Strictly Discs

Strictly Discs

Staff Picks - Top Tens for 2023



ADAM

Black Button - Rejoice
Cherubs - Heroin Man
Filmmaker - Death Lessons
Motorbike - S/T
Oozing Wound - We Cater To Cowards
Primitive Knot - Exit Strategies
Swans - The Beggar
The Drin - Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom
The NID Tapes - Electronic Music From India 1969-1972
The Telescopes - Of Tomorrow

ANDREW

Boygenius - The Record
Arctic Monkeys - The Car
Barbie the Album
Deerhoof - Miracle Level
Janelle Monae - The Age of Pleasure
Neko Case - Wild Creatures
Sparks - The Girl is Crying in Her Latte
The Electric Mayhem - S/T
The Kills - God Games
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

ANGIE

Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V
Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
Allah-Las - Zuma 85
Anohni - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
Cleo Sol - Gold
Duster - Remote Echoes
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Jerusalem
Wilco - Cousin
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

BRAD

Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die
Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music
Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
Fievel Is Glauque - Flaming Swords
Greg Foat & Gigi Masin - Dolphin
Kali Uchis - Red Moon In Venus
Memotone - How Was Your Life?
Say She She - Silver
Various - Ghost Riders
William Tyler & The Impossible Truth - Secret Stratosphere

DRU

Cut Worms - Cut Worms
Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement Vinyl 3LP
Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions
Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
Durand Jones & The Indications - Wait Til I Get Over
H. Hawkline - Milk for Flowers
Killer Mike - Michael
Local Natives - Time Will Wait For No One
Sigur Rós - ÁTTA

ED

Annelies Monseré - Mares
Anthony Naples - Orbs
Black Dog Productions - Bytes
Dresvn - Atom In Hand EP
Hoenig / Gottsching - Early Water
Jean Schwarz & Don Cherry - Roundtrip 1977
Lee Gamble - Models
Monolake - Hongkong
Moritz Von Oswald - Silencio
V/Z - Suono Assente

ERIC

Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die
Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music
Ana Frango Eletrico - Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua
Ava Mendoza, Devin Hoff - Echolocation
Guided by Voices - Nowhere To Go But Up
Hailu Mergia - Pioneer Works Swing
Melanie Martinez - Portals
Post Malone - Austin
Sparklehorse - Bird Machine
The Armed - Perfect Saviors

EVAN

Jonny Nash - Point Of Entry
Avalon Emerson - & The Charm
Bar Italia - The Twits
Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Dorothy Carter - Waillee Waillee
Lewsberg - Out And About
Lync - These Are Not Fall Colors
Mike - Beware Of The Monkey
Mui Zyu - Rotten Bun For An Eggless Century
Resavoir - Resavoir

MARK

Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die
Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music
Daniel Villarreal - Lados B
Jonny Nash - Point Of Entry
Bex Burch - There Is Only Love and Fear
Clark - Sus Dog
James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven
Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here.
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept - S/T
Peter Gabriel - I/O

MARTY

Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Cut Worms - Cut Worms
Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Andy Shauf - Norm
Doug Paisley - Say What You Like
Esther Rose - Safe To Run
Feist - Multitudes
Lisa O'Neill - All Of This Is Chance
Pearla - Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming
Trapper Schoepp - Siren Songs

MATT

Boygenius - The Record
Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby
Blue Lake - Sun Arcs
Dean Johnson - Nothing For Me, Please
Jim Sullivan - UFO
Kronos Quartet - Performs Philip Glass
Rufus Wainwright - Folkocracy
Samara Joy - Linger Awhile
Steve Gunn/David Moore - Let the Moon Be A Planet
The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Town That Cursed Your Name

RICK

Cat Power - Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V
Algiers - Shook
Cautious Clay - Karpeh
Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
The Circling Sun - Spirits
Viagra Boys - Cave World Deluxe
Water From Your Eyes - Everyone’s Crushed
Wild Nothing - Hold

RYAN

Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die
Daniel Villarreal - Lados B
Billy Woods - Church
Brandee Younger - Brand New Life
Jason Isbell - Weathervanes
Jessie Ware - That! Feels! Good!
John Carroll Kirby - Blowout
Meshell Ndegeocello - The Omnichord Real Book
Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra - Live at I.U.C.C. 2/25/1979
Sun Ra - Haverford College 1980 Solo Piano

STEVE

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V
Alan Braxe - Upper Cuts
Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner
Draag - Dark Fire Heresy
Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
Jackie Mittoo - Keyboard King of Studio One
Osees - Intercepted Message
Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
Robert Glasper - In My Element
Rose City Band - Garden Party
        
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