MadCity Music’s Favorites of 2023

December 1, 2023

Favorite Albums of 2023 – Staff Picks!

ZERO
Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity
Teenage Fanclub – Nothing Lasts Forever
Little Simz – No Thank You
The Bomboras – Songs from Beyond!
Indigo De Souza – All Of This Will End
The National – First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
Sunny War – Antichrist Gospel
Sparks – The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
Peter Case – Doctor Moan
Tyler Childers – Rustin In The Rain
Buffalo Nichols – The Fatalist

Reissues / compilations
The Replacements – Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)
Pharoah Sanders – Pharoah
Byard Lancaster – It’s Not Up To Us

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CORAL
Bodybox – Microwaved Weed
Zulu – A New Tomorrow
Night Beats – Rajan
Woods – Perennial

Reissues / compilations
v/a – Numero group eccentric northern soul – Everything but the talcum powder!!!
Duster – Stratosphere
The Breeders – Last Splash 30th Anniversary
Nirvana – In Utero 30th anniversary
Evanescence – The fallen 20th anniversary
Violent Femmes – s/t 40th anniversary
De la Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising

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BOBBY
Blonde Redhead – Sit Down For Dinner
Osees – Intercepted Message
The Hives – The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Sweeping Promises – Good Living Is Coming For You
Carrellee – Rescaled: Scale Of Dreams’ Remix Album
Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
Drab Majesty – An Object In Motion
Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity
Teenage Fanclub – Nothing Last Forever

Reissues / compilations
Nirvana – In Utero
The Breeders – Last Splash
The Replacements – Tim (Let It Bleed Edition)

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RUSS from HiFi Haus
Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Yves Tumor – Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or
Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Protomartyr – Formal Growth In The Desert
Drab Majesty – An Object In Motion
Slowdive – Everything Is Alive
Sigur Rós – Átta
James – Be Opened By The Wonderful
The National – First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
Depeche Mode – Memento Mori
The Murder Capital – Gigi’s Recovery
Nation Of Language – Strange Disciple

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NICK
Le Morte – Midnight in the Garden of Tragedy
Khanate – To Be Cruel
Impetuous Ritual – Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
Drab Majesty – An Object In Motion
Slowdive – Everything Is Alive
Woods – Perennial
Narrow Head – Moments Of Clarity
Yves Tumor – Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume
JPEGMAFIA / Danny Brown – Scaring the Hoes
Evian Christ – Revanchist
Oneohtrix Point Never – Again
Erik Kramer – Where the fish are as fine as the color of color

Reissues / compilations
V/A – Miami Sound: Rare Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida: 1967-74
Bowery Electric – Beat
Larry Levan – Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage
Beherit – Drawing Down The Moon
Gang Starr – Hard To Earn
Pharoah Sanders – Pharoah
Windhand – S/T
Steely Dan – Aja

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BOB the 45 guy
Exbats – Song Machine
Dusk – Glass Pastures
Wristwatch – II
Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History
People Brothers Band – Sisters & Brothers
TS Foss – Everything Finished
XXX Piss – self-titled
Back Issues – Justine
Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire – Wronger
Yard Act – “The Trench Coat Museum” single
Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity
The Chieftones – The New Smooth and Different Sound

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EDWARD
Foo Fighters – But Here We Are
Metallica – 72 Seasons
Black Market Brass – Hox
Dave Chappelle – “The Closer” and “What’s in a Name”
Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
Chris Stapleton – Higher

Reissues / compilations
Nirvana – In Utero (30th Anniversary Reissue)
Steely Dan – Aja (Reissue)
John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy – Evenings at the Village Gate
Pharaoh Sanders – Pharoah
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones – Singles Collection ‘61-65
Soul Jazz Records Presents – Miami Sound Rare Funk & Soul from
Florida 1967-1974

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TAYLOR
Zach Bryan – s/t
Slow Pulp – Yard
The Hives – The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons
Gia Margaret – Romantic Piano
Home Is Where – the whaler
Militarie Gun – Life Under The Gun
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal – Maps