In 2023, KALX DJs played songs from over 38,000 releases! Out of those, here’s the 300 most played albums of the year.
- Altin Gün – Aşk (ATO)
- The Movers – The Movers – Vol. 1 – 1970-1976 (Analog Africa)
- Slowdive – everything is alive (Dead Oceans)
- The Free Music – Free Music (Part 1) (Habibi Funk)
- Death Valley Girls – Islands in the Sky (Suicide Squeeze)
- Sun Ra Arkestra – Living Sky (Omni Sound)
- Decisive Pink – Ticket to Fame (Fire)
- Asha Puthli – The Essential Asha Puthli (Mr Bongo)
- Various Artists – Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955-69) (Soundway)
- Brian Eno – FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (Opal)
- Nabihah Iqbal – DREAMER (Ninja Tune)
- bar italia – Tracey Denim (Matador)
- abracadabra – shapes & colors (Melodic)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – 12 (Commmons)
- Meg Baird – Furling (Drag City)
- Dub Specialist – Studio One Space-Age Dub Special (Soul Jazz)
- Dengue Fever – Ting Mong (Tuk Tuk)
- King Krule – Space Heavy (Matador)
- Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
- Peter Barclay – I’m Not Your Toy (Numero Group)
- Cruel Diagonals – Fractured Whole (Beacon Sound)
- Lee Fields – Sentimental Fool (Daptone)
- Screaming Females – Desire Pathway (Don Giovanni)
- Various Artists – Perú Selvático: Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1972-1986 (Analog Africa)
- Black Belt Eagle Scout – The Land, The Water, The Sky (Saddle Creek)
- Spacemoth – No Past No Future (Wax Nine)
- Negativland – Speech Free: Recorded Music for Film, Radio, Internet and Television (Seeland)
- Yussef Dayes – Black Classical Music (Nonesuch)
- Horsegirl – Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)
- PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying (Partisan)
- Lucrecia Dalt – ¡Ay! (RVNG Intl.)
- Yan Tregger – Space Oddities (1974-1991) (Born Bad)
- Various Artists – Pay It All Back Vol. 8 (On-U Sound)
- Faten Kanaan – Afterpoem (Fire)
- Broadcast – Maida Vale Sessions (Warp)
- Snõõper – Super Snõõper (Third Man)
- µ-Ziq – 1977 (Balmat)
- Various Artists – Jon Savage’s 1977-1979 Symbols Clashing Everywhere (Ace)
- Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Dost 1 & 2 (Bongo Joe)
- Sweeping Promises – Good Living Is Coming For You (Sub Pop)
- Aphex Twin – Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Warp)
- Lael Neale – Star Eaters Delight (Sub Pop)
- Various Artists – Disco Reggae Rockers (Soul Jazz)
- Bala Desejo – SIM SIM SIM (Mr Bongo)
- Dream Dolphin – Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works (1996-2003) (Music From Memory)
- The Comet is Coming – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (Impulse!)
- TEKE::TEKE – Hagata (Kill Rock Stars)
- Nina Simone – You’ve Got To Learn (Live) (Verve)
- Various Artists – The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake (Chrysalis)
- Various Artists – Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia Vol. 1 (Vampisoul)
- schroothoop – MACADAM (Sdban Ultra)
- WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
- Stereolab – Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5] (Duophonic / Warp)
- White Hills – The Revenge of Heads on Fire (Heads On Fire)
- Thomas Lauderdale & Satan’s Pilgrims – Thomas Lauderdale Meets the Pilgrims (Heinz)
- Discos Resaca Collective – East Side San Jose “Back In The Day In ESSJ” (Discos Resaca)
- Various Artists – The Studio Wizardry of Todd Rundgren (Ace)
- Forever Pavot – L’Idiophone (Born Bad)
- The Mauskovic Dance Band – Bukaroo Bank (Bongo Joe)
- Gemma Ray – Gemma Ray & The Death Bell Gang (Bronze Rat)
- John Cale – MERCY (Double Six)
- Helen Money/Will Thomas – Trace (Thrill Jockey)
- Dom La Nena – Leon (Sabia)
- Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily – Love In Exile (Verve)
- Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Dead Oceans)
- Aksak Maboul – Une Aventure de VV (Songspiel) (Crammed Discs)
- Jon Hassell – Further Fictions (Ndeya)
- Kelela – Raven (Warp)
- African Head Charge – A Trip to Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
- Various Artists – A Moi La Liberté – Early Electronic Raï (Algérie 1983-90) (Born Bad)
- Water From Your Eyes – Everyone’s Crushed (Matador)
- Ak’chamel – A Mournful Kingdom of Sand (Akuphone)
- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – City of Gold (Nonesuch)
- Ladytron – Time’s Arrow (Cooking Vinyl)
- Colleen – Le jour et la nuit du réel (Thrill Jockey)
- Rogê – Curyman (Diamond West)
- Arthur Russell – Picture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika)
- Kendra Morris – Babble (Karma Chief)
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Sixth Decade – From Paris to Paris (RogueArt)
- Whatitdo Archive Group – Palace of a Thousand Sounds (Record Kicks)
- The C.I.A. – Surgery Channel (In The Red)
- Marlene Ribeiro – Toquei No Sol (Rocket Recordings)
- Meshell Ndegeocello – The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
- King Tubby & The Observer All Stars – Dubbing With the Observer (Doctor Bird)
- Adrian Quesada – Boleros Psicodélicos (ATO)
- The New Pornographers – Continue as a Guest (Merge)
- Orchestra Gold – Medicine (Orchestra Gold)
- Mapache – Swinging Stars (Innovative Leisure/Calico Discos)
- Various Artists – Silberland Vol. 2: The Driving Side of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984 (Bureau B)
- Oval – Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)
- Dumb – Pray 4 Tomorrow (Mint)
- Shana Cleveland – Manzanita (Hardly Art)
- Sunny & The Sunliners – Mr. Brown Eyed Soul Vol. 2 (Big Crown)
- Various Artists – Jukebox Mambo Vol. IV (Jazzman)
- The Pyramids – Aomawa: The 1970s Recordings (Strut)
- Buzz Kull – Fascination (Avant!)
- Dead Air Fresheners – Unfriended (Personal Archives)
- Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet – Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
- Laurel Halo – Atlas (Awe)
- Various Artists – Ecuatoriana: El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981 (Analog Africa)
- False Figure – Castigations (Transylvanian)
- Crime of Passing – Crime of Passing (Feel It)
- Hvozd – Krehkou krajinou (Slnko)
- Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy (Ninja Tune)
- Surprise Chef – Education & Recreation (Big Crown)
- Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X (Fire)
- Caterina Barbieri – Myuthafoo (light-years)
- Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
- Various Artists – Spirit of France (Spiritmuse)
- The Damned – Darkadelic (earMUSIC)
- Death and Vanilla – Flicker (Fire)
- Horse Lords – Comradely Objects (RVNG Intl.)
- Various Artists – Unity Is Strength (Trojan)
- Sparklehorse – Bird Machine (Anti/Epitaph)
- Charif Megarbane – Marzipan (Habibi Funk 023) (HABIBI Funk)
- Maria BC – Hyaline (Father/Daughter)
- Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings (Ghostly International)
- Kara Jackson – Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? (September)
- Buddy Guy – The Blues Don’t Lie (Silvertone)
- Carla dal Forno – Come Around (Kallista)
- SUSS – SUSS (Northern Spy)
- Osees – Intercepted Message (In The Red)
- Mister Water Wet – Top Natural Drum (Soda Gong)
- Arlo Parks – My Soft Machine (Transgressive)
- Green/Blue – Paper Thin (Feel It)
- Chancha Via Circuito – La Estrella (Wonderwheel)
- Jenny Don’t And The Spurs – Fire on the Ridge (Fluff and Gravy)
- Josie Cotton – Day of the Gun (Kitten Robot)
- Creation Rebel – Hostile Environment (On-U Sound)
- DJ Female Convict Scorpion – Confucius, Milton Berle (Selft-Released)
- Maud the moth + trajedesaliva – Bordando El Manto Terrestre (Time Released Sound)
- Congotronics International – Where’s The One? (Crammed Discs)
- Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard – Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Iftin Band – Mogadishu’s Finest: The Al-Uruba Sessions (Ostinato)
- Glitter Wizard – Kiss The Boot (Kitten Robot)
- Alvvays – Blue Rev (Polyvinyl)
- Fruit Bats – A River Running to Your Heart (Merge)
- Belle and Sebastian – A Bit of Previous (Matador)
- CHAI – CHAI (Sub Pop)
- ANOHNI and the Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross (Secretly Canadian)
- Al-Qasar – Who Are We? (Glitterbeat)
- Dina Ögon – Oas (Playground)
- Ya Tosiba – ASAP inşallah (Huge Bass)
- Ricardo Dias Gomes – Muito Sol (Hive Mind)
- Aldous Harding – Warm Chris (4AD)
- Arp – New Pleasures (Mexican Summer)
- Sylvan Esso – No Rules Sandy (Loma Vista Recordings)
- Horace Andy – Midnight Rocker (On-U Sound)
- The Clientele – I Am Not There Anymore (Merge)
- Amyl and The Sniffers – Comfort To Me (ATO)
- Wham! – The Singles: Echoes from the Edge of Heaven (Sony)
- Will Bernard & Beth Custer – Sky (Dreck to Disk)
- Loretta Lynch – All the Right Regrets (Selft-Released)
- The HU – Rumble of Thunder (Deluxe Edition) (Better Noise)
- Chuck Johnson – Music From Burden Of Proof (All Saints)
- Yazmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own)
- Daddy Long Legs – Street Sermons (Yep Roc)
- Etceteral – Rhizome (tak:til)
- Tiny Ruins – Ceremony (Ba Da Bing!)
- The Outta Sorts – Inside Outside USA (Outta Sorts)
- Laura Groves – Radio Red (Bella Union)
- Fever Ray – Radical Romantics (Mute)
- Various Artists – Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note)
- Animal Collective – Isn’t It Now? (Domino)
- Matmos – Return to Archive (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Melenas – Ahora (Trouble in Mind)
- Frank Schultz – Blots (Stickfigure)
- Hailu Mergia – Tezeta (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
- Yalla Miku – Yalla Miku (Bongo Joe)
- Arthur King – Changing Landscapes (Mina Las Pintadas) (AKP Recordings)
- Various Artists – Saturno 2000: La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-1983 (Analog Africa)
- Automatic – Excess (Stones Throw)
- James Holden – Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities (Border Community)
- Sun’s Signature – Sun’s Signature (Extended) (Partisan)
- Eerie Wanda – Internal Radio (Joyful Noise)
- Sampha – Lahai (Young)
- Bully – Lucky For You (Sub Pop)
- Elisapie – Inuktitut (Bonsound)
- Nick Waterhouse – The Fooler (Innovative Leisure)
- Liturgy – 93696 (Thrill Jockey)
- Cable Ties – All Her Plans (Merge)
- Polobi & the Gwo Ka Masters – Abri Cyclonique (Real World)
- The Heavy Heavy – Life and Life Only (ATO)
- Frankie Cosmos – Inner World Peace (Sub Pop)
- Jill Rogers and Crying Time – Many Worlds Theory (Wisconsin Chair Company)
- Emily King – Special Occasion (ATO)
- Sufjan Stevens – Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)
- Cassie Wieland & Vicky Chow – HYMN (Cantaloupe)
- Kate NV – Wow (RVNG Intl.)
- Dave Okumu & The 7 Generations – I Came From Love (Transgressive)
- Petite Noir – MotherFather (Roya)
- Forbidden Overture – Turned On (Dark Entries)
- Snõõper – Music for Spies – EP (Computer Human)
- JFDR – Museum (Houndstooth)
- Tony Allen, Adrian Younge – Tony Allen JID018 (Jazz Is Dead)
- Takashi Kokubo – Music For a Cosmic Garden (WRWTFWW)
- Au Suisse – Au Suisse (City Slang)
- Big Thief – Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)
- Beach House – Become (Sub Pop)
- The Reds, Pinks and Purples – The Town That Cursed Your Name (Slumberland)
- Quasi – Breaking the Balls of History (Sub Pop)
- Hot Laundry – Pawn Shop Gold (Hot Laundry)
- Kaisahan Afrocubalintang – Kaisahan Afrocubalintang (Iridium)
- Rocket 808 – House of Jackpots (12XU)
- Rhiannon Giddens – You’re the One (Nonesuch)
- The Church – The Hypnogogue (Communicating Vessels)
- Everything But the Girl – Fuse (Buzzin Fly)
- Staples Jr. Singers – When Do We Get Paid (Luaka Bop)
- Various Artists – Adrian Sherwood Presents: Dub No Frontiers (Real World)
- Pachyman – Switched-On (ATO)
- Homeboy Sandman – Still Champion (Mello)
- Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound (ATO)
- Bobby Harden & The Soulful Saints – Bridge of Love (Dala)
- Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa (Matador)
- Parquet Courts – Sympathy for Life (Rough Trade)
- Small Crush – Penelope (Asian Man)
- Phương Tâm – Magical Nights: Saigon Surf, Twist & Soul (1964-1966) (Sublime Frequencies)
- EABS & Jaubi – In Search of a Better Tomorrow (Astigmatic)
- Pusaka Sunda – Utama Tembang Sunda And Kacapi Suling Music Of West Java (Sakti)
- Speakers Corner Quartet – Further Out Than The Edge (OTIH)
- Black Milk – Everybody Good? (Mass Appeal)
- Dele Sosimi and The Estuary 21 – The Confluence (Wah Wah 45s)
- Jenny Hval – Classic Objects (4AD)
- Brad Mehldau – Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (Nonesuch)
- Indigo De Souza – Any Shape You Take (Saddle Creek)
- Alice Phoebe Lou – Shelter (Alice Phoebe Lou)
- Olivia Jean – Raving Ghost (Third Man)
- Various Artists – Pierre Barouh & The Saravah Sound (WeWantSounds)
- The Spy From Cairo – Animamundi (Wonderwheel)
- Various Artists – La Edad De Oro De La Cumbia Colombiana (Naked Lunch)
- Various Artists – Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro (Mr Bongo)
- L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
- Jake Blount – The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Pamela Z – Echolocation (Freedom To Spend)
- Björk – Fossora (One Little Independent)
- The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This? (Thrill Jockey)
- Rrose – Please Touch (Eaux)
- Pantayo – Ang Pagdaloy (Telephone Explosion)
- Richard Carr – Night Fragments (Convivium)
- Sarathy Korwar – KALAK (Leaf)
- Popp – Blizz (Squama)
- Sessa – Estrela Acesa (Mexican Summer)
- Monophonics – Sage Motel (Colemine)
- Eleanor Underhill – Got It Covered (Eleanor Underhill)
- H.C. McEntire – Every Acre (Merge)
- Wau Wau Collectif – Mariage (Sahel Sounds)
- Acid Wave Band – heart2heart (Hogar)
- Stellar Legions – Stellar Legions (SDBAN ULTRA)
- Cindy – Why Not Now? (Mt.St.Mtn.)
- Various Artists – ZZK Sound Vol. 4 (ZZK)
- Juicebumps – Hello Pinky! (Lil Slugger)
- Shilpa Ray – Portrait of a Lady (Northern Spy)
- Juliana Hatfield – Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat)
- Sam Bush – Radio John: Songs of John Hartford (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Wilco – Cousin (dBpm)
- Hanabie. (花冷え。) – Reborn Superstar! (来世は偉人！) (Sony Japan)
- Alam Khan, Arjun K. Verma & Del Sol Quartet – The Resonance Between (AMMP)
- billy woods & Kenny Segal – Maps (Backwoodz Studioz)
- Civilistjävel! – Fyra Platser (FELT)
- Various Artists – Once Again We Are the Children of the Sun Compiled by Paul Hillery (BBE)
- Tim Bernardes – Mil Coisas Invisíveis (Psychic Hotline)
- Various Artists – Luke Schneider Presents Imaginational Anthem, Vol. XI : Chrome Universal – A Survey of Modern Pedal Steel (Tompkins Square)
- Black Jesus Experience – Good Evening Black Buddha (Agogo)
- The Lost Days – In the Store (Speakeasy Studios SF)
- George Coleman – Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar Live)
- Rose Mercie – ¿ KIERES AGUA ? (Rose Mercie)
- M. Sage – Paradise Crick (RVNG Intl.)
- Momma – Household Name (Polyvinyl)
- Charles Stepney – Step on Step (International Anthem)
- Caitlin Rose – CAZIMI (Missing Piece)
- Julian Lage – The Layers (Blue Note)
- Faye Webster – I Know I’m Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
- Slaughter Beach, Dog – Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling (Lame-O)
- Flock – Flock (Strut)
- Wye Oak – Every Day Like the Last (Merge)
- Willie Nelson – Bluegrass (Legacy)
- Dax Pierson – Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) (Dark Entries)
- Emily Rach Beisel – Particle Of Organs (Amalga)
- Rent Romus – Itkuja Suite, Invocations on Lament (Edgetone)
- Medicine Singers – Medicine Singers (Joyful Noise)
- Amaara – Child of Venus (Lady Moon)
- Disintegration – Time Moves for Me (Feel It)
- Andrew Gabbard – Cedar City Sweetheart (Karma Chief)
- Romance – River of Dreams (Ecstatic)
- Leon Alvarado – Charging the Electric Dream (Melodic Revolution)
- Alina Bzhezhinska – Reflections (BBE)
- Nuovo Testamento – Love Lines (Discoteca Italia)
- Radian – Distorted Rooms (Thrill Jockey)
- Various Artists – Wrap It Up: The Isaac Hayes and David Porter Songbook (Ace)
- Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity (Sub Pop)
- The Lloyds – Attitude Check (Liberation Hall)
- Danger Mouse & Jemini – Born Again (Lex)
- Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Schemen (Karlrecords)
- Illogic & Odd Nosdam – Right the Ship (2023 Remaster) – EP (Burnco Recs)
- Nicholas Horvath – Quiet Rhythms Book 1: William Susman (Collection 1001 Notes)
- Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries – Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries (Emotional Response)
- King Ayisoba – Work Hard (Glitterbeat)
- Bobby Lee – Endless Skyways (Tompkins Square)
- Sharkiface – Climax in a Process (No Part of It)
- Lonnie Holley – Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar)
