The 2023 End of Year music lists thread

if your looking for a brilliantly produced 2023 rock album, check this album out:

Mondo Drag - Through the Looking Glass

https://mondodrag.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-hourglass

released September 15, 2023

John Gamiño - Vocals, Synthesizer, Organ, Piano
Nolan Girard - Synthesizer, Guitar
Jimmy Perez - Drums, Percussion
Conor Riley - Bass, Vocals
Jake Sheley - Guitar

All music written and performed by Mondo Drag
Lyrics written by John Gamiño

Engineered by Phill Becker at El Studio, San Francisco
Additional Recordings by the band at their studio, Oakland
Mastered by Nick Townsend at Townsend Mastering

yardbreaker - The 50 Best Albums of 2023
https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/the_50_best_albums_of_2023/s1__39624312

stop the clock, Imago faves

36: Fire-Toolz: "i am upset because I see something that is not there."

a unique
Number 1 Sam Wilkes: "Driving"

xpost - didn't expect to see a Mondo Drag shout out here, nice djmartian. that's a good one.

the yo la tengo album is great but it's way too normal to be the wire's #1

feel like ilm's own raymondcummings had a part in that

one artist / album I expected to be doing better on EOY lists, Laura Groves - Radio Red.

Hasn't made an impact with US music websites.

― djmartian, Tuesday, December 5, 2023 3:00 PM (three hours ago)

Earth to Mars:

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

― djmartian, Monday, December 4, 2023 2:42 PM

gorilla vs bear had laura groves very high up but it just seemed to get very little critical attention at all for whatever reason

lol

I’m more excited to see the individual Wire lists than usual now

Also, there was an AMM album this year?

AMM'S Rowe, Prevost + Tilbury released Last Calls in honor of Prevost's 80th birthday this year, on Matchless Records. I have not heard it

So Pitchfork’s writers have apparently decided that Latinx music is old news or something, I guess? Am I missing anyone other than Sofia Kourtesis on the albums list?

does kali uchis count?

there's a bunch of in the tracks list, but they didn't bnm any latin pop albums this year, nor did any really seem to get much english-language critical acclaim elsewhere

I love Yo La Tengo's This Stupid World. I don't know about it being #1 on the Wire list, but it transports me back to 1990-2000, where they tempered their psychedelic and noise preferences with their innate pastoral sense - specifically with Fakebook, which is still an astonishing album and my favorite of theirs, but also with all of their other 90s albums, May I Sing With Me, Painful, Electr-O-Pura, I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One , and 2000's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

someone I decided to unfollow on blusky bitched about how this was the worst, most pretentious top ten list he'd ever seen. It strikes me as exactly what I'd expect from the New Yorker (lol at sufjan...what do I know, it's probably really good, I should listen to it).

The New Yorker

1. ANOHNI and the Johnsons, “My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross” (Secretly Canadian)
2. Sufjan Stevens, “Javelin” (Asthmatic Kitty Records)
3. Oneohtrix Point Never, “Again” (Warp)
4. Pharoah Sanders, “Pharoah” (Luaka Bop)
5. Lana Del Rey, “Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd” (Interscope Records)
6. Noname, “Sundial” (self-released)
7. Peter Garland, “The Basketweave Elegies” (Cold Blue Music)
8. Lonnie Holley, “Oh Me Oh My” (Jagjaguwar)
9. Amaarae, “Fountain Baby” (Interscope Records)
10. PJ Harvey, “I Inside the Old Year Dying” (Partisan Records)
11. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You” (Drag City)
12. The National, “First Two Pages of Frankenstein” (4AD)

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-best-music-of-2023

i highly encourage everyone (even the haters) to actually give the sufjan album a listen because it rules. at the very least he deserves better haters

that top 12 does indeed bring me out in a rash, but sufjan one of the less objectionable things on it

Yardbarker list has all the peccadillos of a list devised by an individual person who's listened to a lot of music from 2023, and there are a few things I'd certainly check out in it. Yet another for the 'I can't believe he doesn't post to ILX' pile. Unless he, like, does, idk

the yardbarker list is so wildly all over the place it's probably the weirdest list i've seen

Lol I was like “… oh I quite like this list”

Also that Sam Wilkes album is ace

The DPRP Writers Top 10 Albums of 2023
https://weekendprog.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-dprp-writers-top-10-albums-of-2023.html?m=1

"To wrap-up this year, we asked 11 of the prog-scribes at DPRP.net to select their Top 10 albums of the year. This is the list of each reviewer's selections.

Scroll down to see what your favourite reviewers have selected (in alphabetical order), and to see how many of your top albums have made our lists!

Showing the strength-in-depth of the current progressive genre, only four albums made it into the lists of more than two writers'."

progressive rock

always good to be reminded that there is a vast universe of bad music out there. also fucking hell there was an explosions in the sky record in 2023 lol

The Piccadilly Records Vinyl Compilation 2023
https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/feature.php?feature=1390

Tracklisting
Side A:
Slowdive “Kisses”
Catatonic Suns “Failsafe”
Nabihah Iqbal “Dreamer”
Beach Fossils “Don’t Fade Away”
Bar Italia “Nurse!”
John “Service Stationed”
Side B:
Jungle Featuring Erick The Architect “Candle Flame”
Overmono “Good Lies”
Matthew Halsall “Mountains, Trees And Seas”
JIM “Phoenix”
J-Walk “Cool Bright Northern Morning”
Jalen Ngonda “Come Around And Love Me”

always good to be reminded that there is a vast universe of bad music out there. also fucking hell there was a sufjan stevens record in 2023 lol

― imago, Wednesday, December 6, 2023 2:10 AM

ftfy

(don't lose your sense of humor)

well i guess the better haters aren’t showing up anytime soon

whoever engineered and mixed that Hotline TNT album should be thrown in prison

yard barker list is the first (i think) to include that gorgeous hayden pedigo album

Digging yard barker list, it has albums at the top that I don’t think I’ll see anywhere else and even though it’s very eclectic the ones from genres or artists I follow are good selections. I assume the same is true for the genres I don’t follow.

At least with the New Yorker list it clearly comes across as one person's taste (Amanda Petrusich, right?), even if it doesn't jibe w/ my own--I personally prefer those sorts of lists to a consensus/tabulated one

Crack The Top 25 Tracks of the Year
https://crackmagazine.net/article/list-article/best-songs-2023/

"The 25 best songs of 2023, according to Crack Magazine. From viral singles and chart-climbing hits to summer sizzlers, synergistic fusions and club anthems with pop sensibilities, these are the tracks we just couldn’t shake this year."

Number 1
Hudson Mohawke, Nikki Nair, Tayla Parx
Set the Roof
Warp

Rosy Overdrive Top 100 Albums of 2023
https://rosyoverdrive.com/tag/best-of-year/

putting this here bc RO seems to be the last music blog left that seems to actually listen to all submissions and give exposure to bands without publicist/label support. it's pretty indie rock-oriented so not for everyone but at least it's a largely different list from everyone else. (also my band is on the list ;))

also it's named after a Loud Family song (that I listened to earlier today) so I'm instantly well-disposed lol

which band is yours, NA?

#25

yup

Pitchfork Best Rock Albums of 2023
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-rock-albums-2023/

37 albums listed

"The year in indie rock, punk, singer-songwriter and solo guitar music, shoegaze, metal, and everything in between."

Uncut Magazine

The Best Albums Of 2023 – the Editor’s picks
By
Michael Bonner

https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/blogs/the-best-albums-of-2023-the-editors-picks-144523/

Congrats NA, didn’t know and will listen!

that's awesome NA!

thanks dudes

Billboard Top 50 Albums of 2023
https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-albums-2023/

Number 1
Olivia Rodrigo, Guts

Should Billboard even be publishing a "Best" Albums of 2023 list? Shouldn't their list be 100% sales-based? Or sales plus streaming stats, whatever? They're Billboard; they're not supposed to be about judging artistic quality.

KCRW

broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed. KCRW airs original news and music programming in addition to programming from NPR and other affiliates.

KCRW Best Albums of 2023
https://www.kcrw.com/best-of-2023/best-of-2023/best-albums

23 Albums

Number 1
Say She She - Silver

p4k has a very broad definition of rock this year

part 3

bandcamp Best Albums of 2023 L- R
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2023/the-best-albums-of-2023-l-r

Pleased to see that the Craven Faults lp is included in the Uncut editor's pick

Who's running the 2023 ILM polls? I'm assuming Moka and?

Going by history it should be close to opening.

seandalai too but that part is a given.