Music website based in Canada, Northern Transmissions
Northern Transmissions Best Albums of 2023https://northerntransmissions.com/northern-transmissions-best-albums-of-2023/
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2175-northern-transmissions-best-albums-of-2023/
1. Beach Fossils — Bunny
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:03 (nine months ago) link
UK based music website set up by ex NME editor Charlotte Gunn
The Forty-Five's Albums of the Year 2023https://thefortyfive.com/opinion/best-albums-2023/
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2170-the-forty-fives-albums-of-the-year-2023/
Number 1
BOYGENIUS – ‘THE RECORD’
Words: Rhian Daly, Charlotte Gunn, Hannah Mylrea, Arusa Qureshi, Alex Rigotti, Jenessa Williams and Lisa Wright.
https://thefortyfive.com/about/The Forty-Five is new music publication, created by a collective of female-led music journalists, creatives and photographers, founded by former NME Editor, Charlotte Gunn.Why The Forty-Five?With only 14% of music journalists identifying as women, music, for too long has been critiqued from a male perspective. The result? An industry that champions boys in bands and sexualises female artists. We’re here to change that by forging a supportive network of womxn, who tell stories about music.
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:08 (nine months ago) link
UK based, Far Out Magazine
Far Out Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2023https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-50-best-albums-of-2023/
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2174-far-out-magazines-50-best-albums-of-2023/
1. H Hawkline - Milk for Flowers
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:12 (nine months ago) link
Stereogum - The 10 Best Hardcore Albums Of 2023https://www.stereogum.com/2244850/best-hardcore-albums/lists/year-in-review/2023-in-review/BY TOM BREIHAN
Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun (Loma Vista)
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:15 (nine months ago) link
Heavy Music HQ 2023 Best Heavy Metal Albumshttps://heavymusichq.com/2023-best-heavy-metal-albums/
1. Katatonia – Sky Full Of Stars (Napalm)
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:17 (nine months ago) link
Pitchfork - The 42 Best Rap Songs of 2023https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-rap-songs-2023/
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:20 (nine months ago) link
part 2, from Cardiff based music website, GIITTVGIITTV: Albums of the Year for 2023, 50-26https://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2023/12/11/giittv-albums-of-the-year-for-2023-50-26/
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:24 (nine months ago) link
The Top 15 Heavy-Prog and Progressive-Metal Albums of 2023 - Something for the Weekend?https://weekendprog.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-top-15-heavy-prog-and-progressive.html
1. CROWN LANDS - Fearless
Canada's Crown Lands who sound like a cross between Rush and Robert Plant
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:29 (nine months ago) link
Treble - The 20 Best Electronic Albums of 2023https://www.treblezine.com/best-electronic-albums-of-2023/
TAGSACTRESS APHEX TWIN AVALON EMERSON BORED LORD DANIEL BACHMAN DEBBY FRIDAY DJ MANNY FEVER RAY JAMES HOLDEN JLIN KATE NV KELELA LORAINE JAMES PANGAEA PURELINK SOFIA KOURTESIS TIM HECKER TZUSING WARRINGTON-RUNCORN NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN YAEJI
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 17:30 (nine months ago) link
We have an ILX EOY nominations thread: ILM's 2023 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll / NOMINATIONS THREAD
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Monday, 11 December 2023 18:22 (nine months ago) link
Have any Foo Fighters albums never been #1 in Kerrang's albums of the Year?
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Monday, 11 December 2023 19:30 (nine months ago) link
this is the 4th time, but the first this century
kerranghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrang!
albums of the year
1982 Scorpions Blackout [70]1983 Def Leppard Pyromania1984 Van Halen 19841985 Bryan Adams Reckless1986 David Lee Roth Eat 'Em and Smile1987 Aerosmith Permanent Vacation1988 King's X Out of the Silent Planet1989 Faith No More The Real Thing1990 Slayer Seasons in the Abyss1991 Metallica Metallica1992 Alice In Chains Dirt1993 Pearl Jam Vs.1994 Therapy? Troublegum1995 Foo Fighters Foo Fighters1996 Screaming Trees Dust1997 Foo Fighters The Colour and the Shape1998 Monster Magnet Powertrip1999 Foo Fighters There is Nothing Left to Lose2000 Queens of the Stone Age Rated R2001 Tool Lateralus2002 Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf2003 The Darkness Permission to Land2004 Mastodon Leviathan2005 Trivium Ascendancy2006 Taking Back Sunday Louder Now2007 Billy Clyro Puzzle2008 Metallica Death Magnetic2009 Gallows Grey Britain2010 Deftones Diamond Eyes2011 Mastodon The Hunter2012 Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour2013 Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal2014 Architects Lost Forever // Lost Together2015 Bring Me the Horizon That's the Spirit2016 Green Day Revolution Radio2017 Employed to Serve The Warmth of a Dying Sun2018 Turnstile Time & Space2019 Slipknot We Are Not Your Kind2020 Code Orange Underneath2021 Every Time I Die Radical [71]2022 Nova Twins Supernova [72]
― djmartian, Monday, 11 December 2023 22:47 (nine months ago) link
Classic Rock Magazine's 50 Best Rock Albums Of 2023https://www.loudersound.com/news/classic-rock-magazine-best-albums-of-2023Number 1The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamondsthe rest of the list is like is this really 2023?The Pretenders, Iggy Pop, The Damned, Extreme, Uriah Heep, Def Leppard, The Hives, Jethro Tull, Yes.Bonus points for including Sparks and Peter Gabriel.21st century artists of note20. Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament25. Creeper - Sanguivore38. Starbenders - Take Back The Night49. Green Lung - This Heathen Land
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 08:50 (nine months ago) link
NME - 10 best debut albums of 2023https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/best-debut-albums-2023-radar-3555060?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=best-debut-albums-2023-radar
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 09:33 (nine months ago) link
a few of my favs on the small albums list
https://www.smallalbums.com/best-50-albums
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:12 (nine months ago) link
DJ Mag’s top tracks of 2023https://djmag.com/features/dj-mag-top-tracks-2023
unranked list
"2023 has been a bumper year for bangers. From chart-bothering drum & bass, fusionist club scorchers and playful rave barnstormers, through underground avenues of garage, dubstep and breaks, into amapiano, anthemic house, R&B and experimental electronics, DJ Mag's contributors write about their personal favourite tracks of the year, offering an unranked overview of the sounds that made the past 12 months so memorable for electronic music around the world"
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:32 (nine months ago) link
Acid Test’s Best Albums of 2023https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2023/acid-tests-best-albums-of-2023
bandcamp best 2023 outer limits music
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:38 (nine months ago) link
love that mark vernon album
― nxd, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:46 (nine months ago) link
apparently The Tubs are popular with some on ILM, so
The Tubs' Owen Williams tells us about his Top 10 albums of 2023https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-tubs-owen-williams-tells-us-about-his-top-10-albums-of-2023/
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:47 (nine months ago) link
The Last Mixed Tape Podcast | TLMT’s End of Year Playlist Extravaganza, Song of the Year https://thelastmixedtape.com/2023/12/10/the-last-mixed-tape-podcast-tlmts-end-of-year-playlist-extravaganza-song-of-the-year-shane-macgowan-tribute/
includes a top 100 Irish tracks of 2023 Spotify playlist
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:50 (nine months ago) link
Alternative Press - 50 best albums of 2023https://www.altpress.com/best-albums-2023/
FILED UNDER: 100 GECS, ANGEL DUST, ARLO PARKS, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, BABYMETAL, BAKAR, BLINK 182, BLONDE REDHEAD, BLONDSHELL, BOYGENIUS, BULLY, CARLIE HANSON, CHAPPELL ROAN, CITIZEN, CODE ORANGE, DOMINIC FIKE, DRAIN, FALL OUT BOY, FEEBLE LITTLE HORSE, FOO FIGHTERS, GEL, GENESIS OWUSU, GRANDSON, HEALTH, JENNY LEWIS, JESUS PIECE, KEVIN ABSTRACT, KOYO, LANA DEL REY, LRAIN, MEET ME AT THE ALTAR, MILITARIE GUN, MSPAINT, NARROW HEAD, OBJECT OF AFFECTION, OLIVIA RODRIGO, PARAMORE, PARIS TEXAS, PIERCE THE VEIL, POPPY, SCOWL, SLEEP TOKEN, SPIRITUAL CRAMP, THE ARMED, WATER FROM YOUR EYES, WATERPARKS, WEDNESDAY, YEEK, YVES TUMORZULU,
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 17:37 (nine months ago) link
Fader - The 50 best albums of 2023https://www.thefader.com/2023/12/12/best-albums-of-2023
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2180-the-faders-50-best-albums-of-2023/
1. a.s.o. - a.s.o.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 17:41 (nine months ago) link
Bandcamp - The Best Experimental Music of 2023https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2023/the-best-experimental-music-of-2023
By Marc Masters
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 17:47 (nine months ago) link
Bandcamp - The Best Metal Albums of 2023https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2023/the-best-metal-albums-of-2023
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 17:51 (nine months ago) link
Stereogum’s 50 Favorite Songs Of 2023https://www.stereogum.com/2245293/best-songs-of-2023/lists/year-in-review/2023-in-review/
10 selections each by 5 writers
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 17:54 (nine months ago) link
Mapped By What Surrounded Them - 2023 Favorite Albumshttps://mappedbywhatsurroundedthem.blogspot.com/2023/12/2023-favorite-albums.html?spref=tw
50 albums ranked
1. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:36 (nine months ago) link
Australian radio station, Double J
Double J - The 50 best albums of 2023https://www.abc.net.au/listen/doublej/music-reads/features/50-best-albums-of-2023/103191268
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2181-double-js-50-best-albums-of-2023/
1. Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
― djmartian, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:43 (nine months ago) link
EOY lists are really overwhelming aren't they. Usually I would check the ones that are somehow aligned with my taste in search of discoveries, but the next year I can't remember which they were, and then it seems everyone and their grandmother have a list, or even two or three: overall list, reader's lists, individual lists, genre lists, lists with a theme, radio lists, song lists, and I can't know if it is a good or bad sign when an album appears on several. Not that I depended on them, it was always rather the pleasure of looking for confirmation bias, but this lack of authority / authoritativeness is deeply disturbing.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 18:47 (nine months ago) link
It's wild to think there was a time in like 2000 where SPIN would drop a list of 20 album and I would go "Man, I gotta check out that Quasimoto album" and now there's like 20 billion sites all doing Top 100 lists and nobody cares about any of it
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:40 (nine months ago) link
One thing that's really fascinating to me is how these sites def are trying to court younger audiences by contending with, say, K-pop and drill and Latin trap and 100 Gecs but really refuse to deviate from the Boomer brain of "media outlets," the Gen X brain of "internet articles" and the Millennial brain of "listicles."
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:45 (nine months ago) link
The Vice lists of years past always blew my mind because I’d never heard of anyone on them, even in passing.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 19:49 (nine months ago) link
Stereogum’s 50 Favorite Songs Of 2023
FYI I have been writing one of Stereogum's most popular monthly columns for seven years now and have never been asked to vote in their album or song polls. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:49 (nine months ago) link
idk digging through eoy lists is great, i always find some gems i hadn't heard previously
― ufo, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:02 (nine months ago) link
NPR songs (123)
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1215355752/best-songs-2023
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:18 (nine months ago) link
As always, just as list fatigue starts setting in, Raven Sings the Blues shows how it's done right.
https://www.ravensingstheblues.com/2023-favorites/
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 05:45 (nine months ago) link
Reissues
https://www.ravensingstheblues.com/2023-favorite-reissues/
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 05:52 (nine months ago) link
the Financial Times best pop albums of the year (unranked)
The Chemical Brothers: For That Beautiful FeelingLana Del Rey: Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean BlvdJonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa: Jarak QaribakKelela: RavenLankum: False LankumNation of Language: Strange DiscipleRyuichi Sakamoto: 12Sampha: LahaiPaul Simon: Seven PsalmsKali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus
https://www.ft.com/content/56529cee-c132-4da7-9501-5fcdaa6fad99
― soref, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 09:11 (nine months ago) link
lol, pvmic
since when did the ft start doing unranked indexes
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 09:21 (nine months ago) link
aquarium drunkard, RA and NPR lists are ususally good listens
will check out the p4k rap list too
but yeah, it is pretty overwhelming
safe to say more music is released and written abt every year?
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 11:34 (nine months ago) link
idk digging through eoy lists is great, i always find some gems i hadn't heard previously― ufo, Tuesday, December 12, 2023 11:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
That would mean opening and working through the lists and it sounds like that would take a lot of time and create some sort of Stockholm syndrome
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 12:42 (nine months ago) link
DJ Mag’s top albums of 2023https://djmag.com/features/dj-mags-top-albums-2023
In 2023, electronic music artists around the world used long-form works to showcase both range and specialism. DJs and producers best known for club-ready works explored personal themes through dream-pop, jazz and ambient, while others returned to the dancefloor with renewed vitality. Among fusions of hip-hop, amapiano, dub, dancehall and R&B we had dialled-in demonstrations of jungle, techno and deep house at their purest. Here, DJ Mag contributors select their personal favourite albums of the year, offering an unranked overview of the sounds that made the past 12 months so memorable for electronic music in all its forms
― djmartian, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 12:43 (nine months ago) link
I think this is where the ILM EOY playlists are helpful.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 12:50 (nine months ago) link
The Best Pop Music of 2023https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-pop-music-2023/
Opulent disco-pop, R&B hook-up jams, raging hot-mess anthems: These are the songs and albums that defined the year in pop music
TAGSBEST OF 2023100 GECSAMAARAEASAKEOLAMIDEAVALON EMERSONCARLY RAE JEPSENCAROLINE POLACHEKCHAPPELL ROANCHARLI XCXCHRISTINE AND THE QUEENSEASYFUNFEVER RAYJESSIE WAREKALI UCHISKELELAKYLIE MINOGUELANA DEL REYLIV.EMARÍA JOSÉ LLERGOMURA MASAELECTRONICPOP/R&BEXPERIMENTAL
― djmartian, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:26 (nine months ago) link
DAZED The 20 best tracks of 2023https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/61561/1/the-20-best-tracks-of-2023-pinkpanthress-icespice-eartheater
Spotify playlisthttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/4r7smCV42VU8KABfz5tzJh
recommended listening:
totally blissed out brilliance riyl insides, laika, one dove
14. JAMES K & HOODIE, “SCORPIO”
There’s something very special about “Scorpio” that I can’t really pinpoint. The track, a collaboration between New York artist James K and Hoodie, is a sleepy trip-hop ballad that stays with you in a way that cradles you at your core. In a dream but still wide awake, drifting into digital fragments and buried deep in a memory somewhere. James K’s ethereal vocals are otherworldly and puts me in the kind of wistful mood that you find yourself in when travelling to distant places, led by the beautiful refrain: “So let it go, don’t be a cell to yourself.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX6QWmGxCiE
― djmartian, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:40 (nine months ago) link
Listening to new music does indeed take time. While many here are up to the task, I can understand that some don't want to spend the time populating a playlist, looking at the artist's Bandcamp and RYM pages, circling back to reviews, etc. Of all my network of personal friends who are lifelong music geeks, I only know of a couple who bother. I do it so they don't have to, and in my year-end summary I include separate lists with clusters of subgenres to help those looking for certain sounds and styles.
Currently I'm working through the RSTB, as nearly half are new to me. The last two are both Chicago based projects on Drag City that I slept on, the experimental ambient folk of BCMC (Cooper Crain and Bill MacKay) and Axis: Sova. This blurb had my attention: "The fuzz that surrounded the band in the past is burned away with an acid splash of neon glow and chrome glare. Sova brought a vision of Devo, Wire, and Toni Visconti to Segall’s studio door, but the band have also burrowed deep into the android heart of Tubeway Army’s sound, scratching deep into their cauterized soul. Further into the caustic creep of the album, the band slides a few slices of Magazine, Soft Boys, Twinkeyz, and Simply Saucer into the synapses as well."
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 13:54 (nine months ago) link
Abysmal Hymns - the Top 10 Hardcore Albums of 2023http://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-top-10-hardcore-albums-of-2023.html
highly recommended
3- Svalbard - "The Weight of the Mask"
track from the album
SVALBARD - How To Swim Down (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd5hh2BfsMM
expansive euphoric ethereal
― djmartian, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:02 (nine months ago) link
James K song was also on Crack’s list. Great song very trip hop revival.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:49 (nine months ago) link
happy to see the sam goku record on a list (dj mag) (i discovered it from tim f's list)
― ivy., Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:30 (nine months ago) link
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, December 13, 2023 7:54 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm guessing a lot of us here play this role in our social circles
― Indexed, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 15:58 (nine months ago) link
I do but most of my friends are the “only 12 records in my collection” sort of folk. The ones who are more curious have wildly differing taste from my own so it’s fun when we do find an album or artist that we both love but it’s becoming more uncommon as we grow older.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 16:03 (nine months ago) link