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Listening Habits: camusunder's 2023 in Review

"'Tis midnight's holy hour, and silence now 
Is brooding like a gentle spirit o'er 
The still and pulseless world. Hark! on the winds 
The bell's deep tones are swelling,—'tis the knell 
Of the departed year."

George D. Prentice

Another year of music. I'm coming close to the end of my college experience, but there's still work to be done...despite, and necessarily because of, this, music has been a refuge and a balm for me. Though it might seem that the rolling of the boulder up the hill is pointless, at least there are things that make it bearable.

Below are my 100 top played artists of the year. The format is: #. Artist  ||  Genres  ||  Top 3 Most Played Songs.

As always, this list is important to me to record my musical taste's development and my listening habits, but I also hope that anyone reading can get some good recommendations from it. Be sure to search for your favorite genres!

Cheers. Happy Holidays.

1. Akira Yamaoka  ||  Trip Hop, Video Game Soundtrack, Electronic  ||  Waiting For You, Tender Sugar, I Want Love (Studio Mix)

2. Chelsea Wolfe  ||  Ethereal Wave, Gothic Rock, Dark Folk  ||  Diana, Friedrichschain, Demons

3. Manic Street Preachers  ||  Alternative Rock, Post-Punk, Hard Rock, Britpop  ||  Yes, Be Natural, Archives of Pain

4. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds  ||  Post-Punk, Gothic Rock, Punk Blues, Ambient, Alternative Rock, Art Rock  ||  The Mercy Seat, Spinning Song, Red Right Hand

5. Xiu Xiu  ||  Experimental, Indie Rock, Post-Industrial  ||  Apistat Commander, Falling, Blue Frank / Pink Room

6. Radiohead  ||  Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Electronic, Art Pop, Experimental Rock  ||  Little by Little, Ful Stop, Karma Police

7. Swans  ||  Experimental Rock, Experimental, Post-Rock  ||  Paradise Is Mine, Michael Is Done, The Beggar

8. PJ Harvey  ||  Alternative Rock, Grunge, Art Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Chamber Folk  ||  A Noiseless Noise, The Dancer, Long Snake Moan

9. Talking Heads  ||  New Wave, Post-Punk  ||  The Great Curve, Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On), Burning Down the House

10. Sufjan Stevens  ||  Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Folktronica, Indie Folk  ||  Goodbye Evergreen, So You Are Tired, Will Anybody Ever Love Me?

11. Björk  ||  Art Pop, Experimental Pop, Ambient Pop, Electronic, Trip Hop  ||  New World, Enjoy, All Neon Like

12. Portishead  ||  Trip Hop, Electronic, Acid Jazz, Experimental Rock, Krautrock  ||  Silence, Hunter, Over  

13. Yo La Tengo  ||  Indie Rock, Noise Pop  ||  Aselestine, Tonight's Episode, Damage

14. At the Drive-In  ||  Post-Hardcore  ||  Enfliade, Arcarsenal, Invalid Litter Dept.

15. The Drones  ||  Punk Blues, Experimental Rock  ||  Nine Eyes, I See Seaweed, Why Write a Letter That You'll Never Send

16. Fever Ray  ||  Art Pop, Experimental Pop, Post-Industrial  ||  What They Call Us, Carbon Dioxide, If I Had a Heart

17. Low  ||  Slowcore, Experimental Rock, Indie Rock, Ambient Pop  ||  Murderer, The Price You Pay (It Must Be Wearing Off), All Night

18. Anathema  ||  Doom Metal, Alternative Rock  ||  A Fine Day, Release, Deep

19. Mac Quayle  ||  Television Soundtrack, Horror Synth, Synthwave  ||  3.5_8-w3-did-it.sib, 3.5_2-wheelbarrow.red, 1.0_8-whatsyourask.m4p

20. Modest Mouse  ||  Indie Rock  ||  3rd Planet, Convenient Parking, The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box

21. Cibo Matto  ||  Trip Hop, Art Pop  ||  Birthday Cake, Sugar Water, Beef Jerky

22. The Joy Formidable  ||  Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Alternative Rock, Shoegaze  ||  The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie, A Heavy Abacus, Austere

23. Eels  ||  Indie Pop, Chamber Pop, Trip Hop  ||  The Medication is Wearing Off, Efil's God, Flyswatter

24. Kate Bush  ||  Art Pop, Experimental Rock, Art Rock  ||  Sat in Your Lap, Suspended in Gaffa, Get Out of My House

25. Arcade Fire  ||  Indie Rock, Chamber Rock  ||  Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels), Suburban War, Empty Room

26. Deerhunter  ||  Indie Rock, Shoegaze, Noise Pop  ||  Helicopter, Microcastle, Nothing Ever Happened

27. Lena Raine  ||  Video Game Music, Bitpop, Synth  ||  Confronting Myself, Scattered and Lost, First Steps

28. Broken Social Scene  ||  Indie Rock, Post-Rock  ||  Sweetest Kill, World Sick, Texico Bitches

29. Leonard Cohen  ||  Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Folk  ||  Sing Another Song, Boys, Suzanne, Famous Blue Raincoat

30. St. Vincent  ||  Art Pop, Art Rock  ||  Prince Johnny, Chloe in the Afternoon, Rattlesnake

31. Kendrick Lamar  ||  West Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Neo Soul  ||  The Art of Peer Pressure, Wesley's Theory, DNA.

32. Broken Bells  ||  Indie Pop  ||  Fade Away, The Ghost Inside, Trap Doors

33. Aphex Twin  ||  Experimental Electronic, IDM, Glitch Pop  ||  Xtal, Finberbib, Avril 14th

34. Ulver  ||  Black Metal, Experimental, Post-Industrial, Electronic  ||  Christmas, In the Red, Operator

35. Black Country, New Road  ||  Art Rock, Post-Rock, Post-Punk, Experimental Rock  ||  Up Song, Bread Song, Concorde

36. Wire  ||  Post-Punk, Art Punk  ||  Outdoor Miner, Practice Makes Perfect, Another Letter

37. Little Simz  ||  Conscious Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Neo Soul, Orchestral Hip Hop  ||  101 FM, Flowers, Offence

38. Caroline Polacheck  ||  Alt-Pop, Art Pop  ||  Billions, Door, Insomnia

39. Bob Dylan  ||  Contemporary Folk, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter  ||  One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later), I Want You, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

40. Lankum  ||  Irish Folk Music, Folk Rock, Drone  ||  Go Dig My Grave, Lord Abore and Mary Flynn, Clear Away in the Morning

41. Big Thief  ||  Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Contemporary Folk, Americana  ||  Not, Masterpiece, Blue Lightning

42. Depeche Mode  ||  Synthpop, Darkwave, Electronic  ||  Halo, Policy of Truth, Clean  

43. Muse  ||  Alternative Rock  ||  Time Is Running Out, Falling Away With You, Thoughts of a Dying Atheist

44. The Knife  ||  Synthpop, Post-Industrial, Experimental, Drone  ||  Marble House, I Just Had to Die, Full of Fire

45. Cocteau Twins  ||  Ethereal Wave, Post-Punk  ||  Amelia, Lorelei, Ivo

46. Kanye West  ||  Pop Rap, Conscious Hip Hop, Industrial Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop  ||  Black Skinhead, Bound 2, Heartless

47. Massive Attack  ||  Trip Hop  ||  Black Milk, Angel, Teardrop

48. The Smiths  ||  Jangle Pop, Post-Punk  ||  I Know It's Over, There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Bigmouth Strikes Again

49. The Magnetic Fields  ||  Indie Pop  ||  Epitaph for My Heart, The Book of Love, Long-Forgotten Fairytale

50. A Silver Mt. Zion  ||  Post-Rock, Experimental Rock, Chamber Music  ||  Could've Moved Mountains, The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes, Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats of Fire Are Falling From the Sky!

51. Coil  ||  Industrial, Post-Industrial, Experimental  ||  Slur, Fire of the Mind, The Anal Staircase

52. Janelle Monáe  ||  Contemporary R&B, Art Pop, Neo Soul  ||  Dance or Die, Locked Inside, Cold War

53. The Cure  ||  Post-Punk, Gothic Rock  ||  A Forest, One Hundred Years, Cold

54. Sonic Youth  ||  Noise Rock, Experimental Rock  ||  A) The Wonder, The Sprawl, Shadow of a Doubt

55. Brave Little Abacus  ||  Midwest Emo, Post-Hardcore, Experimental Rock  ||  It's a Lot It's Seamless, Remember to Wave When looking Down From the Clouds, The Blah Blah Blahs

56. Pixies  ||  Indie Rock, Alternative Rock  ||  Gigantic, Where Is My Mind?, Tony's Theme

57. Prince  ||  Pop Rock, Funk, Synth Funk  ||  Darling Nikki, When Doves Cry, Let's Go Crazy

58. The Gothic Archies  ||  Gothic Rock, Indie Pop  ||  Smile! No One Cares How You Feel, This Abyss, Dreary, Dreary

59. Everything Everything  ||  Progressive Pop, Art Rock  ||  The Peaks, Jennifer, Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread

60. Interpol  ||  Post-Punk Revival  ||  NYC, Barricade, Untitled

61. dälek  ||  Industrial Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop, Shoegaze  ||  Asylum (Permanent Underclass), Ever Somber, Rouge (Deadverse Remix)

62. David Bowie  ||  Pop Rock, Glam Rock, Experimental Rock, Art Rock  ||  Five Years, Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, Soul Love

63. Sweet Trip  ||  Glitch Pop, Dream Pop, Ambient Techno  ||  Milk, Air Supply, Conservation of Two

64. Hooverphonic  ||  Trip Hop, Shoegaze, Dream Pop  ||  Everytime We Live Together We Die a Bit More, 2 Wicky, Antarctica - Live

65. Lana Del Rey  ||  Art Pop, Alt-Pop  ||  Cruel World, Video Games, The Greatest

66. Model/Actriz  ||  No Wave, Dance Punk, Experimental Rock  ||  Sun In, Donkey Show, Mosquito

67. Colin Stetson  ||  Experimental, Chamber Music, Experimental Jazz  ||  The Stars in His Head (Dark Lights remix), Judges, Lord I Just Can't Keep From Crying

68. Algiers  ||  Post-Punk  ||  Irreversible Damage, Blood, 73%

69. Have a Nice Life  ||  Post-Punk, Post-Rock, Shoegaze  ||  The Big Gloom, A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut, Deep, Deep

70. Fiona Apple  ||  Singer/Songwriter, Piano Rock, Art Pop  ||  On the Bound, Werewolf, Limp

71. FKA twigs  ||  Art Pop, Trip Hop, Wonky  ||  Two Weeks, Preface, Lights On

72. Coldplay  ||  Pop Rock, Britpop, Art Pop  ||  Death and All His Friends, Cemeteries of London, Don't Panic

73. Erykah Badu  ||  Neo Soul, Contemporary R&B  ||  Bag Lady, Didn't Cha Know, ...& On

74. Death Grips  ||  Industrial Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop  ||  Get Got, I've Seen Footage, The Fever (Aye Aye)

75. King Hannah  ||  Alternative Rock, Blues Rock, Trip Hop  ||  Foolius Caesar, A Well-Made Woman, All Being Fine

76. Denali  ||  Indie Rock, Trip Hop  ||  Nullaby, Hold Your Breath, Normal Days

77. Yeah Yeah Yeahs  ||  Garage Rock, Indie Rock, New Rave  ||  Dull Life, Runaway, Zero

78. Florence + the Machine  ||  Art Pop, Chamber Pop, Indie Pop, Indie Rock  ||  Only If for a Night, Dog Days Are Over, Dream Girl Evil

79. Universal Hall Pass  ||  Trip Hop  ||  Tutelary Genius, Avatar, Dragonfly

80. Acoustic Ladyland  ||  Jazz Rock, Experimental Rock  ||  Road Of Bones, Red Sky, Saltwater

81. LCD Soundsystem  ||  Dance Punk, Alternative Dance, Indietronica  ||  North American Scum - Live, You Can't Hide / Shame on You, Tribulations

82. Mother Mother  ||  Indie Rock, Indie Pop  ||  Getaway, Hayloft, Body

83. Sparklehorse  ||  Lo-fi Rock, Indie Rock, Slowcore  ||  Painbirds, Pig, Hey, Joe

84. Elliott Smith  ||  Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk  ||  Say Yes, Angeles, Alameda

85. Strapping Young Lad  ||  Industrial Metal, Progressive Metal, Thrash Metal  ||  Underneath the Waves, All Hail the New Flesh, Love?

86. Sergei Rachmaninoff  ||  Romantic Classical  ||  Prélude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2, Prelude In G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5, Etude-Tableau In A Minor, Op. 39, No. 6

87. Billy Woods  ||  East Coast Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop  ||  Sauvage, As the Crow Flies, Year Zero

88. Alvvays  ||  Jangle Pop, Indie Pop  ||  In Undertow, Saved By a Waif, Dreams Tonite

89. Women  ||  Post-Punk, Lo-fi Rock, Noise Pop  ||  Eyesore, Heat Distraction, China Steps  

90. Tears for Fears  ||  New Wave, Synthpop  ||  Mad World, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Pale Shelter

91. Iron & Wine  ||  Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter  ||  Boy With a Coin, Woman King, Jezebel

92. Porcupine Tree  ||  Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Art Rock  ||  Blackest Eyes, Lazarus, Shallow

93. Scott Walker  ||  Baroque Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Experimental, Post-Industrial  ||  Epizootics!, Clara, SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)

94. DJ Shadow  ||  Trip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Plunderphonics, Turntablism  ||  The Number Song, Building Steam With a Grain of Salt, Midnight in a Perfect World

95. Animal Collective  ||  Neo-Psychedelia, Lo-fi Psychedelic, Art Pop  ||  Peacebone, April and the Phantom, Derek

96. The Avalanches  ||  Plunderphonics, Electronic, Trip Hop, Downtempo  ||  Song For Barbara Payton, Frontier Psychiatrist, Oh the Sunn!

97. Lorde  ||  Alt-Pop, Art Pop  ||  Green Light, Liability, Perfect Places

98. Nick Drake  ||  Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter  ||  Things Behind the Sun, From the Morning, Parasite

99. The Antlers  ||  Indie Rock  ||  Sylvia, Epilogue, Kettering

100. yeule  ||  Ambient Pop, Chillwave, Dreampop  ||  Don't Be So Hard on Your Own Beauty, inferno, Sulky Baby

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