The 2023 End of Year music lists thread

London metal record shop Crypt Of The Wizard end-of-year lists:

https://www.cryptofthewizard.com/blogs/news/end-of-year-list-2023

of course the economist would put roisin murphy on their list

Oh shit, I didn't realize Waqwaq Kingdom had a new one!! Downloading post-haste, love them.

No one posted a link to my thing so I'll do it

https://www.stereogum.com/2245430/the-10-best-experimental-albums-of-2023/lists/year-in-review/2023-in-review/

of course the economist would put roisin murphy on their list

― ufo, Monday, December 18, 2023 4:52 PM (one hour ago)

the write-up is very "which opinions, motherfucker" meme

No one posted a link to my thing so I'll do it

https://www.stereogum.com/2245430/the-10-best-experimental-albums-of-2023/lists/year-in-review/2023-in-review🕸/

thanks whiney, gonna check out the Hecker because of you— i was so disappointed in the albums after Ravedeath that i stopped paying attention
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, December 18, 2023 bookmarkflaglink

It's is best since Virgins.

Phonica Records BEST OF 2023 features

https://www.phonicarecords.com/best-of-2023

The Obelisk Presents: THE BEST OF 2023 — Year in Review

https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2023/12/18/the-best-of-2023/

Folk Radio, 100 best folk and alternative albums, unanked list. Plenty of good stuff and plenty I’ve never heard. https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2023/12/top-100-folk-alternative-albums-of-2023/

here's Ted Gioia's unranked top 100:

00. Aberdeen — Held Together
00. Christopher Adler — Landscape Traces
00. Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily — Love in Exile
00. Ambrose Akinmusire — Beauty is Enough
00. Blick Bassy — Mádibá
00. Jean-Paul Bataille — Les Cailloux
00. Betty Benedeadly & Brand Guess — At the Institute of Mentalphysics
00. Debashish Bhattacharya — The Sound of the Soul
00. Jonathan Bockelmann — Childish Mind
00. The Bombadils — Dear Friend
00. boygenius — The Record
00. Chris Brain — Steady Away
00. Alison Brown — On Banjo
00. Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman — Lady of the Lake
00. Peter Bufano — Sunset Circus
00. Joachim Carr — Numinosum
00. Brìghde Chaimbeul — Carry Them With Us
00. Billy Childs — The Winds of Change
00. Complete Mountain Almanac — Complete Mountain Almanac
00. Concerto Caledonia — Shepherds and Tea Tables
00. Covet — Catharsis
00. Marta Del Grandi — Selva
00. John Depew — Yellow Threads
00. Alabaster DePlume — Come with Fierce Grace
00. Bokani Dyer — Radio Sechaba
00. Iye Echa & Mark Lotz — Nomykom
00. Tanya Ekanayaka — 18 Piano Sutras & 25 South Asian Pianisms
00. Faith & Harmony — I Heard the Voice
00. Natascha Falcão — Ave Mulher
00. JoAnn Falletta & Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra — Adolphus Hailstork & Danny Elfman: Concertos
00. Fendika & K-Sanchis — Gojo
00. Sullivan Fortner — Solo Game
00. Fosse, Gyan Riley, Ben Almén — Ground
00. Gao Hong and Kadialy Kouyate — Terri Kunda
00. The Gaslamp Killer & The Heliocentrics — The Gaslamp Killer Meets the Heliocentrics
00. Ricardo Dias Gomes — Muito Soul
00. Galina Grigorjeva — Music for Male-Voice Choir
00. Joel Harrison & the Stardust Reunion Band — Joel Harrison & the Stardust Reunion Band
00. Miho Hazama and M-Unit — Beyond Orbits
00. Jennifer Higdon — Duo Duel & Concerto for Orchestra
00. Marie-Luise Hinrichs — Visions
00. Lain Huuto — Valoon!
00. Ivan Ilić — Joseph Jongen: Preludes for Piano
00. Jantra — Synthesized Sudan
00. Keith Jarrett — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
00. Rickie Lee Jones — Pieces of Treasure
00. Andrzej Karałow — Stone Music
00. Emily King — Special Occasion
00. Michalis Kouloumis, Tristan Driessens & Miriam Encinas — Music for Shepherds and Sultans
00. Bobby Lee — Endless Skyways
00. Lisel — Patterns for Auto-tuned Voices and Delay
00. Matterhorn Well — Sketches for Francis
00. Brad Mehldau — Your Mother Should Know
00. Joni Mitchell — Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)
00. Jason Moran — From the Dancehall to the Battlefield
00. Willie Nelson — Bluegrass
00. Jalen Ngonda — Come Around and Love Me
00. Novelty Island — Wallsend Weekend Television
00. Of Tropique — Buster Goes West
00. Víkingur Ólafsson — Bach: Goldberg Variations
00. Peter One — Come Back to Me
00. Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke — Lean In
00. PJEV, Kit Downes & Hayden Chisholm — Medna Roso
00. Chris Potter (with Craig Taborn) — Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live at the Village Vanguard
00. Quartet San Francisco; Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band; Take Six — Raymond Scott Reimagined
00. Hania Rani — On Giacometti
00. Rodrigo y Gabriela — In Between Thoughts…A New World
00. Raphael Rogiński — Talàn
00. Róis — Uisce Agus Bean
00. The Rolling Stones — Hackney Diamond
00. Roomful of Teeth — Rough Magic
00. Antonio Rugolo — Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete Italian Solo Guitar Music
00. Kim Rysstad, Arve Henriksen‎ & Tord Gustavsen — Villfarande Barn
00. Moise Sagara and John Meade — Things Come Together
00. Ryuichi Sakamoto — 12
00. Cécile McLorin Salvant — Mélusine
00. Lucas Santtana — O Paraíso
00. Adam Semijalac — Ode Dite
00. Sam Shackleton, Waclaw Zimpel & Siddhartha Belmannu — In the Cell of Dreams
00. Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Keri Fuge and Roderick Williams — Bernard Herrmann: Suite from Wuthering Heights
00. J.D. Simo — Songs from the House of Grease
00. Emilio Solla and Antonio Lizana — El Siempre Mar
00. Tyshawn Sorey (with Aaron Diehl & Matt Brewer) — Continuing
00. Dele Sosimi & the Estuary 21 — The Confluence
00. Sylvan Weekends — Outliers
00. Tashkezar — Ew'aa
00. Dan Tepfer — Bach: Inventions/Reinventions
00. Tiny Habits — Tiny Things
00. Ralph Towner — At First Light
00. Rian Treanor & Ocen James — Saccades
00. Triptides — Starlight
00. Various Artists — Tell Everybody!
00. Vox Clamantis & Jaan-Eik Tulve — Music by Henrik Ødegaard
00. Franek Warzywa & Młody Budda — Wykopki
00. Gareth Williams — Songs from the Last Page
00. Young Fathers — Heavy Heavy
00. Dhafer Youssef (with Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, etc.) — Street of Minarets
00. Denny Zeitlin — Crazy Rhythm: Exploring George Gershwin
00. Krystian Zimerman — Karol Szymanowski: Piano Works
00. John Zorn — Quatrain

https://accidentalevolution.wordpress.com/2023/12/19/70-or-so-best-singles-of-2023/

Xchuck Eddy top 70 singles list

Good one! Lots of non-obvious choices and underrated singles.

RA - The Best Tracks of 2023
https://ra.co/features/4289

Track of the Year
DJ SWISHA - CLUB MEGAMIXXX

a link to a Spotify playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ZnFwsmho6wwFSNuEgcpoz?si=dasiRcs9QSOyJhNlMq6SSg&pi=e-AohL18m3Qv6y

blogger billdifferen always has an interesting list, grabbing from the more extreme ends of internet music. most of these i have never heard, and many i will likely choose to never hear again, but the discoveries are very much worth it.

https://billdifferen.blogspot.com/2023/12/billdifferens-top-100-songs-of-2023.html
https://billdifferen.blogspot.com/2023/12/billdifferens-top-100-songs-of-2023-pt.html

Ilxor, k4th3rin3 st. 4s4ph presents a poptimist article:

Stereogum - The Top 40 Pop Songs Of 2023
BY k4th3rin3 st. 4s4ph

https://www.stereogum.com/2245807/best-pop-songs-2023/columns/chained-to-the-rhythm/

I think the Aquarium Drunkard and Crack lists are the best I've encountered, at least as regards my personal tastes.

Brooklynvegan - 50 Best Punk Albums of 2023
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/50-best-punk-albums-of-2023/

Number 1
Home Is Where - The Whaler

It seems that the AD and RSTB lists this year have more than the usual amount of three-star sunny cosmic vibes to wade through.

The Line of Best Fit
Staff Picks 2023: The Year in Music
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/staff-picks-best-albums-2023

"Best Fit editors and writers reveal their lesser-known personal favourite records of the year, from Sol Chylyd to Pure Adult and more."

Chat Pile tell us about their 10 favorite albums of 2023
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/chat-pile-tell-us-about-their-10-favorite-albums-of-2023/

good to see this one in the RA list, i love it so much ----->>>>

Spriitzz - Where R U (Ibiza Mix)

^^^ the bounciest of summer bangers with a vocal that'll get stuck in your head all weekend

Gorillla vs Bear Songs

https://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-songs-of-2023/

That Gioia list is the only interesting one of these I've seen, big thanks for that

Chuck Eddy list has a number of African artists including
Sho Madjozi, Mr Eazi ,

lol how did ra fuck up their text encoding

The Chat Pile list actually has a bunch of things I wouldn't mind checking out

Film Stage 20 best soundtracks and scores of 2023. Number one, ‘The Boy and the Heron’ by Joe Hisaishi.

https://thefilmstage.com/the-best-scores-soundtracks-of-2023/

just published, the extended Bleep albums of the year:

Bleep Top 100 Albums of the Year
https://bleep.com/top-100-albums-of-the-year-2023?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Bleep+s+Top+100+Albums+of+the+Year+2023&utm_campaign=Top+100+Album+of+the+Year+2023

100 albums for one year feels like too much…there just aren’t that many high quality releases worth remembering each year.

5-10 feels about right

Chat Pile list is good. They followed me on Twitter so obviously they know what’s up.

That Gioia list is the only interesting one of these I've seen, big thanks for that

Whenever I see Hackney Diamonds topping a list I have to rub my eyes. Like, really? Really?!

If you hang around long enough people will often go from thinking you're passè to hoping you have a comeback. And you can't hang around much longer than the Stones have.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/the-50-best-spanish-language-albums-of-2023-1234922548/

Karol G , Grupo Niche, Tainy, Diego Raposo y mas

I split album lists in half at Burning Ambulance: I post a list of 50 in July, and another 50 in December. So here they both are.

Half-Year Roundup

Year-End Roundup

Boomkat End of Year Charts 2023 have just dropped:

https://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2023
loads of individual lists to explore

Boomkat Albums Of The Year 2023 - top 100
https://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2023/2314

Laurel Halo takes Album of the Year
Laurel Halo — Atlas (Awe)

boomkat eoy charts rule

boomkat, new discovery

16. Hysterical Love Project — Lashes (Motion Ward)

Motion Ward’s ambient incubator drop shimmering shoegaze dream-pop and smudged downbeats for lovers of HTRK, A.R. Kane, Perila - issued in a limited CD edition. Pairing Kiwi musician Ike Zwanikken with vocalist Brooklyn Mellar, Hysterical Love Project subtly muddle the foggy memory banks of late ‘80s/early ‘90s shoegaze/dream-pop with prompts from Balearic downbeats and canny compression techniques that lend it a patina of micro-dosed psychedelic sensuality. Perfectly strung out on a late night tip, it flows from the bed-ways lullaby pop and back-combed partials of ‘Miracle-Mouthed’ to the beautifully out-of-reach gauze of ‘Cement’ via delectable highlights of ‘90s trip-pop in the slow-motion acidic lather and forlorn vox of ‘Ionian Sea’, and dreamily headlong wind-tunnel motion of ‘Boyracer’, while ‘Come 2 Me, My Baby’ and ’Sever/Strike’ are unmistakably redolent of HTRK, and likewise the weightless strums of ‘Lavender’ that show they can transfix attention without the beats. Definitely one to watch

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4MC6wQDwPcHwIiqxQBW4E3?si=kFfAKQDbS2SVkIbEJ3pF6w

So many guest lists! My record shows up in the CS & Kreme list (#17). <3

https://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2023/2285

that rules jordan, they have great taste

Boomkat is a treasure trove each year

JR Moores' blog (Spinal Bap) top 5 of 2023:

https://spinalbap.blogspot.com

Death to false lankums!

wow that is effortful

Mixmag
20 OF THE BEST DANCEFLOOR BANGERS FROM 2023
https://mixmag.net/feature/best-dancefloor-tracks-bangers-2023-dance-music-club

funny, i just skipped over it— the guy is so conservative (and i hate his brother so much) that i just assume our tastes have nothing in common.

alas, there are some good records on there , tho the inclusion of the Stones (among others) gave me pause. one thing you can say about Boomers is that they’ll lick the boots of other Boomers even when it’s clear that it’s just Mick’s toenail fungus back again

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, December 20, 2023 8:01 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Gioia's list is the best list every year. but yeah, i don't really like him otherwise

100 albums for one year feels like too much…there just aren’t that many high quality releases worth remembering each year.

― zacata, Wednesday, December 20, 2023 6:34 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

5-10 feels about right

― zacata, Wednesday, December 20, 2023 6:34 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is otm for how i experience music

you guys get lost looking for the “i hate music” forum?