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The most urgent and relevant musical developments in 2023 took place not in recorded albums and songs, but rather on concert stages.

Acoustic guitarist Dan Knishkowy is joined by an improvisational quartet for an album of autumnal instrumental folk that meditates on self-knowledge and change.

Falling somewhere between Bill Frisell’s basement and the Mediterranean Sea, the debut from this instrumental Brooklyn trio marks a promising arrival.

Sometimes the mood is doom, or at least some inchoate but powerful feeling. This may be best expressed by phrases that loop and mutate slowly, thickly, allowing for extended immersion in a kind of amniotic environment. Here, the repetition, the lack of typical progression or resolution, the indeterminacy, becomes a path to freedom or release.

Office Culture sing of love, sadness, and city life on 'Big Time Things', buoyed by a four-piece combination that locks in with a unique brand of art-pop.