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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Five-Inch Taint’s Favorite Records of 2023

By Five-Inch Taint (also known as Jonnie Dames Rio)


Here are my favorite 50 albums from the year:

Sunrot, The Unfailing Rope.

Drain, Living Proof.

Sermon, Of Golden Verse.

Night Demon, Outsider.

Wednesday, Rat Saw God.

Drayton Farley, Twenty on High.

Witch Ripper, The Flight After the Fall.

Boygenius, The Record.

Buggin, Concrete Cowboys.

Year of the Knife, No Love Lost.

Jesus Piece, …So Unknown.

Dreamwell, In My Saddest Dreams, I am Beside You.

Fiddlehead, Death is Nothing to Us.

Zulu, A New Tomorrow.

Militarie Gun, Life Under the Gun.

Hellripper, Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags.

Gel, Only Constant.

Blood Ceremony, The Old Ways Remain.

Frozen Soul, Glacial Domination.

Baroness, Stone.

Tomb Mold, The Enduring Spirit.

Dream Unending, Song of Salvation.

Dream Unending & Worm, Starpath.

Scowl, Psychic Dance Routine.

Ulthar, Anthronomicon/Helionomicon.

Poison Ruïn, Härvest.

Mitski, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We.

Judiciary, Flesh + Blood.

Zach Bryan, Zach Bryan.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Weathervanes.

Dean Johnson, Nothing for Me, Please.

William Prince, Stand in the Joy.

Myrkur, Spine.

Sunny War, Anarchist Gospel.

Tyler Childers, ‘Rustin’ In the Rain.

Margo Price, Strays.

Dying Wish, Symptoms of Survival.

Restless Spirit, Afterimage.

Horrendous, Ontological Mysterium.

Cannibal Corpse, Chaos Horrific.

Radiant Knife, Pressure.

Domkraft, Sonic Moons.

The Keening, Little Bird.

The Otolith, Folium Limina.

Fuming Mouth, Last Day of Sun.

End, The Sin of Human Frailty.

Cattle Decapitation, Terrasite.

Samiam, Stowaway.

Wayfarer, American Gothic.

Mutoid Man, Mutants.

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2024 at 4:37 PM

    My list of music to buy just got longer. Thanks, seriously.

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