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scrubjayspeaks ([personal profile] scrubjayspeaks) wrote2023-12-30 04:51 pm
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2023 Music Wrap-Up

I started buying music more frequently last year, and quickly realized this provided a massive improvement to my quality of life relative to cost. So for the past year, I have listened to at least one new album each week. Thursdays are New Album Day. (And Boy Juice Day, because Thursday is best day.)

I am a weirdo who doesn’t do streaming music but actually buys albums, organizes mp3s, and listens across multiple devices including some rather retro ones. So I do not have a tidy end-of-year, Spotify Wrapped-esque, service-generated data set to show off. I shall have to DIY that shit.

New albums* heard: 77
*(discretely purchased music items, includes singles, EPs, and other short forms along with “full” albums)

Contributing artists: 50

Oldest Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie, 1972)

Newest Album: It's Black Friday, Charlie Brown (Louie Zong, November 24, 2023)

Top artists by albums: Left At London and The Midnight, four albums apiece

Most repeated albums: DECIDE (Djo), 6666 (Four Fists), PORTALS (Melanie Martinez), Monsters (The Midnight), Bronco (Orville Peck), Fake News (Pinguini Tattic Nucleari)

Tracks of note: For Judas (Adeem the Artist), The Grand Experiment (Doomtree), THIS IS A PROTEST FOR YOUR HEART!!! (Left At London), Unjinxed (Four Fists), Maker (Anjimile), Live Another Day (Skyhill)

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