Flow State's Best of 2023

Good morning. For our last post of the year, we’ve made a top 50 list of our own recommendations of 2023 albums.

As a final reminder, the new Flow State T-shirt – the perfect holiday gift for the instrumental music fan in your life – is available here while supplies last. Also, we’re off next week.

Here is the list. Let us know in the comments what your favorite instrumental album from 2023 was.

1. Laurel Halo - Atlas

2. Purelink - Signs

3. Shida Shahabi - Living Circle

4. Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy

5. Green-House - A Host for All Kinds of Life

6. Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada

7. Alice Sara Ott - Plays Debussy Satie & Liszt

8. Stuart Bogie - Morningside

9. Yara Asmar - Synth Waltzes and Accordion Laments

10. Mac DeMarco - Five Easy Hot Dogs and One Wayne G

11. Gia Margaret - Romantic Piano

12. Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12

13. Hayden Pedigo - The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored

14. SUSS & Andrew Tuttle - Rising

15. Grand River - All Above

16. North Americans - Long Cool World

17. Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music

18. Celia Hollander - 2nd Draft

19. Matthew Halsall - An Ever Changing View

20. Bing & Ruth - Let The Moon Be a Planet

21. Ylia - Ame Agaru

22. Anthony Naples - Orbs

23. Yuja Wang - The American Project

24. Bruce Brubaker - Eno Piano

25. ANNA - Intentions

26. André 3000 - New Blue Sun

27. Will Gardner - Remains

28. Imaginary Softwoods - The Notional Pastures of Imaginary Softwoods

29. Arun Ramamurthy & Trina Basu - Nakshatra

30. Hollie Kenniff - We All Have Places That We Miss

31. Helios - Espera

32. Golden Brown - Weird Choices

33. Moby - Ambient 23

34. James Holden - Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities

35. Erik Hall & Simeon ten Holt - Canto Ostinato

36. Ekin Fil - Rosewood Untitled

37. Tommy Guerrero - Amber of Memory

38. Ylan Chu - Live from Montreal

39. Loscil & Lawrence English - Colours of Air

40. Víkingur Ólafsson - J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations

41. Gacha Bakradze - Pancakes

42. Aria Rostami - Siren

43. Ki Oni - An Evening Stroll to the Garden Party

44. Al Wootton - We Have Come to Banish the Dark

45. dj +1 - Aromáticas

46. Tatsuro Murakami - An Imaginary Autumn

47. Yetsuby - My Star My Planet My Earth

48. Johnny Nash - Point of Entry

49. Davi Music - Good Morning Deja Vu

50. Seconds - Seconds

We made a playlist of tracks from each of these albums for our paying subscribers – access that and other subscriber-only playlists here.

We wish you a rejuvenating holiday. See you in the new year.

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