My Year in Music (2023)
- Garrett Bugay
- Jan 7, 2024
- 3 min read
Welcome to my 2nd annual recap of the year in music! If you missed my post from 2022, the link is below.
1st annual (2022) version: https://g-bugay.wixsite.com/filmlists/post/my-year-in-music-2022
My addiction to music consumption only grew this past calendar year. According to my Apple Music year in review, I listened to over 1,000 artists and 2,500 songs. I attended 11 concerts including my first ever music festival. I even purchased a new computer and production software with plans to make my own beats in 2024.
There will be a few changes to the format this year, including 52 recommended albums (one for each week of the year!), a new symbol/indicator (*) for what albums make up my top 12 (one for each month of the year!), and I'll include both a short and long version of my 2023 playlist. I've continued the "Best Of" playlists, and I will include both Spotify and Apple Music links.
Without further ado, lets get to the albums as well as my favorite tracks from each (genres in alphabetical order).
Alternative:
SYML (The Day My Father Died)
Track 2: Believer
Track 9: Chariot
Constant Smiles (Kenneth Anger)
Track 4: Here and Gone
Track 7: I'm On Your Side
*Avalon Emerson (& The Charm)
Track 1: Sandrail Silhouette
Track 6: Dreamliner
Beach House (Become EP)
Track 3: Holiday House
Dan Croll (Fools)
Track 7: Fools
Track 10: How Close We Came
Art School Girlfriend (Soft Landing)
Track 1: A Place To Lie
Track 2: Close To The Clouds
*Slowdive (Everything is Alive)
Track 3: Alife
Track 5: Kisses
Track 7: Chained to a Cloud
Boys and Ivy (Sideburner)
Track 1: Daisy
Track 7: Say It Right
Barenaked Ladies (In Flight)
Track 5: Just Wait
Track 13: I Am Asking You To
*Bleach Lab (Lost in a Rush of Emptiness)
Track 2: Indigo
Track 3: Counting Empties
Track 4: Saving All Your Kindness
*Sufjan Stevens (Javelin)
Track 3: Will Anybody Ever Love Me
Track 9: Shit Talk
Noah Gunderson (If This Is The End)
Track 2: Swim
Track 3: Better Days
BoyGenius (The Record)
Track 4: True Blue
Track 6: Not Strong Enough
Babygirl (Be Still My Heart EP)
Track 3: Sore Eyes
Track 4: Me, You & My Car
Lost Cousins (Point No Point)
Track 3: Plain Sight
Track 10: Waiting On The Other Side
Country:
*Leftover Salmon (Grass Roots)
Track 4: Simple Twist of Fate
Track 9: Nashville Skyline Rag
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Weathervanes)
Track 2: King of Oklahoma
Track 8: When We Were Close
Dance/Disco:
Shea Coulee (8)
Track 1: Collide
Track 6: Your Name
*Jessie Ware (That! Feels Good!)
Track 2: Free Yourself
Track 5: Begin Again
Track 6: Beautiful People
Electronic:
*SG Lewis (AudioLust & HigherLove)
Track 2: Infatuation
Track 3: Holding On
Track 10: Lifetime
Glume (Main Character)
Track 2: Do Me a Favor
Track 9: Garden of Allah
Yune Pinku (Babylon IX EP)
Track 2: Heartbeat
Track 6: Fai Fighter
*Disclosure (Alchemy)
Track 1: Looking For Love
Track 3: Higher Than Ever Before
Track 8: Sun Showers
Shallou (In Touch)
Track 8: Without You
Track 10: Feeling
Weval (Remember)
Track 5: Don't Lose Time
Track 8: Changed For The Better
M83 (Fantasy)
Track 8: Fantasy
Track 10: Sunny Boy
Bayonne (Temporary Time)
Track 2: Right Thing
Track 3: Is It Time
Track 6: Perfect
Might Delete Later (Tell Me Something)
Track 4: Tell Me Something
Track 5: It'll Be Alright
Barry Can't Swim (When Will We Land?)
Track 5: Sunsleeper
Track 6: Woman
Poolside (Blame It All On Love)
Track 1: Ride With You
Track 6: Each Night
Ethereal/Jazz
*Andre 3000 (New Blue Sun)
Track 1: I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time
Track 8: Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens
Mary Lattimore (Goodbye Hotel Arkada)
Track 2: Arrivederci
Track 6: Yesterday's Parties
Kareem Ali (The Color of Sound)
Track 2: Please, Forever Keep Me Near
Track 4: Rise Up
Punk/Rock
We Are Scientists (Lobes)
Track 4: Lucky To Be Here
Track 9: Less From You
Samia (Honey)
Track 8: Honey
Track 10: Amelia
*Blondshell (Blondshell)
Track 4: Salad
Track 5: Sepsis
Track 9: Dangerous
Unknown Mortal Orchestra (V)
Track 3: Meshuggah
Track 7: Layla
The National (First Two Pages of Frankenstein)
Track 5: Tropic Morning News
The National (Laugh Track)
Track 7: Space Invader
Girlhouse (The Fourth EP)
Track 3: You Don't Think About Me
Track 5: Goner
Bombay Bicycle Club (My Big Day)
Track 6: Meditate
Track 8: Heaven
Pop:
Caroline Polachek (Desire, I Want To Turn Into You)
Track 4: Sunset
Track 8: Blood and Butter
Aly & AJ (With Love From)
Track 3: After Hours
Track 9: Talking In My Sleep
Maris (Gravity EP)
Track 4: Crashland
Track 5: False Idol
*Carly Rae Jepsen (The Loveliest Time)
Track 8: Psychedelic Switch
Track 9: So Right
Blusher (Should We Go Dance? EP)
Track 2: Dead End
Track 4: Limelight
Addison Rae (AR EP)
Track 1: I Got It Bad
Track 2: 2 Die 4
*Adele Castillon & Videoclub (Plaisir Risque Dependance)
Track 6: Promis
Track 12: Je t'aime
Chappell Roan (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess)
Track 8: My Kink Is Karma
Track 11: Pink Pony Club
Sigrid (The Hype EP)
Track 1: The Hype
Track 3: Ghost
Olivia Rodrigo (Guts)
Track 3: Vampire
Track 11: Pretty Isn't Pretty
Birdee (On My Own)
Track 1: On My Own
Track 3: Poolside
2023 Playlist (Put it on Shuffle):
2023 Playlist (Short Version):
Best Of Playlists:
Talking Heads:
Barenaked Ladies:
LCD Soundsystem:
Muna:
Betty Who:
The Blue Nile:
Khruangbin:
Japanese Breakfast:
Other Discoveries/Artists to Check Out:
Wittman Clark
Goose
Kuna Maze
Alaska Reid
Meg Baird
Shalom
Walk the Moon
Fly By Midnight
Altin Gun
Idles
BrotherTiger
Illenium
Laveda
Hip Abduction
The Motet
Julia Jacklin
The Jauntee
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