Shaking up the bottle again because the new year doesn’t really count till February, it’s Strictly Butter! 5 years later we return (we know, nobody asked for this) and share with you some of our favorite albums from 2023. We drop it from our usual top 5 to 3, and name a few honorable mentions. We really enjoyed conversing about music like old times and hope to pick the show up again (in likely a newer more loose format) and talk about more new music releases later this year. Thanks for listening!

**SPOILERS?**
Alex’s Favorites
Kelsea Ballerini-Rolling Up The Welcome Mat (For Good)
Ryuchi Sakamoto-12
Sleep Token-Take Me Back For Eden

Alex’s full list: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=249267

Ryan’s Favorites
Olivia Rodrigo-GUTS
The Hives-The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Jessie Ware-That Feels Good!

Jeremy’s Favorites
Caroline Polachek-Desire I Want To Turn Into You!
Jaimie Branch-Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die!
Billy Woods & Kenny Seagal-Maps

LINKS
Aesop Rock mad words: https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html
Kelsea Ballerini short film EP: https://youtu.be/aMZ5VpfYQJw?si=HIGIQrHZ5I_zuZFt
Ryuichi Sakamoto (inspired MV courtesy of emof): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyV7bZjI0kc
Sleep Token: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFHBOKa_ZG0
Olivia Rodrigo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPNh_PBZb4
Jessie Ware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1pOvK9URyU
Caroline Polacheck (tiny npr desk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmnZHQNN5cc
Jaimie branch: https://youtu.be/yhSUtC50ahc?si=gKn7KnrxhaZ3EH08
Billy Woods/Kenny Seagal: https://youtu.be/ZVur7jaIYTc?si=-idpReMcIORL-gGU

Top 3ish Albums of 2023 (THE REUNION)

A seriously nasty, foreboding drone, synth and electronic soundscape. Suitable for removing unwanted guests from your home in good time. Or perfect for blasting from your porch to give wannabe door knockers a dose of the horrors

Broadcast - A Goblin
Devil's Picnic - Untitled
MADTEO - To the one of fictive music
Trip Shrubb - Sunnenlucht
Khate - Tired
Chris & Cosey - Dr. John
A.T.R.O.X - Overture to the tales
Biosphere - Sphere of no form
Paul Kantner - Titanic
Jaimie Branch - The Storm
Brian Eno - Matta
Rat Heart Ensemble - Ratty's Reprise
Mono-Poly - Kode Rood
John Carpenter - Wrong Flavor
bad lsd trips - Estado liquido
Deathprod - Treetop Drive 3
Kit Clayton - untitled
Mica Levi - Bothy
Alva Noto - Anthem Berlin
Deathprod - Treetop Drive 1
Jana Winderen - Spring bloom in the marginal ice zone
Ka Baird - Oneiric
The Caretaker - When the dog days were drawing to an end
Biosphere - Antennaria
Chris Watson - Notes from the forest floor
Abigail Mead - Ruins (Full Metal Jacket OST)
Pyrolator - Inland 3
Elemental 7 - Temple bar
Drexciya - Intro
The Caretaker - So run down
Unit - I'm in Chicago
Mica Levi - Drift
Softland - Seismo
Seasons (Pre-din) - Untitled
Ruins - Night tide
Monolake - Watching clouds
Salz - B1
Mica Levi - Andrew void
Krzysztof Penderecki - Canticum canticorum salomonis
Drexciya - Interstellar crime report
John Carpenter - Napoleon Wilson
Plastikman - Vokx
Tod Dockstader - Ion armada
Oslash Mika Vainio - Jaan Alla beneath the ice
Drexciya - Temple of dos de agua
Ryuichi Sakamoto - The end of Europe
Mica Levi - Lipstick to void
Abul Mogard - Black Dust
Gregory Whitehead - The thing about bugs
Khate - Comforting the meat
Mica Levi - Mirror to vortex
Mica Levi - Death
Mark Pritchard - ?

Halloween Drone Scape

Strictly Butter is a podcast fueled by lifelong friendship, good pizza, and an undying love for all things music. Every episode, Ryan Cody, Jeremy Klein, and Alexander Mathew bring you lively, in-depth discussions on current album releases, across a wide range of genres.

Genre agnostic DJ from Glasgow. Plenty of house, Italo, kosmische, post-punk, EBM, ambient, funk, rock, techno and beyond. No borders, just vibes.

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