The 25 best Asian albums of 2023
These are NME's picks for the best albums and EPs from Asia in 2023: including Youngohm, Dilaw, NewJeans, Grrrl Gang, Balming Tiger and more
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These are NME's picks for the best albums and EPs from Asia in 2023: including Youngohm, Dilaw, NewJeans, Grrrl Gang, Balming Tiger and more
The qualities every songwriter should strive for are honesty and specificity — Joanna Sternberg has both. The New York City musician’s songs are vulnerable and tender, a chronicle of one person’s experience that feels eminently relatable. Sternberg sings about heartbreak and loneliness, being overwhelmed and under pressure, feeling invisible and like no one will ever understand you. But then a song comes along, like the ones that Sternberg writes, that reminds you of the universality of the human experience, even in all its individual quirks and idiosyncrasies.
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