The absolute pit that formed in my stomach when I saw you'd posted your list and realized I'd only heard one of these.
ALBUMS: 1.) Acres - 'Burning Throne' 2.) Hail The Sun - 'Divine Inner Tension' 3.) Sleep Token - 'Take Me Back To Eden' 4.) nothing,nowhere. - 'Void Eternal' 5.) Invent Animate - 'Heavener' 6.) Silent Planet - 'SUPERBLOOM' 7.) Dying Wish - 'Symptoms Of Survival' 8.) Enter Shikari - 'A Kiss For The Whole World' 9.) Broadside - 'Hotel Bleu' 10.) Tapestry - 'The Pain You Desire, The Love You Deserve' EPS: 1.) Psycho-Frame - 'Remote God Seeker' 2.) Spiritbox - 'The Fear Of Fear' 3.) The Callous Daoboys - 'God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys' 4.) Moodring - 'Your Light Fades Away' 4.) happydaze - 'Full Free Radical' 5.) Brand Of Sacrifice - 'Between Death And Dreams' 6.) Jamie's Elsewhere - 'Paradise' 7.) Lake Malice - 'Post-Genesis' 8.) Terminal Sleep - 'Chapter 2: Elicit Fear' 10.) Kid Brunswick - 'The Fall: Part 1'
Here we go: 1. Danvers - Like We Knew What It Meant 2. Superviolet - Infinite Spring 3. Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes 4. Blink 182 - One More Time 5. The Bouncing Souls - Ten Stories High 6. The Young Hasselhoffs - Dear Departed 7. The Gaslight Anthem - History Books 8. Fall Out Boy - So Much For Stardust 9. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy 10. Ruston Kelly - The Weakness 11. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch 12. Feverchild - Altering a Memory 13. Paramore - This Is Why 14. The Menzingers - Some of it Was True 15. The National - Laugh Track 16. Initiate - Celebral Circus 17. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power 18. Blur - The Ballad of Darren 19. Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here 20. Agnes Manners - Peace and Why I didn't Think I Deserve it or Needed it anyway 21. The National - Two Pages of Frankenstein 22. Rich Ragany and the Digressions - What we do (to not let go) 23. Tiger Lou - Acts 24. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weatherwaves 25. The Penske File - Half Glow 26. Crime in Stereo - House & Trance 27. Dave Hause - Drive It Like It's Stolen 28. Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us 29. Rancid - Tomorrow Never Comes 30. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You Great albums I discovered not from this year: American Steel - Jagged Thougths Goalkeeper - I Wish I Met You Sooner The Young Hasselhoffs - Life Got In The Way Kevin Devine - Investigator Maritime - We, The Vehicles John Mayer - Paradise Valley Gidge - Autumn Bells Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower Favorite movies: 1. Aftersun 2. The Old Oak 3. Wil 4. Oppenheimer 5. Winter Break (The Holdovers) 6. Stars at Noon 7. Return To Dust 8. Fallen Leaves
1. boygenius - the record 2. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 3. Slayyyter - STARFUCKER 4. Ava Max - Diamonds & Dancefloors 5. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES 6. The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein / Laugh Track 7. Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 8. Vagabon - Sorry I Haven't Called 9. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips 10. Kelela - Raven 11. Danny Brown - Quaranta 12. Romy - Mid Air 13. billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps 14. Yaeji - With a Hammer 15. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 16. yeule - softscars 17. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You 18. Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here. 19. The Japanese House - In the End It Always Does 20. Boldy James & RichGains - Indiana Jones 21. Loma Prieta - Last 22. Fever Ray - Radical Romantics 23. Parannoul - After the Magic 24. Full of Hell and Nothing - When No Birds Sang 25. Thy Slaughter - Soft Rock 26. MIKE - Burning Desire 27. KC Rae - Think I'm Gonna Die 28. Dorian Electra - Fanfare 29. myst milano. - Beyond the Uncanny Valley 30. Metric - Formentera II
I'm going backwards 40 to 1 I don't care 40. Home is Where - the whaler 39. Luminism - form without content 38. Cathedral Bells - Everything at Once 37. Rippedd - maybe in another life? 36. Buggin - Concrete Cowboys 35. Ratboys - The Window 34. MSPAINT - Post-American 33. mauve - About the Weather 32. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 31. Captain Jazz - Captain Jazz 30. Deeper - Careful! 29. Tennis - Pollen 28. Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We 27. Another Michael - Wishes to Fulfill 26. Gal Pal - This and Other Gestures 25. Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here. 24. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes 23. Paramore - This is Why 22. MIKE - Burning Desire 21. Alice Phoebe Lou - Shelter 20. Samia - Honey 19. Slow Pulp - Yard 18. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 17. Olivia Rodrigo - Guts 16. Earl Sweatshirt - VOIR DARE 15. Ian Sweet - Sucker 14. Draag - Dark Fire Heresy 13. boygenius - the record 12. Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess 11. Bully - Lucky For You 10. Gabby's World - Gabby's Sword 9. Billy Woods - Maps 8. Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time 7. Truth Club - Running From the Chase 6. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips 5. Blondshell - Blondshell 4. Wednesday - Rat Saw God 3. Feeble Little Horse - Girl With Fish 2. Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End 1. Subsonic Eye - All Around You
Have you seen this NPR session? It's, like, breathtakingly good. Their harmonies and vocal blend are out of this world.
Alright I think I'm done sorting it: 1. Spanish Love Songs — No Joy 2. Fall Out Boy — So Much (For) Stardust 3. Wednesday — Rat Saw God 4. The Gaslight Anthem — History Books 5. boygenius — the record 6. Koyo — Would You Miss It? 7. Hot Mulligan — Why Would I Watch 8. Lana Del Rey — Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 9. Jeff Rosenstock — Hellmode 10. Zach Bryan — Zach Bryan 11. The Menzingers — Some of It Was True 12. The Japanese House — In The End It Always Does 13. Mitski — The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 14. Crime In Stereo — House & Trance 15. Origami Angel — The Brightest Days 16. awakebutstillinbed — Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am a Passenger 17. Hotline TNT — Cartwheel 18. Sufjan Stevens — Javelin 19. Ruston Kelly — The Weakness 20. Home Is Where — The Whaler 21. Currents — The Death We Seek 22. Fireworks — Higher Lonely Power 23. The Armed — Perfect Saviors 24. Parannoul — After the Magic 25. Holly Humberstone — Paint My Bedroom Black 26. Indigo De Souza — All of This Will End 27. The Band CAMINO — The Dark 28. Youth Lagoon — Heaven Is a Junkyard 29. The National — First Two Pages of Frankenstein 30. Silent Planet — SUPERBLOOM
It’s kind of fascinating to see how often they hand off the melody line throughout each of their songs. I had wondered about that when listening to the album, and it turns out they do it a ton. Pretty cool that there isn’t a “lead vocalist.”
Alright pretty confident this is my final list: 1)Billy Woods and Kenny Segal- Maps 2)Strange Ranger- Pure Music 3)Boldy James- Indiana Jones 4)Origami Angel- The Brightest Days 5)Superviolet- Infinite Spring 6)Armand Hammer- We Buy Diabetic Test Strips 7)As A Sketch Pad- s/t 8)Crosses- Goodnight, Godbless, I Love U, Delete 9)Lil Yatchy- Let’s Start Here 10)Tomb Mold- The Enduring Spirit 11)Jpegmafia and Danny Brown- Scaring the Hoes 12)Samia- Honey 13)Petey- USA 14)Frozen Soul- Glacial Domination 15)MIKE- Burning Desire 16)Palette Knife- New Game Plus 17)Astronomies- And All My Thoughts Come Hurtling Down 18)Greg Mendez- s/t 19)Sufjan Stevens- Javelin 20)Broken Record-Nothing Moves Me 21)Wednesday- Rat Saw God 22)Liquid Mike-s/t 23)Queens of the Stone Age- In Times New Roman 24Night Verses- Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night 25)Danny Brown- Quaranta 26)Creeping Death- Boundless Domain 27)Valee- Virtuoso 28)Jeff Rosenstock- HELLMODE 29)MIKE and Wiki-Faith is a Rock 30)Slowdive- Everything is Alive HM/Eps: Smoke DZA and Flying Lotus- Flying Objects Saturdays at Your Place- Always Cloudy Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar- The Hillbillies
1. Superviolet - Infinite Spring 2. Strange Ranger - Pure Music 3. Boygenius - The Record 4. Peter Gabriel - I/O 5. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy 6. Caroline Polachek - Desire... 7. Gaslight Anthem - History Books 8. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 9. Crosses - Good Night... 10. Lana Del Rey - Did you know...
My number one has been my number one since the day it came out, nothing else has even come close. The rest of them can be moved around depending on the day. Also, thanks to everyone who put Parannoul on their list, they've been added to my listening. Agust D - D-Day V - Layover Jimin - Face NewJeans - Get Up Jung Kook - Golden Troye Sivan - Something To Give Each Other Tomorrow X Together - The Name Chapter: Temptation The Rose - Dual Olivia Rodrigo - Guts Tomorrow X Together - The Name Chapter: Freefall Le Sserafim - Unforgiven Boys Like Girls - Sunday At Foxwoods Nightly - Wear Your Heart Out The Maine - The Maine Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Tilt At The Wind No More Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power Paramore - This Is Why PVRIS - Evergreen Taking Back Sunday - 152 Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust
My biggest personal project this year was to listen to as many full length albums, EPs, and single songs as I possibly could. I listened to at least 500 albums, 200ish EPs, and thousands upon thousands of songs. And somehow I've narrowed them down. My 100 favorite albums, 25 favorite EPs, 100 favorite songs, and as a bonus, my 25 favorite cover versions of songs released this year. I have links to each playlist on Spotify if anyone wants them. Here it goes! (Top 100 Albums of the Year) 1. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE 2. Mansions - Tuff Luff 3. Geese - 3D Country 4. Blink-182 - One More Time... 5. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are 6. 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs 7. Sweet Gloom - Reverie 8. Ruston Kelly - The Weakness 9. Olivia Rodrigo - Guts 10. Sparklehorse - Bird Machine 11. Future Crooks - Lighteater 12. Marvelous 3 - IV 13. Strawberry Fuzz - Strongs Dr. 14. Paramore - This Is Why 15. There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon 16. Wednesday - Rat Saw God 17. The Dirty Nil - Free Rein To Passions 18. Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust 19. Night Verses - Every Sound Has a Color in the Valley of Night: Part One 20. Model / Actriz - Dogsbody 21. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You 22. King Tuff - Smalltown Stardust 23. The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons 24. The Tubs - Dead Meat 25. The Whiffs - Scratch 'n' Sniff 26. Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is a Junkyard 27. The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony 28. Screaming Females - Desire Pathway 29. The Maine - The Maine 30. Joy Oladokun - Proof of Life 31. Boygenius - The Record 32. Dad Hats - Spill 33. Mercy Music - What You Stand to Lose 34. Meet Me @ The Altar - Past / Present / Future 35. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori 36. Chris Farren - Doom Singer 37. Taking Meds - Dial M for Meds 38. RAYE - My 21st Century Blues 39. White Reaper - Asking for a Ride 40. Blondshell - Blondshell 41. Alex Lahey - The Answer Is Always Yes 42. Mammoth WVH - Mammoth II 43. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power 44. Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden 45. Drain - Living Proof 46. Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun 47. Weathers - Are We Having Fun? 48. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch 49. Parker Millsap - Wilderness Within You 50. Susanne Sundfør - Blómi 51. Diners - Domino 52. Now More Than Ever - Creatrix 53. Arrows In Action - Built to Last 54. Tigercub - The Perfume of Decay 55. McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? 56. Feeble Little Horse - Girl with Fish 57. ALEXSUCKS - The Gutter 58. Home Is Where - The Whaler 59. MxPx - Find a Way Home 60. Doki Doki - Doki Doki 61. Hodera - Dear Friend 62. Teenage Wrist - Still Love 63. The Band Camino - The Dark 64. Sundressed - Sundressed 65. Hozier - Unreal Unearth 66. The View - Exorcism of Youth 67. Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan 68. Holding Absence - The Noble Art of Self Destruction 69. Cory Hanson - Western C*m 70. Ratboys - The Window 71. Polaris - Fatalism 72. NOT - Stop the World 73. Joey Valence & Brae - Punk Tactics 74. Sincere Engineer - Cheap Grills 75. Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess 76. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy 77. Beartooth - The Surface 78. Rozi Plain - Prize 79. Rews - Meridian 80. Walking Blue - Postcards & Love Letters 81. The GOA Express - The GOA Express 82. Boys Like Girls - Sunday At Foxwoods 83. Spiritual Cramp - Spiritual Cramp 84. Benny Sings - Young Hearts 85. Daughter - Stereo Mind Game 86. The Young Hearts - Somewhere Through the Night 87. Pierce the Veil - The Jaws of Life 88. Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy 89. Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here 90. Citizen - Calling the Dogs 91. The Mountain Goats - Jenny from Thebes 92. Dazy - Otherbody 93. Taking Back Sunday - 152 94. MSPAINT - Post-American 95. Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere 96. Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - I Love You 97. Liquid Mike - S/T 98. Man on Man - Provincetown 99. Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. 100. Genesis Owusu - Struggler Honorable Mention: The Replacements - Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) (Top 100 Songs of the Year) 1. Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes 2. VV - Neon Noir 3. Depeche Mode - Ghosts Again 4. Foo Fighters - Under You 5. Ruston Kelly - St. Jupiter 6. Black Country, New Road - Up Song (Live) 7. Geese - I See Myself 8. Green Day - Dilemma 9. Boygenius - Satanist 10. 100 Gecs - I Got My Tooth Removed 11. Gracie Abrams - Where Do We Go Now? 12. Good Kid - No Time to Explain 13. Many Eyes - Revelation 14. Alkaline Trio - Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs 15. Teenage Wrist - Sunshine 16. Cut Worms - Don't Fade Out 17. Fall Out Boy - Fake Out 18. Paramore - Running Out of Time 19. Temple of Angels - Waving to the Wind 20. Bad Suns - Lunar Shadows 21. The Beths - Watching the Credits 22. The Dare - Girls 23. Big Thief - Vampire Empire 24. The Lemon Twigs - Any Time of Day 25. Jeff Rosenstock - LIKED U BETTER 26. Spanish Love Songs - Haunted 27. The Menzingers - Come On Heartache 28. Smoking Popes - Madison 29. Chappell Roan - Casual 30. The GOA Express - Portrait 31. Arrows in Action - Made for This 32. Cheekface - Plastic 33. Doki Doki - You and Me in Love 34. Blink-182 - Dance with Me 35. NOT - If Only 36. Olivia Rodrigo - Bad Idea Right? 37. Geese - Cowboy Nudes 38. 100 Gecs - Hollywood Baby 39. Better Lovers - 30 Under 13 40. Lektron - Dirty Jacks 41. Boygenius - $20 42. Fall Out Boy - What a Time to Be Alive 43. Sweet Gloom - American Honey 44. Sleep Token - Are You Really Okay? 45. Ruston Kelly - Michael Keaton 46. The Mountain Goats - Murder at the 18th St. Garage 47. Xyzxyz - Friendship Necklace 48. Sparklehorse - It Will Never Stop 49. Future Crooks - Boombox 50. Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? 51. The Dirty Nil - The Light, the Void and Everything 52. Model/Actriz - Mosquito 53. Caroline Polachek - Blood and Butter 54. Laura Jane Grace - Dysphoria Hoodie 55. The Hives - Bogus Operandi 56. Belle & Sebastian - Give a Little Time 57. Bad Nerves - Antidote 58. Youth Lagoon - Idaho Alien 59. Mercy Music - Suddenly 60. Mammoth WVH - Right? 61. MGMT - Bubblegum Dog 62. Mannequin P***y - I Got Heaven 63. Linkin Park - Lost 64. FEVER 333 - $wing 65. The Early November - About Me 66. Dead Poet Society - HURT 67. Mean Jeans - I Don't Give a S**t Anymore 68. AJJ - Disposable Everything 69. Nick Waterhouse - The Fooler 70. Bethany Cosentino - It's Fine 71. Grentperez - Old with You 72. The Midnight Callers - New York Tramp 73. The Gaslight Anthem - Positive Charge 74. Aubrey Key - Date Night at Daddy Joe's 75. Balance and Composure - Savior Mode 76. Hot Mulligan - Shhhh! Golf is On 77. Knox - Not the 1975 78. BANNERS - Perfectly Broken 79. Blue Stragglers - Running It Dry 80. Alice Longyu Gao - Make U 3 Me 81. Wednesday - Bull Believer 82. Bad Luck. - Safe to Say 83. RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism 84. Kelsea Ballerini - Penthouse 85. Maruja - Kakistocracy 86. Joy Oladokun - Taking Things for Granted 87. Pinkshift - Home 88. Troye Sivan - Got Me Started 89. Margo Price - Time Machine 90. James Marriott - You Are Here 91. Paris Jackson - Bandaid 92. GROUPLOVE - Hello (Feat. KennyHoopla) 93. Corinne Bailey Rae - New York Transit Queen 94. Ron Gallo - Big Truck Energy 95. Balance and Composure - Last to Know 96. Queens of the Stone Age - Paper Machete 97. Lana Del Rey - A&W 98. Bring Me the Horizon - AmEN! (Feat. Lil Uzi Vert & Daryl Palumbo) 99. Lil Yachty - The Black Seminole. 100. LS Dunes - Benadryl Subreddit (Top 25 EPs of the Year) 1. Bad Suns - Infinite Joy 2. Better Lovers - God Made Me an Animal 3. Geese - 4D Country 4. Kelsea Ballerini - Rolling Up the Welcome Mat 5. Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes 6. Manchester Orchestra - The Valley of Vision 7. Bad Luck - Books on Tape 8. Good Kid - Good Kid 3 9. Blue Stragglers - Fool's Errand 10. BANNERS - I Wish I Was Flawless, I'm Not 11. Alice Longyu Gao - Let's Hope Heteros Fail, Learn and Retire 12. Grentperez - When We Were Younger 13. Maruja - Knocknarea 14. Post Profit - Self Defeater 15. LURK - Natural Causes 16. PLAIINS - Puppet 17. Alex Amor - Super Sonic 18. Boygenius - The Rest 19. Orson Wilds - This Burning House (We All Fell Asleep In) 20. Sugar Pit - Task Master 21. Charlotte Sands - Good Now 22. Bishop Briggs - When Everything Went Dark 23. Out of Love - Welcome to the Luv 24. Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear 25. FIDLAR - That's Life (Top 25 Cover Songs of the Year) 1. Wet Leg - C'est Comme Ça (Paramore) 2. PLAIINS - Say It Ain't So (Weezer) 3. The Carolyn - Salvation (The Cranberries) 4. Rufus Wainwright & John Legend - Heading for Home (Peggy Seeger) 5. Flash Forward & DAMONA - Believe (Cher) 6. Marvelous 3 - She Sheila (The Producers) 7. Smoking Popes & Sincere Engineer - Don't You Want Me (The Human League) 8. Bowling for Soup - Flowers (Miley Cyrus) 9. Slowly Slowly - I Miss You (Blink-182) 10. The Beths & Pickle Darling - Brand New Colony (The Postal Service) 11. Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (Billy Joel) 12. Julien Baker - Thick Skull (Paramore) 13. Drain - Good Good Things (Descendents) 14. The Dip - Paranoid (Black Sabbath) 15. H.E.R. - The Glass (Foo Fighters) 16. Jimmy Eat World - Telepath (Manchester Orchestra) 17. Al Green - Perfect Day (Lou Reed) 18. Manchester Orchestra - Table for Glasses (Jimmy Eat World) 19. Ruston Kelly - Dream Song (Samia) 20. Mo Troper - Citgo Sign (Jon Brion) 21. Sufjan Stevens - There's a World (Neil Young) 22. Crooks & Nannies - Islands in the Stream (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton; Written by the Bee Gees) 23. Car Seat Headrest - We Looked Like Giants (Death Cab for Cutie) 24. Spanish Love Songs - Smile Like You Mean It (The Killers) 25. Ghost - Phantom of the Opera (Iron Maiden) As you can see, I put a lot of time and effort into this list lol.
If it's of any interest to anyone, or help if people are still finalising their AOTY lists, here's my release schedule spreadsheet with 4600+ albums and EPs that were released this year. I don't see many more records dropping across the last two days of the year, so I'd say 2023 is pretty much finalised now. What a year for music 2023 has been.
Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS Taking Back Sunday - 152 Lauren Daigle - Lauren Daigle Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust Wednesday - Rat Saw God Paramore - This Is Why Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - SAVED! The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein The National - Laugh Track Rebecca Black - Let It Burn 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs HolyName - HolyName The Japanese House - In the End It Always Does Cub Sport - Jesus at the Gay Bar blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME… Bully - Lucky For You Metro Boomin - Metro Boomin Presents Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Soundtrack from and Inspired by the Motion Picture) Honorable mention I didn’t feel like including in the numbered list: Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance - Revisited
10. Billy Woods and Kenny Segal - Maps 9. Slow Pulp - Yard 8. Zach Bryan - Zach Bryan 7. Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and So are 6. Petey - USA 5. Hotline TNT - Cartwheel 4. Bully - Lucky For You 3. Wednesday - Rat Saw God 2. Empty Country - Empty Country II 1. Ratboys - The Window would not shock me if the Mitski album ends up my number 1 from this year sometime in the future, just heard it last week and it blows me away