Top 15 International Albums of 2023 (Till date)

inherent risk 10,000 GEC There was only one thing: hadn’t Hyperpop messed up? Amidst the pounding voices, metal guitars and computer glitches, there was a risk of canceling out the surprising effect of 100 Gecs’ debut. And instead, this is an album capable of inspiring again: despite all the chaos it contains, 100 Gecs win because they write very strong tunes. How long has it been since we’ve heard such a weird and fun rock record that’s enjoyable as well as pop, awe-inspiring and hilarious?

Julianne Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus were already songwriters with their own storylines, which many liked, especially the latter. Together, they are a trio inspired by friendship, books, ironic, unique songs. The first album (after the EP five years ago) has everything: good songs, good harmonies, atmosphere of togetherness, old school guys (and some indie electric guitars). Baker told us, “This band gives me a chance to be ambitious in a way I’m not allowed alone.” And then on stage the trio made a deal: Crosby Stills and Nash didn’t do it.

Her eponymous second album is also a global anointing of one of the region’s most sought-after pop stars. Afterwards pain, wish i wanna be you It is an album – as the title suggests – about desire, “the driving force of the world” as she told us when we interviewed her. Pop here is shaped without respect for the rules, thanks to Danny L. Harley’s sound direction. If by now it probably wasn’t clear what avant-pop meant, this record is an excellent sonic interpretation.

The long transformation (personal, physical, sonic) of Christine and the Queens reaches a critical stage. few months will not be good redcar les charming étoiles

, Chris (now adopting he/him pronouns) is his most ambitious album to date. Twenty Tracks, a three-act concept album (produced by Mike Dean) about angels inspired by the play. angel in america by Tony Kushner et al petty soldier By the Who features Madonna as an omniscient Big Brother in three pieces. Inside is everything: sentimentality and intimacy, pop songs and experiments, paranoia and angels and true love.

There are artists who have the universal – and seemingly inexhaustible – gift of writing beautiful songs. Leslie Fist is one of these few. He’s been reminding us of him – in his slower times – for over twenty-five years and over six albums (if we don’t count the four with Broken Social Scene). So what about the latter? Multitudinous, That there are still people who make albums to listen to from beginning to end, played as God ordered, without fillers. Thanks fist.

This is the best Foo Fighters album in many years because it has everything a Foo Fighters record should have. Including the fact that it’s to be expected, but it is for a group that’s been around for 30 years. Partly for the song, partly for the narration that precedes it, it’s hard to listen to it without thinking of the death of Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl’s mother. Despite some passages about loss, memory and death, it is not serious. In the face of tragedy, the Foo Fighters remain Foo Fighters and that’s reassuring, too.

There’s no longer any doubt about this point: Grian Chayton is one of the great names in contemporary rock. We knew it already, Fontaines being the DC frontman, now we believe it even more after hearing him battling it out with a series of songs that we’d call folk-pop, far from the group’s style of pathos. Full of, soft and ghostly. Chayton said imaginatively, “I was walking down Stony Beach at night and the album came to me on the waves.” “I was standing there watching them and I heard it: every part, from chord progression to chord arrangement.” We want to believe it.

Consistent but not predictable, solid but not boring, consistent but not trivial. cracker islandThe eighth studio album from Damon Albert’s band (here we have to discuss) eschews the usual roller coaster and seeks peace in a rounded, analog, warm sound devoid of digital edges. Ten mature tracks, well written, arranged with beauty and culture, inspired by an excellent choice of collaborators: Bad Bunny, Beck, Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, Thundercat, Tame Impala, Booty Brown, Adele Omotayo of Humanz Choir.

After fifty years it’s only fair to ask yourself from time to time: does rap still have something to say? According to this collaborative record between iconoclast JPEGMafia and underground rapper Danny Brown, the answer is: of course yes. Made entirely by the JPEGMafia (listen). fentanyl tester A two and a half minute song with at least three genres and a sample to understand their production skills milk shake by Kelis), hooves scare This is a record for those who like rap and experimental electronica and who are not afraid to embark on a crazy but compelling sonic journey.

OK, 80 minutes of introspection is probably too much, but ocean blvd It proves what kind of writer Lana Del Rey is, who blends her classic American songwriting with some electronic sounds with a retro, elegant and morbid ambiance to tell personal and family stories. She considers it “an album of names”. bit is Norman fucking Rockwell! and a little’ born to Die, you enter with one-two-ready Grant and comes out Taco Truck x VB in trance state.

There is a line a rapper may or may not cross in their career, and that line is abandoning PC beats for the instruments played and the performances. In its own way, a line that presupposes a certain personal (it’s the central theme of this album) and artistic maturity (think what happened to Tyler, The Creator or Mac Miller) that in this case takes Lil Yachty to the next level. but takes Neopsychedelia Black.

And finally, Noel Gallagher records his best solo single, just like Noel Gallagher. Putting aside the ambition to create music that’s honestly not his own, in step with the times, the English composer has created a particularly happy past, by taking shelter and taking us with him to a familiar past in slightly sad and contemplative songs. No responded period. At home, looking forward to the unreleased “Fakin’ Amazing” by Oasis.

Let’s start with the fact that for us this is the way It was one of the best songs of 2022. So we had a lot of expectations for this album, which Hayley Williams and her collaborators pretty much fulfilled. According to him, the record is somewhat inspired by the early Bloc Party sound (news And C’est comme ca Let’s immediately understand what they mean) in which the band succeeds in the long-awaited leap of maturity. After frequent line-up changes, a lull has come and Paramore may finally leave their youth band role in pursuit of becoming an enduring rock band.

Proof that you can make great records without great songs. Of course, you can do them, if you have Queens of the Stone Age sound effects, especially raw here, with continuous mechanical movements, sharp edges and hints of healthy violence, and even a song. cornavoir In which the echo of Bowie is heard. inventions are in stamps and the world in which they are bad vibes Coming from a bad era, Josh Homme lends his voice not only to sad songs, but also to steamroller grooves and robotic and exciting riffs.

Loud, destabilizing, complacent, a little country and a little (much) alternative, the mouse saw god It’s a slice of life on the fringes. The Wednesdays are the new champions of Southern indie rock and their songs are short stories of formation and rural-urban abyss, a quirky, catchy and geo-localised staging. A Glorious Mistake, as we titled our review.