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Michael Griffith writesCHIRP Radio’s Best of 2023: Michael Griffith
Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2023. Our next list is from volunteer Michael Griffith.
Maps by billy woods and Kenny Segal (Backwoodz Studioz)
Alex Gilbert writesCHRP Radio’s Best of 2023: Alex Gilbert
Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2023. Our next list is from DJ Alex Gilbert.
There was so much great music released in 2023 that it was—once again—very difficult refining the list to just 10 albums. Ultimately, I chose the music that spoke to me the most directly: songs that I kept coming back to again and again, artists that I enjoyed enough to go see in concert, and albums that were undeniably unique in their musicianship. I know the following years will see me discovering so much I missed from these past 12 months, but for now, here’s a snapshot of my 2023.
#1 Roach by Miya Folick (Nettwerk)
Joe Held: Rebellious Jukebox writesCHIRP Radio’s Best of 2023: Joe Held
Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2023. Our next list is from DJ and Manager of Record Donations Joe Held (Rebellious Jukebox).
The Last Rotation Of Earth by BC Camplight (Bella Union)
Ninja writesCHIRP Radio’s Best of 2023: Ninja
Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2023. Our next list is from DJ & Production Director Ninja.
#1 Bless This Mess by U.S. Girls (4AD)
Highlights include "Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo) - an homage to the tuxedo; and "So Typically Now," which was released as an advance single and made my top singles list of last year. The rest of the album fills out nicely, with a slow-bop "Only Daedalus" leading off the whole thing. Lot of retro here, but I like this direction for Meg Remy.
Tony Breed writesCHIRP Radio’s Best of 2023: Tony Breed
Throughout December, CHIRP Radio presents its volunteers’ top albums of 2023. Our next list is from DJ Tony Breed.
Boy, it’s been a year, hasn’t it? A year of what my boss keeps calling “macroeconomic conditions”, like a man gesturing vaguely at a beat-up car. But the music has been good! Real good. This summer there was one song I kept hearing, a song that clearly resonated with a lot of our DJs. This is my pick for song of the year: “Quit” by Velvet Vision. It’s enormously catchy, and speaks to disaffected workers everywhere. I remember being in a Zoom meeting with my team; one employee was talking about feeling really defeated, and there, on the radio in the room behind me, was this song. Do I want to quit my job? Maybe I want to quit my job? Can we please do a 4-day workweek?? Here are my top 10 albums, the absolute best of the best, in my estimation:
#1 Diagnosis by Sen Morimoto (City Slang/Sooper)
“This album is so good,” I keep thinking to myself while listening to Sen Morimoto’s third album Diagnosis. The complex musical fusion is hard to put a label on; it probably owes the most to jazz, while not really being a jazz album. The influence of hip hop is also there, as are indie pop and post punk, but it’s not really any one of those things. What it is, is solid, layered, and varied, from the angry politics of “Diagnosis” to the quiet beauty of “Forsythia (????????)”. Give it another listen. I can’t stop playing it.