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The best science-inflected music of 2023

From Ashnikko to Hannah Diamond, our resident experts Bethan Ackerley and Tim Boddy round up the best music albums of 2023 - if science is your thing

By Bethan Ackerley and Tim Boddy

6 December 2023

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A composite of some of the science-inflected music albums out in 2023

 

The Fall - Komorebi album artwork

The Fall (Komorebi)
In this high-concept, anime-inspired album, Komorebi becomes her alter ego, Kiane, an alien who visits Earth on a voyage of self-discovery. Transported by delicate vocals and the sweeping orchestration, I felt punch-drunk by the end. Bethan Ackerley

Complete Mountain Almanac album artwork

Complete Mountain Almanac (Complete Mountain Almanac)
Rebekka Karijord and Jessica Dessner have put together something remarkable with this album that started as a climate change project, but morphed after Dessner’s breast cancer diagnosis. It is a haunting work on nature’s healing cycles.…

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