Alt.Latino's favorite music of 2023

Alt.Latino

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a whole lot of lively, sneakily danceable beats. As we've been talking about on Alt.Latino for some time, Mexican Regional music broke through in a big way this year, and we found it incredible to witness the most boisterous and uncompromising sounds from that long tradition make their way across the world and to the top of the charts.

A strong feeling of authenticity to place and experience was palpable across the spectrum of Latin albums released in 2023, from the most popular to those deserving of more attention. To review all there was to love about Spanish-language music this year, hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Syare sat down with producer Isabella Gomez Sarmiento to discuss the ways musicians danced fearlessly across genre lines while showing up as their complete selves more than ever before.

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0:00.0	These days, there's a lot of news.
0:01.8	It can be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community.
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0:11.1	Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world.
0:20.4	Listen to the Consider This Podcast from NPR.
0:28.2	From NPR music, this is Alt Latino.
0:31.2	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:32.6	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:34.8	It's that time of the year.
0:36.1	Got to look back at the year.
0:38.1	Some of our favorite picks.
0:45.0	And we're starting this year's show off with one of my picks.
1:01.4	Felix, not to talk down about your music choice, but why do I feel like I'm on a game show right now?
1:03.4	Oh my God.
1:05.0	That is so wrong.
1:07.2	Come on, a little bit, a little bit.
1:09.4	Okay, all right, all right. You know, I got to bring in our third voice this week,
1:15.8	because maybe she's got something to say about Isabella and Góvisarmiento. Isabella, welcome.
1:20.1	Hello, hello. Thank you for having me. You know, I'm always siding with you on your dead preferences,
1:25.3	so I'm sorry, Anna, I can't, I can't hate.
1:28.6	This feels like a sneak attack, Felix.
1:31.3	Like you brought in a third party to bolster your side a little bit here.
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