EPs of the Year 2023

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No one else has made a thread so I will! Not heard many EPs this year, but this is what I’ve got…

Moin - Clocked Off EP
(instrumental alternative rock)

Batu - For Spirits EP
(Electronic/ambient stuff)

Kelly Lee Owens - LP8.2
(Experimental electronic)

The Bug - Machine I - III
(Deep bass-y dub electronics)

Daniel Avery - More Truth
(Techno/electronic)

JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - DLC Pack
(Experimental hip hop)

Martinou - The Sheltered Planet EP
(Melodic techno)

Closed Circuits - Terminal Living EP
(Alt dark electronic pop)

Kirin McElwain - Veriditas EP
(Experimental pop/electronics)

Iceboy Violet - Not a Dream but a Controlled Explosion
(Experimental electronics/hip hop)

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Those The Bug ones are ace.

Aphex Twin too, of course.

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Seamus Fogarty - Hee Haw
(Glitchy folktronica on Lost Map records)

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I would add Patrick Wolf’s Night Safari EP to the list. A really great return from Patrick earlier on this year.

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SUEP - Shop

(Jangly, indie pop from the Joanna Gruesome universe)

Midcard - Forgivenessness

(Emo)

Nice World - Enjoy The Weather

(Jangly indie pop)

Perennial - The Shades of Autumn Symmetry

(Garage rock influenced stuff)

Aren’t We Amphibians - Emergency, Exit

(“Ballroom” emo)

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Very sweet songs with weird production which is inevitable for someone signed to PC Music but this is really great. FFO Caroline Polachek

I have no references for dance music, couldn’t even tell you what genre this is, but it’s wonderful.

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Haven’t kept track of EPs

Spoon and boygenius have both been enjoyable. Sure there have been loads of others

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Some already posted I liked a lot. Here’s a few more I liked this year.

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Some favourites this year:

Nia Archives - Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall

Heartworms - A Comforting Notion

Alice Longyu Gao - Let’s Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire

Audiobooks - Gulliver EP

ALT BLK ERA - Freak Show EP

And Moin, Tara Clerkin Trio and Perennial as already mentioned.

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Yeh this is the one that springs to mind for me

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Night Tapes - Perfect Kindness EP
Patrick Wolf - The Night Safari EP
The Japanese House - ITEIAD Sessions
Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh - Julie Byrne with Laugh Cry Laugh
Brainiac - The Predator Nominate EP

EDIT: Somehow forgot about Blawan - Dismantled Into Juice, which should be top of the list.

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lofi indie

does this count? Worth mentioning anyway

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mclusky’s return was darned nice

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Think this is an EP, nice ambient spoken word from Lord Of The Isles & Ellen Renton

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The Moin and Blawan ones are quite nice.

Enjoyed the two Alchemist ones, Flying High I & II.

Also enjoyed Aphex Twin, Olof Dreijer, and 2 by Machinedrum.

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The Iceboy Violet record appears to be categorised as an LP rather than an EP, despite only being 16 mins long.

Think my favourite of the year was probably Maruja.

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