Likes: Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
Bruce Soord - Luminescence
URNE - A Feast on Sorrow
The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
Gorillaz - Cracker Island
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Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
Bruce Soord - Luminescence
URNE - A Feast on Sorrow
The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
Gorillaz - Cracker Island
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Andre 3000- New Blue Sun
a blissful, ambient jazz album. wow. I'm not surprised Dre can put something like this out. I'm glad he did. I'm perfectly fine that it's not a rap album (and I understand why some people may be mad about that) . I think the best way to describe it is a mix between Miles Davis's "In A Silent Way" album if it were produced by Brian Eno.
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Album of the Year: The Foo Fighters- But Here We Are
Song of the Year: Guns N' Roses- "Perhaps"
Reissue of the Year: The Doors- Live at the Matrix '67
Soundtrack of the Year: Barbie OST
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Album of the Year: Roger Wates - DSOTM Redux
Song of the Year: Doja Cat - Paint the Town Red
Reissue of the Year: Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Dub II
Immersive Audio of the Year: Madison Beer - Silence Between the Songs
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Bleep just made a top 10 list for the year
I didn't know there was a new African Head Charge album... don't know how I slept on that one.
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Fairly good list except I found that Overmono album utter disappointment,can't believe the brilliant previous singles and ep's lead to such weak debut album.Originally Posted by Jinsai
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My Favs:
Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman...
The Smashing Pumpkins – Atum
Metallica – 72 Seasons
Prof – Horse
Ghost – Phantomime
Atmosphere – So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Honorable Mentions:
Royal Blood – Back to the Water Below
Foo Fighters – But Here We Are
HEALTH – Rat Wars
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired
Atmosphere – Talk Talk EP
Aesop Rock – Integrated Tech Solutions
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – The Killer
Ben Folds – What Matters Most
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Hmm, seems like one of those years where I find myself not listening to alot of new records and I have plenty sitting on my shelf still, but:
My Top 8
Ghost Woman - in hindsight 50/50
Jaye Jayle - don't let your love life get you down
Lana Del Rey - did you know there's a tunnel under ocean bvld
UNI and the Urchins - simulator
Battle Tapes - texture
Algiers - shook
REZN - solace
CULK - Generation Maximum
HEALTH - Rat Wars
Favorite Soundtracks
David Reichelt & Panic Girl - Paradise
TR&AR - The Killer / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Julian Winding + Peter Peter - Copenhagen Cowboy
Last edited by dlb; 12-12-2023 at 02:36 AM. Reason: Had to add HEALTH to the list
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The Ocean - Holocene
Tesseract - War of Being
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
Half Moon Run - Salt
TR&AR - TMNT Mutant Mayhem
Puscifer - Global Probing Live
Metric - Formentera II
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Will Haven - VII
Twin Temple - God Is Dead
Sleaford Mods - UK Grim
QOTSA - In Times New Roman
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies
Marta - When It's Going Wrong
Lead Into Gold - The Eternal Present
Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood - Jarak Qaribak
David Eugene Edwards - Hyacinth (This one is probably my favorite album of the year)
Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
I was nobody. Nothing.
Particular, No Order
EXCEPT probably
1. Brakence-hypochondriac
(That record TECHNICALLY came out in '22, but twas in December, and I didn't hear it until Jan '23, so it counts)
Have y'all heard the kid? He's got tasty guitar licks, clever idm sounds, a damn fine voice that often glitches out (I think he's part computer. I have no fucking idea which of the vocal ranges he uses is actually his real voice, but he does this gorgeous falsetto thing, although it might be manipulated), he's a GREAT songwriter, a decent...rapper, I guess?
I don't even know what the fuck genre it is: it's like hyperpop idm emo with a dash of hip hop.
You just have to hear it.
JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
Earl Sweatshirt.x The Alchemist- Voir Dire
Oliver Anthony- Rich Men North of Richmond and all the other songs he put out.
(AhHHhhhhhhh. Fresh air! One man with a guitar- an old resonator, literally recording out in the woods, like the old days. I LOVE country/americana, but I HATE what it's become- pop music with the same four chords, electronic drums, dumb lyrics, and people from WHEREVER, dressed up as cowboys, putting a fake twang on their voice. God sent that dude and a few of his contemporaries to destroy bro country. Let's take it back to O Brother, Where Art Thou.)
Andre Benjamin - New Blue Sun
(I honestly thought he was just fucking with people, walking around playing that weird ass flute. I never DREAMED he'd put out an album with it. Also, I've been listening to OutKast since I was a kid, and will NOT call that cat 3000 "Meet the twin/Andre Ben")
Bizzy Bone - Tha Waste Lands, aka whatever the fuck album he put out this year.
Lil Ripsta is on fire. He's just nonstop putting out dope records. I can barely keep up.
Busta Rhymes-Blockbusta
It's got a few (edit: WAY TOO FUCKING MANY) songs for the kids with some (edit: WAY TOO FUCKING MANY) godawful features, but (EDIT: SOME) of it is good old Busta Motherfucking Rhymes, the most underrated cat to ever do the damn thing, still kicking ass around 50 years old.
That's the only new shit I've listened to this year. It's mostly been Rush, Led Zeppelin, Tricky, Fugees, BoC, Ming and FS, Tears for Fears, DMX, Bone Thugs, and old DnB mixes
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For me, its Perfect Saviors by The Armed. They've really grown and matured since the EP trilogy in 2010-2013. They're hitting their stride and just when you think it can't get better than the last album, it somehow outdoes it.
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My favorite releases of the year:
Avenged Sevenfold - Life is But a Dream…
Better Lovers - God Made Me an Animal
Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
HEALTH - RAT WARS
Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear
Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden
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I was nobody. Nothing.
I've heard a BIT of Sleep Token, VERY recently, and I really dig it: I've just, you know, yet to hear the album.
However, Spiritbox (obvious fucking band name I wish to GOD I'd thought of first...i need a new one, and have for some time according to @Big Fat Matt - What up, man!), I've only heard MENTIONED.
What are they all about? Why does the record make your AOTY list?
The NAME is certainly fucking intriguing.
What's it all
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Been a quiet year…
1. Mammoth WVH - Mammoth II
2. Metallica - 72 Seasons
3. Noel Gallagher HFB - Council Skies
4. Blur - The Ballad of Darren
5. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
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01 M83-Fantasy
02 Crosses-Goodnight, God Bless, I Love You, Delete
03 Health-Rat Wars
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they’re a really good female fronted metal band. Saw them at louder than life last year and was blown away by how great Courtney LaPlante is as a singer.
I was nobody. Nothing.
Oh, FUCK. Yeah, that's dope. I've heard them on YouTube commercials, but it never fucking says who the artist is on the Roku TV version, and someone sent me a vid, but i never put 2 and 2 together.
STRANGELY, i just realized that i have a 6 Degrees of Separation with this Spiritbox. They were in Iwrestledabearonce.
When i VERY first moved up here, i played a short stint in a metalcore band with my little homey Jasper.
I can't even remember the NAME of the goddamn band (it's been over ten years...old guitarist play in many old band), BUT...
when i started playing with them, they had just OPENED for Iwrestledabearonce, in Amarillo, AND, Dumas.
NOW.
Anyone cool enough to come through Amarillo this century gets extra respect from me, but DUMAS?
The town of 14k folk to which we drive to from our town of under 2k folk, so we can have citified shit like Sonic and Wal-Mart? And like...how you say...physician?
I say goddamn.
I must pay extra attention to this Spiritbox.
And, SHIT that lady can growl, like the Kittie sisters before her.
Female fronted heavy music is blossoming and growing before my very eyes.
(drifty, and tangential, but, on East Dallas, spirit boxes DO work. I just don't fuck with that type of thing these days...i've had too much weird shit happen. Get you a nice, free spirit box program for your computer and give it a go, if you don't believe me).
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AOTY: Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
SOTY: Fever Ray - Kandy
I have A LOT to catch up on though.
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My final picks:
1. Peter Gabriel- I/O
2. Foo Fighters- But Here We Are
3. Slowdive- Everything Is Alive
4 The Pretenders- Relentless
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Live at the Hollywood Bowl
6. The Doors- Live at the Matrix '67 TIED Doors- Live at Bakersfield '70
7. Mammoth WVH- II
8. Rolling Stones- Hackney Diamonds
9. Blur- The Ballad of Darren
10. Queens of the Stone Age- In Times New Roman
11. Iggy Pop- Every Loser
12. Duff McKagan- Lighthouse
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FAVORITES::
Angel Olsen “Forever Means”
The Armed “Perfect Saviors”
Cat Power “Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert”
Crosses “Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete”
Depeche Mode “Memento Mori”
Esther Rose “Safe to Run”
Queens of the Stone Age “In Times New Roman…”
Peter Gabriel “I/O”
Slowdive “Everything is Alive”
ALSO ENJOYED::
Aesop Rock “Integrated Tech Solutions”
Andre 3000 “New Blue Sun”
Better Lovers “God Made Me An Animal”
Bob Dylan “Shadow Kingdom”
Boygenius“The Record”
Citizen “Calling the Dogs”
Drab Majesty “An Object In Motion”
Full of Hell & Nothing “When No Birds Sang”
The Gaslight Anthem “History Books”
HEALTH “Rat Wars”
Josaleigh Pollett “In the Garden, By the Weeds”
Loma Prieta “Last”
The Menzingers “Some of it Was True”
Nick Shoulders “All Bad”
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross “The Killer”
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"Cowboy Bebop: Soundtrack From The Netflix Series" by Seatbelts
"Cracker Island" by Gorillaz
"A Trip To Bolgatanga" by African Head Charge
"My Brutal Life" + "Music For Moore Street Substation" + "My Brutal Life movie" by The Black Dog (and Martin Dust and Amoeba), I'll consider the three as one big release.
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- Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex
- Queens Of The Stone Age- In Times New Roman
- Crosses-Goodnight, God Bless, I Love You, Delete
- The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
- Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
- Foo Fighters- But Here We Are
- Ghost - Pantomime
- Gorillaz -Cracker Island
- Blur - The ballad of Darren
- Lana Del Rey - Did you know there's a tunnel under Ocean Bvld
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- HEALTH - Rat Wars
- SPIRITBOX - The Fear of Fear
- SLEEP TOKEN - Take Me Back To Eden
- SLOWDIVE - Everything is Alive
- HEAVENWARD - Pyrophonics
- METRIC - Formentera 1 + 2
- FULL OF HELL and NOTHING - When No Birds Sang
- CODE ORANGE - The Above
- SEVENDUST - Truth Killer
- GEL - Only Constant
- SCOWL - Psychic Dance Routine
- YEAR OF THE KNIFE - No Love Lost
- OLIVIA RODRIGO - Guts
- VENERA - Venera
- KNOCKED LOOSE - Upon Loss
- HUMANITY’S LAST BREATH - Ashen
- 3TEETH - EndEx
- WARGASM - Venom
- PARAMORE - This is Why
- CROSSES - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
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Albums of the Year
Miss Grit - Follow The Cyborg
Jake Shears - Last Man Dancing
The National - Laugh Track
Yaeji - With a Hammer
Mitski - The land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions
M83 - Fantasy
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
The New Pornographers - Continue As A Guest
TR/AR - TMNT
Bully - Lucky For You
Song of the Year
The Smile - Bending Hectic
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For That Beautiful Feeling by The Chemical Brothers
I didn't get to explore as much new music as I wanted to, so I'll be picking through all of your lists to catch up!
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My top albums of the year collected here:
https://post-punk.com/post-punk-com-the-best-of-2023/
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great list. I did the music video for bootblacks forbidden flames.
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Small world! I did the premiere for "Wilderness" on the same site. @halo33 (their synth player) and I used to be in two bands together as well. <3
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ANOHNI & The Johnsons — My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
Sam Brown — Number 8
Bokanté — History
The Chess Project — New Moves
Bruce Cockburn — O Sun O Moon
Jeremy Dutcher — Motewolonuwok
Eartheater — Powders
Andy Fairweather Low — Flang Dang
Fever Ray — Radical Romantics
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown — Scaring the Hoes
Pat Metheny — Dream Box
The Rolling Stones — Hackney Diamonds
Philip Selway — Strange Dance
Paul Simon — Seven Psalms
Soft Machine — Other Doors
Speaker Music — Techxodus
Yves Tumor — Praise a Lord...
Tu-Ner — T-1 Contact Information
Sunny War — Anarchist Gospel
Young Fathers — Heavy Heavy
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