The Best Singaporean Music of 2023
We’re bringing you 23 of our favourite Singaporean releases from 2023!
Singapore’s music scene is slowly roaring back, and we’re all here for the new life coming back into it. We’re close to turning 5 here at Big Duck, and we’ve seen so many ups and downs along the way: this year, we invested our efforts this year into B-4, a series dedicated to showcasing new talents in a stripped-back formats, while keeping our sights on music from across the border, bringing in shows by Malaysian bands Soft Soft Pillow and Sweetass. After the tornado that’s been the pandemic, we’ve been so glad to see new movements and collectives come to the forefront, and welcome new collaborations and creative forces rightfully returning. From returning indie rockers and beatmakers to quietly brilliant side projects, music continued to bubble under and over the surface in Singapore. To honour that spirit, we’ve compiled 23 picks for a 2023 full of exciting projects. We’re also following this list up with a freshmen class of 2023: ten artists we believe are among the most exciting newcomers injecting fresh sounds into the scene. Here’s to an even greater year of creativity in 2024!
Contributors: Wayne Lim, Isaac Chiew, JX Soo, Timothy Khoo, Bryan Joel Lim, Chester
Read the full list here.
Big Duck’s best music from Singapore in 2023 are as follows:
Mary Sue & Psychedelic Ensemble. - CACOPHONOUS DIGRESSIONS, A RECORD OF MOMENT IN TIME
stickiness - Warm Day Cold Year
Spider - Enemy
Blush - Supercrush
Chok Kerong & Vanessa Fernandez - Spiral
Kin Leonn - mirror in the gleam
Subsonic Eye - All Around You
Namie and the Waves - Undercurrents
Shye - 9LIVES
Woes - Temporal Dimension
Jon and Wei Kai - If You Open a Door
Intermission - Intermission Party Programme
Joy Alexis - Knowing
inno - 17
Linying - House Mouse
Constitution - Diminishing Grit
ALICIA DC - LOVERGIRL
Everything Us Alright - Where Did All The People Go
JUN, Elden Zachery and Aaditya Sundar - SOLTU
shazza - chapter one
Dodgy South - Enemy Spotted
beansclub - CARRY ME AWAY
Hanging Up The Moon - Sugar Free
