CFBX Top 50 Albums for Winter 2023
Artist – Title (Label)
- La Securite* – Stay Safe! (Mothland)
- Jeremy Dutcher* – Motewolonuwok (Secret City)
- Jenn Grant* – Champagne Problems (Outside)
- Perseide* – Les Couleurs d’Ete (Dure Vie)
- Nigel Mack* – Back in Style (Blues Attack)
- Renonce* – Ombre (Mothland)
- Postdata* – Run Wild (Paper Bag)
- Ora Cogan* – Formless (Prism Tongue)
- Yessica Woahneil* – I Wanted Love, So I Gave Love (Independent)
- The Wandering Off* – The Wandering Off (Independent)
- Christine Jensen* – Day Moon (Justin Time)
- Amaara* – Child of Venus (Lady Moon)
- Soft Punch – Above Water (Bad Friend)
- Odonis Odonis* – Icon (Pirates Blend)
- Buildings and Food* – Infinity Plus One (Number F)
- Karma Glider* – Future Fiction (Mothland)
- Ryan Bourne* – Plant City (Independent)
- PACKS* – Crispy Crunchy Nothing (Fire Talk)
- The Painters* – The Painters (Eel)
- Haviah Mighty* – Crying Crystals (Mighty Gang)
- Haley Blais* – Wisecrack (Arts and Crafts)
- Mark Cameron – Nasty Business (Blue Heart)
- Summersets* – Small Town Story (Independent)
- Hippie Hourrah* – Exposition Individuelle (Simone)
- Michael Jerome Browne* – Gettin’ Together (Independent)
- People at Night* – A Beautiful Place (Independent)
- Andre Bisson* – Latchford (Independent)
- Uh Huh* – Uh Huh (Telephone Explosion)
- David Francey* – The Breath Between (Laker)
- Ghostly Hounds* – In the Rubble (Independent)
- Raye Zaragoza – Hold That Spirit (Independent)
- The Odds* – Crash the Time Machine (Independent)
- Allison Russell* – The Returner (Fantasy)
- Night Lunch* – Fire in the Rose Garden (Mothland)
- Liam Docherty* – Gemini Rising (Independent)
- Meltt* – Another Quiet Sunday EP (Independent)
- Islands* – And That’s Why the Dolphins Lost Their Legs (Independent)
- Pony Girl* – Laff it Off (Paper Bag)
- Teri Parker* – Shaping the Invisible (Independent)
- L CON* – The Isolator (Idee Fixe)
- Joey Joesph – Triple Fantasy/Taking it Easy (Eyebrow Palace)
- Vivek Shraya* – Baby, You’re Projecting (Mint)
- Cotton Candy Land* – A Tear Free EP (Independent)
- Little Misty* – Nowhere Land (Independent)
- Dennis Ellsworth* – Modern Hope (Independent)
- Dey Rose* – Evelyn (Lilystars)
- Slowly Becoming* – Before the World Ends (Independent)
- Apollo Suns* – Departures (Do Right!)
- Soft Fossil* – Requiem (Independent)
- The Science of the Heart* – In Air (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Jazz Albums for Winter 2023
- Christine Jensen* – Day Moon (Justin Time)
- Paul Tynan and Aaron Lington* – Bicoastal Collective, Part 6 (OA2)
- Will Clements* – Compass (Independent)
- Rubim de Toledo* – The Drip (Independent)
- Nimmons Tribute** – Vol. 2: Generations (Independent)
- Roxane Reddy* – Jaywalking (Independent)
- Teri Parker* – Shaping the Invisible (Independent)
- Bellbird* – Root in Tandem (Independent)
- Rodrigo Simoes* – Tre (Three Pines)
- Joel Haynes* – The Return! (Cellar)
CFBX Top 10 Worldbeat/International Albums for Winter 2023
- Bobby Rozario — Spellbound (Origin World)
- Alex Cuba* – El Swing Que Yo Tengo (Caracol)
- Various Artists – King Size Dub 23 (Echo Beach)
- Dubmatix* – The Dub Sessions Vol. 1 (Echo Beach)
- Inna Kovtun – Burning Fires (Alchemy)
- Los Variants* – O Passeio (Independent)
- Ritesh Das* – To Begin With (Independent)
- Dubmatix* – The Ska Sessions Vol. 1 (Echo Beach)
- Dimitris Papegeorgiu – Greek Bouzouki Classics (ARC Music)
- Damir Imamovic – The World and All That it Holds (Smithsonian Folkways)
CFBX Top 10 Loud/Metal Albums for Winter 2023
- Red Cain* – NAE’BLISS (Independent)
- Abby Gabba and the Almost Famous* – Screaming at the Top of My Lungs (Independent)
- Hardball* – Hardball (Independent)
- Leather Jacuzzi* – Rumours 2 (Independent)
- The Dirty Nil* – Free Rein to Passions (Dine Alone)
- Les Lunatiques* – Orange Flottant (Independent)
- Random Killing* – Bring Out Your Dead (Cursed Blessings)
- Maxime Gervais* – Torse Nu (Cuchabata)
- Human Missile Crisis* – Liquor Store Stories (Independent)
- Plastic Act* – Plastic Act EP (Brain Gum)
CFBX Top 10 Electronic Albums for Winter 2023
- Buildings and Food* – Inifnity Plus One (Number F)
- Deep Covers* – Generation Loss (Independent)
- Church of Trees* – Courage (Independent)
- Soft Fossil* – Requiem (Independent)
- Jessy Lanza* – Love Hallucination (Hyperdub)
- Rooster37* – Upside Down Inside Out (Independent)
- Odonis Odonis* – Icon EP (Pirates Blend)
- TDJ* Back to – 123 (Collection Disques Durs)
- Super Plage* – Magie a Minuit (Independent)
- Harrison* – Birds, Bees, The Clouds and the Trees (Last Gang)
CFBX Top 10 Rap/Urban Albums for Winter 2023
- Haviah Mighty* – Crying Crystals (Mighty Gang)
- Meryem Saci* – Game of Life (Independent)
- Witch Prophet* – Gateway Experience (Independent)
- Souldia* – Amnesia (Disques 7ieme Ciel)
- Ricca Razor Sharp* – Riccafy Your Party Tonight (Independent)
- Various Artists* – Many Nations One Voice for Wellness (MNOV)
- Meghan Oak* – Dans la Lune (Independent)
- Kimmortal* – Shoebox (Independent)
- Tawahum* – Bottled Lightning (Independent)
- Wasiu* – Candyland (Independent)
CFBX Top 10 Folk/Roots Albums for Winter 2023
- Ghostly Hounds* – In the Rubble (Independent)
- Sultans of String* – Walking Through the Fire (Independent)
- David Francey* – The Breath Between (Laker)
- Clanna Morna* – From the Lowlands to the High Seas (Independent)
- Derina Harvey Band* – Waves of Home (Independent)
- Raye Zaragoza – Hold That Spirit (Independent)
- Summersets* – Small Town Story (Independent)
- Two Late for the Party* – In the Sunrise (Independent)
- John and Shiela Ludgate* – The Kitchen Sessions (Independent)
- Lonesome Ace Stringband* – Try to Make it Fly (Independent)
CFBX Top Ten Blues Albums for Winter 2023
- Mitch Woods – Friends Along the Way (Club 88)
- Michael Jerome Browne* – Gettin’ Together (Independent)
- Nigel Mack* – Back in Style (Blues Attack)
- Garnetta Cromwell* – Time to Shine (Independent)
- Mark Cameron – Nasty Business (Blue Heart)
- Andre Bisson* – Latchford (Independent)
- Nick Moss Band – Get Your Back Into It! (Alligator)
- Coco Montoya – Writing on the Wall (Alligator)
- Little G Weevil – If I May… (Independent)
- Layla Zoe* – Back to the Spirit of 66 (Independent)
CFBX Top Five Classical Albums for Winter 2023
- Alexandra Streliski* – Neo-Romance (Secret City)
- Stefana Fratilla* – I Want to Leave This Earth Behind (Halocene Trance)
- MC Maguire* – Transmutation of Things (Neuma)
- Jason Zumpano* – If You Press, It Will Break (Jaz)
- Lara Downes – Love at Last (Pentatone)
