It’s that time of year with the Best of 2023 list.
Kicking off with this Top 50 album list.
Not familiar? This is based on my favourite radio show on KEXP called Pacific Notions that features music in the realm of instrumental, ambient, classical, modern classical and experimental.
1. Sigur Rós – ÁTTA
2. Hania Rani – Ghosts
3. Green-House – Host for All Kinds of Life
4. TENGGER – TENGGER
5. Joseph Shabason – Welcome To Hell
6. Beverly Glenn-Copeland – The Ones Ahead
7. Masahiro Takahashi – Humid Sun
8. Michael Scott Dawson – Find Yourself Lost
9. Best Fern – Earth Then Air
10. Daigo Hanada – Journey Through Memories
11. Brian Eno & Fred Again… – Secret Life
12. Hinako Omori – stillness, softness…
13. Gia Margaret – Romantic Piano
14. Nabihah Iqbal – Dreamer
15. Joshua Van Tassel – The Recently Beautiful
16. Michael Peter Olsen – Narrative of a Nervous System
17. Alaskan Tapes – Who Tends a Garden
18. Scott Orr – Horizon
19. Omni Garden – Golden Pear
20. Noble Oak – When It Finds You
21. Eydis Evensen – The Light
22. Yutaka Hirasaka – Slow Dance
23. Helios – Espera
24. Mark Barrett – 蒸発 (Jōhatsu)
25. Badge Époque Ensemble – Air, Light & Harmony
26. Rhucle – Feel
27. Epic45 – Spring
28. Ylia – Ame Agaru
29. Hideyuki Hashimoto – opus
30. anthéne and IKSRE – Seasons Shifting
31. Lars Bartkuhn – Dystopia
32. kintsugi – life in death
33. Norio – Daidara bou
34. Lau Nau – Aphrilis
35. Igor Yalivec – Etudes
36. Wings For Louise – Fauna
37. Slowly Rolling Camera – Flow
38. Tiny Leaves – Mynd
39. Orkun A. – Glimmer
40. East Forest – Music For The Deck of the Titanic
41. Shape and Noise – Dial a Dream
42. Matthew Hayes – Embrace
43. Sophie Hutchings – A World Outside
44. Kilometre Club – How To Unravel
45. David Slowing – A Sinuous Path To Pleasant Valley
46. Mike Nigro – Low Light
47. From Overseas & zakè – Demain, des l’aubes
48. Daily Rituals – Aftersongs
49. Awakened Souls – Unlikely Places
50. Peace Flag Ensemble – Astral Plains
Best of 2023: Top 50 Experimental, Ambient, Modern Classical and Instrumental Albums
