Thank you for breaking down your favorites. Lots of new music for me to dig into. And that's really cool that your wife sings in that band! Here's mine: 1. The Lemon Twigs - "Everything Harmony" 2. Darlingside - "Everything is Alive" 3. Charles Wesley Godwin - "Family Ties" 4. Foo Fighters - "But Here We Are" 5. Sufjan Stevens - "Javelin" 6. Slowdive - "everything is alive" 7. Sleep Token - "Take Me Back To Eden" 8. Mondo Drag - "Through the Hourglass" 9. Boygenius - "the record" 10. No Signal - "Distorted Reality" 11. Balance and Composure - "Too Quick to Forgive" 12. Paul Simon - "Seven Psalms" 13. Green Lung - "This Heathen Land" 14. Feist - "Multitudes" 15. Wilder Woods - "FEVER / SKY" 16. Lana Del Rey - "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd" 17. Chris Stapleton - "Higher" 18. The Wilder Blue - "Supernatural" 19. Moon Safari - "Himlabacken (Vol. 2)" 20. Cicada - "Seeking the Sources of Streams" 21. Ludwig Goransson - Oppenheimer Soundtrack 22. Nospün - "Opus" 23. Zach Bryan - "Zach Bryan" 24. Jon Guerra - "Ordinary Ways" 25. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - "Weathervanes"

5. 'Death Pill' by Death Pill 4. 'Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle' by Moonlight Sorcery 3. 'Yallah Beibe' by MC YALLAH 2. 'Sator Arepo' by Judgitzu 1. 'Seasons Dreaming Death' by GraveRipper

Saw Föllakzoid at Primavera Sound in 2014. Incredible show and we saw a lot of bands that day. Stoked to find your channel here Dennis. Jonas from SublimMedia one of the old guard in the VC advised you had a channel so I got some catching up to do. My album of the year was Rid of Me - Access To The Lonely. From Philly. Itarya Rosenberg is a powerhouse on vocals and bass. Band born from Fight Amp and Low Dose. Great heavy diverse band. And Itarya works at Softwax Record Pressing so pressed her own records which is also very cool.

Great tips as always!! I leave my favorites below: Zulu "A New Tomorrow" The Night Eternal "Fatale" Wucan "Heretic Tongues" came out in May 2022, but in 2023 they released a live record "Live At Deutschlandfunk", very raw and showing that the band has a future. Iggy Pop "Every Loser" Baroness "Stone" GODFLESH "Purge" Metallica "72 Seasons" King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard "PetroDragonic Apocalypse" Depeche Mode "Memento Mori" Crosses "Good night, God bless, I love you, delete"

Food for Worms by Shame is probably my favorite of the year. I bought it on vinyl and it is easily my most listened to album on Spotify. I also have to add the Vannis Kasino album is also one of my favs; I was lucky to snag one of the first copies of the vinyl!

I was unfamiliar with Follakazoid until hearing about them on your list. From your description, they sounded right up my street. So I checked out V... and I LOVE it! It's metronomic trance-inducing piece-in-four-parts transported me to an inner space that I didn't want to leave! I did, though, long enough to write this ..and thank you for talking about Follakzoid, and for your great insights on the rest of the best of 2023! Happy Holidays!

Agree wholeheartedly on Cave/Ellis, Crime & the City Solution and Swans. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the new Depeche Mode record, I particularly loved the four tracks Richard Butler co-wrote.

Hi Dennis. Have you heard last album by Brutus “Unison life” and what is your opinion? Thank so much for your channel. Best wishes to 2024z

I had No Idea about a new crime&the City solution, how did that get sneak past me?? American Twilight was insanely good. My favourite of 2023 was probably The Beggar. And Wreckless Eric - leisureland I Wish you and your wife peaceful Holidays and a magnificent 2024.

Hi Dennis. INVSN is my favorite band of 2023 but Fake Names album is my go to for over 3 months now. Great record! Samurai is also super cool. I'm waiting for more ... All albums are great basically. You nailed it. Cheers!

1. The Veils - And Out of The Void Came Love 2. Moon Safari - Himlabacken Vol. 2 (Heaven Hill) 3. The National - Frankenstein’s Laugh 4. Peter Gabriel - i/o 5. Nick Cave - Australian Carnage 6. Manchester Orchestra - Valley of Vision 7. The Chronicles of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales of Airoea - Book I & 2 8. The Polyphonic Spree - Salvage Enterprise 9. Harp - Albion 10. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 11. Gord Downie - Lustre Parfait 12. RVG - Brain Worms 13. Big Big Train - Ingenius Devices 14. Lana Del Rey - Ocean Blvd 15. Pretenders - Relentless 16. Downes Braide Association - Celestial Songs 17. Jerry David DeCicca - New Shadows 18. Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows Acoustic 19. Jordsjø - Salighet 20. Dylan Leblanc - Coyote 21. Slowdive - Everything Is Alive 22. The Reds, Pinks and Purples - The Town That Cursed Your Name 23. Noah Kahan - Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever) 24. Glen Hansard - All That Was East Is West of Me Now 25. Cyan - Pictures From The Other Side 26. Hamish Hawk - Angel Numbers 27. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy 28. Mark Erelli - Lay Your Darkness Down 29. The Menzingers - Some of It Was True 30. Crown Lands - Fearless 31. James Blunt - Who We Used To Be 32. The Died Pretty - Live 33. Guided By Voices - Nowhere To Go But Up 34. Wednesday - Rat Saw God 35. Mountain Goats - Jenny From Thebes 36. Lori McKenna - 1988 37. Josh Ritter - Spectral Lines 38. Bruce Springsteen - Songs on Keys 39. Circus Devils - Squeeze The Needle 40. The Alarm - Forwards

Been waiting for this. Thanks for a great year, of great music, Dennis.

Loved the new work you’ve released (Expendables/ Samurai/ INVSN) as well as , The Swans ‘The Beggar’, The Mars Volta, ACOUSTIC Self-titled, Avishai Cohen ‘Iroko’, King Gizzard ‘Petrodragon…’, and… Sleepytime Gorilla Museum dropped a couple of singles which I have been waiting for since their last album forever ago.

The Hives new album is always the best album 😅

Cool list! Haven't listened to any of your top 3, so I'll definitely have to check those out (and the Christian Kjellvander album too). Absolutely agree on the new Blodet album being amazing, though personally I was not super into either the new Swans or Depeche Mode, but both are still good solid albums of course. My personal pick for the best of the year is either Blodet or Dødheimsgard - hard to choose between the two. Other than that, I also loved the new albums by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Algiers, Fire! Orchestra, Ett dödens maskineri, Xiu Xiu, and HMLTD. And if we're counting the INVSN EP as 2023 then that too (I think it came out digitally at the end of last year though). I enjoyed the Vännäs kasino album a lot too - really glad that I managed to grab the vinyl before they sold out (I think there were only 4 left in stock on Bandcamp when I ordered mine, so I almost missed it).

Tusen tack för all fantastisk musik!

'Kismet' by Nicole Sabouné was one of my faves this year.

Anyone can tell me the name of the chilean space rock band? I can't understand how it is spelled

Barry Andrews is still making fantastic music with Shriekback. Some Kinds of Light from 2019 is as good as their mid-80s classics like Jam Science and Oil and Gold.