quinta-feira, 4 de janeiro de 2024

SPECIAL: TOP 2023 ALBUMS



Já são 15 anos de blog, há uns 10 fazendo grandes listas para deixar o leitor informado de tudo que é lançado, mas jogando luz naquilo que vemos potencial criativo, arrebatador, vanguardista, em diversas vertentes.


E lá se foram 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022... especiais sobre anos 60, anos 70, anos 80 e 90, os anos de 2010, 2011, 2012... e assim seguimos!


Melhores discos de 2023, melhores álbuns de 2023, discos do ano de 2023, o que te marcou, o que você ouviu, o que pode dar mais atenção no futuro. Seguem nosso grande compêndio e nossas recomendações:


100 Gecs - 10000 Gecs

The 3 Clubmen - The 3 Clubmen (EP)

3Phaz - Ends Meet

38 Spesh & Conway The Machine - Speshal Machinery

6lack - Since I Have A Lover

The 69 Eyes - Death Of Darkness

7 H.Target - Yantra Creating

...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs

A Flourishing Scourge - Sickened Seed

A Flying Fish - El Pez Que Volo, Act 1 The Nest

A.Maiah - F(r)icciones

a.P.A.t.T. - We

Abandoncy & Norse - Abandoncy/Norse (EP)

Aberrated - Twisted Forms (EP)

Abstract Void - Forever

Abysm - Neuroses (EP)

The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow

Acid Arab - Trois

Acid King - Beyond Vision

ACT - Falling

Actress - LXXXVIII

Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey - Archaisms I

Adi Oasis - Lotus Glow

Adjunct Ensemble - Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy

Adrian Vandenberg - Sin

Adriana Calcanhotto - Errante

Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions

Afsky - Om Hundrede Ar

Afterbirth - In But Not Of

Agamenon Project - Indolor

Agnetha Fältskog - A+

Agriculture - Agriculture

Aguidavi Do Jejê - Aguidavi Do Jejê

Agusa - Prima Materia

Ahab - The Coral Tombs

Aho Ssan - Rhizomes

Aidan Baker - Engenderine / Parapluie

Àiyé - Transes

Aja Monet - When The Poems Do What They Do

Ajsa Luna - Vilagvege

Alabaster DePlume - Come With Fierce Grace

Alan Palomo - World Of Hassle

Albert Bouchard - Imaginos III, Mutant Reformation

Albert Cirera & Ramon Prats - Duot With Strings

Alberto Lizarralde - Haizetxe

Alex Ring Gray - The Organ That Breathes

Alexanderplatz - Noches Blancas, Mañanas Negras

Alfa Mist - Variables

Algiers - Shook

Alice Cooper - Road

Alice Gift - Nothing Against Uplifting, But...

Alice Longyu Gao - Let's Hope Heteros Fail, Learn, And Retire

Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Reinvention


Os americanos do Afterbirth fazem um som extremo único e lançaram o sucessor de “Four Dimensional Flesh” (2020)


Alkaloid - Numen

All Hands_Make Light - Darling The Dawn

All Structures Align - Cut The Engines

Allan Abbadia - Ifè

Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy - O Yinne!

Altari - Kröflueldar

Altin Gün - Ask

Alva Noto - This Stolen Country Of Mine (OST) / Kinder Der Sonne / HYbr:ID II

Alzira Espíndola & Corte - Mata Grossa

Amaarae - Fountain Baby

Amanda Irarrázabal & Eli Wallace - Entre Pliegos

Ambrose Akinmusire - Beauty Is Enough / Owl Song

Amen Seat - Amen Seat

Amnesia Scanner - Strobe.Rip

Amon Tobin - Hole In The Ground (OST)

Among The Rocks And Roots - Pariah

Amor Muere - A Time To Love, A Time To Die

Amplifier - Hologram

Amy Cutler - Sister Time

An Autumn For Crippled Children - Closure

Ana Frango Elétrico - Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua

Anachronism - Meanders

Anatomy Of Habit - Black Openings

Anchor And Burden - Kosmonautik Pilgrimage

The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness

André 3000 - New Blue Sun

Andre Marques - Tempo De Criança

Andrea Belfi - Eternally Frozen

Andreas Hoem Roysum - Mysterier

Andrew Broder - The Show (OST)

Andy Bell & Masal - Tidal Love Numbers

Andy Taylor - Man's A Wolf To Man

Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem For Jazz

Angel Du$t - Brand New Soul

Angela Seo/Hyunhye Seo - Eel

Angelica Sanchez - Nighttime Creatures

Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid & Savannah Harris - Beyond Dragons

Angra - Cycles Of Pain

Animal Collective - Isn't It Now?

Ann Eysermans - Moonlight Shadoh

Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Iceland Symphony Orchestra & Eva Ollikainen - Archora; Aion

Anna's Tree - Wallpaper

Anna Vis - Como Um Bicho Vê

Annika Socolofsky - I Tell You Me

Anohni And The Johnsons - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

Anoice - Unerasable Fire (EP)

Anthony Romaniuk - Perpetuum

Anti-Flag - Lies They Tell Our Children


MaryClare Brzytwa e Jon Leidecker (Negativland) trazem a miscelânea experimental Amen Seat, ao lado de membros do Clipping., Matmos e diversos convidados


Antiflvx - Dval Canvas

Anti-God Hand - Blight Year

Aphorism - Entranhas Do Subsolo

Arabrot - Of Darkness And Light

Archon Of The Fairlight - Fatal Exception/Incision (EP)

Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

The Armed - Perfect Saviors

Armen Nalbandian & Chris Corsano - A Spontaneous Breaking Of Symmetry I

Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings - Resolve

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily - Love In Exile

Aruán Ortiz - Pastor's Paradox

Arvo Pärt - Tractus

Asake - Work Of Art

Asbest - Altari / Cyanide

Ascended Dead - Evenfall Of The Apocalypse

Ash Walker - Astronaut

Asha Sheshadri - Whiplash

Asher Gamedze - Turbulence And Pulse

Ashton Nyte - Autumn's Children

Áspero - Alienação E Confinamento

Asphodelus - Sculpting From Time

Assucena - Lusco-Fusco

Astrid Engberg - Trust

Astroturf Noise - Blazing/Freezing

Atheosophia - Shadowgate Of Winter's Spirit

Atomiste - NWO

Attila Csihar - Void Ov Voices, Baalbek

Audrey Chen & Henrik Munkeby Norstebo - Beam Splitter, Split Jaw

August Burns Red - Death Below

Auragraph - New Standard

Austere - Corrosion Of Hearts

Autarkh - Emergent

Autopsy - Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts

Ava Max - Diamonds And Dancefloors

Ava Mendoza - Echolocation

Ava Rocha - Nektar

Avalon Emerson - & The Charm

Avatar - Dance Devil Dance

Avenade - Our Raging God Unknown To Us

Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...

Aux Animaux - Body Horror

Aya Metwalli & Calamita - Al Saher

Avey Tare - 7s

Aviations - Luminaria

Avkrvst - The Approbation

Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry & Roomful Of Teeth - Stillpoint

Aya Nakamura - DNK


O inventivo Abdul Hakim Bilal (Grey Wulf) se junta ao baterista Samuel Goff (ambos do Richmond Avant Improv Collective) neste terceiro trabalho do soturno Among The Rocks And Roots. Samuel ainda esteve este ano no "Diminished Borders" com Camila Nebbia e Patrick Shiroishi


Baaba Maal - Being

Baby Copperhead - Wailing Viridescence

Baby Rose - Through And Through

Babymetal - The Other One

Bachi Da Pietra - Accetta & Continua

Bad Bunny - Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana

Bakt - Cores De Arquea

Balamuc - Tarkabarka

Baldruin - Relikte Aus Der Zukunft

Balmorhea - Pendant World

Bana Haffar - Intimaa'

Banda De Pau E Corda - Entre A Flor E A Cruz

Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness - Millions Of Us

Bapari - Oasis (EP)

Bar Italia - Tracey Denim

Bára Gísladóttir - Silva

Baring Teeth - The Path Narrows

Baroness - Stone

Baswod - Forever Now

Batsükh Dorj - Ogbelem Music For My Ancestors

Bdrmm - I Don't Know

Be Your Own Pet - Mommy

Beach Fossils - Bunny

Beartooth - The Surface

Beatrix Quinn - Super Lesbian Animal RPG (OST)

Bebe Rexha - Bebe

Bebel Gilberto - João

Beirut - Hadsel

Bejalvin - Bejible

Bekor Qilish - The Flesh Of A New God

Belgrado - Intra Apogeum

Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1, The Clandestine Gate

Ben Lamar Gay, Sam Pluta, Sophie Agnel & Pascal Niggenkemper - Pang!

Bendik Giske - Bendik Giske

Benefits - Nails

Benjamin Brejon & Jonathan Saldanha - Membranes

Bersarin Quartett - Systeme

Besouro Mulher - Volto Amanhã

Besta - Terra Em Desapego

Bestial Mouths - Rott, Inmyskin

Betcover!! - Uma

Better Corners - Continuous Miracles Vol. 2

Better Lovers - God Made Me An Animal (EP)

Beurre - Oxt To Anyone


Já foram destaque por aqui, mas nossa musa Mabe Fratti lançou o magnífico Amor Muere ao lado de Concepción Huerta, Gibrana Cervantes e Camille Mandokie. Ultraprodutiva, a cellista ainda esteve nos trabalhos de Estrella Del Sol e do parceiro I.La Catolica/Titanic em 2023


Beverly Glenn-Copeland - The Ones Ahead

Bex Burch - There Is Only Love And Fear

Bianca Scout - The Heart Of The Anchoress

Big Big Train - Ingenious Devices

Big Blood - First Aid Kit

Big Brave - Nature Morte

Bike - Arte Bruta

Bill Laurance & Michael League - Where You Wish You Were

Bill Orcutt - The Anxiety Of Symmetry

Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Maps

Bixiga 70 - Vapor

Bizarra Locomotiva - Volutabro

Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen

Bl4ck M4rket C4rt - Today I Laid Down

Black Aubergine - Black Aubergine (EP)

Black Autumn - The Harvest Of Our Bitter Labours

Black Country, New Road - Live At Bush Hall

Black Hill - Witnessing The Birth Of Light

Black Orchid Empire - Tempus Veritas

Black Pumas - Chronicles Of A Diamond

Black Rainbows - Superskull

Black Sky Giant - Primigenian

Black Stone Cherry - Screamin' At The Sky

Black To Comm - At Zeenath Parallel Heavens

Black Wound - Warping Structure

Black Yen & Saturnists - Black Yen/hhhhh

Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

Blanck Mass - The Rig

Blanco White - Tarifa

BlankFor.ms, Jason Moran & Marcus Gilmore - Refract

Blazing Corpse - Inert

Blevin Blectum - Omnii

Blindfolded And Led To The Woods - Rejecting Obliteration

Blink 182 - One More Time

Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner

Blondshell - Blondshell

Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain

Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge (EP)

Blood Lightning - Blood Lightning

The Blood Of Heroes - Nine Cities

Blu Anxxiety - Morbid Now Morbid Later

Blue Lake - Sun Arcs


Além de Peter Gabriel e do mencionado Amor Muere, alguns dos melhores discos do ano na opinião deste blog não são segredo, tais quais os lançados por Aja Monet, Algiers, Depeche Mode, Fire! Orchestra, Matana Roberts, Meshell Ndegeocello, Oxbow, PJ Harvey, Swans, Yo La Tengo... mas deixamos um destaque especial ao magnífico retorno de Anohni Hegarty, agora sob Anohni And The Johnsons, em obra tão delicada quanto visceral, como lhe é peculiar


Blur - The Ballad Of Darren

Blush To The Snow - Cascades

Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium, Nahab

Bob Dylan - Shadow Kingdom

Bob Hund - Drömmen Är En Ravara / Verkligheten Är En Raffinerad Produkt

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band - Vox Humana

Body Void - Atrocity Machine

Body/Negative - Everett

Bokanté - History

Bolt Gun - The Tower

Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day

Bombino - Sahel

Bonanza Of Doom - Bonanza Of Doom

Bonnie Prince Billy - Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You

Boris - Fade

Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease

Botanist - VIII, Selenotrope

Botticelli Baby - Boah

Bounaly - Dimanche À Bamako

Boygenius - The Record

Brad Allen Williams - Oeconomy

Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge - The Folly Of Desire

Brain Tourniquet - ...An Expression In Pain

Brandee Younger - Brand New Life

Brandon Seabrook's Epic Proportions - Brutalovechamp

The Breath - Land Of My Other

Breaths - Floruit

The Breedling - Irukandji

Brian Blade Fellowship - Kings Highway

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Future Is Your Past

Brian Setzer - The Devil Always Collects

Brigid Mae Power - Dream From The Deep Well

Bríi - Último Ancestral Comum

Briqueville - IIII

Broder - Skarpretterfossilet

Bruce Cockburn - O Sun O Moon

Bruce Soord - Luminescence

Brujeria - Esto Es Brujeria

Bruno Bruni - Broovin III

Bruno Qual & Joana Queiroz - Bru._.Jo

Buggin - Concrete Cowboys

Bully - Lucky For You

Burna Boy - I Told Them...

Burner - It All Returns To Nothing

Burt & 1st Class Collapse - Burt/1st Class Collapse (EP)

Bushman's Revenge - All The Better For Seeing You

Butcher Babies - Eye For An Eye... 'Til The World's Blind


O citado Algiers merece seu destaque também. Em seu quarto álbum, já incorporou elementos variados, a ponto de já não encontrarmos classificação para um som tão versátil. Bom notar que outros grupos vindos dessa onda post punk, tais quais Shame e Soft Kill, também lançaram em 2023 discos bem diversificados. Este blog celebra uma tendência no surgimento de grupos sem classificação exata, como já víamos com o Black Midi, o BCNR, e este ano ainda tivemos exemplos emblemáticos nas revelações Model/Actriz, Mandy Indiana e mesmo no novo trabalho do Sprain... é o "post" do post rock


Cabezadenego, Mbé & Leyblack - Mimosa

Cadaver - The Age Of The Offended

Cadaver Shrine - Benighted Desecration

Calligram - Position, Momentum

The Callous Daoboys - God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys

Camila Nebbia - Una Ofrenda A La Ausencia / La Permanencia De Los Ecos

Camilla Sparksss - Lullabies

Camille Bertault - Bonjour Mon Amour

Camlann - Dismantle!

Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific

The Canyon Observer - Figura

Carla Boregas - Pena Ao Mar

Carlos Do Complexo - NTGM

Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time

Carnation - Cursed Mortality

Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility

Caroline Davis' Alula - Captivity

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

Caroline Rose - The Art Of Forgetting

Casa Ramil, Kleiton & Kledir, Vitor Ramil - Casa Ramil

Casket Cassette - Love Letters To Ghosts

Cathedrale - Words/Silence

Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo For Tamburium

Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

Cautious Clay - Karpeh

Cavalera Conspiracy - Bestial Devastation/Morbid Visions (EP)

Cave Story - Wide Wall, Tree Tall

Cazayoux - Cazayoux

Cécile McLorin Salvant - Mélusine

Celestaphone - Paper Cut From the Obit

Celeste - Epilogue(s) (EP)

Celestial Sanctuary - Insatiable Thirst For Torment

Chain Of Flowers - Never Ending Space

Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean - Obsession Destruction

Chamber - A Love To Kill For

Chão De Taco - Difícil

Chappell Roan - The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess

Chat Pile & Nerver - Brothers In Christ (EP)

Ché Aimee Dorval - The Crowned

The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling

Chepang - Swatta

Child - Meditations In Filth

Chino XL & Stu Bangas - God's Carpenter

Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop - We Live As Ghosts

Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi & Robbie Avenaim - Placelessness

Chris Stapleton - Higher

Chrisman - Dozage

Christian Dillingham - Cascades

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning

Christine And The Queens - Paranoïa, Angels, True Love

The Chronicles Of Father Robin - The Songs & Tales Of Airoea Book 1

The Church - The Hypnogogue

Church Of Misery - Born Under A Mad Sign

Cicada The Burrower - Blight Witch Regalia

Cinnamon Babe - Fatherless (EP)

The Circle - Of Awakening

Circles Around The Sun - Language

Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade


Aos 88 anos do compositor estoniano Arvo Pärt, a ECM lança essa preciosidade ao lado do Coro de Câmara Filarmônica da Estônia e da Orquestra de Câmara de Tallinn, sob regência de Tõnu Kaljuste


City And Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near

Clara Benin - Befriending My Tears

Cleo Sol - Heaven / Gold

The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore

Closure In Moscow - Soft Hell

Clouds Taste Satanic - Tales Of Demonic Possession

Cobra Spell - 666

Code Orange - The Above

Cognizant - Inexorable Nature​ ​Of Adversity

The Cold Stares - Voices

Colin Stetson - When We Were That What Wept For The Sea

Collection D'Arnell-Andrea - A Forest Inside

Comte - Petra's Stone

Conjecture - Nostalgia Futura

Conjureth - The Parasitic Chambers

Conway The Machine - Won't He Do It

Conway The Machine & Wun Two - Palermo

The Coral - Sea Of Mirrors

Corciolli - H2O

Corey Taylor - CMF2

Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows

Cornelius - Dream In Dream

Cory Hanson - Western Cum

Cosmic Collective - Nothing Matters In The End

Cowboy Junkies - Such Ferocious Beauty

Crave - Inner War Delirium

Crawl - Damned

Crime & The City Solution - The Killer

Crisis Sigil - God Cum Poltergeist

Croatian Amor - A Part Of You In Everything

Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, Love You, Delete

Crosslegged - Another Blue

Crow Black Sky - Sidereal Light Volume Two

Crown Lands - Fearless

Cruciamentum - Obsidian Refractions

Cruel Diagonals - Fractured Whole

Crush Of Souls - (A)Void Love

Crypta - Shades Of Sorrow

Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns

Cyro Baptista - Chama


O metal extremo nos brindou com lançamentos pra lá de instigantes de bandas ousadas e criativas no cenário, tais quais o citado Afterbirth, além de novos e velhos conhecidos como Ahab, Baring Teeth, Blackbraid, Blindfolded And Led To The Woods, Body Void, Calligram, Dodheimsgard, Fossilization, Great Falls, Healthyliving, Hellish Form, Herod, Insomnium, Krallice, Liturgy, Naked Lungs, Nithing, Oxx, Panopticon, Phlebotomized, Portrayal Of Guilt, Sulphur Aeon, Thantifaxath, Tomb Mold, Ulthar, Yakuza... mas ficamos com o primoroso trabalho de Cameron Davis e seu projeto Cicada The Burrower. Única!


The Damned - Darkadelic

Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek - New Future City Radio

Dane Law & Chants - Gurum Triads

Daniel Caesar - Never Enough

Daniel Carter, Leo Genovese, William Parker & Francisco Mela - Shine Hear, Vol. 1

Daniel O'Sullivan - Rosarium

Daniel Santiago & Pedro Martins - Movement

Danny Brown - Quaranta

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Dynamic Maximum Tension

Darius Jones - FLuXkit Vancouver (Its Suite But Sacred)

Dark Sanctuary - Cernunnos

Dark Sky Burial - Nascentes Morimur Morientes Nascimur

Datashock - Geltungsbereich Universum

Dave Hause - Drive It Like It's Stolen

Dave Lombardo - Rites Of Percussion

David Eugene Edwards - Hyacinth

David Helbock - Austrian Syndicate

David Jackson, Marco Lo Musci, John & Steve Hackett - Project One

David Lang - Shade

Dawn Ray'd - To Know The Light

Dead And Dripping - Blackened Cerebral Rifts

Dead Soma - Pathos

Deadtrack - Inhuman

Deaf Kids - Ritos Do Colapso (EP)

Death Index - Civilized By A Lie

Death Valley Girls - Islands In The Sky

The Death Wheelers - Chaos And The Art Of Motorcycle Madness

Debby Friday - Good Luck

Decalius - Dehumanizing Loneliness

Declínio - Talking With Ghosts

Deena Abdelwahed - Jbal Rrsas

Def Leppard - Drastic Symphonies

The Defiants - Drive

Deichkind - Neues Vom Dauerzustand

Delerium - Signs

Delmer Darion - Tall Vision-Of-The-Voyage

Delphine Dora - As Above, So Below

Demoniac - Nube Negra

Demons - Under The Western Heel

Den Edele Dood - Het Vlammende Zwaard En de Verschroeide Aarde

Dengue Fever - Ting Mong

Dennis & O Cão Da Meia-Noite - Sobre Lealdade

Depeche Mode - Memento Mori

Derya Yildirim & Graham Mushnik - Hey Dostum, Çak!

Desire Marea - On The Romance Of Being

dEUS - How To Replace It

Devangelic - Xul

Devendra Banhart - Flying Wig


Não menos numeroso em grandes obras de destaque esteve toda a seara do psychedelic/stoner/doom, com destaques a Baroness, Blood Ceremony, Dopelord, Earth, Esben And The Witch, Godthrymm, Grant The Sun, Graveyard, Green Lung, Howling Giant, ISON, Jaye Jayle, King Gizzard, Kvelertak, Mars Red Sky, Mondo Drag, Mondo Generator, Moonstone, Pigs7x, Poison Ruïn, Royal Thunder, REZN, Rorcal, Saint Karloff, The Wytches... e o pouco falado, mas sempre eficiente e arrastado clássico japonês Church Of Misery, em mais um capítulo de suas sagas sobre serial killers


Devil Gremory - O Homem Ficou Maldito

The Devil's Trade - Vidékek Vannak Idebenn

Dexys Midnight Runners - The Feminine Divine

Dhafer Youssef - Street Of Minarets

Dieth - To Hell And Back

Dimmu Borgir - Inspiratio Profanus (EP)

Dinner Party - Enigmatic Society

Dispirited Spirits - The Redshift Blues

Divide And Dissolve - Systemic

DJ K - Pânico No Submundo

DJ Shadow - Action Adventure

Django Django - Off Planet Parts 1-4

Djunah - Femina Furens

Do Amor - Problemão

Dodheimsgard - Black Medium Current

Doja Cat - Scarlet

Dom La Nena - Leon

Domenico Lancellotti - Sramba

Domkraft - Sonic Moons

Don Letts - Outta Sync

Donny McCaslin - I Want More

Dopelord - Songs For Satan

Dossel/Roberto Barrucho - Badoque

Dozer - Drifting In The Endless Void

Drab Majesty - An Object In Motion

Drain - Living Proof

Dream Unending & Worm - Starpath

Dream Upon Tombs - Palaces Of Dust

Dreamwell - In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You

The Drin - Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom

Drop Nineteens - Hard Light

DSM-V - Life Is Done

Duivelsgrot - The Inability To Kill Myself, Because I Am Immortal, Depresses Me

Duran Duran - Danse Macabre

The Dwarfs Of East Agouza - High Tide In The Lowlands

Dwellings - Little Garden

Dwight Trible - Ancient Future

Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death

Dymna Lotva - The Land Under The Black Wings, Blood

Dynasti - Quantum Primitiv


Também com seu lado dark/psicodélico, mas dentro de uma maneira mais convencional de se fazer heavy metal, sem deixar de ser extremamente original, os finlandeses do Grave Pleasures chegam a seu terceiro (quarto, se contarmos o lançado sob o nome Beastmilk) e vitorioso trabalho. Altamente recomendado!


EABS & Jaubi - In Search Of A Better Tomorrow

Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire

Earth - Even Hell Has Its Heroes (OST)

Eartheater - Powders

Earthside - Let The Truth Speak

Earupt - Nihilosophy

East Of The Wall - A Neutral Second

Echo Boomer - Timeless Warrior

Eclipse - Megalomanium

Ed Motta - Behind The Tea Chronicles

Eddie Chacon - Sundown

Eduardo Machado - Do Nato Samba Jazz

Eduardo Manso - Cumulonimbus

Edward Ka-Spel - Permission To Leave The Temple / The Concrete Diaries

Efek Rumah Kaca - Rimpang

Einar Solberg - 16

El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game

Eldritch - Innervoid

Elewout De Raad Project - True Stories

Elisabeth Harnik & Steve Swell - Welcome To The Troposphere

Elisabeth Klinck - Picture A Frame

Ellen Arkbro - Sounds While Waiting

Ellie Goulding - Higher Than Heaven

Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Eliza Bagg & Attacca Quartet - False We Hope

Elmiene - El-Mean/Marking My Time (EP)

Elsa Bergman - Elsa Bergman Playon Crayon

Elza Soares - No Tempo Da Intolerância

Ema Stoned - Devaneio

Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbrou - Jerusalem

The Embassy - E-Numbers

Emergency Group - Inspection Of Cruelty

Emicaeli - Border

Emil Amos - Zone Black

Emily Rach Beisel - Particle Of Organs


Retomando o lado mais extremo, o grind é hoje uma das áreas mais ultraprodutivas e vanguardistas do metal, e para além do Cicada The Burrower, 2023 foi o ano de nomes como Chepang, Chop7x, Cognizant, Empire State Bastard, END, Gridlink, Jesus Piece, Lotus Eater Machine, Nothingness, Organ Dealer, Pillar Of Wasps, Pupil Slicer, Rotten Sound, Sanguisugabogg, Venomous Concept... mas traremos novamente a presença feminina na cena, com o instigante e talvez melhor trabalho do HIRS Collective, contando com Shirley Manson do Garbage e membros do Escuela Grind, Converge, Full Of Hell, Soul Glo, Melt Banana e muito mais! Absurdo!


Emily Robb - If I Am Misery Then Give Me Affection

Empire State Bastard - Rivers Of Heresy

Emptyset - Ash (EP)

En Attendant Ana - Principia

End - The Sin Of Human Frailty

The End - Why Do You Mourn

End Reign - The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay

Enigma Ex Machina - Blurring Thrughts, Flawless Lies

Enji - Ulaan

Enslaved - Heimdal

Enter Shikari - A Kiss For The Whole World

Entheos - Time Will Take Us All

Enzyme - Golden Dystopian Age

Eremit - Wearer Of Numerous Forms

Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja S. K. Ratkje - Collage

Ernesto Rodrigues, Flo Stoffner, Bruno Parrinha & João Madeira - Altered Egos

Ershetu - Xibalba

Esben And The Witch - Hold Sacred

Eskild Okkenhaug Sekstett - The Sound Within My Mind

Esoctrilihum - Astraal Constellations Of The Majickal Zodiac

Esophagus - Inglorious Beings

Estrella Del Sol - Figura De Cristal

Eternal Evil - The Gates Beyond Mortality

Eu.clides - Declive

Eugene Chadbourne - The Odyssey, Horror Vol. 15

Evelyn Davis, Fred Frith, Phillip Greenlief & Lantskap Logic - Hidden Danger Lets Me In

Everyone Asked About You - Paper Airplanes, Paper Hearts

Everything But The Girl - Fuse

The Evil - Seven Acts To Apocalypse

Evil Blizzard - Rotting In The Belly Of The Whale

Evitceles - Velvet Room / Bruised

Explosions In The Sky - End

Expresso Transatlântico - Ressaca Bailada

Extreme - Six

Eyes - Congratulations


De origem iraniana, radicados em Viena, Rojin Sharafi e Omid Darvish se juntam à saxofonista austríaca Astrid Wiesinger no que chamaram de um “folk futurista”, no projeto HUUUM. Não se engane, há peso, experimentalismo e desconforto nessa jornada. Genial!


Fabiana Cozza - Urucungo

Facs - Still Life In Decay

Fagelle - Den Svenska Vreden

Faizal Ddamba Mostrixx - Mutations

Fakear - Talisman

Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust

Falsa Luz - Breu Eterno

Fantastic Negrito - Grandfather Courage (EP)

Fatima Al Qadiri - Gumar (EP)

Fatoumata Diawara - London Ko

Fawn Limbs & Nadja - Vestigial Spectra

Fay Victor - Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful

FBC - O Amor, O Perdão E A Tecnologia Irão Nos Levar Para Outro Planeta

Fearing - Destroyer

Feeble Little Horse - Girl With Fish

Feid - Mor, No Le Temas A La Oscuridad

Feind - Moloch (EP)

Feist - Multitudes

Felipe Senna & Câmaranóva - Câmara Brasileira

Fellwinter - The Dawn Of Winter

Fen - Monuments To Absence

Fenrir's Scar - Love, Hate, Hope, Despair

Fênix E As Cinzas - Reexistir

Fenne Lily - Big Picture

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us

Fiesta En El Vacio - Fiesta En El Vacio / Rosal

The Filibuster Saloon - Going Off Topic

Filipe Catto - Belezas São Coisas Acesas Por Dentro

Finis Hominis - Sordidum Est (EP)

Fire! Orchestra - Echoes

FireFriend - Decreation Facts

Fire-Toolz - I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There

Flat Worms - Witness Marks


A pianista Satoko Fujii, sempre referência deste blog, mais uma vez vem com o projeto KAZE, ao lado de Christian Pruvost (trompete), Natsuki Tamura (vocais) e Peter Orins (bateria), seguindo o ótimo “Sand Storm” (2020) na parceria com outra de nossa musas, Ikue Mori, agora em “Crustal Movement”. Obrigatório!


Flavien Berger - Dans Cent Ans / Music For Maison D'En Face

Fleezus - Off Mode

Flesh Of The Stars - The Glass Garden

Fleshvessel - Yearning, Promethean Fates Sealed

Floor Jansen - Paragon

Flora Yin-Wong - Cold Reading

Flub - Dream Worlds

Föllakzoid - V

Foo Fighters - But Here We Are

Forest Swords - Bolted

Fossilization - Leprous Daylight

Fotocrime - Accelerated

Foxy Shazam - Dark Blue Night

Francesca Bono & Francesca Bono - Suono In Un Tempo Trasfigurato

Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost - Vakning

Frankie And The Witch Fingers - Data Doom

Frayle - Skin & Sorrow

Fred Frith & Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - Something About This Landscape For Ensemble

Fred Frith & Macio Moretti - Works For Me Should Be The Title

Fred Frith & Núria Andorrà - Dancing Like Dust

Fred Frith & Susana Santos Silva - Laying Demons To Rest

French Police - Bleu

Frequency Disasters - Naize

FRKSE - Desecration Anxiety III

Fromjoy - Fromjoy

The Frozen Autumn - The Shape Of Things To Come

Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods

Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination

Fuensanta - Principio Del Fuego (EP)

Full Of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang

Full Of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination

Fundo De Quintal - Pra Gente Sambar

Future Usses - Darkly Loom (EP)

Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent


Algumas coletâneas de destaque em 2023, o produtor de origem turca Mehmet Aslan reuniu o melhor do obscuro submundo suíço dos anos 80 em “Senza Decoro, Liebe+Anarchia”; o selo Bureau B reuniu o melhor do folk/industrial contemporâneo alemão em “Gespensterland”; o diretor Alejandro González Iñárritu compilou seu melhor do mestre Ryuichi Sakamoto em “Travesía”; a união da Ghost Train Orchestra e o Kronos Quartet em homenagem à música de Moondog; mas para citar um compêndio de 'inéditas', destacamos em especial o violoncelista Brian Thornton, que reuniu em “Sirventes” (Iranian Female Composers Association) peças das compositoras iranianas Anahita Abbasi, Mahdis Golzar Kashanii, Mina Arissian, Nasim Khorassani, Niloufar Iravani e Nina Barzegar. Sublime!


Gabby Fluke-Mogul & Nava Dunkelman - Likht

Gabe Lee - Drink The River

Gabriel Milliet - Um

Gabriels - Angels & Queens

Galahad - The Long Goodbye

Galya Bisengalieva - Polygon

Gao Hong & Kadialy Kouyate - Terri Kunda

Garbanotas Bosistas - Kunas Dangaus

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra - Family

The Gaslight Anthem - History Books

Gautam Buddha - Rebirth Part 2

Gazelle Twin - Black Dog

Geese - 3D Country

Geld - Currency//Castration

Genesis Owusu - Struggler

Genticorum - Au Coeur De L'Aube

George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya

Gestos Grosseiros - Blasphemous Words

Gévaudan - Umbra

Gezan & Million Wish Collective - Anochi

Ghais Guevara/Goyard Ibn Said - Goyard Comin', Exordium

Ghost - Phantomime (EP)

Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet - Songs And Symphoniques, The Music Of Moondog

Ghost Woman - Anne, If / Hindsight Is 50/50

Ghostwoods - My Neon

Ghoula - Demi-Écrémé

Giallos - Atravessou O Ebó

Gina Birch - I Play My Bass Loud

Girl Ray - Prestige

Glass Hammer - Arise

Glass Triangle - Blue And Sun​-​Lights

Glockenwise - Gótico Português

Glüme - Main Character

Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation Of Suffering

Gnaw Their Tongues & Déhà - Rituel Des Ancêtres

Gnaw Their Tongues & Sator - Gnaw Their Tongues & Sator

Goat - Medicine

Goatburner - Fatal

God Pussy - Homem Geográfico / Semeando Esperança, Colhendo Ilusão

Godflesh - Purge

Godsmack - Lighting Up The Sky

Godthrymm - Distortions


O já aqui mencionado post punk, em sua vertente mais voltada à darkwave e ao gothic rock, também trouxe excelentes exemplares em 2023, com lançamentos dos já citados Shame e Soft Kill, e de nomes como Bachi Da Pietra, Bar Italia, Bdrmm, Camlann, David Eugene Edwards, Flat Worms, Fotocrime, Hours Of Worship, Johnx2, The KVB, Laikamorí, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, Mirror Of Haze, Motorama, NNHMN, Pink Opake, Ritual Howls, Spellling, This Eternal Decay, Throat, Vestron Vulture e ainda uma turma mais antiga que também deu as caras, tal qual The Church, Collection D’Arnell Andrea, Crime And The City Solution, Opera Multi Steel, Whispers In The Shadow e, claro, Depeche Mode. Mas nosso destaque aqui vai para o IST IST, grupo de Manchester que vem consolidando uma discografia realmente especial e cheia de hits intensos e certeiros


GoGo Penguin - Everything Is Going To Be Ok

Gold Dime - No More Blue Skies

Gomorrha - Doomed Mankind

Gong - Unending Ascending

Gorillaz - Cracker Island

Gorod - The Orb

Gov't Mule - Peace... Like A River

Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance

Graham Nash - Now

Grails - Anches En Maat

Grand Cadaver - Deities Of Deathlike Sleep

Grant Chapman - Indentations

Grant The Sun - Voyage

Grave Desecrator - Immundissime Spiritus

Grave Gnosis - Pestilence Crowned

Grave Pleasures - Plagueboys

Gravesend - Gowanus Death Stomp

Graveyard - 6

Great Falls - Objects Without Pain

Green Lung - This Heathen Land

Greg Foat & Ayo Salawu - Interstellar Fantasy

Greg Foat & Gigi Masin - Dolphin

Gregory Alan Isakov - Appaloosa Bones

Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher

Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke - Lean In

Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly

Gridfailure - Shards In The Wire

Gridlink - Coronet Juniper

Grin - Black Nothingness (EP)

Grotesqueries - Vile Crematory

Grouptherapy - I Was Mature For My Age, But I Was Still A Child

Gucci Mane - Breath Of Fresh Air

Gueersh - Tempo Estático

Guerra Fria - She Smells Like Flowers And Death / Cuando Todos Duermen

The Guess Who - Plein D'Amour

Guided By Voices - Welshpool Frillies / Nowhere To Go But Up

Guldimund - Jeg Venter I Lyset

Gum Takes Tooth - Recovery Position

Gunna - A Gift And A Curse

Gunship - Unicorn


Hamish Trevis (Kinlaw) lançou pelo selo Drowned By Locals, da Jordânia, essa grande reunião inventiva e criativa de diversos artistas e MCs de vários países, nesta ousada obra “Weld”


H31r - HeadSpace

Haar - Ouroboros

Hackedepicciotto - Keepsakes

Hail The Sun - Divine Inner Tension

Hail The Void - Memento Mori

Haken - Fauna

Hamilton de Holanda - Flying Chicken / Samurai, A Musica De Djavan

Hamish Hawk - Angel Numbers

The Handsome Family - Hollow

Hangwire - Farewell

Hania Rani - On Giacometti / Ghosts

Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture

Hans Koch & Christine Abdelnour - Fflair

Happy Days - En Enfer, J'Ai Régné

Hashirat - A Place To Myself

Haunt Me - En Tu Cama (EP)

Hauschka - Philanthropy

Hawkwind - The Future Never Waits

Health - Rat Wars

Healthyliving - Songs Of Abundance, Psalms Of Grief

Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen - Weejuns

Heinali - Kyiv Eternal

Helen Money & Will Thomas - Trace

Helga - Wrapped In Mist

Hellish Form - Deathless

Helmet - Left

Hely - Plode (EP)

Henrique Araújo - Oito Baixos SP

Heretoir - Wastelands (EP) / Nightsphere

Hermínio Bello De Carvalho - Cataventos

Herod - Iconoclast

Hexvessel - Polar Veil

Hey Colossus - In Blood

High Desert Queen & Blue Heron - Turned To Stone Chapter 8, The Wake

Hilary Woods - Acts Of Light

Hildur Gudnadottir - A Haunting In Venice (OST)

Hinarivm - Vltra Terminvm Creatvrae Ex Lvcifer Coronatvs

Hippie Death Cult - Helichrysum


O ano no hip hop foi intenso, com grande e justo destaque dado aos projetos de Billy Woods (com Kenny Segal, e com seu já clássico Armand Hammer) e à parceria de JPEGMafia e Danny Brown - além do próprio Danny, que lançou mais um ótimo disco solo. Também foi ano de Killer Mike, Noname, Aho Ssan, McKinley Dixon, NAS, Kofi Flexxx (Shabaka Hutchings), Slowthai, Open Mike Eagle, Mike, Genesis Owusu, Earl Sweatshirt, do retorno de Chino XL, do já citado Kinlaw, da revelação feminina Mars Kumari, dentre tantos. Mas aqui nosso destaque é de Lukas König, ou Kœnig, e seu épico “1 Above Minus Underground”, que reuniu ninguém menos que Dälek, Moor Mother, Victoria Shen (Evicshen), Nappy Nina e Rojin Sharafi (que vimos acima, do projeto Huuum). Sensacional!


Hiromi Uehara - Blue Giant (OST) / Sonicwonderland

The Hirs Collective - We're Still Here

The Hirsch Effekt - Urian

Historically Fucked - The Mule Peasants Revolt Of 12,067

The Hives - The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons

HMLTD - The Worm

The Hold Steady - The Price Of Progress

Holding Absence - The Noble Art Of Self Destruction

Hollie Kenniff - We All Have Places That We Miss

Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black

The Holy Family - Go Zero

Holy Tongue - Deliverance And Spiritual Warfare

Home Front - Games Of Power

Hoodya - A Song Has A Thousand Years

Hope (GER) - Navel

The Hope Conspiracy - Confusion/Chaos/Misery (EP)

Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

HOST - IX

Hotline TNT - Cartwheel

Houria Aïchi - Chants Courtois De L'Aurès

Hours Of Worship - Death & Dying Vol. I

House Of Harm - Playground

Howling Giant - Glass Future

Hozier - Unreal Unearth

Hugo Mariutti - The Last Dance / Blue Era (EP)

Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen

Humberto Gessinger - Quatro Cantos De Um Mundo Redondo

Hurricane - Reconnected

Huuum - Huuum

Hyman Elizabeth - Scarlet

Hyperdontia - Deranged (EP)

Hypno5e - Sheol


Na seara mais voltada ao eletrônico/industrial de ares experimentais, já citamos aqui Amen Seat, Amor Muere, Huuum, e também poderíamos falar de Aho Ssan, Aya Metwalli, Conjecture, Crisis Sigil (de Ada Rook do Black Dresses), Cruel Diagonals, Kaery Ann, Nihiloxica, Panda Rosa, Spellling, Stormo, e favoritas da casa como Eartheater, Loraine James, Valentina Magaletti e Micaela Tobin (White Boy Scream)... mas cabe destacar novamente o duo peruano Laikamorí, que transcende o eletrônico ou synthpop de qualquer espécie para algo muito maior, em especial neste novo disco chamado apenas △△△


Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 1

Ian Ramil - Tetein

Ianaê Régia - Afroglow

Iceboy Violet - Not A Dream But A Controlled Explosion

Idlibra - Muganga (EP)

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - Afro Futuristic Dreams

Iggy Pop - Every Loser

Ignacio Plaza Ponce, Sélène Saint-Aimé & Matteo Pastorino- Arrullos

Ikarie - Arde

Ikurru & Kevin Penkin - This Vision Is Ours

Il Baletto Di Bronzo - Lemures

Illegal Crowns - Unclosing

Illiterate Light - Sunburned

Ilyas Ahmed - A Dream Of Another

In Flames - Foregone

In This Moment - Godmode

Inanis Yoake - How Things Seem

Incantation - Unholy Deification

Incendiary - Change The Way You Think About Pain

Inês É Morta - Ilha

Ingebrigt Haker Flaten & Paal Nilssen-Love - Guts & Skins

Inger Nordvik - Hibernation

Ingrid Laubrock – The Last Quiet Place / Monochromes / Maromas

Ingrid Lukas - Elumeloodia

Inherits The Void - The Impending Fall Of The Stars

Inna Baba Coulibaly - Djilly Kawral

Insomnium - Anno 1696

Intercourse - Halo Castration Institute

Iranian Female Composers Association - Sirventes

Iris DeMent - Workin' On A World

The Ironsides - Changing Light

Irreversible Entanglements - Protect Your Light

Isabel Crespo Pardo - El Rostro (Des)Cubierto

Isaiah Collier - Parallel Universe

ISON - Stars & Embers

Ist Ist - Protagonists

Ítallo - Tarde No Walkiria

Itamar Borochov - Arba

Itoken, Klimperei, Frank Pahl - IKP

Ivan Lins - My Heart Speaks

Ivo Perelman, Nate Wooley, Matt Moran, Mat Maneri, Fredrick Lonberg-Holm & Joe Morris - Seven Skies Orchestra

Ixias - Compulsive Trance


Ano de destaques no jazz e numa sofisticada black music de nomes como a já reverenciada Aja Monet, o afrobeat do Witch, o épico de Meshell Ndegeocello, as obras primas de Angel Bat Dawid, Darius Jones, Isaiah Collier, Matana Roberts, Yussef Dayes e James Brandon Lewis, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Joy Oladokun, Lonnie Holley, Jacob Lusk do grupo soul Gabriels, a já consolidada banda Black Pumas... mas deixaremos as honras à revelação do sax Lakecia Benjamin, em seu melhor e mais instigante trabalho até aqui, mostrando que pode chegar a obras do nível de tantos dos ícones citados! Essencial!


Jaap Blonk - Soliloquies/Selbstgespräche

Jaap Blonk, Damon Smith & Bob Moses - Rune Kitchen

Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die, World War

Jakob Battick - Slow Motion Summer

Jakub Zytecki - Remind Me

Jalen N'Gonda - Come Around And Love Me

James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven

James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily Quintet - For Mahalia, With Love

Jamila Woods - Water Made Us

Jane Remover - Census Designated

Janelle Monáe - The Age Of Pleasure

Jards Macalé - Coração Bifurcado

Jared James Nichols - Jared James Nichols

Jason Bieler & The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Postcards From The Asylum

Jason Blake - Subsequent Ruins

Jason Isbell - Weathervanes

Jason Moran - From The Dancehall To The Battlefield

Jayda G - Guy

Jaye Jayle - Don't Let Your Love Life Get You Down

Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Pascal Marzan, Bill Young, Noel Taylor, Rodrigo Brandão & João Madeira - Hands & Tongues, 3 Meta-Dialogues

Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode

JeGong - The Complex Inbetween

Jelly Roll - Whitsitt Chapel

Jeromes Dream - The Gray In Between

Jerskin Fendrix - Poor Things (OST)

Jess Williamson - Time Ain't Accidental

Jessica Pavone - Clamor

Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!

Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination

Jesus Piece - ...So Unknown

Jethro Tull - RökFlöte

JG Thirlwell & Mivos Quartet - Dystonia

Jim Legxacy - Homeless N*gga Pop Music

Jo Quail - Invocation/Supplication (EP)

Joachim Witt - Der Fels In Der Brandung


Muitos monstros do rock lançaram grandes discos em 2023, ainda que muitos passem despercebidos. Logo, desde Rolling Stones, Metallica, Blur, para citar os mais aclamados, até alguns nomes surpreendentes como Albert Bouchard (BÖC), Andy Taylor, Brian Setzer, Bruce Cockburn, The Church, Dexys Midnight Runners, Extreme, Gina Birch (ex-Raincoats), Gong, Guess Who, Helmet, Jethro Tull, John Cale, Paul Rodgers, Paul Simon, Pere Ubu, Rick Astley, Trevor Rabin, Winger... destacaremos aqui outro ainda menos falado, que foi o grande retorno do Madness, no épico teatral “Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C’Est La Vie”. A obra sai do contexto da pandemia, em que seus membros parecem ter tomado diferentes posições (alguns negacionistas?), mas a temática aparece como um consenso acerca do absurdo da vida...


Joanna Mattrey - Soulcaster

Joanna Mattrey & Elliott Sharp - Chord

Joanna Sternberg - I've Got Me

Joaquín Pascual - Baladas Para Un Atraco (EP)

Jobs - Soft Sounds

Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin - Archetype

Joe Bonamassa - Tales Of Time / Blues Deluxe Vol. 2

John (TimeTwo) - A Life Diagrammatic

John Cale - Mercy

John Francis Flynn - Look Over The Wall, See The Sky

John Frusciante - I : II

John Zorn - New Masada Quartet Vol. 2 / 444 / Parrhesiastes / Nothing Is As Real As Nothing / Full Fathom Five / Quatrain / Remedios Varo

John Zorn & Bill Laswell - Memoria

Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere

Johnny The Boy - You

Jonathan Bree - Pre​-​Code Hollywood

Jonathan Ferr - Liberdade

Jordsjo - Salighet

Jos Smolders, Koen Delaere & Guido Nijs - Smolders/Delaere/Nijs

José James - On & On

Joshua Abrams, Natural Information Society & Ari Brown - Since Time Is Gravity

Joshua Redman - Where Are We

Josiah Steinbrick - For Anyone That Knows You

Joy Oladokun - Proof Of Life

Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - American Landscapes

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes

Judgitzu - Sator Arepo

Julia Reidy - Trances

Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings

Julius Eastman & Wild Up - Julius Eastman Vol. 3, If You're So Smart Why Aren't You Rich?

Jungle - Volcano

Jure Pukl - Melt

Jute Gyte - Krun Macula / Eclose / Unus Mundus Patet

Juuk - Mulka Stabule


Mais um grupo de Manchester (UK): Valentine Caulfield e o Mandy,Indiana, uma das grandes revelações do ano


Kabeaushé - Hold On To Deer Life, There's A Blcak Boy Behind You! / The Coming of Gaze

Kaery Ann - Songs Of Grace And Ruin

Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Dwight Trible & David Ornette Cherry - Spirit Gatherer, Tribute To Don Cherry

Kali Malone, Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton - Does Spring Hide Its Joy

Kali Uchis - Red Moon In Venus

Kamala - Karma

Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Schemen

Kara Jackson - Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?

Karen Francis - Anos Luz

Karen Y Los Remedios - Silencio

Karmamoi - Strings From The Edge Of Sound

Karnataka - Requiem For A Dream

Karol G - Mañana Será Bonito

Kassa Overall - Animals

Kassel - This Is About Leaving

Kataklysm - Goliath

Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

Kate Carr - Fever Dreams / A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds

Kavari - Against The Wood, Opposed To Flesh

Kavus Torabi & Richard Wileman - Heaven's Sun

Kaytranada & Aminé - Kaytraminé

Kaze & Ikue Mori - Crustal Movement

The Keening - Little Bird

Kelela - Raven

Kelly Clarkson - Chemistry

Ken Mode - Void

Kendrick Scott - Corridors

Kesha - Gag Order

Kevin Morby - Music From Montana Story / More Photographs, A Continuum

Key Glock - Glockoma 2

Khanate - To Be Cruel

Killer Mike - Michael

The Kills - God Games

Kimbra - A Reckoning

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Petrodragonic Apocalypse...

King Krule - Space Heavy

Kinlaw - Weld

Kinn - Dogtooth

Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full-On

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm & Andreas Hoem Roysum - Quantum Teleportation

Klein - Touched By An Angel

Klinika Denisa Kataneca - Kao Zao Kor

Klone - Meanwhile

KMRU - Glim / Dissolution Grip / Stupor

Knife - Heaven Into Dust

Knut Kvifte Nesheim & OJKOS - Graosido, Mountain At Voss, Norway

Koenig - 1 Above Minus Underground

Kofi Flexxx - Flowers In The Dark

Koma Saxo - Post Koma

Korine - Tear

Korvak - II, World's Duality

Koshiro Hino - Geist II

Kostnatení - Upal

Kovacs - Child Of Sin

Kovtun - Leviatã

Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss

Kris Davis - Diatom Ribbons, Live At The Village Vanguard

Kris Force & Jarboe - The Embrace

Kristin Hayter - Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter's Saved!

Kristo Rodzevski - Black Earth

Kruelty - Untopia

The KVB - Artefacts, Reimaginings From The Original Psychedelic Era

Kvelertak - Endling

Kyle Jessen - Primitive

Kylie Minogue - Tension


O incrível encontro dos insanos portugueses do Mão Morta com o saxofonista free Pedro Alves Sousa


Labrinth - Ends & Begins

Lacerated And Carbonized - Limbo

Ladytron - Time's Arrow

Laibach - Sketches Of The Red Districts

Laikamorí - ^^^

Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix

Lakes - Elysian Skies

L'Amara - In Vino Veritas

Lambrini Girls - You're Welcome (EP)

Lamentos - O Livro Proibido

Lamp Of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm

Lana Del Rabies - Strega Beata

Lana Del Rey - Did You Know There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

Lankum - False Lankum

Lary Seven - Larynx

Laster - Andermans Mijne

Lathe Of Heaven - Bound By Naked Skies

Laufey - Bewitched

Laurel Halo - Atlas

Läuten Der Seele - Ertrunken Im Seichtesten Gewässer

Lawrence Brownlee & Kevin Miller - Rising

Le Diable Dégoûtant - Fleur De Chagrin / Galères Dans La Tourbière

Le Diable Dégoûtant & The Universal Veil - Naïa La Sorcière De Rochefort-En-Terre

Lea Bertucci & Lawrence English - Chthonic

Leall - Eu Ainda Tenho Coração

Legacy Pilots - Helix

The Legendary Tiger Man - Zeitgeist

Lelo Nazario - Eternesense

The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony

Lenhart Tapes - Dens

Les Chauffeurs À Pieds - Noé

Lesley Mok - The Living Collection

Lessa Gustavo - Cor De Deus Quando Foge

Letrux - Letrux Como Mulher Girafa

Lewsberg - Out And About

L'Homme Absurde - Stranger

Light - The Path

Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here

Linda Catlin Smith & Thin Edge New Music Collective - Dark Flower


Markus Reuter, genial guitarrista que esteve no Crimson Projekct e faz parte do Stick Men de Tony Levin e Pat Mastelotto, tem toda uma carreira solo muito interessante. E neste 2023, dois projetos se destacam: o quinto disco do Anchor And Burden, som instrumental ambiente muito peculiar e instigante; e o Tu-Ner, com seu debut "T1 Contact Information", a loucura progressiva de vanguarda que amamos – aqui, ao lado de Pat Mastelotto e Trey Gunn. Confira!


Ling Tosite Sigure - Last Aurorally

The Lion's Daughter - Bath House

Liquid Shit - Repulsive Bodies (EP)

Lisa O'Neill - All Of This Is Chance

Lisabö - Lorategi Izoztuan Hezur Huts Bilakatu Arte

Liturgy - 93696

Liv.e - Girl In The Half Pearl

Lizard Cult - Triptych

Lloyd Cole - On Pain

Lokust - Infidel

Loma Prieta - Last

London Brew - London Brew

London Odense Ensemble - Jaiyede Sessions Volume 2

Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My

Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Datura

Loreta Colucci - Antes Que Eu Caia

Lori Goldston & Greg Kelley - All Points Leaning In

Loscil & Lawrence English - Colours Of Air

Lotico - Oran

Lotus Eater Machine - Prisoner To Seven Demons

L'Rain - I Killed Your Dog

Lucas Santtana - Paraíso

Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente - Cometa

Lucifixion - Trisect Joy Of Pierced Hearts

Lucinda Williams - Stories From A Rock'N Roll Heart

Lucy Railton - Corner Dancer

Luisa Lemgruber - Meandro (EP)

Luiza Lian - 7 Estrelas, Quem Arrancou O Céu?

Luna Falcão - Transe

Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations

Lunch Money Life - The God Phone

Lupe de Lupe - Um Tijolo Com Seu Nome

Lý Trang - Syenite


De Jards Macalé a Test, sempre dando aquela atenção especial à música brasileira: Alzira Espíndola reuniu grande time para fazer um disco pesado com seu projeto Corte; Caio Lemos (Kaatayra, Vauruvã) segue criativo com os projetos Bríi e Baqt; Daniel Santiago, da banda de Hamilton de Holanda, lançou o lindo “Movement” ao lado de Pedro Martins; Ricardo Dias Gomes lançou “Muito Sol”, o quarto disco da carreira, numa espécie de ‘MPB experimental’; a cantora Luciana Souza lançou ao lado do Trio Corrente o lindo “Cometa”; Felipe Senna e o Câmaranóva uniram a música brasileira e clássica em “Câmara Brasileira”; o pianista cubano Omar Sosa se uniu a Tiganá Santana em “Iroko”; Lelo Nazario (Grupo Um) lançou mais um experimento solo, “Eternesense”... mas nosso destaque maior fica ao mestre Martinho da Vila, em obra épica de samba “Negra Ópera”. Uma aula!


M. Ward - Supernatural Thing

M83 - Fantasy

Mabe Fratti, I.la Católica & Titanic - Vidrio

Mad Honey - Satellite Aphrodite

Madison Greenstone - Resonance Studies In Ecstatic Consciousness

Madness - Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C'Est La Vie

Mãe Que Dá Medo - Manejo Fálico

Maggie Nicols, Matilda Rolfsson & Mark Wastell - Semiotic Drift

Maggot Heart - Hunger

Magnus Rosen - It's Time To Rock The World Again

Mahmundi - Amor Fati

Maíra Freitas - Ayé Òrun

Maja S. K. Ratkje - Rökkur / Collage

Majustice - Ancestral Recall

Maladie - For We Are The Plague

Malleus - The Fires Of Heaven

Malokarpatan - Vertumnus Caesar

Mamer - X​ê​rt​ê​rmin / Sherter Solo

Mammal Hands - Gift From The Trees

Mammoth WVH - Mammoth II

Mammut - Lodo

Manchester Fluminense - Auge E Declínio

Mandy, Indiana - I've Seen A Way

Maneskin - Rush!

Manger Cadavre? - Imperialismo

Mansion - Second Death

Manuel Valera - Vessel

Mão Morta & Pedro Alves Sousa - Tricot

Marc Codsi - Songs From The Aftermath

Marcela Lucatelli, Lars Bech Pilgaard & Anders Vestergaard - Necromancy

Marcelo Costa - Vol. 2

Marcelo D2 - Iboru

Marco Antonio Santos - About: Silence

Marco Machera - Dormiveglia

Marco Minnemann - Their Colors Fade

Marco Scarassatti - Habitar As Coisas

Marcos André & Thiago Da Serrinha - Jongo Do Vale Do Café

Marduk - Memento Mori

Marek Arnold - Marek Arnold's Artrock Project

Mareux - Lovers From The Past

Margarida Campelo - Supermarket Joy

Margarita Witch Cult - Margarita Witch Cult

Margo Price - Strays

Mari Hamada - Soar

Mariá Portugal - 1976 (OST)

Mariam Rezaei - Bown

Mariana Cavanellas - DNA

Marina Cyrino & Matthias Koole - Calisthenics

Marina Herlop - Nekkuja

Marnie Stern - The Comeback Kid

Marquis - Konstanz

Mars Kumari - I Thought I Lost You


Os americanos do Model/Actriz também foram uma das revelações indispensáveis do ano, livre de rótulos, com seu criativo “Dogsbody”


Mars Red Sky - Dawn Of The Dusk

The Mars Volta - Que Dios Te Maldiga Mi Corazon (EP)

Marta Zlakowska & Tricky - When It's Going Wrong

Marthe - Further In Evil

Martina Bertoni - Hypnagogia

Martinho Da Vila - Negra Ópera

Martyna Basta - Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering / Diaries Beneath Fragile Glass

Maruja - Knocknarea (EP)

Mary Jane Leach - Woodwind Multiples

Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada

Masego - Masego

Massimo Pupillo - My Own Private Afghanistan / Our Forgotten Ancestors

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five, In The Garden

Mateusfazenorock - Jesus Ñ Voltará

Matmos - Return To Archive

Mats Gustafsson - Hidros 9, Mirrors

Mats Gustafsson & Ensemble E - EE Opus One

Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall - Their Power Reached Across Space And Time, To Defy Them Was Death Or Worse

Matt Dorsey - Let Go

Matt Elliott - The End Of Days

Matt Rösner - Empty, Expanding, Collapsing

Matt Weston - Embrace This Twilight

Matthew And The Atlas - This Place We Live

Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View

Matthew Herbert & London Contemporary Orchestra - The Horse

Matthew Shipp - The Intrinsic Nature Of Shipp

Maud The Moth & Trajedesaliva - Bordando El Manto Terrestre

Maude Audet - Il Faut Partir Maintenant

Maurice Louca & Elephantine - Moonshine

Maurizio Bianchi & Coalminer - Antimateria

Max Eastley, Terry Day & John Butcher - Angles Of Enquiry

Mayer Hawthorne - For All Time

Mayssa Jallad - Marjaa, The Battle Of The Hotels

Mazé Cintra - Amaé

MC Carol - Tralha

MC Xiao - Goblin's Bizzarre Radio

MC Yallah - Yallah Beibe

McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?

Me Lost Me - RPG

Mee - Mee

Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio

Melanie Martinez - Portals

Memorrhage - Memorrhage

The Men - New York City

Meredith Bates - Tesseract

Meshell Ndegeocello - The Omnichord Real Book

Meta Golova - Tempo Mutilação

Metallica - 72 Seasons

Methods Body - Plural Not Possessive

Metric - Formentera II

Mette Henriette Martedatter Rolvag - Drifting

Mette Rasmussen, Paul Flaherty, Zach Rowden & Chris Corsano - Crying In Space (EP)

Mhysa - Release Control (EP)

Micaela Tobin/White Boy Scream & Joshua Hill - Tent Music


A guitarrista alemã Monika Roscher foi uma das sensações do ano, e disputa o título de álbum de 2023 para este blog, com seu quarto, mais forte e ousado álbum até aqui, no formato Big Band, o maravilhoso “Witchy Activities And The Maple Death”


Michael Foster's The Ghost - Vanished Pleasures

Mick Jenkins - The Patience

Miho Hazama - Beyond Orbits

Mike - Burning Desire

Mike Reed - The Separatist Party

Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation

Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun

Mil-Spec - Marathon

Minhwi Lee - Hometown To Come

Mirek Coutigny - Through Empty Landscapes And New Beginnings

Mirror Of Haze - Flamescapes Of Eden

Miserere Luminis - Ordalie

Misha Panfilov - Gala! / In Focus / Atl​â​ntico

Miss Grit - Follow The Cyborg

Mithridatum - Harrowing

Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We

Mizmor - Prosaic

MJ Lenderman - And The W, Live And Loose!

MM/KM - Ich Sehe Vasen

MOAA - Jaywalker

Model Home, Nappynappa & Wolf Eyes - More Difficult Messages

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody

Moin - Clocked Off (EP)

Mokoomba - Tusona, Tracings In The Sand

The Mon - Eye

Mon Laferte - Autopoiética

Monaleo - Where The Flowers Don't Die

Mondo Drag - Through The Hourglass

Mondo Generator - We Stand Against You

Monika Roscher - Witchy Activities And The Maple Death

Mono Inc. - Ravenblack

Moonlight Benjamin - Wayo

Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

Moonstone - Growth

Moreru - Juso Kokuhaku, Hatsukoi, Soshite Sekai

Mork - Dypet

Morne - Engraved With Pain

Morning Scales The Mountain - Dose

Morokh - Insomnia

Morwan - Svitaye, Palaye

The Mosaic Window - Plight Of Acceptance

Mossaï Mossaï - Faces

Motherwood - Im Zeichen Der Dunkelheit

Motorama - Sleep, And I Will Sing

Motorpsycho - Yay!

Mournful Congregation - The Exuviae Of Gods Part II (EP)

MouthBreather - Self-Tape

Msaga Pore - Zaire Ngoma

Mudhoney - Plastic Eternity

Mukqs - Stonewasher

The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery

Mutoid Man - Mutants

Myra Melford - Hear The Light Singing

Myrkur - Spine


Outro que não casamos de destacar é o retorno do clássico Oxbow, que já havia se dado com “Thin Black Duke” (2017) e agora este intenso e perfeito “Love’s Holiday”


N - Tremonia

Nabihah Iqbal - Dreamer

Naïssam Jalal - Healing Rituals

Naked Lungs - Doomscroll

Nakibembe Embaire Group - Nakibembe Embaire Group

Naoko Sakata - Infinity

Nappy Nina - Mourning Due

Narrow Head - Moments Of Clarity

NAS - Magic 2/3

Natalie Merchant - Keep Your Courage

Natasha Barrett - Reconfiguring The Landscape

Nation Of Language - Strange Disciple

The National - First Two Pages Of Frankenstein / Laugh Track

Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii & Tatsuya Yoshida - Amanojaku

Navy Blue - Ways Of Knowing

NDR Hardcore - Da Virtualidade Da Ignorância A Presentificação Do Brutal Real

Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

Neal Morse - The Dreamer, Joseph Part One

Near Earth Orbit - Echoes Of The Future

The Necks - Travel

Ned Rothenberg - Crossings Four

Negative Vortex - Tomb Absolute

Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet - Signs Of Life

Nervochaos - Chthonic Wrath

Nervosa - Jailbreak

Netherlands - Severance

New Age Doom & Tuvaband - There Is No End

The New Pornographers - Continue As A Guest

Ni - Fol Naïs

Nick D'Virgilio, Neal Morse & Ross Jennings - Sophomore

Nickel Creek - Celebrants

Nicole Dollanganger - Married In Mount Airy

Nicole Lachartre - Mundus

Nicole Mitchell - Duo With Deer Isle

Nicole Sabouné - Kismet

Nidare - Naehe Und Flackern (EP)

Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation

The Night Eternal - Fatale

Night Nail - Fates Explained

Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night, Part One

Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift

Nihiloxica - Source Of Denial

Nine Skies - The Lightmaker

Nita Strauss - The Call Of The Void

Nite Bjuti - Nite Bjuti

Nithing - Agonal Hymns

NNHMN - Circle Of Doom

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies

Noname - Sundial

Nonconnah - Unicorn Family

Nonsensical - Momentum (EP)

Nothing But Thieves - Dead Club City

Nothingness - Supraliminal

Nourishd By Time - Erotic Probiotic 2

Nuclear Power Trio - Wet Ass Plutonium

Nurse With Wound - Mismantler

Nuven - Zero

Nyokabi Kariuki - Feeling Body


Dentre os grande discos de rock lançados, damos sempre especial destaque aos experimentais, tais quais o retorno do Pere Ubu, o surpreendente disco solo da baixista Gina Birch, e eis outro baixista do qual não abrimos mão: Mike Watt! Sempre envolvido em inúmeros novos projetos, desta vez temos o Pelicanman, ao lado de Petra Haden, com o debut calcado em seu instrumento: "Planet Chernobyl"


OAK - Disintegrate

Oak Pantheon - The Absence

Obituary - Dying Of Everything

The Ocean (Collective) - Holocene

October Tide - The Cancer Pledge

Ocultan - Rites Of The Sitra Ahra / Trevas

Odz Manouk - Bosoragazan / Tzurr

Of The Wand And The Moon - Behold The Trees

Ok Goodnight - The Fox & The Bird

Ole Luk/Afsky - Om Hundrede Ar

Olimpia Splendid - 2

Olivia Chaney - Six French Songs (EP)

Olivia Rodrigo - Guts

Omar Sosa & Tiganá Santana - Iroko

Omega Infinity - The Anticurrent

Ömsa - Fuga

On Thorns I Lay - On Thorns I Lay

Oneohtrix Point Never - Again

Onoskelis - Before Ishtar's Portal

Oozing Wound - We Cater To Cowards

Open Mike Eagle - Another Triumph Of Ghetto Engineering

Opera Multi Steel - Les Passions Tristes

Orbit Culture - Descent

Orchestra Of The Swan & Philip Sheppard - Echoes

Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere - 06

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Bauhaus Staircase

Orchid Mantis - A Field With No Edges

Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans - Double Consciousness

Organ Dealer - The Weight Of Being

Origami Angel - The Brightest Days

Orka - All At Once

Oro - Vid Vägs Ande

Oromet - Oromet

Orquestra Laboratório Bastet - Orquestra Laboratório Bastet 2

Orthostat - The Heat Death

Osi And The Jupiter - Cedar And Sage, Riders Of The Gallows Vol. 1

Osmo Lindeman - Electronic Works

Ostraca - Disaster

Outer Heaven - Infinite Psychic Depths

Outlaw - Reaching Beyond Assiah

Oval - Romantiq

Overkill - Scorched

Owdwyr - Receptor

Oxbow - Love's Holiday

OXN - CYRM

Oxx - The Primordial Blues

Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding


O prog rock/metal inquieto dos franceses do Poil se uniu desta vez à cantora japonesa Junko Ueda, formando este disco tão improvável quanto maravilhoso!


Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro & Marilyn Mazur - Strands, Live At The Danish Radio Concert Hall

P!nk - Trustfall

Pale Jay - Bewilderment

Palehound - Eye On The Bat

Palms - Opening Titles, End Credits (EP)

Panda Rosa/Prizes Roses Rosa - Burned Car Highway Light Volcanic

Pangar - Position

Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory

Paramore - This Is Why

Parannoul - After The Magic

Parquet - Sparkles & Mud

Passéisme - Alternance

Patrick Shiroishi - I Was Too Young To Hear Silence

Paul Dunmall - World Without

Paul Rodgers - Midnight Rose

Paul Simon - Seven Psalms

Paura - Karmic Punishment

Pavor Nocturnus - Ecatombe

Pedro Martins - Radio Misterio

Peggy Lee - A Giving Way

Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L - Credo

Pelegrin - Ways Of Avicenna

Pelicanman - Planet Chernobyl

Perch Hen Brock & Rain - Elegiacal

Pere Ubu - Trouble On Big Beat Street

Perfumed Saturnine Angels - Saccharine Curses Exhaled In The Wind

Perilaxe Occlusion - Vapor Chamber

Periphery - V, Djent Is Not A Genre

Peter Brötzmann, Majid Bekkas & Hamid Drake - Catching Ghosts

Peter Cincotti - Killer On The Keys

Peter Evans, Being & Becoming - Ars Memoria

Peter Gabriel - I/O

Pitou Nicolaes - Big Tear

Phantom Lung - Abhorrent Entity (EP)

Phantom Spell - Tales From The Black Spire

Phil Selway - Strange Dance

Philip Jeck & Chris Watson - Oxmardyke

Phlebotomized - Clouds Of Confusion

Phobocosm - Foreordained

Phrozen - Questioning Society's Secrets

Physique - Again

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land Of Sleeper

Pillar Of Wasps - A Collective Hallucination

Pink Opake - Matéria

PinkPantheress - Heaven Knows


Para além da big band de Monika Roscher e da criatividade de Darius Jones e Isaiah Collier, eis o momento de destacar algumas obras clássicas deste 2023: o Za!, de Barcelona; o ousado “Tent Music” de Micaela Tobin e Joshua Hill; Eliza Bagg e Ellis Ludwig-Leone ao lado do Attacca Quartet em “False We Hope”; mais um ousado projeto de Matthew Herbert, desta feita com a London Contemporary Orchestra, em “The Horse”; a compositora canadense Linda Catlin Smith e seu lindíssimo "Dark Flower"; o terceiro capítulo do Wild Up revendo a obra de Julius Eastman; o grandiloquente “Dante” de Thomas Adès com a Filarmônica de L.A.; a big band Light, liderada por Camille De Carvalho, em seu debut “The Path”; os lindos trabalhos de piano de Naoko Sakata e da grega Tania Giannouli... mas nosso destaque especial vai para o grupo vocal experimental Roomful Of Teeth, de Brad Wells, que esteve em trabalho próprio (“Rough Magic”) e ao lado do pianista Awadagin Pratt e grande elenco em “Stillpoint”


PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying

Plague Bearer - Summoning Apocalyptic Devastation

Plague Rider - Intensities

Plainride - Plainride

Plini - Mirage (EP)

Podridão - Cadaveric Impregnation

Poil & Junko Ueda - Poil Ueda / Yoshitsune

The Poison Arrows - Crime And Soda

Poison Ruïn - Härvest

Polara - Partilha

Polymoon - Chrysalis

Polyorchard - Scree/n

Polypores - Praedormitium / Ecco / Multizonal Mindscramble

Popon - Bubu

Portrayal Of Guilt - Devil Music

Portugal. The Man - Chris Black Changed My Life

Postdata - Run Wild

Preach Jacobs - Frances

Presidiomodelo - Funeral/Dead End

Pretenders - Relentless

Primal Fear - Code Red

Primitive Knot - Undying Lands / Exit Strategies

Primordial - How It Ends

Princess Nokia - I Love You But This Is Goodbye (EP)

Prins Svart - Till Vart Försvar

The Prog Collective - Seeking Peace

Prong - State Of Emergency

Prospecção Arquipélago - Navegando I

Proto Tip - S Ivice Sanjanja

Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert

Provoker - Demon Compass

Prurient & Genocide Organ - Carte Blanche

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Fronzoli

Pupil Slicer - Blossom

Purelink - Signs

Qow - El Mosameh Sherine

Quarto Vazio - Fábulas

Quasi - Breaking The Balls Of History

Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman...

Quinn - I Used To Just Cry About It (EP)

Qwalia - Sound & Reason


Sandy Chamoun (vocal), Anthony Sahyoun e Marwan Tohme (guitarras), Antonio El Hajj Moussa (baixo), Farah Kaddour (buzuq) e Pascal Semerdjian (bateria) formam o grupo libanês SANAM. A banda surgiu em 2021, ao se apresentar em Beirute com ninguém menos que Hans Joachim Irmler (Faust). Disco produzido por Radwan Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart)


Radian - Distorted Rooms

Radiant Knife - Pressure

Ragana - Desolation's Flower

Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - A Grisaille Wedding

Rajna Swaminathan - Apertures

Rakky Ripper - Nadie Lo Va A Hacer Por Mí

Rancid - Tomorrow Never Comes

Rascal Reporters - The Strainge Case Of Steve

Rawayana - Quién Trae Las Cornetas?

Raye - My 21st Century Blues

Rebaelliun - Under The Sign Of Rebellion

Red Devil Vortex - Red Devil Vortex

Red Vox - Afterthoughts

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Town That Cursed Your Name

Remote Viewing - Modern Addictions

Renee Rapp - Snow Angel

Resavoir - Resavoir 2023

Restraining Order - Locked In Time

Reverence To Paroxysm - Lux Morte

Reverend Horton Heat - Roots Of The Rev., Vol. One

Reverorum Ib Malacht - Kyrie Eleison / Aieganzes Aigonzis, Angels Of God

REZN - Solace

REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi - Silent Future

Rhiannon Giddens - You're The One

Ricardo Dias Gomes - Muito Sol / Real News

Ricardo Vignini & O Gajo - Terra Livre

Richie Culver - Scream If You Don't Exist

Rick Astley - Are We There Yet?

Rico Dalasam - Escuro Brilhante, Último Dia No Orfanato Tia Guga

Riffcoven - O Caminho Do Aço

Risk Risk - Blue Science

Rita Vian - Sensoreal

Ritual Howls - Virtue Falters

Ritual King - The Infinite Mirror


Novamente por aqui,a pianista Satoko Fujii agora é destaque pelo projeto Amanojaku, em que se junta ao marido Natsuki Tamura (trompete) e ao icônico baterista Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins, Acid Mothers, Korekyojinn, Koenjihyakkei). Pedrada free!


Rival Sons - Darkfighter / Lightbringer

Riverside - ID.Entity

R'Luhh - Ornamental Undoing

Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers

Robby Valentine - Embrace The Unknown

Rodrigo Amado & The Bridge - Beyond The Margins

Rodrigo Brandão - Outros Estado

Rodrigo Campos - Pagode Novo

Rodrigo Ogi - Aleatoriamente

Roi Azulay - Reflections

Róisín Murphy - Hit Parade

The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds

Rome - Gates Of Europe

Rômulo Fróes & Rodrigo Campos - Elefante

Romy Madley Croft - Mid Air

Roomful Of Teeth - Rough Magic

Roots Magic - Long Old Road

Rorcal - Silence

Rose City Band - Garden Party

Rotten Sound - Apocalypse

Royal Blood - Back To The Water Below

Royal Thunder - Rebuilding The Mountain

RPWL - Crime Scene

Rrose - Please Touch

Rubel - As Palavras Vol. 1/2

Rufus Wainwright - Folkocracy

Ruhail Qaisar - Fatima

Ruïm - Black Royal Spiritism, I. O Sino Da Igreja

Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood - Tête-À-tête

RVG - Brain Worms

Ryiuichi Sakamoto - 12 / Monster (OST)


O grupo The Black Heart Rebellion passou de uma banda indie a algum experimentalismo, mas não esperaríamos que seus ex-membros formassem algo da magnitude deste TAKH, com este debut tão marcante! Disco essencial de 2023!


Sabiwa - No.16 - Memories of Future Landscapes

Sadistic Pathology - Omen Of Rot

Sadus - The Shadow Inside

Sainkho Namtchylak - Where Water Meets Water, Bird Songs And Lullabies

Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary - Evicted In The Morning / Looking Through Us

Saint Karloff - Paleolithic War Crimes

Säje - Säje

Sally Gates, Trevor Dunn & Greg Fox - Deliriant Modifier

Sam Dunscombe - Two Forests/Oceanic

Sam Gendel & Marcella Cytrynowicz - Audiobook

Sampha - Lahai

Samuel Goff, Camila Nebbia & Patrick Shiroishi - Diminished Borders

Sanam - Aykathani Malakon

Sanctuarium - Into The Mephitic Abyss

Sangre De Muerdago - O Vento Que Lambe As Miñas Feridas

Sangue Ruim - Sangue Ruim

Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy

Sara Correia - Liberdade

Sara Não Tem Nome - A Situação

Sarah Davachi & Quatuor Bozzini - Long Gradus

Sarah McCoy - High Priestess

Sarathy Korwar - KAL, Real World

Sarmat - Determined To Strike

Satoko Fujii & Otomo Yoshihide - Perpetual Motion

Saturnus - The Storm Within

Saver - From Ember And Rust

Say She She - Silver

Scalp - Black Tar

Scar Symmetry - The Singularity Phase II, Xenotaph

Scáth Na Déithe - Virulent Providence

Scenic - Before The Beginning (EP)

Scowl - Psychic Dance Routine (EP)

Sea Mosquito - Igitur

Seedhe Maut - Lunch Break

Sei Miguel - The Original Drum

The Serfs - Half Eaten By Dogs

Serge Geyzel - As Fallen Leaves (EP)

Sermon - Of Golden Verse

Serpent Of Old - Ensemble Under The Dark Sun

Sete Star Sept - The Judgment By Reaper (EP)

Setting - Shone A Rainbow Light On

Seum - Double Double

Seven Impale - Summit

Seven Ravens - After The Storm

Sevendust - Truth Killer

Sevo - Aurora Do Triunfo Herétiko

Sexyy Red - Hood Hottest Princess

Shabazz Palaces - Robed In Rareness (EP)

Shackleton, Zimpel & Siddhartha Belmannu - In The Cell Of Dreams

Shame - Food For Worms

Shamir - Homo Anxietatem

Shana Cleveland - Manzanita

Shibui - Quint

Shin Sasakubo & Joana Queiroz - Picture

Shining (SWE) - Shining


Paul Briggs (guitarra), Luke Pollard (baixo), Ron Pollard (teclados) e Gracie Smith (bateria) formam o grupo australiano Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving, em seu quarto e melhor álbum, “Oscillating Forest”. É prog, é math, é post, é free... mais uma banda obrigatória de 2023, impossível de classificar!


Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill

Shit And Shine - 2222 And Airport

Shkoon - Masrahiya

Shuta Hasunuma - Unpeople

Shuteen Erdenebaatar - Rising Sun

Siavash Amini - The Sweat Of Earth

Sick Boss - Businessless

Siegrid Ingrid - Back From Hell

Siena Root - Revelation

Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar

Sigur Rós - Átta

Silence In The Snow - Ghost Eyes

Silent Planet - Superbloom

Silver Moth - Black Bay

Silvia Perez Cruz - Toda La Vida, Un Día

Sirenia - 1977

Siril Malmedal Hauge & Kjetil André Mulelid - Blues And Bells

Skemer - Toasts & Sentiments

Skrillex - Quest For Fire / Don't Get Too Close

Skyler Acord - True Viridian (EP)

Slauson Malone - 1, Excelsior

Sleaford Mods - UK Grim

Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

Slothrust - I Promise (EP)

Slow Danse With The Dead - Dark Ritual

Slow J - Afro Fado

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive

Slowspin - Talisman

Slowthai - Ugly

The Smashing Pumpkins - Atum I-III

Smote - Genog

Snakes Don't Belong In Alaska - Sounds Of A Forming Planet

Snooper - Super Snoo​per

Snuffed On Sight - Smoke

Social Station - In The Fallout

Soen - Memorial

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

Soft Cell - Happiness Now Completed

Soft Kill - Metta World Peace

Solar Temple - The Great Star Above Provides

Sonar, David Torn & J. Peter Schwalm - Three Movements

Sophia Chablau E Uma Enorme Perda De Tempo - Música Do Esquecimento

Sophie Hutchings - A World Outside

Sorcerer - Reign Of The Reaper

Sorry For Laughing - Sun Comes

Soulkeeper - Holy Design

Sparklehorse - Bird Machine

Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte

Speaker Music - Techxodus

Speakers Corner Quartet - Further Out Than The Edge

Spellling - Spellling & The Mystery School

Sphinx Virtuosi - Songs For Our Times

Spice World - There Is No I In Spice World

Spirit Adrift - Ghost At The Gallows

Spirit Of Hamlet - Northwest Of Hamuretto


Asnake Gebreyes e o grupo etíope Ukandanz entregam o fino “Kemekem”, peso, experimentalismo e variações dentro da música regional típica


Spiritbox - The Fear Of Fear (EP)

Spiritual Front - The Queen Is Not Dead (EP)

Spotlights - Alchemy For The Dead

Sprain - The Lamb As Effigy Or Three Hundred And Fifty Xoxoxos For A Spark Union With My Darling Divine

Spy - Satisfaction

Squid - O Monolith

Sqürl - Silver Haze

The St. Pierre Snake Invasion - Galore

Starfruit - Be Begin Beginning Begging

Static Abyss - Aborted From Reality

Stefano Panunzi - Pages From The Sea

Stefano Pilia & Valerio Tricoli - Cantor Park

Steve Gunn, John Truscinski & Bill Nace - Glass Band

Steve Lehman - Ex Machina

Steve Lukather - Bridges

Steve Vai & John 'Gash' Sombrotto - Vai / Gash

Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex

Stian Westerhus - Sott

Stinking Lizaveta - Anthems And Phantoms

Stone Of Duna - Moonsplitter

Stoned Jesus - Father Light

Stormo - Endocannibalismo

Stream Of Passion - Beautiful Warrior (EP)

The Streets - The Darker The Shadow The Brighter The Light

Strider - Midnight Zen

Strigah - A Natureza E O Sistema (EP)

Stuart Hamm - Hold Fast

Subheim - Raeon

Subsonic Eye - All Around You

Suffocation - Hymns From The Apocrypha

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

Sun & Steel - Off The Hook!, Live At Motvind

Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Tumble Dry / That Which Is / Hypnotape / Red & Shaggy

Sunik Kim - Potential

Sunny War - Anarchist Gospel

SUP (Supuration) - Octa

Supremacy - Influence

Surplus 1980 - Illusion Of Consistency

Susanne Sundfor - Blomi

Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi - Golden Apples Of The Sun

Svalbard - The Weight Of The Mask

Swans - The Beggar

Sword Oath - Ancient Tales From The Valley Of Sorrow

Sylosis - A Sign Of Things To Come

Sylvie Courvoisier - Chimaera

Syndrom Samazvanca - Vostrau Skarhau / Radyjo Niamiha

Systemik Violence - Negative Mangel Attitude


Se já falamos no blog de grandes nomes do metal brasileiro moderno, como Test, Deaf Kids e Rakta, eis outra vanguardista: Anna C. Chaos, já com sólida discografia e quinze anos de carreira sob o nome Umbilichaos, em seu recente lançamento “Mourning Carnivals From Now On”


Taake - Et Hav Av Avstand

Takh - Takh

Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving - Oscillating Forest

Tania Giannouli - Solo

Tar Of - Confidence Freaks Me Out

Tar Pond - Petrol

Tara Clerkin - On The Turning Ground (EP)

Tarja Turunen & Torsten Stenzel - Outlanders

Taste Tribes - Nischen

Tatá Aeroplano - Boate Invisível / Telepathique Desorder

TDK - Nemesta

Teenage Wrist - Still Love

Teeth Of The Sea - Hive

Teitan - In Oculus Abyss

Teke::Teke - Hagata

Temic - Terror Management Theory

Temple Of Angels - Endless Pursuit

Temples - Exotico

Tenhi - Valkama

Tennis - Pollen

Tension Prophecy - Tribal Hatred

Terms - All Becomes Indistinct

Terrace Martin & Alex Isley - I Left My Heart In Ladera

Terraplana - Olhar Pra Trás

Tesseract - War Of Being

Test - Disco Normal

Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis

(Thee) Oh Sees - Intercepted Message

Theo Parrish & Maurissa Rose - Free Myself

Therapy? - Hard Cold Fire

Therion - Leviathan III

They Watch Us From The Moon - Cosmic Chronicles Act 1, The Ascension

Thiago França - Baile Espetacular

Third Coast Percussion - Between Breaths

This Eternal Decay - Absolution

This Lonely Crowd - O Gato De Schrödinger Na Caixa De Pandora

Thisquietarmy - Hiatus

Tholos Gateway - Tholos Gateway II

Thomas Adès, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - Dante

Thomas Walsh - The Rest Is History

Thou Shall Not - I Am The Presence

Thra - Forged In Chaotic Spew

Throat - We Must Leave You

Throe - O Enterro Das Marés (EP)

Thulcandra - Hail The Abyss

Thumos - Symposium


Valentina Magaletti talvez seja um dos nomes mais criativos, produtivos e instigantes da cena experimental atual. A baterista já foi do Moin, UUUU, Gum Takes Tooth (que, por sinal, lançou o ótimo “Recovery Position” em 2023) e só este ano esteve nos lançamentos do Shit And Shine, Better Corners, Holy Tongue, Frequency Disasters... e dois de nossos favoritos: “Afternoon X” do Vanishing Twin e o projeto V/Z, ao lado de Susumu Mukai (Zongamin), no maravilhoso debut “Suono Assente”


Thy Catafalque - Alföld

Tideless - Eye Of Water

Tigercub - The Perfume Of Decay

Till The Dirt - Outside The Spiral

Tim Hecker - Infinity Pool (OST) / No Highs

Tinariwen - Amatssou

Tinashe - BB/Ang3L

Tirzah - Trip9love​.​.​.​?​?​?

Tithe - Inverse Rapture

To Athena - The Movie

Tom James Scott - Nightshade

Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit

Tomomi Kubo & Vasco Trilla - La Sillage

Tongue Depressor - Bones For Time

Tongues - Forml​o​se Stjerner

Tonn3rr3 & Bikay3 - It's A Bomb

Tony Buck - Environmental Studies

Toquinho - Novas Cores, Eternas Canções

Tori - Descese, Lado B (EP)

Torpor - Abscission

Toyota Vangelis - Vyklopny Svetlomety

Trachoma & Yakisoba - Born Headless (EP)

Trastorned - Into The Void

Trees Speak - Mind Maze

Trenchraid - War Mentality

Trevor Rabin - Rio

Trevor Dunn & Kevin Rutmanis - Crackpot Whorehead

Tribulation - Hamartia (EP)

Tribunal - The Weight Of Remembrance

Trichomoniasis - Makeshift Crematoria

Tristan Kasten-Krause & Jessica Pavone - Images Of One

Trophy Eyes - Suicide And Sunshine

Tropical Fuck Storm - Submersive Behaviour (EP)

Troye Sivan - Something To Give Each Other

Truno - Divina Arma (EP)

Trust Fund Ozu - Faye Doubt

Truth Of All Death - Life Dissected

Tsjuder - Helvegr

Tuber - Joyful Science

Tujiko Noriko - Crépuscule I & II

Tu-Ner - T1 Contact Information

Tusmorke - Hestehoven

Tuulikki Bartosik - Playscapes

TV Girl - Grapes Upon The Vine

Two Fingers & Muadeep - Cronos

Tygers Of Pan Tang - Bloodlines

Tyshawn Sorey - Continuing


O catalão Za!, de Al Bugamaistah (Papa DuPau) e Ed Spafrika (Eduard Pou) merece destaque próprio, se juntando ao grupo Tarta Relena e ao assim denominado coletivo La Megacobla, formando o nome ZA! & La TransMegaCobla, numa salada de influências do mediterrâneo. Disco grandioso, festivo e marcante!


Uada - Crepuscule Natura

Ubiratan Marques - Dança Do Tempo

Ufomammut - Crookhead (EP)

Ukandanz - Kemekem

Ulthar - Anthronomicon / Helionomicon

Ultra Sunn - Kill Your Idols (EP)

Umbilichaos - Mourning Carnivals From Now On

Umpio - Brain Pain

Un Regard Froid - Exophilie

Uncönquerable - Imperial Genocide

Undergang - De Syv Stadier Af Ford​ae​rv (EP)

Underscores - Wallsocket

Unfathomable - The Abyss Beckons

Univers Zero - Lueur

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - V

Unlucky Ninjas - Micro-Tehran (EP)

Unprocessed - ...And Everything In Between

Upcdownc - Duel

Urban Heat - Wellness (EP)

Urfaust - Untergang

Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour

Urne - A Feast On Sorrow

US Girls - Bless This Mess

Usnea - Bathed In Light

Valentina Magaletti & Susumu Mukai/Zongamin - V/Z, Suono Assente

Vanessa Perica - The Eye Is The First Circle

Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X

Vastum - Inward To Gethsemane

Veil Of Maya - [M]other

The Veils - ...And Out Of The Void Came Love

Venera - Venera

Venomous Concept - The Good Ship Lollipop

Vestron Vulture - Roll Mottle

VHS Head - Phocus

Victoria Monet - Jaguar II

Victory Over The Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song!

Ville Valo - Neon Noir

Vinicio Capossela - Tredici Canzoni Urgenti

Vintage Trouble - Heavy Hymnal

Violent Magic Orchestra - Death Rave

Virgin Steele - The Passion Of Dionysus

VoidCeremony - Threads Of Unknowing

Volker Goetze & Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko - Flamenkora

Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll

Voyager - Fearless In Love

Vulture Industries - Ghosts From The Past

Vvilderness - Path


O ano de um chamado ‘avant folk’ contou com mais um aclamado trabalho de Sufjan Stevens, além de nomes como Lankum, ØXN, Blanco White, Ben ‘Baby’ Copperhead, Laurel Halo, Annika Socolofsky, The Breathe, David Eugene Edwards e John Francis Flynn. Mas vale a menção ao pouco falado Arnold De Boer, ou Arnold Zea, que esteve na formação mais recente do lendário grupo The Ex. Sob a alcunha ‘Zea’, já lançou discos variados, mas parece ter encontrado o auge neste fino “We Are Still Each Other's Only Hope”. Conta com a participação de Mats Gustafsson (!)


Wadada Leo Smith & Orange Wave Electric - Fire Illuminations

Wait! Memories Are Fading Away! - Collapsing On Our Way To Snowcloaked Mountaincrests

Walter Smith III - Return To Casual

Water From Your Eyes - Everyone's Crushed

Wayfarer - American Gothic

Wednesday - Rat Saw God

Whispers In The Shadow - Ghosts

White Canyon & The 5th Dimension - Gardeners Of The Earth

Wig Wam - Out Of The Dark

Wiki & Tony Seltzer - 14K Figaro

Wilco - Cousin

William Eggleston - 512

Wim Mertens - Voice Of The Living

Windspirit - Windspirit

The Winery Dogs - III

Winger - Seven

Witch - Zango

Witch Ripper - The Flight After The Fall

Within Temptation - Bleed Out

Wizard Master - Ablanathanalba

Wolf Eyes - Dreams In Splattered Lines / More Difficult Messages

Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley & Brian Blade - Dance Of The Elders

Wolvennest - The Dark Path To The Light

Wolves In The Throne Room - Crypt Of Ancestral Knowledge (EP)

Wooden Throne - Eternal Wanderer Of The Night Sky

Wooden Veins - Imploding Waves

Woods - Perennial

World's End Girlfriend - Resistance & The Blessing

The World Is Quite Here - Zon

Wormhole - Almost Human

Wound Man - Human Outline

Wyrgher - Panspermic Warlords

The Wytches - Our Guest Can't Be Named

Xande De Pilares - Xande Canta Caetano

Xiu Xiu - Ignore Grief

Xoth - Exogalactic

Yaeji - With A Hammer

Yagya - Faded Photographs

Yakuza - Sutra

Yazmin Lacey - Voice Notes

Year Of The Knife - No Love Lost

Yellow Eyes - Master's Murmur

Yeule - Softscars

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

Yoke - Yoke

Yonlapa - Lingering Gloaming

YoshimiOizumikiYoshiduO - To The Forest To Live A Truer Life

Yossi Sassi- Prediluvian

Youmna Saba - Wishah

Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

YPU - Paranoar

Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds

Za! & La TransMegaCobla - Za! & La TransMegaCobla

ZAÄAR & Spintria - Genesis Of Cyclopian Sorcerer (EP)

Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan

Zanias - Chrysalis

Zé Ibarra - Marquês, 256

Zea - We Are Still Each Other's Only Hope

Zeca Baleiro - Mambo Só

The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

Ziúr - Eyeroll

Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - The Flower School

Zoh Amba, William Parker & Francisco Mela - O Life, O Light Vol. 2

Zombie Juice - Love Without Conditions

Zopp - Dominion

Zorn - Zorn

Zubin Kanga - Machine Dreams

Zuli - Komy (EP)

Zulu - A New Tomorrow



Obrigado!


Feliz 2024!