Lost future’s music of the year

As 2023 draws to a close and we celebrate our one year anniversary, a bunch of the bands here on the label picked their favorite albums and songs, presented below.

Ben Kaplan - Sleep Maps / Lost Future founder

1. Perfect Saviors by The Armed

2. Fawn / Brute by Katie Gately

3. Cancel This! by Babel Map

4. Alive in London by Bad Nerves

5. Copenhagen Cowboy OST by Julian Winding, Peter Peter and Cliff Martinez

6. Tekhenu by The Allegorist

7. Elegiac Beat by Public Memory

8. Knocknarea by Maruja

9. A New Tomorrow by Zulu

10. Heavy Heavy by Young Fathers

Mario Infantes

1. Datalysium by The Zenith Passage

2. Take Me Back To Eden by Sleep Token

3. Streets of Minarets by Dhafer Youssef

4. Mementos by Gisli Gunnarsson

Michael Stipe - Babel Map

1. Full Spectrum Dominance by Killing Joke

2. Contortion EP by Pale Fang

3. Amiss by Kali Ma and the Garland of Arms

4. Witness Marks by Flat Worms

5. What if its Over? by The Bluechips

Brian Horn - Ghosts of Searchlight

1. Awakening in the Gateway by Daikaiju

2. Ghost by Gunship

3. Call of the Void by Mutoid Man

4. Emily, I’m Sorry by Boygenius

5. The Haunting by Tides of Nebula

Marcus Storch - Flourish

1. Solace by Rezn

2. Love in the Void by Hammock

3. Dying of Everything by Obituary

4. End by Explosions in the Sky

5. Foregone by In Flames

6. Glacial Domination by Frozen Soul

7. Unicorn by Gunship

8. Stone by Baroness

9. Everything is Alive by Slowdive

10. On Circles: Complete Sessions by Caspian

Bryan Webb - Clarion Void

1. Anches En Maat by Grails

2. Disaster by Ostraca

3. An Object in Motion by Drab Majesty

4. Shadow People by Duff Thompson

5. Prosaic by Mizmor

6. Glorious Game by El Michaels Affair and Black Thought

7. To The Rind by Big Garden

8. Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering by Open Mic Eagle

9. The World Is Empty, The Heart Is Full by Raspberry Bulbs

10. Love Lines by Nuovo Testamento