Top 40 Albums of 2023
Grouped alphabetically in 4 groups below.Diamond Cut
There were 10 albums that stood above the rest. From dance manifestoes to new blues, these are amazing and creative from start to finish.
The Chemical Brothers – For That Beautiful Feeling
Everything But the Girl – Fuse
Folamour – Manifesto
Gabriels – Angels & Queens – Part II
Róisín Murphy – Hit Parade
The Pretenders – Relentless
Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS
The Sparks – The Girl is Crying in her Latte
Supershy – Happy Music
Tensnake – Stimulate
Platinum Set
These 6 albums, coming from very distinct genres, are almost flawless and I could not get enough of them:
Blur – The Ballad of Darren
Dadi Freyr – I Made an Album
Macklemore – BEN
Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love me
The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
Romy – Mid Air
Gold Circle
ANOHNI, and the Johnsons – My back was a bridge for you to cross
Corine – R
The Legendary Tigerman – ZEITGEIST
Donny McCaslin – I want More
Kylie Minogue – Tension
The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein
Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord real Book
Portugal. the Man – Chris Black Changed my Life
Tiga & Hudson Mohawke – L’Ecstasy
Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good
Silver Line
Isabelle Adjani – Adjani, bande originale
Amaarae – Fountain Baby
Bakermat – From a Bakermat Point of View
Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Depeche Mode – Memento Mori
Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention
Mayer Hawthorne – For All Time
Jungle – Volcano
Janelle Monáe – The Age of Pleasure
Aya Nakamura – DNK
Caroline Polacheck – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
Poolside – Blame it all on Love
Iggy Pop – EVERY LOSER
Benny Sings – Young Hearts
Best Live and Soundtrack albums of 2023
Kirsty MacColl – Live at the Jazz Café (London 12 October 1999)
Rosa Passos – Samba Sem Você (Live at Copenhagen Jazzhouse 2001)
Cat Power - Sings Bob Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Nina Simone – You’ve Got to Learn (Live)
Best EPs of 2023
Three EPs were on rotation a lot, with more good tracks than many albums:
Bellaire – Sunset Ballad
Channel Tres – Real cultural shit
Jon Dixon – Musicality
Pet Shop Boys – Lost
Top 100 Tracks of 2023
The best way to display this is via a Spotify list which also includes the remixes below at the end. I created the list to be listened to in the order shown, but can also be listened to at random of course:
Top 20 Remixes and Edits of 2023
So many great remixes and edits this year. There were definitely 4 above the rest, which took the original into another place of excellence. All remixes, edits and mashups below elevate the originals either into a whole different place, a distilled essence, or simply make it work so well on the dance floor. It is great when a track has two great lives, which is a remix at its best:
Paramore – C’est Comme ça (Re: Wet Leg)
The Rolling Stones – Mess it up (Purple Disco Machine Remix)
Wham! – Club Tropicana (Sigala & Manovski Balearic Breeze Remix)
Yard Act – The Trench Coat Museum (Arthur Baker Remix)
The remaining awesome remixes alphabetically:
Bosq & Kaleta – Meji Meji (Folamour Remix)
BT – Kintsugi (Siskin Remix)
David Bowie – Golden Years (TOKiMONSTA Remix)
Chromeo – Word with you (Tchami Remix)
Gal Costa – Flor de Maracujá (Bruce Leroys *Aureum Remix))
Cristalli Liquidi – Rosso Carnale (Bottin’s Fast Tape Dub)
Gabriels – Love and Hate in a Different Time (Greg Wilson & Ché Wilson Full-Length Remix)
Alison Goldfrapp – The Beat Divine (Theo Kottis Remix)
Felipe Gordon – For Martha (Kai Alcé NDATL ClubJazz Remix)
Jayda G – Scars (Kerri Chandler Edit)
Kraak & Smaak – Let’s Go Back (Joe Goddard Remix)
Klaus Nomi – The Cold Song (Arnaud Rebotini Remix)
Rita Ora – Praising you (Fatboy Slim Remix)
Portugal. the Man feat. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Summer of Love (Bakermat Remix)
Royksopp – Feel It (LP Giobbi Remix)
Xinobi – La Tormenta (Adam Ten & Mita Gami Remix)
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