Spotify is a fantastic platform whose only massive, glaring, and artistically terrible flaw is that it prioritizes singles over albums. Single songs get pitched and land on algorithmic playlists whose listeners might hear that one song and be none the wiser that it’s part of a far great whole.
And since it’s safe to assume that most of us use Spotify as the primary way to consume music, it’s equally as safe to assume that all too many of us would be sad to know just how much insanely good music we’re missing cause the platform would instead feed us the best singular tracks instead of the best albums. So with that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite albums that have dropped so far in 2023 so you can give them a quick scan and save the ones you want.
Why keep typing when the music should speak for itself?! So let’s dive in…
Abakus – Dreamscapes
Alison Goldfrapp – The Love Invention
Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760
Aso – Creek Tape, Vol 1.
Asura – Renaissance
Attom – Balance
Azaleh – Transcendence
BT – The Secret Language of Trees
Caterina Barbieri – Myuthafoo
Clark – Sus Dog
CloZee – Microworlds
Disclosure – Alchemy
Marsh – Endless
EPROM – Syntheism
Fakear – Talisman
Skrillex – Quest For Fire
Gacha Bakradze – Pancakes
James Holden – Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities
Jayda G – Guy
Juelz – floorspace
Lamorn – Forever
Luke Vibert – Machine Funk
M83 – Fantasy
MAX RAD – Joy Wonder
Meat Beat Manifesto & DHS – Man From Mantis
Mioclono – Cluster I
naples – orbs
Nathan Fake – Crystal Vision
Odd Nosdam – Skateloops
Oliver Coates – Afterson (OST)
Overmono – Good Lies
Phaeleh – A New Day
Pretty Girl – One Night, One Time
Priori – Pareidolia
Ryuichi Sakomoto – 12
Salami Rose Joe Lewis – Akousmatikous
Sub Focus – Evolve
The Blaze – Jungle
Yotto – Growth
Yves Tumor – Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
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Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
