2023 Year End Staff Picks!
It’s that time of year! When the Repo staff reflects on the past 11-12 months, trying to remember what we loved listening to. There’s always at least one collective favorite- the album at least 4/9 of us REALLY liked- but for the most part, we’re proud to say that everyone brings different interests to the table… check it out:
ANNELIESE
New Releases:
1) Narrow Head - Moments Of Clarity
2) Travis Scott - Utopia
3) Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.?
4) 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gets
5) Slowdive - everything is alive
6) Westside Gunn - And Then You Pray For Me
7) Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
8) Yeule -softscars
9) Jesus Piece - So Unknown
10) Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
11) Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
Reissues:
1) Deftones - s/t (20th anniv.)
2) Slowdive - s/t
3) Slint - Spiderland
4) Avril Lavigne - Let Go
5) Hum catalog
DAN (Fair Deal)
New Releases:
1) Nation of Language - Strange Disciple
2) Follakzoid - V
3) Wednesday - Rat Saw God
4) Bar Italia - The Twits
5) Sextile - Push
Reissues:
1) Grey Factor - 1979-1980 A.D. Complete Studio Recordings
2) Catherine Wheel - Chrome
3) Tears For Fears - The Hurting
4) The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
JONATHAN
New Releases:
1) The Beatles - “Now and Then”
2) IDLES x LCD Soundsytem - “Dancer”
3) Mac DeMarco - One Wayne G
Reissues:
1) Breeders - Last Splash (30th Anniv.)
2) Mac DeMarco - Some Other Ones
3) Ryo Fukui - Scenery
JACCI
New Releases:
1) Narrowhead - Moments Of Clarity
2) Drain - Living Proof
3) Poison Ruin - Harvest
4) Folk Implosion - Music For KIDS
5) Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
6) Gaadge - Somewhere Down Below
7) Overmono - Good Lies
Reissues:
1) Julee Cruise - Floating
2) Bowery Electric - s/t
3) Dorothy Ashby - The Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby
4) Curve - Doppelgänger
5) Pharaoh Sanders - Pharoah
6) Corm - Audio Flame Kit
7) Avril Lavigne - Let Go
8) Joni Mitchell (anything reissued)
9) Harold Budd - The White Arcades
10) Superheaven - Jar
JOE
New Releases:
1) The New Pornographers - Continue as a Guest
2) Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
3) Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
4) Wilco - Cousin
Reissues:
1) DEVO - 50 Years of De-Evolution 1973-2023
2) David Bowie (anything reissued)
3) John Coltrane - Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
4) Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol.17
5) The Beatles - red and blue reissues
6) The New Pornographers - Electric Version
7) The Replacements - Tim (Let It Bleed ed.)
MEGAN
New Releases:
1) 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs
2) Citizen - Calling the Dogs
3) Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
4) Paramore - This Is Why
5) Movements - Ruckus
6) Blur - The Ballad of Darren
Reissues:
1) Breeders - Last Splash (30th Anniv.)
2) Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture (50th Anniversary Edition)
3) Greenday - Dookie (30th Anniv.)
4) Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
5) Avril Lavigne - Let Go
KEEF
New Releases:
1) Home Front - Games Of Power
2) The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
3) The Dead Milkmen -Quaker City Quiet Pills
4) Fontaines D.C. - “Cello Song”
5) Yung Nudy x 21 Savage - “Peaches & Eggplants”
6) Lil Bambinos - Town Watch
7) The Hives - The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons
8) slowthai - UGLY
9) Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly
10) JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES
11) CHAI - s/t
12) Sexxy Red - Hood Hottest Princess
13) FIDLAR - unpplug
Reissues:
1) The Replacements - Tim (Let It Bleed ed.)
2) David Bowie - A Divine Symmetry (an alternative journey through Hunky Dory)
3) Mort Garson - Journey to the Moon
4) Johnny Thunders - Finally Alone : The Sticks & Stones Tapes
5) New York Dolls - Dawn of The Dolls
6) The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
7) De La Soul - 3 Feet High & Rising
8) The Strokes - The Singles box
9) Viagra Boys - Cave World (deluxe)
10) Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia go deo
11) Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
MEEME
New Releases:
1) Narrow Head - Moments Of Clarity
2) V/A - Ecuatoriana : El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 (Analog Africa No.37)
3) Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
4) 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs
5) Overmono - Good Lies
6) Home Front - Games Of Power
7) Victoria Monet - Jaguar II
8) Upchuck - Bite The Hand That Feeds
9) Sextile - Push
10) Tirzah - trip9love…???
Reissues:
1) Dorothy Ashby - The Rubaiyat Of Dorothy Ashby
2) Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah
3) Hum catalog
4) Laraaji - Segue To Infinity
5) Lync - These Are Not Fall Colors
SOPHIA
New Releases:
1) Carly Rae Jepsen - The Lovliest Time
2) 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs
3) Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
4) Glume - Child Actor
5) Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
6) Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
7) Nation of Language - Strange Disciple
8) Confidence Man x DJ Seinfeld - “Now U Do”
9) Lauren Mayberry - “Shame”
10) La Roux x Chromeo - “Discoproof”
11) Charli XCX - “Speed Drive”
Reissues:
1) New Order - Substance
2) The B-52’s - Cosmic Thing
3) Love and Rockets - Express
4) Basement Jaxx - Rooty