I was thinking Lana Del Rey would be high in the consensus but it’s not that high atm
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 November 2023 23:30 (nine months ago) link
Oh wait it’s at #8 on the aggregate it will surely climb a few places
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 27 November 2023 23:31 (nine months ago) link
Spotify Wrapped has dropped in the UK.
― djmartian, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 13:49 (nine months ago) link
BBC Radio 6 Music announces its Albums of the Yearhttps://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/6-music-albums-of-the-year
BBC Radio 6 Music announces its Albums of the YearOver the next five weeks Matt Everitt’s weekly New Album Fix show will be an Albums of the Year special
New Album Fix: Albums of the Year - Episode 1
On BBC Sounds now and broadcast on Friday 1 December, 3am-4am
the record by boygenius (selected by Chris Hawkins)Ladders by The Loving Paupers (Don Letts)UK Grim by Sleaford Mods (Iggy Pop)Gentle Confrontation by Loraine James (Mary Anne Hobbs and SHERELLE)New Album Fix: Albums of the Year - Episode 2
On BBC Sounds from Monday 4 December and broadcast on Friday 8 December, 3am-4am
The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We by Mitski (selected by Lauren Laverne)The Last Rotation of Earth by BC Camplight (Marc Riley)In the End It Always Does by The Japanese House (Nathan Shepherd)Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities by James Holden (Tom Ravenscroft)Nails by Benefits (Tom Robinson)New Album Fix: Albums of the Year - Episode 3
On BBC Sounds from Monday 11 December and broadcast on Friday 15 December, 3am-4am
Slugs of Love by Little Dragon (AFRODEUTSCHE)Rare Birds: Hour of Song by The Bug Club (Cerys Matthews)Silver by Say She She (Huey Morgan)Appaloosa Bones by Gregory Alan Isakov (Mark Radcliffe)New Album Fix: Albums of the Year - Episode 4
On BBC Sounds from Monday 18 December and broadcast on Friday 22 December, 4am-5am
I've Got Me by Joanna Sternberg (Deb Grant)All Of This Is Chance by Lisa O'Neill (Gideon Coe)Bunny by Willie J Healey (Guy Garvey)Javelin by Sufjan Stevens (Huw Stephens)Black Classical Music by Yussef Dayes (Jamz Supernova)New Album Fix: Albums of the Year - Episode 5
On BBC Sounds from Monday 25 December and broadcast on Friday 29 December, 4am-5am
Good Living Is Coming For You by Sweeping Promises (Amy Lamé)Angels & Queens by Gabriels (Craig Charles)Protect Your Light by Irreversible Entanglements (Gilles Peterson)Chaos For The Fly by Grian Chatten (Steve Lamacq)Sea of Mirrors by The Coral (Stuart Maconie)
― djmartian, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 13:54 (nine months ago) link
popmatters THE 10 BEST GLOBAL MUSIC ALBUMS OF 2023https://www.popmatters.com/the-10-best-global-music-albums-of-2023
1. WITCH – Zango (Desert Daze Sound)
― djmartian, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 13:57 (nine months ago) link
Jessie Ware maybe?
it was pretty forgettable in the end so i hope not
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:12 (nine months ago) link
popmatters - THE 20 BEST POP ALBUMS OF 2023https://www.popmatters.com/the-20-best-pop-albums-of-2023/2popmatters - THE 20 BEST POP ALBUMS OF 2023 AOTY Summaryhttps://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2114-popmatters-20-best-pop-albums-of-2023/
Number 1: Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!
― djmartian, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 14:18 (nine months ago) link
the olivia rodrigo album is good but i expect it will end up overrated in these lists.
overrated in comparison to how *you* feel about the album, it should be noted.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 15:58 (nine months ago) link
Spotify Wrapped 2023: team behind much-anticipated music moment share their storyhttps://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/11/29/spotify-wrapped-2023-team-behind-much-anticipated-music-moment-share-their-story
Another first for this year is the ‘Sound Town’ feature. “We know that listening habits are shared in really surprising ways across communities around the world,” explains Emily Galloway, head of personalization design at the streaming platform. “To celebrate that, we are bringing you Sound Town, which matches you to a city and is based on your listening and shared artists affinity.” This means that users can go check out a new place that they might not have considered visiting before and meet like-minded people.
― djmartian, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:03 (nine months ago) link
Loud And Quiet Albums of the Year 2023https://www.loudandquiet.com/short/loud-and-quiet-albums-of-the-year-2023/
― djmartian, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:06 (nine months ago) link
it's pretty common these days for pop albums which are merely good, solid, decent, etc. to be received by the critical consensus as instant classics. but at least their standards there are higher than they often still are with indie rock lol
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:37 (nine months ago) link
Guts is currently #50 in the aggregate list (1 top 25; 2 other); not looking like much danger of it being "overrated."
― This field is required (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:00 (nine months ago) link
who says Guts is "merely good, solid, decent"?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 19:31 (nine months ago) link
“It” referring to “gyac as Valued Poster,” not to gyac herself.
Spotify Wrapped 2023: team behind much-anticipated music moment share their storyhttps://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/11/29/spotify-wrapped-2023-team-behind-much-anticipated-music-moment-share-their-story🕸Another first for this year is the ‘Sound Town’ feature. “We know that listening habits are shared in really surprising ways across communities around the world,” explains Emily Galloway, head of personalization design at the streaming platform. “To celebrate that, we are bringing you Sound Town, which matches you to a city and is based on your listening and shared artists affinity.” This means that users can go check out a new place that they might not have considered visiting before and meet like-minded people.
― lethbridge-pfunkboy (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 30 November 2023 02:44 (nine months ago) link
Weird, I also got Burlington
― sawdust lagoon, Thursday, 30 November 2023 03:16 (nine months ago) link
turns out if you listen to more than two milwaukee rap mixtapes your sound town becomes milwaukee
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 November 2023 03:58 (nine months ago) link
Canadian music website Exclaim
Exclaim!'s 50 Best Albums of 2023https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclaim_50_best_albums_of_2023
AOTY Summaryhttps://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2120-exclaims-50-best-albums-of-2023/
1. Caroline PolachekDesire, I Want to Turn Into You
― djmartian, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:19 (nine months ago) link
the aggregate is turning out how one would suspect-- Polachek, Sufjan, LDR, boygenius, GUTS, PJ Harvey, Mitski in top 10.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:30 (nine months ago) link
not sure what Lankum is
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:31 (nine months ago) link
Huh, I got Burlington too.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:34 (nine months ago) link
Everyone should listen to Lankum. The Loud & Quiet blurb is a good primer:
Although they’ve been around in one form or another for 20 years now, Dublin’s Lankum have been developing their own version of traditional folk music in its current form since their 2017 album, Between The Earth And Sky, when they started to push ancient songs into new places by accentuating the droning elements of the music by adding heavy sounds more synonymous with metal and hardcore. In our end of year cover feature with the group, singer Radie Peat noted how their following album, 2019’s The Livelong Day, perhaps took things too far, making it too bleak for her to listen to. False Lankum has been a recalibration, and the band have rightfully been rewarded for hitting a sweet spot between noise and dread and space and peace. It’s a record that is worlds deep, and if 2023 has had anything going for it, it’s the fact that an album so dense and uncompromising has provided a band like this with their breakout year after two decades of musical exploration. False Lankum looked like being our album of the year as soon as it was released, and it is.
― Indexed, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:37 (nine months ago) link
Spotify Wrapped 2023: team behind much-anticipated music moment share their storyhttps://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/11/29/spotify-wrapped-2023-team-behind-much-anticipated-music-moment-share-their-story🕸
Had never (before or after the wrapped reveal) considered visiting Burlington.― lethbridge-pfunkboy (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
spotify told me i need to go to vilnius, lithuania
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:52 (nine months ago) link
lankum album is v good, as is the loud and quiet listed john francis flynn album on a similar vein
― nxd, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:55 (nine months ago) link
rolling stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-2023-1234879538
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:05 (nine months ago) link
I either had forgotten so many of these albums or never knew about them
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:10 (nine months ago) link
Welcome new Spotify Burlingtonians! To avoid other boygenius fans, simply walk the streets of your new paradise, where the most popular bands are still AC/DC and RATT— Dan Chiasson (@dchiasso) November 30, 2023
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:23 (nine months ago) link
xxpost the year was so good we put a 2022 record at #1
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:27 (nine months ago) link
gorilla vs bear: https://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2023/
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:40 (nine months ago) link
Well "Guts" has jumped up considerably in the aggregrate today
It's cool that the RS list has Blondshell at #11... hope she shows up on more lists.
― This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:46 (nine months ago) link
New Blue Sun at #6
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:53 (nine months ago) link
Popmatters - THE 10 BEST AMBIENT ALBUMS OF 2023https://www.popmatters.com/best-ambient-albums-of-2023
― djmartian, Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:02 (nine months ago) link
GvB consistently giving the best eoy lists
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:06 (nine months ago) link
I know we all have our preferences, but RS putting Ocean Blvd way down at #21 (right beneath the Janelle Monáe album, of all things) is irritating.
― This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:26 (nine months ago) link
oh my god are you okay
― imago, Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:39 (nine months ago) link
what is Ocean Blvd
― alpine static, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:21 (nine months ago) link
a place above a tunnel, apparently
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:33 (nine months ago) link
If the UK critical consensus is forming around Lankum, then for once I’m delighted. It’s an outstanding album, sonically gorgeous, and easily the most original take I’ve heard on traditional music I’ve heard in years.Researching all year for the podcast has played havoc with my Unwrapped; I got a video message from Calvin Harris thanking me for my support! (Also, apparently I need to visit Newcastle. At least it’s not far away.)
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 30 November 2023 20:43 (nine months ago) link
― alpine static, Thursday, November 30, 2023 3:21 PM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
An Eric Clapton album I think
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:09 (nine months ago) link
My top artist was Ryuichi Sakamoto. Spotify asked if I wanted to send him a message.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:11 (nine months ago) link
i'm sure they have an AI Ryuichi ready to receive it
― omar little, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:23 (nine months ago) link
I only use Spotify if absolutely necessary for work, so my top artists are mostly shit I hate but have to write about. I got a personal message from right wing country dumbass Creed Fisher.
― alpine static, Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:46 (nine months ago) link
I listen on Tidal, and only open Spotify when I need to paste a streaming link into an article.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 30 November 2023 21:52 (nine months ago) link
Music fucking sucks now
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 November 2023 22:03 (nine months ago) link
Agreed. You should leave this messageboard and join us at music sucks now dot com
― alpine static, Thursday, 30 November 2023 22:08 (nine months ago) link
the only thing i hate more than music is people putting music in a list
― budo jeru, Thursday, 30 November 2023 22:31 (nine months ago) link
irish folk as played by swans
― ufo, Thursday, 30 November 2023 23:23 (nine months ago) link
I got Berkeley instead of Burlington, even though boygenius was in my top 5. Maybe having De La Soul as #1 did that?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 November 2023 23:25 (nine months ago) link
(the De La thank-you video is v charming fwiw)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 30 November 2023 23:26 (nine months ago) link
Sounds like you all need to set your GPS units to Ocean Blvd, stat...
― This field is required (morrisp), Thursday, 30 November 2023 23:40 (nine months ago) link
not sure what Lankum is― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes)
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes)
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-folk/the-best-folk-music-on-bandcamp-march-2023https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/new-dark-folk-uk-ireland-scene-reporthttps://daily.bandcamp.com/resonance/lankum-between-the-earth-and-sky-essay
― alpine static, Friday, 1 December 2023 02:17 (nine months ago) link
Obama shoulda put “Vampire Empire (Colbert version),” just to troll the band
― In my Ram’s Horn era (morrisp)
Or “Dang (Colbert version)”
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 December 2023 06:53 (eight months ago) link
I know AOTY exists now but I have always looked forward to and considered Rob Mitchum's aggregation to be the better of the two because he only includes multi-voter lists. I am also just fond of the data table view.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mlSJ5DU0RKccuNBfAgsiw-_xUApis7zC3ZjJofXyZB4/edit#gid=1927558368
― Indexed, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 16:31 (eight months ago) link
It is remarkable that not one of the 44 lists ranked Javelin #1. I doubt that's ever happened before to an overall #1.
Also always enjoy perusing his "Sleepers" tab, which basically has albums that were very highly ranked on only a small number of lists. Has two of my favorites in the top ten: ML Buch & Durand Jones. Not familiar with a lot of the others.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 16:34 (eight months ago) link
Wilco recommends:
https://twitter.com/Wilco/status/1742251939931254830
― Chris L, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 18:50 (eight months ago) link
Hmmm, they just deleted it. Not my fault.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 18:51 (eight months ago) link
now that the year is actually over, it's time to vote in the ILM EOY poll: ILM's 2023 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / VOTING THREAD
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 19:38 (eight months ago) link
The Francis Davis Jazz Critics poll also has breakout categories including a Latin Jazz one
https://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/23/?fbclid=IwAR2WelVCzdqenojITWPqaDagJuEFt15y7ZhEJYOp9Bgxj2AMu7ZBJLNb0DY
https://hullworks.net/jazzpoll/23/totals-latin.php
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 January 2024 06:30 (eight months ago) link
forgot to add this terrible list that I add every year and it annoys us all.
https://tomvictorwords.medium.com/what-your-favourite-album-of-2023-says-about-you-6481acac9054
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 January 2024 04:09 (eight months ago) link
these are so low effort and I don't even get most of the references so why do they still piss me off
― Left, Friday, 5 January 2024 04:41 (eight months ago) link
I know. It just seems like a collection of really lame local jokes.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 January 2024 04:50 (eight months ago) link
i respect that they're now at the point where most of those are just totally inscrutable
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2024 04:59 (eight months ago) link
"boygenius is for fake indie girls who like kelly clarkson" is the most comprehensible one and I still don't really get it - which part is the punchline?
still I clicked and read the whole thing despite knowing how shit it would be so they win
― Left, Friday, 5 January 2024 05:12 (eight months ago) link
Feel like it's trying to be too clever, or maybe it hits much more for gen z readers and I'm just not exactly hip enough to fully get most of it.
― Evan, Friday, 5 January 2024 15:31 (eight months ago) link
https://accidentalevolution.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/150-best-albums-of-2023/
Chuck Eddy 150 fave albums of 2023 plus a long essay . His list has a fair amount of jazz and his self described most ever albums from African based artists. Eddy is into artists from the Nyege Nyege label much more than popular afropop/ afrobeats btw
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:52 (eight months ago) link
Noz's list of his fave rap went up a day or two ago, for the goons/high BPM people (and lurkers)
https://noz.agency/rap23.html
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 6 January 2024 01:34 (eight months ago) link
The Finest Kiss
https://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/2023-albums/
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 7 January 2024 05:03 (eight months ago) link