I told my wife “I didn’t notice the chorus.fm members end of the year list thread is up” and she asked me who the member of the year is.
s-tier albums that were in constant repeat: 1. Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden 2. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You 3. The Menzingers - Some of It Was True 4. Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture 5. glaive - i care so much that i dont care at all 6. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 7. Origami Angel - The Brightest Days 8. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy 9. awakebutstillinbed - chaos take the wheel and i am a passenger 10. The Dirty Nill - Free Rein of Passions i also loved these, but they were harder to rank: 11. The Maine - The Maine 12. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE 13. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch 14. Rebecca Black - Let Her Burn 15. Babymetal - THE OTHER ONE i really liked, but still need more time with: 16. Koyo - Would You Miss It? 17. Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun 18. Danny Brown - Quaranta 19. midwxst - E3 20. Teezo Touchdown - How Do You Sleep At Night?
In no particular order... Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust Blink-182 - One More Time... Boygenius - The Record Chappel Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess JPEGMAFIA / Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near Romy - Mid-Air Daughter - Stereo Mind Game Crime In Stereo - House & Trance Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power
1. BABYMETAL - THE OTHER ONE Favourite tracks: Mirror Mirror / Time Wave / Monochrome / Light and Darkness 2. Ok Goodnight - The Fox and the Bird Favourite tracks: The Fox and the Bird / The Raccoon (and the Myth) / The Snake / The Mountain (feat. Elizabeth Hull) 3. VÉRITÉ - love you forever Favourite tracks: are we done yet? / a lucid dream / by now 4. It Was A Good Dream - Rememory Favourite tracks: A Decoration For Your Time / Drawing Your Recurve 5. Lights - dEd Favourite tracks: Easy Money / Salt and Vinegar / Prodigal Daughter / Beside Myself 6. Hope The Flowers - Sonorous Faith Pt. 2 Favourite tracks: Find Yourself / Change Your Heart 7. TROLD - Der Var Engang… Favourite tracks: En Kiste Fuld Af Minder / Troldenes Nat / Dansen Med Myrtille 8. hubris. - The One Above Favourite tracks: The One Above / Of Light 9. Arch Echo - Final Pitch Favourite tracks: Angry Sprinkles / Aluminosity (feat. Jordan Rudess) / Gold Dust 10. Miserere Luminis - Ordalie Favourite tracks: Noir fauve / Le sang des reves 11. Reformat - Precursed Favourite tracks: Dead Place / Prince Valium 12. YOASOBI - THE BOOK 3 Favourite tracks: Yūsha (勇者) / Shukufuku (祝福) / Idol (アイドル) 13. Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1 Favourite tracks: 8 Gates Of Pleasure / Arrival 14. blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME… Favourite tracks: TERRIFIED / ONE MORE TIME / WHEN WE WERE YOUNG / YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT / TURPENTINE 15. pulses. - It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This Favourite tracks: Different Strokes / Run the Ghouls / Kupo! 16. Spurv - Brefjære Favourite tracks: Som skyer / Til en ny vår 17. Dispirited Spirits - The Redshift Blues Favourite tracks: Ships Sailing Space / Nine Clouds / Former Living Thing 18. Aurora Falls - Artificial Empathy Favourite tracks: Post-Human / Hive Mind / Neurons 19. films - at the deep end Favourite tracks: into the vervet storm / noctiluca / dispersion 20. Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit Favourite tracks: Tangled in Joy / Torment / The Hill 21. HalfPace - The Same Place You’ve Always Known Favourite tracks: I’ve Got Home / Upstairs//Downstairs 22. GoGo Penguin - Everything Is Going to Be OK Favourite tracks: Glimmerings / Saturnine / We May Not Stay 23. Ranges - 33 Favourite tracks: I. The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune / II. Pillar of Mercy / Pillar of Severity / III. Warhorse 24. Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden Favourite tracks: The Summoning / Vore / DYWTYLM / Take Me Back To Eden 25. Vaudlow - A Language Unspoken Favourite tracks: Ambivalent / Embrace / What You Want 26. Mesozoic - Chaos Ends in Bliss Favourite tracks: Beyond the Kármán Line / Caotica 27. Grandbrothers - Late Reflections Favourite tracks: On Solid Ground / Vertigo 28. Aurora Dream - RUBIX Favourite tracks: Same Opposites (feat. Angel Vivaldi) / Comfy (feat. Ichika Nita) 29. RO - Baiagoan Favourite tracks: Kutsutu / Hümean Hümeko 30. Body Thief - Every Ending Favourite tracks: Death, Drugs & Dancing / Dead Hearts —— Honourable mentions: Agriculture - Agriculture Arihos - Miscible Covet - catharsis Din of Celestial Birds - The Night is for Dreamers Dreamwell - In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You Fall Out Boy - So Much (for) Stardust Gabba - Recollections Humanity’s Last Breath - Ashen MIAOU - The Only Way To Find You Numeron - Road to Valhalla Sincerely - Special Feeling Skott - Roses N Guns There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon —— EPs: Adjy - June Songs Vol. 1 BUZZ - On Matters of Searching Exploring Birdsong - Dancing in the Face of Danger pictures of wild life - suspended glass Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear
Ten favorites, in no particular order: Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power Del Water Gap - I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet The Maine - S/T James Ivy - Everything Perfect The Japanese House - In The End It Always Does Citizen - Calling the Dogs Dominic Fike - Sunburn Troye Sivan - Something To Give Each Other Caroline Polachek - Desire I Want To Turn Into You Glaive - I Care So Much That I Don't Care At All Honorable mentions to Gus Dapperton, CRJ, The Drums, Knuckle Puck, Slow Pulp, Hotline TNT, Yves Tumor, murdermart, Misogi, KC Rae, No Rome, Crime In Stereo Fifty songs I loved this year:
blink-182 - One More Time… King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES Spanish Love Songs - No Joy Young Thug - BUSINESS IS BUSINESS Billy woods & Kenny Segal - Maps Taking Back Sunday - 152 Sufjan Stevens - Javelin Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch Geese - 3D Country Koyo - Would You Miss It? Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Strips Paramore - This Is Why MSPAINT - Post-American The Gaslight Anthem - History Books Boygenius - The Record Travis Scott - Utopia Teenage Wrist - Still Love Ratboys - The Window Travis Scott - Utopia Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust Zulu - A New Tomorrow The Maine - The Maine Gunna - a Gift & a Curse Bearings - The Best Part About Being Human Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS Equipment - Alt. Account George Clanton - Ooh Rap I Ya
1. Origami Angel - The Brightest Days 2. The Japanese House - In the End It Always Does 3. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power 4. Samia - Honey 5. Trophy Eyes - Suicide and Sunshine 6. Daughter - Stereo Mind Game 7. FIZZ - The Secret to Life 8. Squid - O Monolith 9. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE 10. Sydney Sprague - somebody in hell loves you HMs: 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs; glaive - i care so much that i dont care at all; The Republic of Wolves - Why Would Anyone Want to Live This Long?; awakebutstillinbed - chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger; The Dirty Nil - Free Rein to Passions
Decided on a top 12. I think there's a running theme across most of these albums of finding contentment in a low place. A couple of them are very recent discoveries. For example, the MC Yallah album might be higher up if I did this again in a couple of months. 1. Hashirat - A place to myself Two hour exploration of depression bedded on a collage of ambient drone, post-rock, psychedelic noise, spoken word, and field recordings. 2. ††† (Crosses) - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete A dynamic mixture of lush, modern synthpop/darkwave with big low end. 3. ML Buch - Suntub Glimmering, almost free-form, folky dream pop with self-possessed breathy vocals. 4. Purelink - Signs Capacious, textured ambient dub. 5. dne - Basic Living Serene, vintage synth ambient with organic clicky beats and intermittent vocals. 6. Alva Noto - HYbr:ID II Sedate, glitchy ambient drone. 7. Jonnine - Maritz Slight, low-key, avant-pop. 8. North Americans - Long Cool World Melancholy acoustic/country ambient. 9. Laurel Halo - Atlas Washy, feebly glimmering, crepuscular ambient. 10. MC Yallah - Yallah Beibe Multilingual, industrial hip hop from Uganda with unreal vocal flow. 11. Rezzett - Meant Like This Rusty, ethereal house. 12. Pale Blue - Maria Intoxicating romantic techno pop.
1. Invent Animate - Heavener 2. Currents - The Death We Seek 3. Periphery - V: Djent Is Not A Genre 4. Metric - Formentera II 5. Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day 6. Rival Sons - Darkfighter 7. Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher 8. August Burns Red - Death Below 9. Bayonne - Temporary Time 10. Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear EP
outside of an outstanding blink return, pretty underwhelming year for me. 1. aesop rock - integrated tech solutions 2. blink 182 - one more time 3. hot mulligan - why would i watch 4. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 5. samia - honey 6. midwife & vyva melinkolya - orbweaving 7. cherry glazerr - i dont want you anymore 8. youth lagoon - heaven is a junkyard 9. jeromes dream - the gray in between 10. sufjan stevens - javelin 11. origami angel - the brightest days 12. hannah diamond - perfect picture 13. magazine beach - constant springtime 14. equipment - alt. account 15. post malone - austin
Here's mine. Roughly in order... Salami Rose Joe Louis - Akousmatikous Liv.e - Girl In The Half Pearl Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips Fielded - Plus One Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven King Krule - Space Heavy MIKE - Burning Desire Larry June & The Alchemist - The Great Escape Mike, Wiki & The Alchemist - Faith Is A Rock Billy Woods - Maps Model/Actriz - Dogsbody Blaque Dynamite - Stop Calling Me Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure Yoni Mayraz - Dybbuk Tse! Daniel Villarreal - Lados B Sen Morimoto - Diagnosis Eddie Chacon - Sundown YUNGMORPHEUS - From Whence It Came Blockhead - The Aux Verb T - The Tower Where The Phantom Lives Jehst - Mork Calling Orson McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? Koma Saxo - Post Koma Mandy, Indiana - i've seen a way Danny Brown - Quaranta Carlos Nino & Friends - (I'm just) Chillin', on Fire Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Bisk - DELICAFE Caixa Cubo - Angela Open Mike Eagle - Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music EABS & Jaubi - In Search of a Better Tomorrow Bad Bunny - nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana LE SSERAFIM - UNFORGIVEN Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek - New Future City Radio JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES wiki - 14k Figaro Madlib, Meyhem Lauren & DJ Muggs - Champagne for Breakfast El Michels Affair & Black Thought - Glorious Game Kofi Flexxx - Flowers In The Dark PinkPantheress - Heaven Knows Kamaal Williams - Stings Lukah - Permanently Blackface (The 1st Expression) Nappy Nina - Mourning Due Rarelyalways - WORK B. Cool-Aid - Leather Blvd. Actress - LXXXVIII Eldon Somers - TERRA INCOGNITA: Book One M(h)aol - Attachment Styles Kassa Overall - ANIMALS Wolf Eyes - Dreams in Splattered Lines Phiik - Another Planet 4 Gaika - DRIFT Irreversible Entanglement - Protect Your Light David Murray, Questlove & Ray Angry - Plumb Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You Iceboy Violet - Not a Dream But a Controlled Explosion Jessy Lanza - Love Hallucination BLK ODYSSY - Diamonds & Freaks Litugy - 93696 Altin Gün - Aşk Khalab - Layers Rezzett - Meant Like This Trees Speak - Mind Maze Fatboi Sharif - Decay Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden... DJ Muggs - Notes & Tones Sideshow - 2MM DON’T JUST STAND THERE! Joe Armon-Jones & Maxwell Owin - Archetype Speakers Corner Quartet - Further Out Than The Edge Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem for Jazz Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X Pink Navel - How To Capture Playful Yuele - Soft Scars Yaeji - With A Hammer
I need to revise my list to somehow include Trophy Eyes - Suicide and Sunshine. I wrote this band off after their (imo) disappointing previous album. But hot damn this new album is sooo good. Gave it a listen for the first time about a week ago and it has stayed on repeat since.
I think this might be the first time I've finished one of these before the year is over? I'm actually kinda proud of myself, lol. Anyways, here's all my favorite albums of the year - along with my top 5 EPs, as well as some great PNW DIY projects that I didn't feel comfortable ranking. In parentheses are one of my favorite songs off of each project, and I made a playlist you can check out here with all of the songs! Appreciate the recommendations from everyone else's lists, I've got so much to check out still! It was a really great year for music, huh? Top 50: 1. Yeule - softscars (inferno) 2. Fiddlehead - Death is Nothing to Us (Queen of Limerick) 3. Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE (3 SUMMERS) 4. Billy Woods and Kenny Segal - Maps (NYC Tapwater) 5. Paramore - This is Why (Thick Skull) 6. Frost Children - Speed Run/Hearth Room (FLATLINE) 7. underscores - Wallsocket (You don't even know who I am) 8. feeble little horse - Girl with Fish (Freak) 9. Jerome's Dream - The Gray In Between (AAEEAA) 10. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power (Blood In the Milk) 11. Sampha - Lahai (Dancing Circles) 12. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You (I Believe) 13. Feverchild - Altering a Memory (Witching Hour) 14. MSPAINT - Post-American (Information) 15. JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown - Scaring the Hoes (Kingdom Hearts Key) 16. awakebutstillinbed - chaos takes the wheel and I am a passenger (enough) 17. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (My Red Little Fox) 18. Parannoul - After the Magic (Parade) 19. Squid - o, monolith (The Blades) 20. Danny Brown - Quaranta (Jenn's Terrific Vacation) 21. Loma Prieta - Last (Dose) 22. Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch (Betty) 23. Jane Remover - Census Designated (Holding a Leech) 24. Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard (Idaho Alien) 25. Chris Farren - Doom Singer (Cosmic Leash) 26. Mansions - Tuff Luff (Ice Age) 27. luminism - form without content (poser) 28. Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (Heaven) 29. Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun (My Friends Are Having a Hard Time) 30. as a sketch pad - as a sketch pad (ashtray) 31. 100 gecs - 10000 gecs (Frog on the Floor) 32. Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions (Vititus) 33. Home is Where - The Whaler (yes! yes! a thousand times yes!) 34. Hail the Sun - Divine Inner Tension (I Saw You Hanging) 35. Dosser - Violent Picture, Violent Sound (Home) 36. Mick Jenkins - The Patience (Pasta) 37. Wednesday - Rat Saw God (Formula One) 38. MIKE - Burning Desire (plz don't cut my wings) 39. Boygenius - The Record (Revolution 0) 40. Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (The Gods Must Be Crazy) 41. The HIRS Collective - We're Still Here (Trust the Process) 42. Yaeji - With a Hammer (For Granted) 43. Texas 3000 - Tx3k (V Ni Ha Naranai) 44. Helena Deland - Goodnight Summerland (Spring Bug) 45. Broken Record - Nothing Moves Me (Mach 4) 46. Ratboys - The Window (The Window) 47. grouptherapy. - I was mature for my age, but I was still a child (smiles :)) 48. Genesis Owusu - STRUGGLER (What Comes Will Come) 49. Balladeers, Redefined - Various Artists (Outdated Wallpaper) 50. Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist - Voir Dire (Mancala) EPs: 1. Burial Etiquette/ mis sueños son de tu adios - split (Exhaustion That Led To Collapse) 2. 8485 - Personal Protocol (Atlantis) 3. The Callous Daoboys - God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys (Pushing The Pink Envelope) 4. Balance and Composure - Too Quick to Forgive (Saviour Mode) 5. dweller. - All The Things We Carry (Leash) PNW tunes: Common Girl - ep2 (wedding song) Dusty Cubby - You Deserve to Be Happy (If You’re a Bird, I’m a Bird) exciting!!excellent!! - you will watch me die (ice key 2) Lone Fir Cemetery - Meet Your Antagonist (Through My Bedroom Window) Look At The Bones - Home Sweet Home (Home Sweet Home) mauve - About the Weather (Drive/Threw) Swiss Army Wife - Medium Gnarly (Halloween)
1. Paramore - This Is Why 2. Never Ending Game - Outcry 3. Drain - Living Proof 4. Creeper - Sanguivore 5. Model/Actriz - Dogsbody 6. Noah Kahan - Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever) 7. Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination 8. Initiate - Cerebral Circus 9. The Acacia Strain - Step Into The Light 10. MSPAINT - Post-American 11. Restraining Order - Locked In Time 12. Angel Du$t - BRAND NEW SOUL 13. Final Gasp - Mourning Moon 14. Spiritual Cramp - Spiritual Cramp 15. Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 16. Pain of Truth - Not Through Blood 17. Sunami - SUNAMI (L.P.) 18. Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun 19. Fuming Mouth - Last Day of Sun 20. Temple of Angels - Endless Pursuit 21. Skourge - Torrential Torment 22. Magnitude - Of Days Renewed... 23. Koyo - Would You Miss It? 24. Harms Way - Common Suffering 25. Soft Kill - Metta World Peace 26. Indigo De Souza - All of This Will End 27. Scalp - BLACK TAR 28. Pony - Velveteen 29. Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy 30. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite 31. Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity 32. Citizen - Calling the Dogs 33. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 34. Wreckage - Our Time 35. Year Of The Knife - No Love Lost 36. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg for Death 37. Judiciary - Flesh + Blood 38. Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us 39. Kruelty - Untopia 40. Gel - Only Constant EPs 1. New World Man - The Beast Is Back 2. Twitching Tongues - Twitchfits, Vol. 1 3. Hold My Own - In My Way 4. Big Boy - Spring Promo 2023 5. Scarab - Scarab - EP 6. xWeaponx / World Of Pleasure - Weapon Of Pleasure 7. Fugitive - Blast Furnace b/w Standoff 8. Scowl - Psychic Dance Routine - EP 9. Torena - Evil Eyez 10. Webbed Wing - Right After I Smoke This...
1. Fall out Boy - So Much for Stardust 2. The Maine - The Maine 3. Turnpike Troubadours - Cat in the Rain 4. Gaslight Anthem - History Books 5. Mo Lowda & the Humble - Mo Lowda & the Humble 6. Pecos and the Rooftops - Pecos and the Rooftops 7. Flatland Cavalry - Wandering Star 8. Patrick Droney - Subtitles for Feelings 9. Parker Mccolum - Never Enough 10. Chris Stapleton - Higher Really really strong year for me.
1. Zach Bryan - S/T 2. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes 3. The Gaslight Anthem - History Books 4. Spanish Love Songs - No Joy 5. boygenius - the record 6. Ruston Kelly - The Weakness 7. The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True 8. Noah Gundersen - If This Is The End 9. Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes 10. Blink 182 - One More Time 11. The Maine - S/T 12. Dave Hause - Drive It Like It's Stolen 13. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness - Tilt At The World No More 14. The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein 15. Foo Fighters - But Here We Are 16. Charles Wesley Godwin - Family Ties 17. Mat Kerekes - You Look Like a Stranger 18. Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust 19. City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near 20. The Aces - I've Loved You For So Long Favorite shows I watched in 2023 The Bear (Season 2) Succession (Season 4) Daisy Jones & The Six The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 5) Jury Duty
Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2023 1. blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME… 2. Paramore - This Is Why 3. Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 4. Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust 5. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 6. Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood - Jarak Qaribak 7. Ludwig Goransson - Oppenheimer (Soundtrack) 8. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Soundtrack) 9. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES 10. Animal Collective - Isn’t It Now? Favorite EPs of 2023 Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes Anberlin - Convinced Polo & Pan - Carrossel Do Tempo Manchester Orchestra - The Valley Of Vision