YEAR END MEGALIST 2023!!!!

All 10 points @Rip_City

  1. The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony (10)
  2. Cut Worms - Cut Worms (10)
  3. Sigur Rós - Átta (10)
  4. Wild Nothing - Hold (10)
  5. The National - Laugh Track (10)
  6. Molly Burch - Daydreamer (10)
  7. Tennis - Pollen (10)
  8. Beirut - Hadsel (10)
  9. Bodywash - I Held The Shape While I Could (10)
  10. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (10)
 
wokeupnew said:
All 10 points @Rip_City

  1. The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony (10)
  2. Cut Worms - Cut Worms (10)
  3. Sigur Rós - Átta (10)
  4. Wild Nothing - Hold (10)
  5. The National - Laugh Track (10)
  6. Molly Burch - Daydreamer (10)
  7. Tennis - Pollen (10)
  8. Beirut - Hadsel (10)
  9. Bodywash - I Held The Shape While I Could (10)
  10. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (10)
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what did you hear in that Beirut album that really resonated? really wanted to like it, but it just didn't click for me.
 
cbl said:
what did you hear in that Beirut album that really resonated? really wanted to like it, but it just didn't click for me.
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I really liked how sleepy it is actually. I think it's better than Gallipoli (which I really liked a lot). Not many of the songs are super catchy, but they just feel comfy. "So Many Plans" is one of his best songs, along with "Stokmarknes", "Süddeutsches Ton-Bild-Studio" and "Hadsel" all have little melodies that I kept coming back to. "Melbu" which is just a little interlude feels like a perfect little respite reminiscent of "Motion Picture Soundtrack" by Radiohead. I also think it being released in November helps it a lot because it feels like a fall album. There's no way I'd be returning as much had this come out in like June or July.

I keep returning to Sigur Ros' Atta for the same reasons as well. It's just a comfy album. That one doesn't have very strong crescendos or melodies that Sigur Ros is known for with other albums. It has the Sigur Ros blueprint under more beatless ambient. It rewards with return visits.
 
wokeupnew said:
I keep returning to Sigur Ros' Atta for the same reasons as well. It's just a comfy album. That one doesn't have very strong crescendos or melodies that Sigur Ros is known for with other albums. It has the Sigur Ros blueprint under more beatless ambient. It rewards with return visits.
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ÁTTA is Sigur Rós most urgent and minimalistic album but like you've mentioned there's something comforting about it. I also find the album to be quite sad 😢 maybe because it came out in around the same time my Dad passed away and I associate it to his death 🤷 but nevertheless there's tremendous beauty 😍 on the album and every time I listen to it I feel at peace 🕊️
 
20 Caroline Polachek - Desire, I want to turn into you
15 yeule - softscars
15 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs
10 Oneohtrix point never - Again
10 billy woods, & Kenny Segal - Maps
10 Lana Del Rey - Did you know there's a tunnel under ocean blvd?
5 Jessie Ware - That Feels Good!
5 Lonnie Holly - Oh Me Oh My
5 Kara Jackson - Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love
5 Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and so are we
 
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duke86fan said:
20 Caroline Polachek - Desire, I want to turn into you
15 yeule - softscars
15 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs
10 Oneohtrix point never - Again
10 billy woods, & Kenny Segal - Maps
10 Lana Del Rey - Did you know there's a tunnel under ocean blvd?
5 Jessie Ware - That Feels Good!
5 Lonnie Holly - Oh Me Oh My
5 Kara Jackson - Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love
5 Noname - sundial (without jay electronicas verse)
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@Rip_City forgot to count it so doing it now
 
cbl said:
23 Albums for 2023

1. Cloth - Secret Measure (13 points)
2. The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery (12)
3. The National - Laugh Track (10)
4. The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein (9)
5. Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions (8)
6. Hania Rani - Ghosts (8)
7. GoGo Penguin - Everything is Going to be OK (7)
8. Bully - Lucky for You (7)
9. Slowdive - everything is alive (7)
10. boygenius - the record (3)
11. Caroline Rose - The Art of Forgetting (2)
12. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (2)
13. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World (2)
14. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner (1)
15. Tennis - Pollen (1)
16. Gorillaz - Cracker Island (1)
17. WITCH - Zango (1)
18. Mammal Hands - Gifts From the Trees (1)
19. Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert (1)
20. Killer Mike - MICHAEL (1)
21. bdrmm - I Don't Know (1)
22. Art School Girlfriend - Soft Landing (1)
23. Explosions in the Sky - End (1)
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'Bout damn time I see Gorillaz on ANY best of the year list. I thought the brilliance of Cracker Island was something I must have experienced as some recurring dream or that I was living in some alternate reality. It will feature very prominently on my list when I get around to putting it all together. Still waiting for a few records to come in and give a hearing to. Anyway, most of y'all are sleeping!
 
gcowgill said:
'Bout damn time I see Gorillaz on ANY best of the year list. I thought the brilliance of Cracker Island was something I must have experienced as some recurring dream or that I was living in some alternate reality. It will feature very prominently on my list when I get around to putting it all together. Still waiting for a few records to come in and give a hearing to. Anyway, most of y'all are sleeping!
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It really is a good album with some of my favorite all-time Gorillaz songs on it. Silent Running is such a jam. Ballad of Darren is probably a little more consistent overall this year Damon-wise, but they are both great.
 
McGlam said:
It really is a good album with some of my favorite all-time Gorillaz songs on it. Silent Running is such a jam. Ballad of Darren is probably a little more consistent overall this year Damon-wise, but they are both great.
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Silent Running is an all-time banger.

I thought Cracker Island got the 2D/Damon to guest-star balance better than any Gorillaz album since Demon Days.
 
10 each

-Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music
-Jaimie Branch - Fly Or Die, Fly or Die, Fly or Die
-Billy woods - Maps
-Rose City Band - Garden Party
-Lankum - False Lankum
-Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
-KGATLW- PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
-Sufjan Stevens- Javelin
-Animal Collective - Isn't it Now?
-Armand Hammer- We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
 
The Tubs - Dead Meat (15)
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - Dancing on the Edge (15)
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time (7)
Being Dead - When Horses Would Run (7)
Beach Fossils - Bunny (7)
Jess Williamson - Time Ain’t Accidental (7)
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (7)
Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (5)
Hotline TNT - Cartwheel (5)
Blake Mills - Jelly Road (5)
Wilco - Cousin (2)
Kid Fears - Undying Love (2)
Blur - The Ballad of Darren (2)
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World (2)
Gorillaz - Cracker Island (2)
Slow Pulp - Yard (2)
Turnpike Troubadours - A Cat in the Rain (2)
Slowdive - everything is alive (2)
The Church - The Hypnogogue (2)
Fat Spirit - EGG (2)

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@Rip_City

Weathervanes - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (20 points)
Requiem for Jazz - Angel Bat Dawid (15 points)
Meltdown Rodeo - Kym Register & Meltdown Rodeo (15 points)
Celebrants - Nickel Creek (10 points)
Jump for Joy - Hiss Golden Messenger (10 points)
Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightening - Chief Adjuah (10 points)
Wait Til I get Over - Durand Jones (5 points)
Mighty Poplar - Mighty Poplar (5 points)
Reverie - Les Imprimes (5 points)
City of Gold - Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway (5 points)
 
Lee Newman said:
@Rip_City

Weathervanes - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (20 points)
Requiem for Jazz - Angel Bat Dawid (15 points)
Meltdown Rodeo - Kym Register & Meltdown Rodeo (15 points)
Celebrants - Nickel Creek (10 points)
Jump for Joy - Hiss Golden Messenger (10 points)
Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightening - Chief Adjuah (10 points)
Wait Til I get Over - Durand Jones (5 points)
Mighty Poplar - Mighty Poplar (5 points)
Reverie - Les Imprimes (5 points)
City of Gold - Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway (5 points)
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Not surprised by Isbell, but surprised (and stoked!) to see Angel that high. Also expected Adjuah to maybe be a bit higher, but looking at who is in-between makes sense to me.
 
avecigrec said:
Not surprised by Isbell, but surprised (and stoked!) to see Angel that high. Also expected Adjuah to maybe be a bit higher, but looking at who is in-between makes sense to me.
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Dawid challenged me while entertaining me was the ultimate placing. Durand should have fired his engineer and re-recorded, should have been AOTY but I can’t get over how awful it sounds.
 
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