Our team of writers and contributors have diverse tastes. It would appear there wasn’t any true consensus among us and little overlap when it came to our year end picks. While the main "Year in Review" features were picked almost entirely by the Post-Trash editors, we wanted to give all of our contributors a chance to pick their favorites, regardless if the records were covered on our site or not. Everyone was invited to pick their personal top 20 of the year and points were assigned based on rank. An album picked at #1 was given 20 points while an album selected at #20 was awarded a single point and so on. Our contributors' tastes range outside that of our editors, but we wanted to give everyone a chance to share what moved them in 2023. With 22 of our writers submitting their votes, we had 315 different records nominated (which means there weren’t too many repeats) and only the top nine records received a score of sixty or higher.
We're happy to present "Post-Trash's Staff Picks: The Best of 2023" as voted by the entire team (with individual contributor lists below). There were a ton of ties throughout, so editors provided the tie breakers. We hope you enjoy. As always, be sure to support the artists you love. Buy some music.
Álvaro molina:
1. Laurel Halo - Atlas
2. Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity
3. Sleaford Mods - UK Grim
4. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper
5. African Head Charge - A Trip to Bolgatanga
6. Fire! Orchestra - Echoes
7. Panda Bear, Sonic Boom, Adrian Sherwood - Reset in Dub
8. Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination
9. Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X
10. Forest Swords - Bolted
11. Daniel Bachman - When The Roses Come Again
12. Caterina Barbieri - Myuthafoo
13. Overmono - Good Lies
14. Jlin - Perspective
15. Big | Brave - nature morte
16. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse...
17. Hey Colossus - In Blood
18. IIOII - Mora
19. Actress - LXXXVIII
20. Búho Ermitaño - Implosiones
BENJI HEYWOOD:
1. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
2. Ratboys - The Window
3. Pile - All Fiction
4. Nesting - Drag All the Lights Inside
5. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
6. Great Falls - Objects Without Pain
7. SUN ORGAN - Candlelight Showertime
8. ICECOLDBISHOP - GENERATIONAL CURSE
9. feeble little horse - Girl with Fish
10. Big | Brave - nature morte
11. Gia Margaret - Romantic Piano
12. FACS - Still Life in Decay
13. Stuck - Freak Frequency
14. PJ Harvey - I inside The Old World Dying
15. Hannah Jadagu - Aperture
16. Home Is Where - The Whaler
17. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
18. Mette Henriette - Drifting
19. Gorgeous - Sapsucker
20. Horse Jumper of Love - Heartbreak Rules
calvin staropoli:
1. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
2. MJ Lenderman - And the Wind (Live and Loose!)
3. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
4. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
5. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
6. shame - Food For Worms
7. Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under ocean boulevard
8. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
9. Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy
10. Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire
11. Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall
12. Black Thought & El Michels Affair - Glorious Game
13. Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
14. boygenius - the record
15. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
16. Amaarae - Fountain Baby
17. Meg Baird - Furling
18. Sluice - Radial Gate
19. Nappy Nina - Mourning Due
20. Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
chris coplan:
1. The Ooz – Sub Human
2. Origami Angel - The Brightest Days
3. Spiritual Cramp – Spiritual Cramp
4. Malnourishment – Antiseptics
5. Prof – Horse
6. Motorbike – S/T
7. Single Mothers – Roy
8. Bill Orcutt - Jump On It
9. Lewsberg – Out And About
10. Current Affairs – Off The Tongue
11. Cel Ray – Cellular Raymond
12. The Menscheviks – Enough Ropey
13. Nick Shoulders – All Bad
14. Eaten By Snakes – Peace and Love
15. Spiral Dub – Spiral Dub
16. PACKS – Crispy Crunchy Nothing
17. Class – If You've Got Nothing
18. Meatraffle – Base and Superstructure
19. FACS – Still Life In Decay
20. Die Spitz – Teeth
CHRIS LIBERATO:
1. Son of Dribble – Son of Drib Against the Wind
2. Fortunato Durutti Marinetti – Eight Waves In Search Of An Ocean
3. Infinite River – Prequel
4. The Tubs – Dead Meat
5. EXEK – The Map and the Territory
6. Terry – Call Me Terry
7. Dippers – Clastic Rock
8. Wireheads – Potentially Venus
9. Esther Rose – Safe To Run
10. Sarah Mary Chadwick – Messages To God
11. The Clientele – I Am Not There Anymore
12. Lonnie Holley – Oh Me Oh My
13. Wurld Series – The Giant’s Lawn
14. Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band – Dancing on the Edge
15. bobbie – rhododendron
16. Dougie Poole – The Rainbow Wheel of Death
17. CIA Debutante – Down, Willow
18. Sky Furrows – Reflect and Oppose
19. Anthony Milton – More Small Songs
20. Spice World – There’s No I in Spice World
DAN GOLDIN *:
1. EXEK - The Map and The Territory
2. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
3. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
4. Blacklisters - Auf Dem Tisch
5. SPLLIT - Infinite Hatch
6. Stuck - Freak Frequency
7. En Attendant Ana - Principia
8. Cel Ray - Cellular Raymond + Piss Park
9. Tha God Fahim - Dump Gawd Reloaded + Iron Bull
10. Hyperdontia - Deranged
11. Meyhem Lauren, DJ Muggs, & Madlib - Champagne For Breakfast
12. Rome Streetz - Noise Kandy 5
13. Helvetia - The Beach At The Edge of the World
14. Modern Cosmology - What Will You Grow Now?
15. Deerhoof - Miracle-Level
16. Water From Your Eyes - Everyone’s Crushed
17. Ulrika Spacek - Compact Trauma”
18. Florry - The Holey Bible
19. Borzoi - Neither The One Nor The Other, But A Mockery of Both
20. Enforced - War Remains
danny cooper:
1. Wednesday – Rat Saw God
2. feeble little horse – Girl with Fish
3. bar italia – Tracey Denim
4. Computerwife – Computerwife
5. Lana Del Rey – Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
6. PACKS – Crispy Crunchy Nothing
7. Palehound – Eye On The Bat
8. Tzusing – Green Hat
9. L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog
10. Militarie Gun – Life Under The Gun
11. Sparklehorse – Bird Machine
12. PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying
13. Avalon Emerson – & the Charm
14. Sufjan Stevens – Javelin
15. Soccer Mommy – Karaoke Night
16. Dari Bay – Longest Day Of The Year
17. Nerver / Chat Pile – Brothers in Christ
18. Midwife / Vyva Melinkolya – Orbweaving
19. The Drin – Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
20. Narrow Head – Moments of Clarity
ELIZABETH BRAATEN:
1. Slow Pulp - Yard
2. Vagabon - Sorry I Haven’t Called
3. Squirrel Flower - Tomorrow’s Fire
4. Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire
5. Subsonic Eye - All Around You
6. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
7. Girl Ray - Prestige
8. Roper Williams - Infinite Victory Loop
9. L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog
10. Mega Bog - End of Everything
11. Sun June - Bad Dream Jaguar
12. Exercise - Ipso Facto
13. Silver Car Crash - Shattered Shine
14. A Beacon School - yoyo
15. Speedy Ortiz - Rabbit Rabbit
16. 7xvethegenius & DJ Green Lantern - The Genius Tape
17. MANSDEM and Filip Neuf - Duck Soup
18. Tyvek - Overground
19. The Lentils - Hello Jane Goodall, Are You Listening?
20. Goo - Squid Ink Sky
EMMANUEL CASTILLO:
1. Empty Country - Empty Country II
2. Home is Where - the whaler
3. Gel - Only Constant
4. Pardoner - Peace Loving People
5. Buggin - Concrete Cowboys
6. Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA - Scaring the Hoes
7. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
8. Guided By Voices - Welshpool Frillies
9. Stuck - Freak Frequency
10. MSPAINT - Post American
11. PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
12. Gumm - Slogan Machine
13. Kinsella and Pulse - Giddy Skelter
14. Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist - Voir Dire
15. Katie Dey - Never Falter Hero Girl
16. Blanket Fort - Rejoice
17. Noname - Sundial
18. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
19. Truth Cult - Walk the Wheel
20. The Mountain Goats - Jenny From Thebes
george probert:
1. Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
2. MC Yallah - Yallah Beibe
3. Danny Brown & JPEGMAFIA - Scaring The Hoes
4. Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush Hall
5. Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Saved!
6. Conic Rose - Heller Tag
7. Anohi & The Johnsons - My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
8. feeble little horse - Girl With Fish
9. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Wanna Turn Into You
10. 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs
11. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
12. Wicca Phase Springs Eternal - Wicca Phase Springs Eternal
13. Mandy, Indiana - i’ve seen a way
14. Jim Legxcy - Homeless N**** Pop Music
15. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
16. Nicole Dollanganger - Married In Mount Eerie
17. Xiupill - Pure Rockets
18. Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Which Chews…
19. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
20. Hannah Diamond - Picture Perfect
ANNA solomon:
1. Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy
2. awakebutstillinbed - chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger
3. Home Is Where - The Whaler
4. Underscores - Wallsocket
5. boygenius - the record
6. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
7. Haken - Fauna
8. Gabe Lee - Drink the River
9. Linda May Han Oh - The Glass Hours
10. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy
11. Trust Fund Ozu - FAYE DOUBT
12. Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya - Orbweaving
13. Me Lost Me - RPG
14. Kara Jackson - Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love
15. Agriculture - Agriculture
16. Wilco - Cousin
17. Mandy, Indiana - I've Seen a Way
18. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs
19. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
20. Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask
JOHN GLAB:
1. MSPAINT - Post-American
2. feeble little horse = Girl with Fish
3. Washer - Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends
4. Sword II - Spirit World Tour
5. Club Eat - Start
6. Home Is Where - The Whaler
7. Full Body 2 - Infinity Signature
8. Growing Pains - Thought I Heard Your Car
9. gapyear / Koshe - Split
10. XCII - Wants and Needs
11. Mitsubishi Suicide - Mitsubishi Suicide
12. George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Yah
13. Tanukichan - Gizmo
14. Mandy, Indiana - i’ve seen a way
15. Water From Your Eyes - Everyone’s Crushed
16. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
17. Poison Ruïn - Härvest
18. Star 99 - Bitch Unlimited
19. Gaadge - Somewhere Down Below
20. Windows 96 - How to See Through Walls
jordan michael:
1. FACS - Still Life In Decay
2. Oozing Wound - We Cater To Cowards
3. Tirzah - trip9love…???
4. James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
5. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
6. Big | Brave - nature morte
7. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
8. PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying
9. Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease
10. Speedy Ortiz - Rabbit Rabbit
11. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
12. KEN Mode - VOID
13. Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
14. Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert
15. Spencer Krug - I Just Drew This Knife
16. Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2 - The Kinetic Infinite
17. Anatomy of Habit - Black Openings
18. Stuck - Freak Frequency
19. Baroness - STONE
20. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
LAYTON GUYTON:
1. Water From Your Eyes - Everyone’s Crushed
2. Nourished By Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
3. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
4. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
5. Amaarae - Fountain Baby
6. Mormon Toasterhead - Free Wheel
7. Shame - Food for Worms
8. King Krule - Space Heavy
9. MIKE - Burning Desire
10. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
11. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
12. Colloboh - Saana Sahel EP
13. Protomartry - Formal Growth in the Desert
14. Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and So are We
15. Geese - 3D Country
16. Avalon Emerson - & the Charm
17. Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
18. Laurel Halo - Atlas
19. Florry - The Holey Bible
20. Vangas - Vangas
matt watton:
1. Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World
2. A. Savage – Several Songs About Fire
3. Arbor Labor Union – Yonder
4. Pardoner – Peace Loving People
5. Osees – Intercepted Message
6. Being Dead – When Horse Would Run
7. Terry – Call Me Terry
8. Lewsberg – Out and Abouts
9. Foyer Red – Yarn the Hours Away
10. Diners - Domino
11. The Tubs – Dead Meat
12. Dippers – Clastic Rock
13. Marnie Stern – The Comeback Kid
14. Feeling Figures – Migration Magic
15. Sweeping Promises – Good Living Is Coming For You
16. Ex Cowboy – Mr. Frog
17. Famous Mammals – Instant Pop Expressionism Now!
18. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – These Things Remain Unassigned
19. Stuck – Freak Frequency
20. Tough Age – Waiting Here
matty mcpherson:
1. Arthur Russell - Picture of Bunny Rabbit
2. Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation
3. Westelaken - I Am Steaming Mushrooms
4. Kelela - Raven
5. KATE NV - Wow
6. Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
7. Cole Pulice - If I Don't See You In the Future, I'll See You In the Pasture
8. Mattie Barbier - This Is What People Think Mountains Look Like
9. Nyokabi Kariuki - Resonant Body
10. DJ Ramon Succeso - Sexta dos Crías
11. En Attendant Ana - Principia
12. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
13. Emergency Group - Inspection of Cruelty
14. Strategy - Graffiti in Space
15. Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My
16. Jamie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (world war)
17. Heejin Jang - Me and the Glassbirds
18. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
19. Melenas - Ahora
20. Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X
PATRICK PILCH:
1. Nyxy Nyx - Anything
2. MIKE - Burning Desire
3. Surf Gang + 454 - Fast 5
4. ML Buch - Suntub
5. Nourished By Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
6. Silicone Prairie - Vol. II
7. Tisakorean - Let Me Update My Status
8. Florry - Sweet Guitar Solos EP
9. Bruiser and Bicycle - Holy Red Wagon
10. Sun Organ - Candlelight Showertime
11. Pedazo De Carne Con Ojo - Pedazo
12. Laurel Halo - Atlas
13. Dalibor Cruz - Elude Jaundiced Eyes
14. Anysia Kym/Jadasea - Pressure Sensitive
15. Sword II - Spirit World Tour
16. Meg Baird - Furling
17. Webb Chapel - Speeding
18. Babybaby_explores - Food Near Me, Weather Tomorrow|
19. Babyxsosa - Babyxsosa
20. Guitar Fight From Fooly Cooly - Drought
scott yohe:
1. En Attendant Ana - Principia
2. Animal Collective - Isn't It Now?
3. Washer - Improved Means to Deteriorated Ends
4. Sprain- Lamb as Effigy
5. Wireheads - Potentially Venus
6, billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
7. Guided By Voices - La La Land
8. Arbor Labor Union - Yonder
9. Baked & The Zells - Queensbouroguh
10. Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
11. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
12. The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony
13. McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
14. Danny Brown - Quaranta
15. Snooper - Super Snooper
16. Angel Olsen - Forever Means
17. Full of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination
18. Pile - All Fiction
19. Sonic Youth - Live in Brooklyn
20. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
SELINA YANG:
1. Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy
2. Pile - All Fiction
3. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
4. betcover!! - 馬
5. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
6. Subsonic Eye - All Around You
7. Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert
8. Marnie Stern - Comeback Kid
9. Jockstrap - I<3UQTINVU
10. Boris - Heavy Rocks (Reissue)
11. Miss Tiny - DEN7
12. Godcaster - Godcaster
13. Lewsberg - Out and About
14. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
15. …and then what - …and then what
16. Wurld Series - The Giant’s Lawn
17. Nate Dionne - Fantasy
18. Cafe Racer - Words in Error
19. Feefawfum - 100
20. Troye Sivan - Something To Give
shea Roney:
1. mui zyu - Rotten Bun For an Eggless Century
2. Sister. - Abundance
3. Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
4. PACKS - Crispy Crunchy Nothing
5. The Spookfish - Bear in the Snow
6. Sluice - Radial Gate
7. Al Menne - Freak Accident
8. Pickle Darling - Laundromat
9. Allegra Krieger - I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
10. Fenne Lily - Big Picture
11. Squirrel Flower - Tomorrow’s Fire
12. Free Range - Practice
13. Lisa/Liza - Breaking and Meanding
14. Annie Blackman - Bug EP
15. Florry - The Holey Bible
16. Pompey - ionlyfitinyourarms
17. Haley Blais - Wisecrack
18. Shady Bug - What’s the Use?
19. The GOLDEN DREGS - On Grace and Dignity
20. Diners - DOMINO
TAYLOR RUCKLE:
1. Yves Tumor - Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume (Or Simply; Hot Between Worlds)
2. Bully - Lucky For You
3. Sweeping Promises - Good Living Is Coming For You
4. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps
5. Danny Brown & JPEGMAFIA - Scaring the Hoes
6. Sunny War - Anarchist Gospel
7. McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
8. MSPAINT - Post-American
9. The Mountain Goats - Jenny From Thebes
10. Pink Navel and Kenny Segal - How To Capture Playful
11. Fatboi Sharif - Decay
12. Ratboys - The Window
13. Home is Where - The Whaler
14. James Brandon Lewis - Eye of I
15. Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
16. Kara Jackson - Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
17. exciting!!excellent!! - you will watch me die
18. ME REX - Giant Elk
19. Open Mike Eagle - another triumph of ghetto engineering
20. One’s a Crowd - Fictorian Era//Bedroom Pomp
ZAK MERCADO:
1. En Attendant Ana - Principia
2. Wednesday - Rat Saw God
3. Greg Mendez - s/t
4. Blondshell - Blondshell
5. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse…
6. Colloboh - Saana Sahel
7. Greg Foat & Art Themen - Off-Piste
8. Pearl & The Oysters - Coast 2 Coast
9. billy woods and Kenny Segal - Maps
10. Natural Information Society - Since Time is Gravity
11. The Bug Club - Rare Birds: Hour of Song
12. Radiator Hospital - Can’t Make Any Promises
13. Jana Horn - The Window is the Dream
14. King Krule - Space Heavy
15. The Lost Days - In the Store
16. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
17. R.M.F.C. - Club Hits
18. Tee Vee Repairmann - What’s On TV?
19. Sarah Davachi - Long Gradus
20. Pan American - In Daylight Dub