Elynna's Top 25 of 2023 |
1 | | Lankum False Lankum
Irish Folk Music | Drone
Ireland
Highlight(s): Go Dig My Grave | Clear Away in the Morning | Newcastle | Lord Abore and Mary Flynn (SOTY)
Link: https://lankum.bandcamp.com/album/false-lankum |
2 | | Tenhi Valkama
Dark Folk | Nordic Folk Music
Finland
Highlight(s): Saattue | Valkama | Rannankukka | Hele | Ulapoi
Link: https://tenhi.bandcamp.com/album/valkama |
3 | | Horrendous Ontological Mysterium
Progressive Death Metal
USA - Pennsylvania
Highlight(s): Cult of Shaad’oah | The Death Knell Ringeth
Link: https://horrendous.bandcamp.com/album/ontological-mysterium |
4 | | Mio (NOR) Ingen tid å miste
Nordic Folk Rock | Progressive Folk
Norway
Highlight(s): Morgenstjerne | Alene | Huldra | Dragen og hvalen
Link: https://mioofficial.bandcamp.com/album/ingen-tid-miste |
5 | | Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current
Avant-Garde Metal | Black Metal
Norway
Highlight(s): Et smelter | Halow | Det tomme kalde mørke
Link: https://peaceville.bandcamp.com/album/black-medium-current |
6 | | OXN CYRM
Irish Folk Music | Drone
Ireland
Highlight(s): Cruel Mother | The Wife of Michael Cleary | Farmer in The City
Available on Spotify and AppleMusic |
7 | | Chunyang Yao Post-Oblivion 泯默集
Drone | Experimental | Ritual Ambient
China
Highlight(s): 歇泉 Geyser | 旁旁 Beside Her | Ayudabuya
Link: https://dustyballz.bandcamp.com/album/post-oblivion |
8 | | Sakaue Masumi Circle Color
Irish Folk Music
Japan
Highlight(s): Lord Galway’s Lament | Bruach Na Carraige Baine | Drunken Tinker / Ivy Leaf / Wild Irishman | Isabella Burke | Dingles View
Available on Spotify and AppleMusic |
9 | | Kostnateni Úpal
Black Metal | Avant-Garde Metal
USA - Minnesota
Highlight(s): Skrýt se před Bohem (Hide From God) | Nevolnost je vše, čím jsem (Nausea Is All I Am) | Slunce svázáno s krvácející Zemí (Sun Bound to the Bleeding Earth)
Link: https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/pal |
10 | | Panopticon The Rime of Memory
Atmospheric Black Metal
USA - Minnesota
Highlight(s): Cedar Skeletons
Link: https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/the-rime-of-memory |
11 | | Minwhee Lee 미래의 고향 (Hometown to Come)
Chamber Folk | Singer-Songwriter | Contemporary Folk
South Korea
Highlight(s): Highlights | 푸른 꽃 (Blue Flower) | 무대륙 (Lost Land) | 미래의 고향 (Hometown to Come)
Link: https://minhwi-lee.bandcamp.com/album/hometown-to-come |
12 | | Fossilization Leprous Daylight
Death Metal | Doom Death Metal
Brazil
Highlight(s): Once Was God | Oracle of Reversion | At the Heart of the Nest
Link: https://everlastingspewrecords.bandcamp.com/album/leprous-daylight |
13 | | Virginia Astley The Singing Places
Neoclassical New Age | Field Recordings | Ambient
UK
Highlight(s): The Singing Places
Link: https://virginiaastley.bandcamp.com/album/the-singing-places |
14 | | Lisa O'Neill All Of This Is Chance
Irish Folk Music
Ireland
Highlight(s): Silver Seed | Old Note | The Globe
Link: https://lisa-oneill.bandcamp.com/album/all-of-this-is-chance |
15 | | Carloman Carloman III
Baroque Pop | Neo-Medieval Folk Music | Indietronica | Neo-Psychedelia
USA - New York
Highlight(s): Tableau Vivant | Stars | The Serpent and the Swan
Link: https://carloman.bandcamp.com/album/carloman-iii |
16 | | Ling Tosite Sigure last aurorally
Post-hardcore
Japan
Highlight(s): Super Sonic Aurorally | Tatsumaite Sennou | self-hacking | Metsubo craft
Available on Spotify and AppleMusic |
17 | | Saturnus The Storm Within
Doom Death Metal | Gothic Metal
Denmark
Highlight(s): Chasing Ghosts | The Calling | Closing the Circle | Breathe New Life
Link: https://saturnus-official.bandcamp.com/album/the-storm-within |
18 | | ...and Oceans As in Gardens, So in Tombs
Symphonic Black Metal | Melodic Black Metal
Finland
Highlight(s): As in Gardens, So in Tombs | The Collector and his Construct | Lik Törnen Genom Kött | Cloud Heads | Wine Into Water
Link: https://andoceans.bandcamp.com/album/as-in-gardens-so-in-tombs |
19 | | Song Soon Dan 송순단 무가 II
Korean Folk Music
South Korea
Highlight(s): 안당 | 손님굿 | 길닦음
Available on Spotify and AppleMusic |
20 | | Drawn Bow Visions
Avant-Folk | Drone | Noise | Neofolk
USA - Virginia
Highlight(s): Visions I – IV
Link: https://drawnbow.bandcamp.com/album/visions |
21 | | Enslaved Heimdal
Progressive Black Metal
Norway
Highlight(s): Congelia | Forest Dweller | Kingdom | Caravans to the Outer Worlds
Link: https://enslaved.bandcamp.com/album/heimdal |
22 | | renge 灯りたち (Lights)
Psychedelic Folk | Ambient
Japan
Highlight(s): 弔いの日〜貝殻を拾う少女のお話〜 Funeral - The Story of a Girl Collecting Seashells | 雪の朝 Snowy Morning | 静かな果ての小さな鳥 A Little Bird at the Quiet End
Link: https://galaxytrain.bandcamp.com/album/lights |
23 | | Gao Hong and Kadialy Kouyate Terri Kunda
Mande Music | Chinese Folk Music
Senegal | China
Highlight(s): Kora Meets Pipe | Sun Rising | Song of Love
Available on Spotify and AppleMusic |
24 | | Batsukh Dorj Ögbelerim: Music for My Ancestors
Mongolian Throat Singing | Mongolian Folk Music
Mongolia
Highlight(s): Ögbelerim | Kongurei | Jin söörtügjüler
Available on Spotify and AppleMusic |
25 | | Sangre de Muerdago O Vento que Lambe as miñas Feridas
*TOP 25*
Galician Folk Music | Dark Folk
Spain
Highlight(s): O vento que lambe as miñas feridas
Link: https://sangredemuerdago.bandcamp.com/album/o-vento-que-lambe-as-mi-as-feridas-2 |
26 | | Foret Endormie Le désespoir utopique
Neoclassical | Chamber Music | Neofolk
USA - Maine
Highlight(s): Mon esprit ne cessera jamais | La marée mont | Une decision sera prise | Couvrez les fenêtres
Link: https://foretendormie.bandcamp.com/album/le-d-sespoir-utopique-2 |
27 | | Iseul Kim's Two Voices Evolving
Korean Folk Music | Fusion Gugak | Avant-Garde Jazz | Chamber Music
South Korea
Highlight(s): Hunoni | Evolving | Gong Shim (Empty Mind) | Korean’s Sailor Song
Link: https://boomslangrecords.bandcamp.com/album/evolving |
28 | | Cicada (Taiwan) Seeking the Sources of Streams
Chamber Music | Neoclassical New Age
Taiwan
Highlight(s): On the Way to the Glacial Cirque
Link: https://cicada.bandcamp.com/album/seeking-the-sources-of-streams-2 |
29 | | Yara Asmar synth waltzes and accordion laments
Ambient | Electroacoustic | Drone
Lebanon
Highlight(s): Three Clementines on the Counter of a Blue-Tiled Sun-Soaked Kitchen
Link: https://yaraasmar.bandcamp.com/album/synth-waltzes-and-accordion-laments |
30 | | Osterlide Kilden
Norwegian Folk Music | Acapella
Norway
Highlight(s): Haugebonden | Gjeterjenta | Harpo
Link: https://osterlide.bandcamp.com/album/kilden |
31 | | Them Teeth Illfänas
Noise | Avant-Folk | Drone
Sweden
Highlight(s): Du skola aldrig få hvila
Link: https://worksovcauldron.bandcamp.com/album/illf-nas |
32 | | Maroulita de Kol Anásana
Psychedelic Folk | Ambient Pop | Greek Folk Music | Dream Pop
Greece | Germany
Highlight(s): The Water ~ Το Νερό | The Witch ~ Η Μάγισσα | The Lover ~ Ο Καύκος
Link: https://maroulitadekol.bandcamp.com/album/an-sana-2 |
33 | | Paavoharju Yön mustia kukkia
Folktronica | Psychedelic Folk | Ambient Pop | Avant-Folk
Finland
Highlight(s): Pyhään aukiopaikkaan | Taas pyörteisiin eksyn | Yön mustia kukkia | Solmu ajassa
Link: https://fonal.bandcamp.com/album/y-n-mustia-kukkia |
34 | | Veliu Namai Alkai
Ritual Ambient | Ambient Techno | Lithuanian Folk Music
Lithuania
Highlight(s): Aftensinn | Væringjar | Invocation of the Nine-Horned God | The Plateau
Link: https://veliunamai.bandcamp.com/album/alkai |
35 | | Tomb Mold The Enduring Spirit
Death Metal
Canada
Highlight(s): Will of Whispers
Link: https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/the-enduring-spirit |
36 | | camiidae Music For Bugs
Neoclassical New Age | Field Recordings
Argentina
Highlight(s): Weevil | Moth | Isopod
Link: https://camiidae.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-bugs |
37 | | John Francis Flynn Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
Irish Folk Music | Progressive Folk | Avant-Folk
Ireland
Highlight(s): Mole in the Ground | Kitty | The Seasons
Available on Spotify and AppleMusic |
38 | | Exulansis Hymns of Collapse
*HONOURABLE MENTIONS*
Contemporary Folk | Neofolk
USA - Oregon
Highlight(s): Life in the Shadow of Doom
Link: https://bindrunerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hymns-of-collapse |
39 | | Ichiko Aoba Ichiko Aoba With 12 Ensemble (Live at Milton Court
*FAVOURITE LIVE RECORD*
Chamber Folk | Chamber Music | Singer-Songwriter
Japan | UK
Highlight(s): HORO: Easter Lily | Hagupit | Dawn in the Adan | amuletum | Asleep Among Endives
Link: https://ichikoaoba.bandcamp.com/album/ichiko-aoba-with-12-ensemble-live-at-milton-court |
40 | | Silent Jeff River Reflection
*FAVOURITE EP*
Dark Folk
Taiwan
Highlight(s): Sorrow
Link: https://silentjeff.bandcamp.com/album/river-reflection |
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