Ted Gioia:
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-best-recordings-of-2023-honorable
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:36 (nine months ago) link
Cabbages (best hip hop albums)
https://www.cabbageshiphop.com/best-hip-hop-rap-albums-2023/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:37 (nine months ago) link
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
― emil.y, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:37 (nine months ago) link
Treblezine top 100 songs
https://www.treblezine.com/the-100-best-songs-of-2023/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 16:56 (nine months ago) link
Xps cha cha cha will be in my track vote
― nxd, Monday, 4 December 2023 16:58 (nine months ago) link
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
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 17:15 (nine months ago) link
i didn't realize A&W was so beloved
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Monday, 4 December 2023 17:28 (nine months ago) link
you can get veggie burgers there, which is helpful
― rob, Monday, 4 December 2023 17:40 (nine months ago) link
Revolver - 30 Best Albums of 2023https://www.revolvermag.com/music/30-best-albums-2023including albums by Baroness, Blackbraid, Queens of the Stone Age.a rather disappointing list overall.
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 19:28 (nine months ago) link
Allmusic Year in ReviewTop 100 Albums of 2023https://www.allmusic.com/year-in-reviewhas started first up its:100 Highlighted 2023 Albums unranked in A-Z order
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 19:42 (nine months ago) link
I did ramble on about it quite a lot a month ago to crickets
I’m crickets
― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 4 December 2023 19:51 (nine months ago) link
Consequence 50 Best Albums of 2023https://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
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 20:05 (nine months ago) link
this yves tumor album was a step down, imo
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:12 (nine months ago) link
first part of Bandcamp's Best Albums of 2023bandcamp Best Albums of 2023 A-Ehttps://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2023/the-best-albums-of-2023-a-e
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 20:47 (nine months ago) link
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!
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:55 (nine months ago) link
a list from the UK music website, The Line of Best FitThe Line of Best Fit - Albums of the Yearhttps://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/articles/2023-best-albums-rankedAOTY Summary - The Line of Best Fit - Albums of the Yearhttps://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?
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:01 (nine months ago) link
Good number 1
― Indexed, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:23 (nine months ago) link
Bristol's Crack Magazine presents their albums of the yearessential reading, plenty of interesting leftfield choices on this list to explore further.Crack Magazine - The Top 50 Albums of the Yearhttps://crackmagazine.net/article/list-article/best-albums-2023/number 1 from imago approved:Jim LegxacyHomeless N**** Pop Music(!)
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:24 (nine months ago) link
shocked (in a good way) to see vayda up there. fun list, probably my favorite so far
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:29 (nine months ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:34 (nine months ago) link
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...
― imago, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:38 (nine months ago) link
Crack did a top 25 tracks list last year. So we just have to wait.
― djmartian, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:45 (nine months ago) link
now that's a worthy #1, plenty of other stuff that looks interesting on that list too
― ufo, Monday, 4 December 2023 21:46 (nine months ago) link
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.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:48 (nine months ago) link
paste singles: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-songs/100-best-songs-of-2023
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:53 (nine months ago) link
pretty high placement for jim legxcy on this one too, which surprised me
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:54 (nine months ago) link
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
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:59 (nine months ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (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.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:07 (nine months ago) link
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)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:11 (nine months ago) link
Paste EPs of the year also has some good choices
https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-eps/30-best-eps-of-2023
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:15 (nine months ago) link
cabbages usually highlights the most boring rap in the game today, but he did include the h31r album which is so so good
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:17 (nine months ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:20 (nine months ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 December 2023 22:22 (nine months ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 00:51 (nine months ago) link
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?
― octobeard, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 00:53 (nine months ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/05/1211225533/best-albums-2023
npr list is unranked this year (boo!)
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 11:34 (nine months ago) link
Sort of unranked. The crowns to the left that they gave to some albums is sort of a guide on their actual top 20.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:19 (nine months ago) link
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.
― ufo, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:37 (nine months ago) link
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.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:22 (nine months ago) link
Here’s Stereogum
https://www.stereogum.com/2243925/best-albums-2023/lists/year-in-review/2023-in-review/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:28 (nine months ago) link
hey there's a Tubs appearance!
nice to see the Ratboy love too
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 15:40 (nine months ago) link
Even the Wire’s list was pretty boring this year. For what I’ve seen described multiple places as a great year for music there really wasn’t much of interest for me.
― zacata, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 16:08 (nine months ago) link
― blazin' squab (NickB), Monday, December 4, 2023 3:59 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Chal has a new podcast btw: https://notagspodcast.substack.com/
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 16:14 (nine months ago) link
it feels like there is more consensus than usual, and that i disagree more than usual about which albums deserve to be consensus favorites.
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/summary/2023/
looking at the top 20 in aggregate and maybe 3-4 would be among my 50 favorites of the year? and one of them came out in 2022
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 16:24 (nine months ago) link
the editor of The Wire magazine, Derek Walmsley has recently announced his departure. Does anyone know who the new editor is?
― djmartian, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 16:27 (nine months ago) link
No one's been hired yet as far as I know.
I submitted an all-metal ballot to The Wire's critics' poll, so none of my choices made the top 50. But all Wire readers (and everyone, really) should check out Spirit Adrift's Ghost at the Gallows and GridLink's Coronet Jupiter, at least, because they're amazing records.
I was actually kinda surprised that the Hawkwind Space Ritual 50th anniversary box set didn't place on The Wire's reissues chart (that was my #1 pick).
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 16:32 (nine months ago) link
So in the end Pitchfork did hop off the “hit parade” train lol
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:13 (nine months ago) link
Time Out tracks list probably my least favorite so far, they did pick my favorite Newjeans song off that ep.
https://www.timeout.com/music/the-23-best-songs-of-2023
Any list with “I’m just Ken” feels like shitposting to me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:29 (nine months ago) link
Kinda funny that Sufjan is #1 on the aggregate list, but with zero first places in polls
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:29 (nine months ago) link
And I guess Lankum is out of the top 10 despite 3 first places
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:30 (nine months ago) link