The 100 Albums in 12 Months Challenge — 2023 Edition

The goal? Listen to 100 new albums in 2023. The only qualifier — any era, as long as I’ve never heard it before.

This wasn’t my idea, but as a motivator to continually discover new music, I present the results of my 2023 100 Album Challenge.

Entry #1 Body Type Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing’s Surprising Listen Entry #2 U2 War Listen Entry #3 Mansion Second Death Listen Entry #4 Wipers Is This Real Listen Entry #5 Rites of Spring Self Titled Listen Entry #6 Sloan Peterson Midnight Love, Vol 2 Listen Entry #7 Malicious Deranged Hexes Listen Entry #8 Diamanda Galas Broken Gargoyles Listen Entry #9 Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium — Undreamable Abysses Listen Entry #10 The Darts Snake Oil Listen Entry #11 Laibach Sketches of the Red Districts Listen Entry #12 Didjits Fizzjob Listen Entry #13 The Smiths The Queen Is Dead Listen Entry #14 Gore Gore Girls Get The Gore Listen Entry #15 Metallica 72 Seasons Listen Entry #16 Misþyrming Með hamri Listen Entry #17 Dodheimsgard Black Medium Current Listen Entry #18 Charged G.B.H. City Baby’s Revenge Listen Entry #19 Sore Throat Death To Capitalist Hardcore Listen Entry #20 Liars The Apple Drop Listen Entry #21 Otoboke Beaver Itekoma Hits Listen Entry #22 Immortal War Against All Listen Entry #23 The Fall This Nation’s Saving Grace Listen Entry #24 Chakal Abominable Anno Domini Listen Entry #25 Death SS Rock ’n’ Roll Armageddon Listen Entry #26 Batpiss Rest In Piss Listen Entry #27 Geld Currency // Castration Listen Entry #28 Body Type Expired Candy Listen Entry #29 New Order Movement Listen Entry #30 Caivano Self Titled Listen Entry #31 Pavement Brighten The Corners Listen Entry #32 Bee Gees Spirits Having Flown Listen Entry #33 Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! Listen Entry #34 Blackwater Holylight Veils of Winter Listen Entry #35 Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever Listen Entry #36 Guitar Wolf Jet Generation Listen Entry #37 Margarita Witch Cult Self Titled Listen Entry #38 black midi Hellfire Listen Entry #39 Icons of Filth Not On Her Majesty’s Service Listen Entry #40 Petrol Girls Baby Listen Entry #41 Marduk Momento Mori Listen Entry #42 Anthrax Among The Living Listen Entry #43 Anthrax Sound Of White Noise Listen Entry #44 Laibach The Engine Of Survival Listen Entry #45 Anenzephalia Ephemeral Dawn Listen Entry #46 The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come Listen Entry #47 Automatic Excess Listen Entry #48 King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Infest The Rats’ Nest Listen Entry #49 Saint Vitus Self Titled Listen Entry #50 Mutilator Immortal Force Listen Entry #51 Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz Listen Entry #52 Sakis Tolis Among the Fires of Hell Listen Entry #53 Esben and the Witch A New Nature Listen Entry #54 Dinosaur Jr You’re Living All Over Me Listen Entry #55 Sebadoh Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock Listen Entry #56 Bikini Kill Reject All American Listen Entry #57 Green River 1984 Demos Listen Entry #58 Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven Listen Entry #59 Lustmord Trinity Listen Entry #60 The Smiths Meat Is Murder Listen Entry #61 Motörhead The Löst Tapes, Vol. 4 (Live in Heilbronn 1984) Listen Entry #62 Dai The Advent Listen Entry #63 Caixão Knaga Listen Entry #64 Drahla Third Article Listen Entry #65 Angel Olsen Big Time Listen Entry #66 Uniform Perfect World Listen Entry #67 Blackwater Holylight Silence/Motion Listen Entry #68 Raison D’être De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu Listen Entry #69 Troum Acouasme Listen Entry #70 Zeni Geva Desire For Agony Listen Entry #71 Boredoms Wow2 Listen Entry #72 Lebanon Hanover Let Them Be Alien Listen Entry #73 Sparks Kimono My House Listen Entry #74 Twin Temple God Is Dead Listen Entry #75 Minutemen Double Nickels On The Dime Listen Entry #76 Zuou Agony Remains Listen Entry #77 Melt Banana Scratch or Stitch Listen Entry #78 Wolf Eyes Burned Mind Listen Entry #79 Dum Dum Girls Too True Listen Entry #80 Black Eyes Self Titled Listen Entry #81 Le Tigre Feminist Sweepstakes Listen Entry #82 The Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands Listen Entry #83 Sleater Kinney Path Of Wellness Listen Entry #84 Merzbow Cafe OTO Listen Entry #85 Diagram Brothers Some Marvels Of Modern Science + Singles Listen Entry #86 Inca Babies 1983–1987: Plutonium Listen Entry #87 Jucifer I Name You Destroyer Listen Entry #88 Scratch Acid The Greatest Gift Listen Entry #89 Kylesa Static Tensions Listen Entry #90 Suki Waterhouse I Can’t Let Go Listen Entry #91 Miai Hirasawa The Japan Collection Listen Entry #92 Last Days These Places Are Now Ruins Listen Entry #93 Hotel Fiction Soft Focus Listen Entry #94 Hexvessel Polar Veil Listen Entry #95 Sydney Sprague maybe i will see you at the end of the world Listen Entry #96 Dwarves Concept Album Listen Entry #97 Jackie O Motherfucker Sing Your Own Song Listen Entry #98 Olivia Rodrigo GUTS Listen Entry #99 Ladytron Time’s Arrow Listen Entry #100 Otoboke Beavere Super Champon Listen

How many of these have you listened to?