Over the past few weeks, our most active record reviewers have had the task of choosing their 5 favorite recordings of 2023, and here they are. This selection is unique and quite different of all you can find on the web or through traditional medias.
Mac Wetha & Friends 2 completely delivers on its title’s promise—friends getting together and simply having fun making music. But it’s not all sunbathing with the homies. The opening track, “Play Pretend (ft. spill tab)” begins with a gentle guitar riff and dreamy vocals, but is suddenly shifted with a heavy drum beat and electric guitar that brings the song to life, then doubles down again in an emotional, garage-punk crescendo. The album gets into gear, like some frantic machine spinning to life before our eyes. Take your pick; it’s somehow all here. Laid-back jams for summer days. Woozy grooves oozing sex and intimacy. Bleak, futuristic, synthy post-punk. Mac Wetha gives us fresh ideas, irresistible textures, and the simultaneous, conflicting duality of joy and fear that weighs on every young person in the world today.
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