2023 April and (M)a(y)lbums of the Month

January: 72|February: 75|March: 102|April: 68|May: 79| 2023 running total: 396

On a personal and professional level, April and May got busy af, so time constraints have me leaving you with mostly just the albums to listen to sans my boring description of how they made me feel or how they’re arranged musically, blah blah blah. Based on responses (or lack thereof), that depth of analysis may or may not return for June.

Hit us in the comments section here or on the Rev N Bone podcast if you’d like to tell me the bonehead moves I made or albums I missed over the last two months.

In any case, April and May saw some good, bad, and ugly drop. Here are my picks for the subjectively “good” category…

APRIL

Daughter: Stereo Mind Game

“I’ll meet you on another planet if the planets change.” 🤌

El Michels Affair & Black Thought: Glorious Game

Dinner Party: Enigmatic Society

Terrace Martin and Robert Glasper, together at last!

Neil Gaiman, FourPlay String Quartet: Signs of Life:

Möbius Strip is next level.

Feist: Multitudes

Petite Noir: MotherFather

Everything But The Girl: Fuse

Rodrigo y Gabriela: In Between Thoughts…A New World

Tiësto: DRIVE:

Many of the songs on this album aren’t necessarily new, so I’m not sure this album qualifies. It is, however, chock full of dance floor bangers from the “godfather of EDM,” so leap in if you’re feelin’ froggy.

Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley: Chapter 2 – Swamp Savant

Avalon Emerson: & The Charm:

Fun fact about me, I’m a sucker for ampersands.

Baby Rose: Through and Through

MAY

The Ocean: Holocene

❗️🚨 Album of the Year contender alert! 🚨❗️

SBTRKT: THE RAT ROAD

Sleep Token: Take Me Back To Eden

Witch Prophet: Gateway Experience

Flume: Arrived Anxious, Left Bored

Atmosphere: So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously

Lil Durk: Almost Healed

Jidenna: ME YOU & GOD

All Hail Y.T.: ILL GOTTEN GAINS

Alison Goldfrapp: The Love Invention

Fatoumata Diawara: London Ko

Veil of Maya: [m]other

Album cover art of the year contender…

Lemme know what y’all are listening to, what you liked from this list, what I missed, who ya kissed, what’s got ya pissed. I’m here for it and here for you. 🤟