Not in any particular order: The Menzingers - Some of It Was True Petey - USA Crime in Stereo - House & Trance Fiddlehead - Death is Nothing to Us Trophy Eyes - Suicides and Sunshine Stress Fractures - Stress Fractures Heart Attack Man - Freak of Nature Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun Origami Angel - The Brightest Days The Gaslight Anthem - History Books Bully - Lucky For You Bearings - The Best Part About Being Human I also did a little blurb for each of these on my site for my friends and coworkers to check out. They are a much more general audience, so forgive the lack of deep analysis.
Top 20. No particular order other than top two being Feeble Little Horse and There Will Be Fireworks Feeble Little Horse - Girl with Fish There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch Parannoul - After The Magic Mansions - Tuff Luff Black Country New Road - Live at Bush Hall Deafcult - Power of Illusion Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time Crime in Stero - House & Trance Fall Out Boy - So Much for Stardust Hotline TNT - Cartwheel Daughter - Stereo Mind Games Fiddlehead - Death is Nothing to Us The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein Strange Ranger - Pure Music Wednesday - Rat Saw God Blink-182 - One More TIme Boygenius - The Record Subsonic Eye - All Around You
Someone should have the bit where their year-end list every year is just their all-time favorite albums list with minor adjustments. "My favorite albums this year were also my favorite albums last year!"
1. Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust 2. Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day 3. Paramore - This Is Why 4. Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard 5. Portugal. The Man - Chris Black Changed My Life 6. Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 7. AJR - The Maybe Man 8. The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons 9. Andy Shauf - Norm 10. Royal Blood - Back to the Water Below
Nice to see Portugal. It won’t be on mine, but I listened to it a lot and it’s better than it got credit for!
It’s not as good as Nature of Things but still a very good album. It took me a while to warm up to it because I adored NoT.
Nice to see the Andy Shauf record get some love! It’s pretty par for the course Shauf, but his music is always such a pleasure. It’ll probably wind up somewhere on my list as well.
not likely to change before the end of the year. looking at this top ten and I realize just how hard music hit me this year. I fucking love all of these albums. shit got me through it. TOP 10 ALBUMS Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You The Acacia Strain - Step Into The Light/Failure Will Follow Spanish Love Songs - No Joy Sufjan Stevens - Javelin Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch Taking Back Sunday - 152 Crime In Stereo - House & Trance Blink-182 - One More Time Skrillex - Quest For Fire Honorable Mentions City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near The Armed - Perfect Saviors August Burns Red - Death Below 100 Gecs - 10,000 Gecs BLP Kosher - Bars Mitzvah The Callous Daoboys - God Smile Upon The Callous Daoboys Creeping Death - Boundless Domain Fucked Up - One Day Danny Brown - Quaranta Jesus Piece - …So Unknown
It hurts really bad to not have that city and colour record in the top 10 it is an absolute masterclass in grief don’t sleep on it please
Damn didn’t realize Stress Fractures was this year, could have sworn it was on my list last year lol. Throwing it on my honorable mentions.
some of my fav songs this year if anyone’s interested. lots of great singles that didn’t make it into any albums (BLP kosher and babytron, earl, balance, etc)
That ABR record really was a pretty nice surprise. I haven’t been in much of a metalcore mood throughout the year, but that scratched the itch every time I needed it. Did you ever end up checking out their older stuff at all?
I did! Dug it a lot, not sure how I never got into them previously but their new album was a fantastic gateway
I only just found this a week or two ago, so I haven't had enough time to decide if it's on the list, but I really really like it
Top 15 Kelsea Ballerini - Rolling Up The Welcome Mat Spanish Love Songs - No Joy Stephen Wilson Jr - Søn of Dad Jason Isbell - Weathervanes Currents - The Death We Seek Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch Benjamin Dakota Rogers - Paint Horse Dad Hats - Spill The Gaslight Anthem - History Books Ruston Kelly - The Weakness Megan Moroney - Lucky Sydney Sprague - Somebody in Hell Loves You Jeffrey Martin - Thank God We Left The Garden Invent Animate - Heavener The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True
Initiate - Cerebral Circus Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere Dreamwell - In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You Model/Actriz - Dogsbody JPEGMafia and Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes Sufjan Stevens - Javlin Jeromes Dream - The Gray In Between Cran - Natë Year of the Knife - No Love Lost Loma Prieta - Last Honorable mentions: Gorillaz - Cracker Island Neboas - Otros Claros Del Bosque Аферист — Это начнется заново // ТВОЙРУТ
Top 15 Albums of 2023 1. Blink 182 - One More Time... 2. The Maine - The Maine 3. Sydney Sprague - Somebody in Hell Loves You 4. Paramore - This is Why 5. Movements - RUCKUS! 6. Doja Cat - Scarlet 7. boygenius - the record 8. Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust 9. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are 10. Taking Back Sunday - 152 11. Raye - My 21st Century Blues 12. Vacationer - Cherish 13. PVRIS - EVERGREEN 14. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch 15. Crosses - Good Night, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. Honorable Mentions: Janelle Monae - The Age of Pleasure; Softcult - See You in the Dark
Blink, Caroline, Fall Out Boy, Olivia, Raye, Sufjan, Zach Bryan are probably the top ones, no idea the order