The 2023 End of Year music lists thread

I did ramble on about it quite a lot a month ago to crickets :p

I mean the number of people I've tried to get to listen to his Won't album (about 20) rather exceeds the number who actually have (0), he's a hard sell!

There still some 00s blogs with great eoy selections:

Said the Gramophone, gorilla vs bear, raven sings the blues, aquarium drunkard…

Looking forward to the Boomkat lists

Really enjoying the a.P.A.t.T. album from the Quietus list. It's only taken them 20 years but they've made something that doesn't have me rolling my eyes (much). Full of great tunes even!

Love this Chappell Roan album! My favorite find from the year-end lists so far.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, December 3, 2023 12:35 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Dan Nigro's been a busy guy this year huh.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, December 3, 2023 12:40 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

seconded

this album had a totally botched and stupid release and I just assumed basically nobody had heard it because of this, it has 3 RYM ratings total! You should absolutely grab hold of it!

Aye, okay, that makes a lot more sense. Think I'm being massively oversensitive as well, so fair dos. I will seek it out.

The big question for me is whether all of ilx will hate me if I nominate five+ songs from this year's Eurovision for the EoY poll. It was a good year!

all good xp!

always up for eurovision nominations, think i even voted for one once without knowing it was eurovision (go_a)

Ted Gioia:

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-best-recordings-of-2023-honorable

Cabbages (best hip hop albums)

https://www.cabbageshiphop.com/best-hip-hop-rap-albums-2023/

I fucking love Go_A - they played London earlier this year and I told myself I would go but I'm too goddamned tired and brain-fucked these days to do travelling to gigs. Released a couple of tracks this year that I may well nom (but I'm not counting them as Eurovision any more).

xxp

Treblezine top 100 songs

https://www.treblezine.com/the-100-best-songs-of-2023/

Xps cha cha cha will be in my track vote

Benefits - Nails includes a couple members of The Chapman Family, who's Burn Your Town (2011) I liked. But man, more of that shouty Sleaford Mods stuff is rough going. I guess some people find catharsis having someone on too much cocaine/alcohol ranting at their face, spittle flying. I prefer death metal. Or old Chicago faves Oozing Wound!

― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 4 December 2023 14:22 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is one of the worst things i have ever heard, ever

i didn't realize A&W was so beloved

you can get veggie burgers there, which is helpful

Revolver - 30 Best Albums of 2023
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/30-best-albums-2023

including albums by Baroness, Blackbraid, Queens of the Stone Age.

a rather disappointing list overall.

Allmusic Year in Review
Top 100 Albums of 2023
https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-review

has started first up its:

100 Highlighted 2023 Albums unranked in A-Z order

I did ramble on about it quite a lot a month ago to crickets

I’m crickets

Consequence 50 Best Albums of 2023
https://consequence.net/2023/12/consequence-50-best-albums-of-2023-list/6/

a different number 1 at Consequence

01. Yves Tumor — Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume

this yves tumor album was a step down, imo

first part of Bandcamp's Best Albums of 2023

bandcamp Best Albums of 2023 A-E
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2023/the-best-albums-of-2023-a-e

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-songs-2023

25. Cole Pulice: “If I Don’t See You in the Future, I’ll See You in the Pasture”
For the uninitiated, it may seem like Cole Pulice is simply leaning their forearm on all the white keys of an organ before wailing on a saxophone across this very long song. But what you are actually hearing is all saxophone, including its sound being manipulated through signal processing live in the studio by the Oakland-based electro-acoustic composer’s feet. The auditory illusion fits the mood of the piece: liminal, transitory, extremely trippy. Pulice saves the best for the end, when they repeat a squiggly little pitch-bendy riff over and over: As the production is stripped away, they intimately struggle with their altissimo register, like they’re trying to crawl back into the last 22 minutes of a dream slipping away from memory. –Jeremy D. Larson

I used to babysit this kid. Good for them!

a list from the UK music website, The Line of Best Fit

The Line of Best Fit - Albums of the Year
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/articles/2023-best-albums-ranked

AOTY Summary - The Line of Best Fit - Albums of the Year
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2131-the-line-of-best-fits-best-albums-of-the-year-2023/

Number 1 Kara Jackson - Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?

Good number 1

Bristol's Crack Magazine presents their albums of the year

essential reading, plenty of interesting leftfield choices on this list to explore further.

Crack Magazine - The Top 50 Albums of the Year

https://crackmagazine.net/article/list-article/best-albums-2023/

number 1 from imago approved:

Jim Legxacy
Homeless N**** Pop Music
(!)

shocked (in a good way) to see vayda up there. fun list, probably my favorite so far

Oh! that Crack list has a lot of albums I loved that I haven’t seen in any other list yet. Yeah probably my fave so far.

Do they also do a songs list? Interested on seeing what they rank there too.

crickets, and fgti saying he was a really diamond bloke and then not listening to the album ;)

Bandcamp list usually has some good stuff on it...

Crack did a top 25 tracks list last year. So we just have to wait.

now that's a worthy #1, plenty of other stuff that looks interesting on that list too

Oh yeah! Looking at Crack’s top tracks for previous years and they have made some great choices in the past. Don’t remember paying attention before but I guess I love Crack.

paste singles: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-songs/100-best-songs-of-2023

pretty high placement for jim legxcy on this one too, which surprised me

Crack list is great. Great to see John Twells and Chal Ravens contributing, they were both mainstays at Fact magazine back when it was worth reading

Cabbages (best hip hop albums)

https://www.cabbageshiphop.com/best-hip-hop-rap-albums-2023/

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, December 4, 2023 10:37 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

cool list but they are griselda pilled sickos, by far conway and westside gunn's worst albums ever place high, and i like estee nack but it wasn't that exceptional. lots of cool stuff though and some i haven't heard of.

Weird to see “Daddy” as the consensus track pick for Nourished by Time. Happy to see them represented at all and I like that one, but it didn’t seem to me like the particular highlight (the fields, rain water promise or soap party are superior imho)

Paste EPs of the year also has some good choices

https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-eps/30-best-eps-of-2023

cabbages usually highlights the most boring rap in the game today, but he did include the h31r album which is so so good

when it's too boring for me you got problems pal

i did like h31r a lot

there's a better al divino album (with raheim supreme) that i love which didn't make the list

i found the griseldaxfr reddit this year and honestly it ruined the whole thing for me, a more demented group of weirdos you'll never meet. obsessing about real hip hop then someone says "oh i didn't know cee lo green rapped" and obsessing about $500 t-shirt drops then complaining when the t-shirt stars falling apart right away

One album I'm not seeing on ANY list so far is Hit Parade. Not surprised, but it did land some really positive reviews. Wonder if it will make Pitchfork's list.

oh ha - it made the first one posted here, MOJO, but I can't seem to find it even honorably mentioned on https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2023/ so that might be the only one?

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/05/1211225533/best-albums-2023

npr list is unranked this year (boo!)

Sort of unranked. The crowns to the left that they gave to some albums is sort of a guide on their actual top 20.

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2023/

oh of course sza is the consensus pick given she wasn't quite eligible last year

they're way overrating that yeule album though, 10000 gecs too.

I thought this was a solid year for music, but I'd rank any of my top 3 albums of 2022 (Dragon, Motomami, SOS) ahead of any album I heard in 2023.

Here’s Stereogum

https://www.stereogum.com/2243925/best-albums-2023/lists/year-in-review/2023-in-review/

hey there's a Tubs appearance!

nice to see the Ratboy love too