My traditional (second year I'm doing it = tradition) list of the 50 best albums from Denmark:
50. Esben Svane – Ikke et ord49. Stefan Pasborg – Ritual Dances48. Lukas Vanggaard – Natsværmeren & Sommerfuglen47. Slægt – Goddess46. Toechter – Zephyr45. Jura – Formality Jerne-Site44. Lueenas – Lueenas43. iB101 – Enfant Terrible42. Else Marie Pade – The Orchestral Album41. Kalaha + Hilal Kaya With Aarhus Jazz Ochestra – Tutku40. Mekdes – Greedy39. Kasper Bjørke Quartet – Mother38. Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek – Together37. Lamin – Kronisk Skeptisk36. Brimheim – can’t hate myself into a different shape35. Danish String Quartet – Prism IV34. CTM – Babygirl33. NikoCorlin – Ocean Thread32. Carsten Dahl, Tim Hagans, Johnny Åman & Jukkis Uotila – A Beautiful Blue Moment31. First Hate – Cotton Candy / The Remix Experience30. Poptones – Between Darkness & Daylight29. Sofie Birch – Holotropica / Sofie Birch & Antonina Nowacka – Langouria28. Orm – Intet • Altet27. Josefine Opsahl – Atrium26. Joyce – Elsk mig25. Solborg/Bigoni/Maniscalco – Canto24. Astrid Øster Mortensen – Skærgårdslyd / Klara Livet – Varandra23. Sonic Girl – Confessions22. Tvivler – Kilogram21. Hans Phillip – [α] / [β]20. Jeppe Zeeberg – Conventional19. Natjager – At kende bølge fra hav18. Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð & Allan Gravgaard Madsen – BEINTA17. Konvent – Call Down The Sun16. Anna Roemer – Azure15. Collider – Excessively Worthwhile14. SVIN & Aarhus Sinfonietta – Elegi / SVIN – Introducing SVIN13. Tettix Hexer – The Vibrant And Buoyant Heart / Aero12. Shooter Gang – Alt har sin pris11. Lyla Haifa – Cicadas10. Senso – The Void In Us9. Trio Con Brio / Bent Sørensen – The Island In The City8. Gilli – Carnival7. Sleep Party People – Heap Of Ashes6. Natlyst – Ikaros5. Randi Pontoppidan & Povl Kristian – Life In Life4. Schacke – Apocalyptic Decadence3. Kindsight – Swedish Punk2. Tobias Rahim – Når sjælen kaster op1. HVAD & Abdullah Miniawy – Notice A Tiny Scratch For The Blue Behind / HVAD – YUG
― Frederik B, Friday, 30 December 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
Both of DJ Central’s albums released this year are really nice
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 30 December 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Rolling Stone really knows where it’s at - here’s a very knowledgeable afropop top 40:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-afropop-songs-of-2022-1234650065/
― the shaker intro bit the shaker outro in the tail, hard (breastcrawl), Saturday, 31 December 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
I wish Electronic Sound was still in my local Tesco
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 31 December 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
Electronic Sound , can’t find the top 50 online, but here’s the top 10.
1= Telefis - a Dò/ a hAon2 Working Men’s Club - Fear Fear3 Loraine James - Building Something Beautiful For Me4 Plaid - Feorm Falorx5 Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Districts, Roads, Open Spaces6 Elaine Howley - The Distance Between Heart And Mouth7 Gwenno - Tresor8 Acid Klaus - Step On My Travelator…9 Cosi Fanni Tutti- Delia Derbyshire:The Myths And The Legendary Tapes10 Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B
I sprung for this edition (though it's £7.99 now so I probably won't be doing that again) - here's the rest:
11. 700 Bliss - Nothing to Declare12. Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxymore13. Stephen Mallinder - Tick Tick Tick14. Lucrecia Dalt - !Ay!15. Future Conditional - Isotech16. The Hardy Tree - Common Grounds17. Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis18. Soft Cell - Happiness Not Included19. Nik Colk Void - Bucked Up Space20. The Comet is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam21. V/A - Eins Und Zwei Und Drei Und Vier Vol. 2: Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1978-198722. Blancmange - Private View23. Brian Eno - ForeverAndEverNoMore24. Kelly Lee Owens - LP.825. The Advisory Circle - Full Circle26. V/A - Cue Dot XIII: ReFabricated27. The Sound of Science - The Sound of Science28. Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart29. Au Suisse - Au Suisse30. Arp - New Pleasures31. Ghost Power - Ghost Power32. Rival Consoles - Now Is33. Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra - The Unfolding34. Caterina Barbieri - Spirit Exit35. Gabe Gurnsey - Diablo36. Rodney Cromwell - Memory Box37. Wolfgang Flür - Magazine 138. Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Popul - Topical Dancer39. Richie Culver - I Was Born By the Sea40. Gigi Masin - Vahinè41. The Black Dog - Music for Photographers42. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Let's Turn It Into Sound43. Cate Le Bon - Pompeii44. Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point45. Helen Ganya - Polish the Machine46. Tangerine Dream - Raum47. Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters48. Fenella - The Metallic Index49. Gemma Cullingford - Tongue Tied50. Tony Price - Mark VI
― technopolis, Saturday, 31 December 2022 08:00 (one year ago) link
passion of the weiss albums list: https://www.passionweiss.com/2022/12/29/pow-best-albums-2022/
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Saturday, 31 December 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
Passion of Weiss list has Asake, Horace Andy, rap, Vieux Farka Toure w/ Khruangbin , and various releases I have never heard of but maybe you all have
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 December 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
Rock and Roll Globe
https://rockandrollglobe.com/records/the-rock-roll-globe-top-30-albums-of-2022/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 1 January 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
A new year's present: At long last, the Album of the Year List spreadsheet! https://t.co/d4vkqKrtJV— Rob Mitchum (@robmitchum) December 31, 2022
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m5v1y2Bj88JTmSZGAoGFTuCQPPWQDwxkIfT8QhTh478/edit#gid=1927558368
― Indexed, Sunday, 1 January 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
Voting is open for the ILM EOY Poll: ILM's 2022 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 2 January 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
I don’t think Phonica’s lists have been posted but there’s good stuff there
https://www.phonicarecords.com/best-of-2022
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 2 January 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
Albums of the year of 5:4 (aka 5against4.com):
Part 1 (#30-#16)Part 2 (#15-#1)
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 10:46 (one year ago) link
I missed the nominations, some major ones I don't see on the albums list - Large Plants on ghost box, Muramuke (herbert & barbara panther) on accidental, Lalalar on Bongo Joe, Ezra Collective, Tim Bernardes on Psychic Hotline, Noori & His Dorpa Band on Ostinato, Tumi Mogorosi on New Soil, Al-Qasar on Glitterbeat, Meridian Brothers, Kibrom Birhane, Branko Mataja comp/reissue on Numero Group just to name a few! Hope you check some out
― undomondo, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
woops wrong thread :(
― undomondo, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.theafricareport.com/262966/music-our-top-25-african-hits-of-2022-rule-the-dancefloor/
Africa Report also has a separate amapiano only list too I think
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 January 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
https://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/22/
The Jazz critics poll originally started by writer Francis Davis and now handled by Tom Hull. Best albums, plus also separate polls for jazz singers , debut albums, and Latin jazz
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:50 (one year ago) link
The top albums from above jazz critics poll ( points and number of votes)
2022 Totals: New Albums
Mary Halvorson, Amaryllis (Nonesuch) 349.5 (48)Immanuel Wilkins, The 7th Hand (Blue Note) 220 (29)Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ghost Song (Nonesuch) 218.5 (30)Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Mesmerism (Yeros7 Music) 209 (34)Tyshawn Sorey Trio + 1 With Greg Osby, The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (Pi) 180 (27)JD Allen, Americana Vol. 2 (Savant) 159 (22)Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, For the Love of Fire and Water (RogueArt) 154 (24)Terri Lyne Carrington, New Standards Vol. 1 (Candid) 127 (22)Ches Smith, Interpret It Well (Pyroclastic) 126 (21)Wadada Leo Smith, The Emerald Duets (TUM) 122 (19)
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 8 January 2023 01:59 (one year ago) link
It's a good year!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 January 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link
Brainwashed readers poll
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 2 February 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
Nice.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 February 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
if you like those mostly artsy and art rocky types (some of which I do) . Interesting how Horace Andy, thanks to new records, is top reggae act in that Brainwashed poll
― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 February 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
really like that list from the stuff I've enjoyedWill deffo deep dive
― nxd, Friday, 3 February 2023 20:23 (one year ago) link
Yeah likewise. The Brainwashed list has a lot of overlap with my own faves, with several previously unheard RIYL titles. This Ak'Chamel album, for instance, is a treat.
― doug watson, Saturday, 4 February 2023 11:24 (one year ago) link