The Best of 2023


Friday, 29

Matana Roberts – Coin Coin, Chapter Five: In the Garden…

$9 USD
58:01
avant-garde jazz
USA
Constellation

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Harm’s Way – Common Suffering

$9.99 USD
34:47
metalcore
Chicago, Illinois
Metal Blade

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Blood Command – World Domination

£12 GBP
36:33
popcore
Bergen, Norway
Hassle

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Pulses – It Wasn’t Supposed to Be like This

$10 USD
43:12
post-hardcore
Dumfries, Virginia
Independent

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The Hirsch Effekt – Urian

€10 EUR
52:08
progressive metal
Hannover, Germany
Long Branch

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Orbital Extrema – Apsis

$10 USD
52:53
technical death metal
Tacoma, Washington
Independent

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Tuesday, 3 October

Crow Black Sky – Sidereal Light, Volume Two

$10 USD
36:06
atmospheric black metal
Cape Town, South Africa
Independent

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Friday, 6

Sufjan Stevens – Javelin

$10 USD
41:59
indie folk
New York, New York
Asthmatic Kitty

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Satón – A la espera del momento

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29:37
post-hardcore
Méx., Mexico
Independent

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Onipa – Off the Grid

£7 GBP
46:22
Afrobeat
London, UK
Real World

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Malfet – Dolorous Gard

$5 USD
49:51
dungeon synth
Atascadero, California
Independent

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Saturday, 7

Doom Shrugs – Six Insides

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29:53
mathcore
Dunedin, New Zealand
Stupid Square

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Thursday, 12

Florid Ekstasis – Trepanning

$6.66 USD
47:32
avant-garde black metal
New York, New York
Independent

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Friday, 13

Laster – Andermans mijne

$6.99 USD
44:02
avant-garde black metal
Utrecht, Netherlands
Lupus Lounge / Prophecy

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Kate Gentile – Find Letter X

$32.50 USD
196:09
avant-garde jazz
New York
π

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Carl Mayotte – Carnaval

$12 CAD
55:36
jazz fusion
Quebec City, Québec
Independent

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Friday, 20

Trounce – The Seven Crowns

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106:36
experimental black metal
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Hummus

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Baring Teeth – The Path Narrows

€8 EUR
39:59
avant-garde death metal
Dallas, Texas
I, Voidhanger

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Ганна ГриніваКупала

€7 EUR
35:55
jazz fusion, folk
Berlin, Germany
Berthold

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Owdwyr – Receptor

$7 USD
43:30
progressive deathgrind
California
Independent

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አዝማሪMaelström

€7 EUR
43:02
world fusion
Belgium
Sdban

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Miha Gantar – Amsterdam

€15 EUR
230:21
modern jazz
Slovenia
Clean Feed

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Anna Webber & Matt Mitchell – Capacious Aeration

52:26
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
צ

Nüshu – Nüshu

$12 CAD
48:09
post-punk
Montréal, Québec
Independent

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Unverkalt – A Lump of Death: A Chaos of Dead Lovers

€5 EUR
46:51
progressive post-metal
Greece
Independent

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Wednesday, 25

Indigo la End – 衰愁演劇

59:22
J-rock
Japan
WM Japan


Friday, 27

Adzes – Inver

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51:56
atmospheric sludge metal
New Zealand
Independent

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Flesh of the Stars – The Glass Garden

$5 USD
50:45
atmospheric doom metal
Chicago, Illinois
Independent

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Ragana – Desolation’s Flower

$8 USD
41:25
post-blackened doom metal
Oakland, California
The Flenser

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Euclid C Finder – The Mirror, My Weapon, I Love You

$10 USD
18:19
mathgrind
Baltimore, Maryland
Independent

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End – The Sin of Human Frailty

$9.99 USD
30:07
blackened hardcore
New Jersey
Closed Casket Activities

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The Angélica Sánchez Nonet – Nighttime Creatures

$12 USD
79:27
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
Pyroclastic

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Closure in Moscow – Soft Hell

$12 AUD
50:21
progressive rock
Melbourne, Australia
Independent

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Pattern-Seeking Animals – Spooky Action at a Distance

93:11
progressive rock
California
Inside Out

New Age Doom – There Is No End

$10 CAD
48:51
psychedelic rock
Vancouver, British Columbia
We Are Busy Bodies

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Thursday, 2 November

Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière – Black Metal Jazz

Name your price
47:52
experimental jazz
Montréal, Québec
Independent

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Friday, 3

Rosa Fænskap – Jeg blir til deg

$7 USD
38:34
post-black metal
Oslo, Norway
Fysisk Format

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Helix – Montage

$6 USD
49:56
progressive thrash metal
Tokyo, Japan
Independent

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Togo All Stars – Spirits

57:12
Afrobeat
Togo
Excelsior

Tkay Maidza – Sweet Justice

43:35
trap-hop
Australia
4AD

Poil 上田義経

€7 EUR
39:56
avant-prog
Lyon, France
Dur & Doux

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Friday, 10

David Shapiro, played by the Crossing – Sumptuous Planet: A Secular Mass

$10 USD
73:37
contemporary choir
New York, New York
New Focus

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Ions – Counterintuitive

€8 EUR
50:41
progressive metalcore
Prague, Czechia
Independent

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Фламандская школаSternkunst

€8 EUR
46:35
noise rock
Moscow, Russia
Addicted

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Death’s Dynamic Shroud – Transcendence Bot

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39:38
vaporwave
Los Angeles, California
Ghost Diamond

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Tuesday, 14

Language of Flowers – Language of Flowers

$7 USD
26:49
progressive metal
New York, New York
Independent

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Friday, 17

Racetraitor – Creation and the Timeless Order of Things

$8 USD
32:03
grindcore
Chicago, Illinois
Good Fight

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John Zorn, played by Chaos Magick – Parrhesiastes

35:33
jazzcore
New York, New York
צ

Kilter & Andromeda Anarchia – The Suspended Woman

30:26
progressive metal opera
Brooklyn, New York
Alter-Nativ


Thursday, 23

Mêlée des aurores – Aube cannibale

$8 CAD
38:42
avant-garde black metal
Québec, Québec
Sepulchral

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