discovering some underrated gems, I think 2023 has been such a good year in that regard. I can also definitely say that this year has truly been the year of pleasant surprises as well, like the latest DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ album for instance. Speaking of, nice to see her, BT, Reid Willis, Orbital, and Vale-Smith all make this list. They really came through with killer releases this year, but Sediment is definitely my favorite out of all the albums that made the list proper. I still can’t get over how fantastically well-produced and well-paced this whole album was, and it has a lot of standouts on top of it, especially Cast Your Net Over A Torn Earth. Also, shoutout to Chime’s Mindburn in the favorite tracks segment; that one is definitely my favorite track to have come out of this entire year. The only album on the list I didn’t listen to is Andrea’s Due In Color, although it sounds like it can be something that I can enjoy. Other than that, here’s to more great music in 2024 and beyond!!!
I have been refreshing my youtube the last week looking forward to your list. This is my third year going through every album on your end of year list. It really has become my favorite part the year when you post this finding all this new music I missed! Thank you for doing this!
You know the year has been good when OPN enters a honorable mention category. As for me personally my top 10 would probable be: 10) Antisocial - ANORAK 9) Loverboy - Meemo Comma 8) TECHDOG 2 - Patricia Taxxon 7) Another Option - Lorenzo Bianchi 6) Syntheism - EPROM 5) Dens - Lenhart Tapes 4) A Part Of You In Everything - Croatian Amor 3) Venoms - Rites Of Fall 2) Again - OPN 1) Revanchist - Evian Christ
I skipped the introduction part of the video, so I didn't hear what you had said in beginning. Sad to hear that you had pretty rough year personally as well. I especially related to the part of constant self doubt and I think that my self confidence has been pretty much at lowest. I suppose my New Years Resolution would be to finally take initiative and feel comfortable in my own skin. Thank you for releasing constantly amazing videos, I feel like I could watch your reviews every day. There's certain way that you express your thoughts that I find most compelling and interesting to listen through. Happy New Year and best Wishes :-)
A nice list with some entries I realize I need to go back and check out! Thanks for some of the recommendations and reviews that led to me discovering some of the best electronic records of the year in my books. Leaving Laurel in particular, had a gorgeous and heart-wrenching album that was easily top 10 worthy. The BT, Orbital, KOAN Sound, and Reid Willis (another I checked out because of you; pleasantly surprised to see where that placed!) all were wonderful as well. Topping my own personal list would’ve been Anthony Naples’ “orbs”, the George Clanton and the Sofia Kourtesis. Hoping your 2024 is better than this year! Keep up the good work.
Best wishes from Liverpool UK for yr commitment to new music and yr honesty. Yr Autechre fave albums video is excellent a thing of wonder . Cheers and stick with it. God bless, SM.
2023 was a difficult year for me as well but finding your channel was a big positive. You’ve expanded my musical horizons so much and your videos always lifted my mood. Here’s to a better year, keep up the great work!
Dang, just wanted to say thanks for putting up great content on this channel for such a long time now, and glad to hear you're still seeing it as a highlight even while other circumstances are sour. I can't remember when I began watching exactly, I just know it's been many years by now since I first saw those brilliant Michael Rosen YTPs and an announcement than you had an electronic music review-channel. Your vocabulary and style for reviewing has gradually been fine-tuned over time and at this point I consider you an excellent source for finding new music and hearing interessting opinions on well-known stuff. So keep chugging along and take care.
Thank you for your videos. I've been following you for years now. 2023 was a more difficult year for me as well, and I didn't get to tune in to as many videos of yours this year. But your channel has been a treasure for me in terms of discovering great electronic music. And your obvious passion is truly contageous. Your work is very much appreciated. Let's hope 2024 is a better year
ngl 2023 was a really bad year for me too, I really struggled and felt frustrated with making music due to my poor composition and production skills and I just in general felt like I couldn't get anything productive done and I have just been spending weeks without making anything or doing anything productive, especially towards the end of the year 2023 almost felt like an awkward transitional point, the pandemic was recent enough that we are still feeling the aftermath and effects of that whole disaster but it's been long enough since the pandemic that we don't talk about it anymore even though it's still affecting our lives. not to mention things like the reaction to Chris Tyson transitioning and Kanye west, an artist who I used to love turning into...you know what made me really feel like we are just living in a bleak dystopic world where everyone feels the dread of the situation but nobody confronts it and instead they take it out by being hostile to other people Bleakness aside not really sure if I'd say this was a particularly great or noteworthy year for music, there was one album (001011 by salvia) that truly jumped out to me and caught my attention but the rest just kind of went over my head. sorry for the bummer but that's how I feel, maybe it was just me idk. at least now we have 2024, so let's try to make it better!
Absolutely quality year for music for me, so many great albums that have delivered on exactly what I hoped out of the artists behind them! Gonna make a video on this soon but suffice to say it’s gonna be hard cutting stuff out! Anyways, always happy to have you around mate, you always deliver quality content and introduce me to some new and wonderful albums. Sorry to hear the year wasn’t great for you on a personal level, here’s to hoping 2024 is better! Much love ❤
I'm so glad that I came across your channel. Out of all the genres of music I like, this one and classical music are the ones I'm unfamiliar with. I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only person that had a bad 2023. I was saying to myself that this guy gets me. I could use a lot of this music to take me somewhere else besides here. I didn't care about the length of the video, I just had to keep asking what's the next one going to be. I really enjoyed how you felt about each album and your description of the music I really appreciate you including the tracks below so I can listen to them. This was one of my favorite videos of people's best of 2023 list.
Fantastic List ..... as usual. Keep up the great work. In hindsight I quite possibly agree with your album of the year. I probably rate Mesh as the best electronic label out there ... they have some many great artists on there as well as Reid Willis.
YES! I thought it was strange after watching your review that you did for BT’s latest album and after I left a comment on your review with my thoughts on it that the Reid Willis album you recommended just sounded so much better. I found myself trying to parse through the BT bias I had for his earlier work and try to separate that from the music. But then came the confusion later in the year where I had such a hard time finding anything better than Reid Willis’s album. As far as electronic music from 2023 was concerned, that was the best album and I found it very hard to find anything that topped it. It fits somewhere in my overall top 5 from last year, but is probably the one album aside from Sampha’s album I’ll likely return to on the regular even five years from now. I felt like an odd one out for including this choice, but I’m glad to know I wasn’t alone in recognizing how great this album is. Looked forward to the list this year like any other and wasn’t disappointed with the selections and placements.
Sediment is such a great album, shape shifting all over around to create basically a better Mother Of, although Reid Willis earlier works like The 40 Year Hibernation and Born of Kaleidoscope, this record is nothing shy of the word "incredible", emotional notes and sobering melodies with First Grain lead the album into just something really special, definitely my pick for 2023's Album Of The Year
actually already covered the new Blank Banshee album a few months ago th-cam.com/video/17uopaiLd0I/w-d-xo.html wasn't exactly one of my new favorites of theirs, but whatever
@@TheWonkyAngle gotcha. Wasn't his best for sure, but as an exploration of contemporary tropes made to be fresh, was good. But I feel there were alot of those this year
Just watching now haven't heard of any of the albums on honourable mentions so far going make note of them all and listen [: hope you have a better 2024 as well man my 2023 wasn't great either. Got a sun light a few days ago because it's been really dark and grey here in the UK for a while. Not sure if it will help but seems worth a try, feel a bit more alive in the summer Vs the winter months [:
I posted the whole Top 25 list on Twitter under the same Hydrozoans name. 10. Tzusing - Green Hat 9. Euglossine - Bug Planet is the Current Timeline 8. Field Recordings - Field Notes 7. Akasha System - Phytopia 6. Zima Stulecia - Minus 30 degrees C 5. Wrecked Lightship - Oceans and Seas 4. Pepe - Reclaim 3. Carl Brown - Time Slip 2. Andrea - Due in Color 1. Sam Goku - The Things We See When We Look Closer
Every album you mentioned here is amazing My list goes 1- Going Inside by Rumpistol 2- Out Of Office by Robyn A1200 3- The Secret Language Of Trees by BT 4- UM- YO by Vale Smith 5- Sediment by Reid Willis 6- Due In Color by Andrea 7- Rediscovery by Aplut 8- PrairieWolf by PrairieWolf 9- safe to disconnect 2 by Jonathan Kirby 10- Inland Delta by Biosphere This was a fantastic year for music. The new Orbital album while I loved it when it came out shrunk on me I didn’t find myself coming back to it at all and I kinda find it to be one of there weaker albums feels disjointed and basic. The new chemical brothers album was what the heck was it. There last album was easily my second fav by them ever and then this comes out and it’s just bad easily there worst. My most played album of the year was Out Of The Office by Robyn A1200 Here was my Spotify Wrapped this year Top 5 artists 1- Rumpistol 2- BT 3- Vale Smith 4- Reid Willis 5- Aphex Twin Top 5 songs 1- Vindheks by Rumpistol 2- #3 by Aphex Twin 3- Skibruden by Rumpistol 4- #20 by Aphex Twin 5- Creep by Dead mouse
Great stuff thanks forthe introduction to a lot of good new music, is there a good place/website to look at for upcoming releases please. Happy new year lets hope its a great one
#1 Raising ravens- leaving with the halflight Jess Finalayson does it all! She writes, plays guitar and sings on this beautifully done album!! 2 Any given sin- war 3 Gideon- more power more pain 4 Motive black- auburn 5 Cold stares- voices 6 Pop evil- skeletons 7 Phil Campbell- kings of the asylum 8 Saul -this is it..the end of everything 9 Buckcherry-10 10 Tyler Bryant- dirty work 11 Red- rated R 12 Lift the curse- suffer and survive 13 Throw the fight- strange world 14 Another day dawns- finding peace through all the noise 15 Blak29 16 Trashy Annie- sticks and stones 17 When rivers meet- aces are high 18 Post profit- self defeaterEP 19 War curse- confession 20 Texas hippie coalition- the name lives on 21 Saliva- revelation 22 Laura cox- head above water 23 Woyote- mother of the universe 24 Screaming eagles- high class rock n roll 25 Jesse James Dupree- breathing fire 26 Vera bloom- it’s meEP 27 King mountain- wrath of the gods 28 Duskwood- the last voyage 29 Fuzzrider- S/T 30 Fortune child- - ST ep 31 Deadly vices- dead inside
Thanks my go to electronic year list, I’m excited to listen through some of the recommendations. As for orbital they are rereleasing there older catalogue on vinyl, looking forward to picking up one of my favourite albums of all time snivilisation. Hope 2024 is a better year for you buddy.
The DJ Sabrina thing is perturbing, but accepting On the the Orbital comment, I saw them live in ‘98. I wish you were with me dude. Some people on earth just really get it.
Hmmm ... have to say I may have to have a rethink ... I too had Reid Willis at No 1 but since then I can't get No Highs from Tim Hecker off my music system. Its is brilliant and easily his best album to date IMHO .. it takes a few listens though as I pretty much dismissed it at first.
23 BEST OF 2023 01. Lil Yachty • Let’s Start Here 02. boygenius • the record 03. Sufjan Stevens • Javelin 04. ANOHNI and the Johnsons • My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross 05. Sofia Kourtesis • Madres 06. Lana Del Rey • Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard 07. Caroline Polachek • Desire, I Want To Turn Into You 08. Kelela • Raven 09. Everything But The Girl • Fuse 10. ML Buch • Suntub 11. Lankum • False Lankum 12. Lauren Auder • the infinite space 13. Christine and the Queens • Paranoia, Angels, True Love 14. Corinne Bailey Rae • Black Rainbows 15. L’Rain • I Killed Your Dog 16. Amaarae • Fountain Baby 17. Travis Scott • UTOPIA 18. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard • The Silver Cord 19. Vanishing Twin • Afternoon X 20. Temples • Exotico 21. Slowdive • everything is alive 22. Eric Hilton • Corazon Kintsugi 23. World’s End Girlfriend • Resistance & the Blessing
wow no chemical brothers, no george clanton, no james holden, no tim hecker, no chocolate hills, no Tzusing - do you even electronic? bt has made the same album for basically the last 20 years.
I've heard and reviewed all those albums (aside from the Tzusing one, may have to check that out later) and I just wasn't personally into any of those others enough for them to be in consideration for the list aside from George Clanton obviously getting a shout for "I Been Young" (the rest of that album was good but ran together for me). James Holden thing was solid but didn't stick in my memory, Tim Hecker's thing was good but not really up to par with his best imo, Chocolate Hills album was just ok, Chemical Brothers album was an active disappointment for me. at the end of the day this was just a list purely based on what hit the most on a personal level so eh disagreements like that are bound to happen (also as much as I liked the BT thing that's definitely the album mentioned in this video I'd least be willing to die on a hill defending, wouldn't go as far as to say he's been making the same album for 20 years but this album definitely makes more of a case for that being true than any of his others lol)
What kind of post is that? So you are asking a guy whose whole channel is dedicated to reviewing electronic music if he does electronic? Out of your list the only album I personally liked was Tim Heckers. Sediment is better than all of them IMHO.
❤ sending love
HOLY SHIT IT'S BIG BALLER B
pls don't spread your fanbase here pls
@@xbenci (I think there's already more overlap between our fanbases than you'd probably expect)
@@TheWonkyAngle can I let out a long and overly dramatic "noooo" then
@@TheWonkyAnglethere is. Been a fan of both of you for a few years.
hope you're doing okay man! the 2020s have been rough for mental health to say the least
The Chemical Brothers' "Goodbye" is my personal track of the year. The first time I heard it within the context of For That Beautiful Feeling, I knew it was gonna absolutely special. The two different iterations of the main core melody, the energetic breakbeat drums, the soulful vocal samples... there's something so compelling about it. Also, shout out to the Erol Alkan rework, which basically takes the best part of the song and extends it out into a basically-effective melodic techno remix.
It's been a rough year for me personally too, and I completely feel you on that. I hope next year will be better, and I hope you have a happy new year! Take care
To be honest, this year has been the worst year for me, and it's been extremely difficult in every way: work, hobbies, health.
And although I've been enjoying older music lately and haven't listened to much music from 2023, I'm glad that BT, Orbital, and Vale-Smith made the list.
Sucks to hear you haven't been doing too well. Let's hope next year will be a lot better:)
When it came to me and electronic music this year, there was a lot i listened to but not many of them were releases that actually dropped this year (i've been on a trance and acid house/techno binge lately so that means going back in time). From the electronic releases i've heard that did drop this year, here are some of my favourites in no particular order:
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord (this release was what made me go on this trance and acid house/techno binge to begin with)
Tim Hecker - No Highs
Skrillex - Quest for Fire
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (not electronic all the way through but there is enough of it on the album for it to count imo)
PinkPantheress - Heaven Knows (i guess more pop than full on electronic but it's soaked in dnb, 2-step and breakbeat influences so it counts for me)
Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
NewJeans - Get Up (again like PinkPantheress it's more on the pop side of things but it also shares a lot of the same influences as PinkPantheress so i'm including it.)
That's all that pops to mind for me.
This has been a great year for me, personally, although I haven't been in touch with newer electronic this year. I've just been trying to catch up on as much genres as possible these days, with my time spent on AOTY really skyrocketing since January and making a few friends there. I've shown a couple of them albums I found from this channel and they've loved them, which is hella cool. Not eventful outside of that, but still great lol. Of all the albums shown on this list, I've only heard George Clanton's Ooh Rap I Ya (which I thought was great). So yeah, I got some work to do on that front lol, this list is gonna help me with that. Loved this list!
Surprisingly, my (electronic) aoty was Quest for Fire by Skrillex. None of the critics I watch seem to have liked the album as much as I did upon release, but it's grown on me even further tbh and Xena's just my favorite song this year across all genres. I absolutely love the sequencing on the whole album, and I will handily take this over Scary Monsters tbh. It's the last comeback I expected this year, and it stuck with me even more than expected, it's my only electronic 9 this year so far, but that might change.
My aoty in general this year was Lonnie Holley's Oh Me Oh My. I handily found it to be the most consistent, diverse and deep (both sound-wise and lyrically). Listening to it caught me off guard more than once on first listen and I'd recommend it to anyone who's interested lol.
This comment section was much-needed solace for me during quarantine in 2020-2021, so I'm glad the channel had that effect on you this year. It's rough, but it's an amazing feeling to have an escape place in our hardest times. With that said, I'm quite excited for 2024! Here's to the new year, cheers.
Always find myself discovering a lot of gems with these lists, thank you for continuing to make them. Personally, for me, my top list of this year as been the least-electronic of the decade so far. I don't know if my music taste is evolving or if I just spent more time looking back at old electronica this year than keeping up with the new stuff, but there are a few electronic gems I'd like to share:
Lapsung - To Turn, We Unlearn | This is a very short project containing a few 1-3 minute synthwork pieces totalling roughly 16 minutes, so it honestly feels more like an EP than an actual album. Regardless, despite it just releasing back in early October, it's one of my most replayed projects of the year. Despite each track being quite short, all of the ideas expressed in this project feel very fleshed out and immersive, and every time I put this album on I find myself lost in it again. Lapsung is an incredibly underrated artist who's been on a winning streak with me since the release of his 2022 album Is (Not) A Friend, and it definitely continues here.
How to Disappear Completely - Seraphim II | While not as strong as their first album in this duology, HTDC still manages to scratch that itch for moody almost-but-not-quite dark ambient drone music. Seraphim II definitely feels like you've descended deeper than where you were before, and the music in this album feels more pessimistic and tragic than the first album's rather uplifting tone.
Sun Lo - Shapes In My Head | Sun Lo is the collab alias of ATTLAS (I think you covered his album Carry It With You in a SSIM) and vocalist Richard Walters. I fell in love with ATTLAS's debut album Lavender God back in 2020, and while nothing he's put out since quite tops that album for me, this one comes pretty close. ATTLAS's blend of ambient and house music really make the songs on here feel as vast and expansive as some of the work on his first album. My only complaint is that I find Walters vocals a little fatiguing, especially since he performs in every track on the album.
Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination | This album feels like the summer to Shapes In My Head's winter. The production on this album still feels drawn back and like it leans pretty heavily on ambient influences, but the production is far warmer and the beats are far more active and groovy here, while still evoking something vast and empty in my mind (especially the tracks Don't Cry On My Pillow and I Hate Myself). This album also feels late 80s and early 90s inspired in a way that doesn't feel cliche as hell, so that's nice too.
Here's my top 10 list of this year:
10. Ferdous - Cool Party
9. Jane Remover - Census Designated
8. underscores - Wallsocket
7. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Destiny
6. How to Disappear Completely - Seraphim II
5. Lapsung - To Turn, We Unlearn
4. Patricia Taxxon - TECHDOG 1-7 (I count this as a single album)
3. Hammock - Love In The Void (my favorite post-rock band releases their best album since 2016).
2. Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here. (If you told me at the beginning of the year that Lil Yachty would release what was for a good time my AOTY I would've been quite dumbfounded, and I certainly was upon hearing this thing, but a psych rock album from Lil Yachty ended up being exactly what I need I guess).
1. Oneohtrix Point Never - Again
How To Disappear Completely is really neat, your assessment of it being dark but not overtly is spot-on
You reintroduced me to the wonders of BT this year and for that I will be forever grateful. Thank you!
Happy New Year!
I can relate to how you’ve felt during 2023. Here’s to a better 2024!
My favorite completely new artist album of 2023 is Alchemy by Disclosure.
This was an awful year for me as well, but I'm lucky to have TH-cam channels like yours around to ease some of the hassle. Also, despite following your channel since the days of your Squarepusher reviews, I think this was the point where I began to watch any video you upload, no matter the length or not knowing the artists or albums. It's impressive how much your writing has developed over the time.
Happy new year Tommy, and thanks for another great year of electronic music divulgation.
Same here, this channel became a great place to escape a pretty crappy year for me
When it comes to discovering some underrated gems, I think 2023 has been such a good year in that regard. I can also definitely say that this year has truly been the year of pleasant surprises as well, like the latest DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ album for instance. Speaking of, nice to see her, BT, Reid Willis, Orbital, and Vale-Smith all make this list. They really came through with killer releases this year, but Sediment is definitely my favorite out of all the albums that made the list proper. I still can’t get over how fantastically well-produced and well-paced this whole album was, and it has a lot of standouts on top of it, especially Cast Your Net Over A Torn Earth. Also, shoutout to Chime’s Mindburn in the favorite tracks segment; that one is definitely my favorite track to have come out of this entire year.
The only album on the list I didn’t listen to is Andrea’s Due In Color, although it sounds like it can be something that I can enjoy. Other than that, here’s to more great music in 2024 and beyond!!!
I'm very glad you still enjoy making videos. Your best of the year lists has been a top way I discover new music.
I'm sorry to hear you've had such a difficult year. Hopefully next year will be better. If its of any consolation I've enjoyed watching the videos
Much love and luck for you in 2024 Tommy 👍
I have been refreshing my youtube the last week looking forward to your list. This is my third year going through every album on your end of year list. It really has become my favorite part the year when you post this finding all this new music I missed! Thank you for doing this!
You know the year has been good when OPN enters a honorable mention category. As for me personally my top 10 would probable be:
10) Antisocial - ANORAK
9) Loverboy - Meemo Comma
8) TECHDOG 2 - Patricia Taxxon
7) Another Option - Lorenzo Bianchi
6) Syntheism - EPROM
5) Dens - Lenhart Tapes
4) A Part Of You In Everything - Croatian Amor
3) Venoms - Rites Of Fall
2) Again - OPN
1) Revanchist - Evian Christ
I skipped the introduction part of the video, so I didn't hear what you had said in beginning. Sad to hear that you had pretty rough year personally as well. I especially related to the part of constant self doubt and I think that my self confidence has been pretty much at lowest. I suppose my New Years Resolution would be to finally take initiative and feel comfortable in my own skin.
Thank you for releasing constantly amazing videos, I feel like I could watch your reviews every day. There's certain way that you express your thoughts that I find most compelling and interesting to listen through.
Happy New Year and best Wishes :-)
A nice list with some entries I realize I need to go back and check out! Thanks for some of the recommendations and reviews that led to me discovering some of the best electronic records of the year in my books. Leaving Laurel in particular, had a gorgeous and heart-wrenching album that was easily top 10 worthy.
The BT, Orbital, KOAN Sound, and Reid Willis (another I checked out because of you; pleasantly surprised to see where that placed!) all were wonderful as well. Topping my own personal list would’ve been Anthony Naples’ “orbs”, the George Clanton and the Sofia Kourtesis.
Hoping your 2024 is better than this year! Keep up the good work.
Best wishes from Liverpool UK for yr commitment to new music and yr honesty. Yr Autechre fave albums video is excellent a thing of wonder . Cheers and stick with it. God bless, SM.
2023 was a difficult year for me as well but finding your channel was a big positive. You’ve expanded my musical horizons so much and your videos always lifted my mood. Here’s to a better year, keep up the great work!
Dang, just wanted to say thanks for putting up great content on this channel for such a long time now, and glad to hear you're still seeing it as a highlight even while other circumstances are sour.
I can't remember when I began watching exactly, I just know it's been many years by now since I first saw those brilliant Michael Rosen YTPs and an announcement than you had an electronic music review-channel. Your vocabulary and style for reviewing has gradually been fine-tuned over time and at this point I consider you an excellent source for finding new music and hearing interessting opinions on well-known stuff. So keep chugging along and take care.
Thank you for your videos. I've been following you for years now. 2023 was a more difficult year for me as well, and I didn't get to tune in to as many videos of yours this year. But your channel has been a treasure for me in terms of discovering great electronic music. And your obvious passion is truly contageous. Your work is very much appreciated.
Let's hope 2024 is a better year
ngl 2023 was a really bad year for me too, I really struggled and felt frustrated with making music due to my poor composition and production skills and I just in general felt like I couldn't get anything productive done and I have just been spending weeks without making anything or doing anything productive, especially towards the end of the year
2023 almost felt like an awkward transitional point, the pandemic was recent enough that we are still feeling the aftermath and effects of that whole disaster but it's been long enough since the pandemic that we don't talk about it anymore even though it's still affecting our lives.
not to mention things like the reaction to Chris Tyson transitioning and Kanye west, an artist who I used to love turning into...you know what made me really feel like we are just living in a bleak dystopic world where everyone feels the dread of the situation but nobody confronts it and instead they take it out by being hostile to other people
Bleakness aside not really sure if I'd say this was a particularly great or noteworthy year for music, there was one album (001011 by salvia) that truly jumped out to me and caught my attention but the rest just kind of went over my head. sorry for the bummer but that's how I feel, maybe it was just me idk. at least now we have 2024, so let's try to make it better!
Great channel! I always enjoy your videos, and discovering new artists. Here's to a 100 more years of The Wonky Angle! 🎉
Absolutely quality year for music for me, so many great albums that have delivered on exactly what I hoped out of the artists behind them! Gonna make a video on this soon but suffice to say it’s gonna be hard cutting stuff out!
Anyways, always happy to have you around mate, you always deliver quality content and introduce me to some new and wonderful albums. Sorry to hear the year wasn’t great for you on a personal level, here’s to hoping 2024 is better! Much love ❤
I'm so glad that I came across your channel. Out of all the genres of music I like, this one and classical music are the ones I'm unfamiliar with. I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only person that had a bad 2023. I was saying to myself that this guy gets me. I could use a lot of this music to take me somewhere else besides here. I didn't care about the length of the video, I just had to keep asking what's the next one going to be. I really enjoyed how you felt about each album and your description of the music I really appreciate you including the tracks below so I can listen to them. This was one of my favorite videos of people's best of 2023 list.
Thanks for your consistent content :) Been a rough past few years but your videos definitely help!
Fantastic List ..... as usual. Keep up the great work. In hindsight I quite possibly agree with your album of the year. I probably rate Mesh as the best electronic label out there ... they have some many great artists on there as well as Reid Willis.
Great recommendation’s already digging a lot of these!
Your channel is awesome.
YES! I thought it was strange after watching your review that you did for BT’s latest album and after I left a comment on your review with my thoughts on it that the Reid Willis album you recommended just sounded so much better. I found myself trying to parse through the BT bias I had for his earlier work and try to separate that from the music. But then came the confusion later in the year where I had such a hard time finding anything better than Reid Willis’s album. As far as electronic music from 2023 was concerned, that was the best album and I found it very hard to find anything that topped it. It fits somewhere in my overall top 5 from last year, but is probably the one album aside from Sampha’s album I’ll likely return to on the regular even five years from now. I felt like an odd one out for including this choice, but I’m glad to know I wasn’t alone in recognizing how great this album is. Looked forward to the list this year like any other and wasn’t disappointed with the selections and placements.
Best thing about this year is i managed to collect all the album releases from the 90s FAX label including some exceptionally rare albums.
Sediment is such a great album, shape shifting all over around to create basically a better Mother Of, although Reid Willis earlier works like The 40 Year Hibernation and Born of Kaleidoscope, this record is nothing shy of the word "incredible", emotional notes and sobering melodies with First Grain lead the album into just something really special, definitely my pick for 2023's Album Of The Year
Thank you for the catch up.
Great effort here on your channel.
You should check out Hanover Cloud Cover by Driftsystem and Blank Banshee's new album
actually already covered the new Blank Banshee album a few months ago th-cam.com/video/17uopaiLd0I/w-d-xo.html
wasn't exactly one of my new favorites of theirs, but whatever
@@TheWonkyAngle gotcha. Wasn't his best for sure, but as an exploration of contemporary tropes made to be fresh, was good.
But I feel there were alot of those this year
you're the man! best of luck Wonky
Loved this video! Such a unique list and so many great honorable mentions! Keep up the great work! One of my new favorite channel I’ve discovered.
Just watching now haven't heard of any of the albums on honourable mentions so far going make note of them all and listen [: hope you have a better 2024 as well man my 2023 wasn't great either. Got a sun light a few days ago because it's been really dark and grey here in the UK for a while. Not sure if it will help but seems worth a try, feel a bit more alive in the summer Vs the winter months [:
Hey I hope you have a great 2024! I watched the whole video and it was great once again!
Hi Tommy, hope 2024 is a wonderful year for yourself and everyone you care about.
Lovely seeing a Vale-Smith again haha. What an album!! So joyful!
Regards from Bogotá!
I posted the whole Top 25 list on Twitter under the same Hydrozoans name.
10. Tzusing - Green Hat
9. Euglossine - Bug Planet is the Current Timeline
8. Field Recordings - Field Notes
7. Akasha System - Phytopia
6. Zima Stulecia - Minus 30 degrees C
5. Wrecked Lightship - Oceans and Seas
4. Pepe - Reclaim
3. Carl Brown - Time Slip
2. Andrea - Due in Color
1. Sam Goku - The Things We See When We Look Closer
that tzusing is so good
@@larsini0 I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
Another Option is THE JAM. Thank you for recommending it
Wonky Angle best-of is THE best-of the best-ofs.
Your channel is a requirement to existence…continue to discover music for all your viewers! Thank you.
Every album you mentioned here is amazing
My list goes
1- Going Inside by Rumpistol
2- Out Of Office by Robyn A1200
3- The Secret Language Of Trees by BT
4- UM- YO by Vale Smith
5- Sediment by Reid Willis
6- Due In Color by Andrea
7- Rediscovery by Aplut
8- PrairieWolf by PrairieWolf
9- safe to disconnect 2 by Jonathan Kirby
10- Inland Delta by Biosphere
This was a fantastic year for music. The new Orbital album while I loved it when it came out shrunk on me I didn’t find myself coming back to it at all and I kinda find it to be one of there weaker albums feels disjointed and basic. The new chemical brothers album was what the heck was it. There last album was easily my second fav by them ever and then this comes out and it’s just bad easily there worst.
My most played album of the year was Out Of The Office by Robyn A1200
Here was my Spotify Wrapped this year
Top 5 artists
1- Rumpistol
2- BT
3- Vale Smith
4- Reid Willis
5- Aphex Twin
Top 5 songs
1- Vindheks by Rumpistol
2- #3 by Aphex Twin
3- Skibruden by Rumpistol
4- #20 by Aphex Twin
5- Creep by Dead mouse
can't wait to check some of these out.
You’re a good man brother! Keep up the amazing work . I’ve watched every video… purchased many albums based on your reviews.
Happy new year
Great video! I wish there was a playlist or link to your favorite tracks too
Great stuff thanks forthe introduction to a lot of good new music, is there a good place/website to look at for upcoming releases please. Happy new year lets hope its a great one
#1 Raising ravens- leaving with the halflight
Jess Finalayson does it all! She writes, plays guitar and sings on this beautifully done album!!
2 Any given sin- war
3 Gideon- more power more pain
4 Motive black- auburn
5 Cold stares- voices
6 Pop evil- skeletons
7 Phil Campbell- kings of the asylum
8 Saul -this is it..the end of everything
9 Buckcherry-10
10 Tyler Bryant- dirty work
11 Red- rated R
12 Lift the curse- suffer and survive
13 Throw the fight- strange world
14 Another day dawns- finding peace through all the noise
15 Blak29
16 Trashy Annie- sticks and stones
17 When rivers meet- aces are high
18 Post profit- self defeaterEP
19 War curse- confession
20 Texas hippie coalition- the name lives on
21 Saliva- revelation
22 Laura cox- head above water
23 Woyote- mother of the universe
24 Screaming eagles- high class rock n roll
25 Jesse James Dupree- breathing fire
26 Vera bloom- it’s meEP
27 King mountain- wrath of the gods
28 Duskwood- the last voyage
29 Fuzzrider- S/T
30 Fortune child- - ST ep
31 Deadly vices- dead inside
Haircut like vini Reilly !! Love & support from Madagascar 🇲🇬
Thanks my go to electronic year list, I’m excited to listen through some of the recommendations. As for orbital they are rereleasing there older catalogue on vinyl, looking forward to picking up one of my favourite albums of all time snivilisation. Hope 2024 is a better year for you buddy.
yass another dj sabrina win!
The DJ Sabrina thing is perturbing, but accepting
On the the Orbital comment, I saw them live in ‘98. I wish you were with me dude. Some people on earth just really get it.
Here before brendawg comments wonky slush
wonky slush
Why ?
Hmmm ... have to say I may have to have a rethink ... I too had Reid Willis at No 1 but since then I can't get No Highs from Tim Hecker off my music system. Its is brilliant and easily his best album to date IMHO .. it takes a few listens though as I pretty much dismissed it at first.
wonky slush
Why ?
quality
nice
lit
23 BEST OF 2023
01. Lil Yachty • Let’s Start Here
02. boygenius • the record
03. Sufjan Stevens • Javelin
04. ANOHNI and the Johnsons • My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
05. Sofia Kourtesis • Madres
06. Lana Del Rey • Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard
07. Caroline Polachek • Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
08. Kelela • Raven
09. Everything But The Girl • Fuse
10. ML Buch • Suntub
11. Lankum • False Lankum
12. Lauren Auder • the infinite space
13. Christine and the Queens • Paranoia, Angels, True Love
14. Corinne Bailey Rae • Black Rainbows
15. L’Rain • I Killed Your Dog
16. Amaarae • Fountain Baby
17. Travis Scott • UTOPIA
18. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard • The Silver Cord
19. Vanishing Twin • Afternoon X
20. Temples • Exotico
21. Slowdive • everything is alive
22. Eric Hilton • Corazon Kintsugi
23. World’s End Girlfriend • Resistance & the Blessing
wow no chemical brothers, no george clanton, no james holden, no tim hecker, no chocolate hills, no Tzusing - do you even electronic?
bt has made the same album for basically the last 20 years.
I've heard and reviewed all those albums (aside from the Tzusing one, may have to check that out later) and I just wasn't personally into any of those others enough for them to be in consideration for the list aside from George Clanton obviously getting a shout for "I Been Young" (the rest of that album was good but ran together for me). James Holden thing was solid but didn't stick in my memory, Tim Hecker's thing was good but not really up to par with his best imo, Chocolate Hills album was just ok, Chemical Brothers album was an active disappointment for me. at the end of the day this was just a list purely based on what hit the most on a personal level so eh disagreements like that are bound to happen
(also as much as I liked the BT thing that's definitely the album mentioned in this video I'd least be willing to die on a hill defending, wouldn't go as far as to say he's been making the same album for 20 years but this album definitely makes more of a case for that being true than any of his others lol)
What kind of post is that? So you are asking a guy whose whole channel is dedicated to reviewing electronic music if he does electronic? Out of your list the only album I personally liked was Tim Heckers. Sediment is better than all of them IMHO.