Best of 2023 - Vince's List

There were soooo many great records this year….it was hard to boil it down to 20. These were the records I kept coming back to each and every week. The albums on this list represent growth. Records like Life Under the Gun, Black Radical Love, and A New Tomorrow all document a newish bands both shifting & perfecting the sound of earlier EPs. While Desolation’s Flower, Hellmode & Metta World Peace show artists still evolving after releasing previously amazing records. But overall, it was Cheap Grills for me. Sincere Engineer is breathing new life into (typically male-dominated) orgcore and I’m here for it.

Happy 2024! These were my favorite records of 2023.

-vh

LPs

1. Sincere Engineer - Cheap Grills

2. Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us

3. Envision - The Gods That Build Tomorrow

4. Ragana - Desolation's Flower

5. Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun

6. Move BHC - Black Radical Love

7. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit

8. Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode

9. Ice Spice - Like...?

10. Magnitude - Of Days Renewed

11. Zulu - A New Tomorrow

12. Sunami - s/t (LP)

13. Scalp - Black Tar

14. Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss

15. Soft Kill - Metta World Peace

16. Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival

17. Sunrot - The Unfailing Rope

18. Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Obsession Destruction

19. Pulsatile Tinnitus - The Finer Art of Heartwork

20. Ethereal Tomb - When The Rivers Dry

EPs

1. XweaponX / World of Pleasure - Weapon of Pleasure

2. Scowl - Psychic Dance Routine

3. Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge

4. Stateside - It's What We Do

5. Dead Heat - Endless Torment

Best of 2019 (Vince's List)

2019 might have been a quiet year at Stille, but we thrive in the quiet. It was a busy year for us personally - raising a child and starting new day jobs take up a lot of time and energy. As always, listening to new music keeps us grounded through the changes. Here are the my 25 favorite records of the past year.

Highlighting exciting new music is a mission of Stille. Check out something below that you haven’t heard before; everything is highly recommended. We look forward to bringing you new & rare records in 2020.

  1. Cloud Rat - POLLINATOR

  2. Drab Majesty - MODERN MIRROR

  3. False - PORTENT

  4. Boy Harsher - CAREFUL

  5. Blood Incantation - HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE

  6. Frail Body - A BRIEF MEMORIAM

  7. Crumb - JINX

  8. Cloud Rat - DO NOT LET ME OFF THE CLIFF

  9. Martha - LOVE KEEPS KICKING

  10. Mizmor - CAIRN

  11. Immortal Bird - THRIVE ON NEGLECT

  12. Full of Hell - WEEPING CHOIR

  13. Dowsing - SKY COFFIN

  14. Necking - CUT YOUR TEETH

  15. Gatecreeper - DESERTED

  16. The Well - DEATH AND CONSOLATION

  17. Tomb Mold - PLANETARY CLAIRVOYANCE

  18. Tyler the Creator - IGOR

  19. Toro Y Moi - OUTER PEACE

  20. Jamila Woods - LEGACY! LEGACY!

  21. Big Brave - A GAZE AMONG THEM

  22. Temple of the Fuzz Witch - TEMPLE OF THE FUZZ WITCH

  23. Ithaca - THE LANGUAGE OF INJURY

  24. Asagraum - DAWN OF INFINITE FIRE

  25. Empath - ACTIVE LISTENING: NIGHT ON EARTH

-vh