SUMAC–aka vocalist/guitarist Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, etc), bassist Brian Cook (Botch, Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes, etc), and drummer Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists, Genghis Tron, etc)–are gearing up to celebrate their 10th anniversary with Boston and Brooklyn shows in February, and they’re also working on new material that they’ll play some of at those shows. Before that, though, Aaron and Nick have each made us lists of their favorite albums of 2023.
The lists include MC Yallah, BIG|BRAVE, Armand Hammer, Moor Mother, Gravesend, Jarhead Fertilizer, and more, and you can check out both full lists below.
The shows happen Boston’s Arts at the Armory on February 16 with Scarcity and Forbes Graham; and Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus on February 17 & 18 with Scarcity and Forbes Graham on night one and Ava Mendoza and Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean on night two.
Aaron Turner (vocals/guitar):
MC Yallah – Yallah Bebe
Altarage – Worst Case Scenario
Christina Vantzou – No 5
BIG|BRAVE – nature morte
SWANS – The Beggar
Armand Hammer – We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
OXBOW – Love’s Holiday
Masayuki Takayanagi “Mass Hysterism in Another Situation
Godflesh – Purge
Fluisteraars “De Kronieken Van Het Verdwenen Kasteel – II – Nergena
Nick Yacyshyn (drums):
Ceremonial Bloodbath – Genesis Of Malignant Entropy
Moor Mother – Jazz Codes
The Armed – Perfect Saviours
Sonic Poison – Eruption
Gravesend – Gowanus Death Stomp
Signal Quest – Hypermyth
Chain Whip – Call Of The Knife
Michael C. Sharp – Late Horizon
Patrick Shiroishi – I Was Too Young To Hear Silence
Avola – Psykor
Jarhead Fertilizer – Carceral Warfare
Ascended Dead – Evenfall Of The Apocalypse
John Medeski – The Curse OST
