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MaxSounds 2023 Top 20

1. The National • First 2 Pages of Frankenstein
2. The National • Laugh Track
3. Steven Wilson • The Harmony Codex
4. Depeche Mode • Memento Mori
5. Olivia Rodrigo • Guts
6. Lightning Dust • Nostalgia Killer
7. The New Pornographers • Continue As Guest
8. Metric • Formentera II
9. Ladytron • Time’s Arrow
10. Geese • 3D Country
11. The Church • Hypnogogue
12. Feist • Multitudes
13. The Kills • God Games
14. Portugal. The Man • Chris Black Changed My Life
15. Mitski • The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We
16. Louise Post • Sleepwalker
17. Slowdive • Everything is Alive
18. Death Valley Girls • Islands In the Sky
19. Louise Burns • Element
20. Temples • Exotica

Bonus Album

• Wimps • City Lights

More Notable LPs & Late Discoveries

• Alberta Cross • Sinking Ships
• Descartes A Kant • After Destruction
• Margo Price • Strays
• Pacifica • Freak Scene
• Raveonettes • Present: Rip It Off
• Tiny Ruins • Ceremony
• Wilco • Cousin

ROCK: Hard • Classic • Prog • Post • Metal

• Arkona • Коб
• Baroness • Stone
• Blood Ceremony • The Old Ways Remain
• Greta Van Fleet • Starcatcher
• Mammoth • Mammoth WVH II
• Metallica • 72 Season
• Within Temptation • Bleed Out

POP MATTERS

• Baby Queen • Quarter Life Crisis
• Caroline Polacheck • Desire, I want to Turn Into You
• Chappel Roan • The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

ELECTRONIC

• Allison Goldfrapp • The Love Invention
• Oh Land • Loop Soup

Notable LP’s from OG Artists

• Depeche Mode • Memento Mori
• Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark • Bauhaus Suitcase
• Rain Parade • Last Rays of a Dying Sun