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My top 10ish songs of 2023 (plus 20 honorable mentions)
IT’S TIME!!!!! Here’s the whole list, plus 20 of the most unhinged honorable mentions I could think of, and 10 honorable-honorable mentions… I need to…
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#2 - feeble little horse - "Freak"
The most electrifying album opener of the year, “Freak” functions like an instant hit of frisson. A fuzzy guitar spins you around and buries you under…
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#3 - Lil Yachty - "Strike" / "prETTy"
“Poland” broke the internet, but it was just pretty good—a snippet-turned-megahit that came about because Yachty was fucking around in the studio and…
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#4 - xaviersobased - "u dk how 2 hoop" / Nettspend ft. Osamason - "Wake up" (tie)
xaviersobased and Nettspend are burning the underground up right now. When Nettspend blew up this fall, I didn’t understand what drew everyone to the…
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#5 - Tirzah - "2 D I C U V"
Enough with the proclamations about how hyperpop, digicore, and other cyber-brained artists like yeule capture the experience of being terminally online…
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#6 - lostrushi - "HYDROXYCUT" / "USE YOUR WINGS"
Two years ago, lostrushi was part of a microgenre called “maplekore” with kaystrueno, who coined the term after staring at pixelated scenery in the…
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#7 - saya - "blood school" / sprinks - "Paradox"
You know you’re getting to the good stuff when you hit the realm of SoundCloud users with hieroglyphic text in their names. The mysterious bubble around…
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#8 - a.s.o. - "Go On"
In 2023, you can find a perfect pastiche of basically every genre. There’s Snow Strippers doing witchy vocal electronica that oscillates between “poor…
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#9 - Ken Carson - "Lose It" / "Me N My Kup" (tie)
A Great Chaos really electrified me for the first time when I played it on a run. The five-miler took more than 35 minutes but it seemed like so much…
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#10 - bar italia - "Missus Morality" / "maddington" (tie)
Let the 2023 countdown begin! I spent a lot of time listening to bar italia this year without really learning anything about the band or its songs. Some…
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My top 15 music events of the year
A journey through parks, tunnels, and fried concert halls.
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My top 25ish songs of 2022 (plus 20 honorable mentions)
Here are my top 25 songs of 2022 with 20 bonus honorable mentions. I’ve also made Spotify and YouTube playlists. Thanks for reading, hope you find…
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