Urban75 Album of the Year 2023

[belboid]

It's the original thread, back in its rightful place.

You know the score, compile a list of however many albums you want, put them in order from favouritest to slightly less favoured and send them to me. Preferably in an Artist- Album order, without bothering to put place numbers in. Once again, compilation albums are not allowed and I am the ultimate decider on whether it is a compilation or not.

Have some suggestions from publishers who have, undoubtedly, got it wrong:

The 100 Best Albums of 2023

We Rank the best albums of the year, from Lil Yatchy to Olivia Rodrigo to Lana Del Rey

www.rollingstone.com

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/2109-bbc-radio-6-musics-albums-of-the-year-2023/

Top 100 Albums of the Year 2023 | Rough Trade

The 100 best albums from 2023 based on a year of listening, months of consideration, weeks of discussion and days of compiling. Every one of these albums has made an impact on us this year but to learn more about the ones that made the top 20, please click here for UK and here for US.

www.roughtrade.com

The 50 Best Albums of 2023

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

www.pastemagazine.com

You have until December 16th to get your votes in and I shall do the reveal shortly thereafter. With a bit of luck.

Don't worry, if you vote wrong, you can alway correct it in ten years time.

 

[Part 2]

Piccadilly records top 100 here

Piccadilly Records

Born in 1978, Piccadilly Records is an independent record shop in the heart of Manchester city centre.

www.piccadillyrecords.com

 

[braindancer]

Some lists I've been perusing over the last few days....

Loud and Quiet's list
Decibel magazine's list
Norman's list

 

[Knotted]

Laufey ftw.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Laufey ftw.

You're having a lauf.

 

[Knotted]

You're having a lauf.

Pronounced lauv

 

[Part 2]

Louder than War list

LOUDER THAN WAR ALBUMS OF 2023

Louder Than War Albums Of 2023

louderthanwar.com

 

[stavros]

I know what my number one is, and I'm fairly confident that it won't feature on anyone else's list. The rest I'll have to work out.

 

[belboid]

oops wrong thread

 

[Knotted]

I haven't been following the other thread. Need a big catch up.

Has anybody mentioned Ren - Sick Boi?



I only know it if they're on tiktok.

 

[Hollis]

Listening to some stuff off the Louder than War list. Nothings grabbed me yet.

Vince Clarke album... Sounds like late era Mike Oldfield

Ist Ist album - post punk but meh

The Shed Project...ok.. But definitely got an Oasis air about it.

 

[Part 2]

Listening to some stuff off the Louder than War list. Nothings grabbed me yet.

Vince Clarke album... Sounds like late era Mike Oldfield

Ist Ist album - post punk but meh

The Shed Project...ok.. But definitely got an Oasis air about it.

I've not had chance to look through it myself it came through a post by my mate who's in Evil Blizzard. Their new album is better than previous stuff (at least to the point they can no longer claim to be the worst band on earth) because it has less of the whiny PiL type vocals.

 

[braindancer]

See they have a new Mudhoney at no. 5... that completely passed me by...

 

[Hollis]

My two non mainstream choices worked be:
Lorella Meets the Obsolete: Datura



and

Follakzoid V

 

[belboid]

See they have a new Mudhoney at no. 5... that completely passed me by...

its a cracker, top stuff

 

[braindancer]

its a cracker, top stuff

Right - I'll check it soon

 

[hitmouse]

I'm sure I'll have a better idea what my albums of 2023 are in a few years' time, mentioned this over on the new albums thread but there's not been much that really grabbed me so far - new Xiu Xiu is a bit too unlistenable, new Fucked Up is competent but not amazing, even the Protomartyr is good but I don't feel wildly in love with it. Had missed that there was a new Algiers out until just now. Will be giving Bruise Control, Wednesday, New Pornographers, Boygenius and a few others (probably Swansea Sound and so on) a bit more of a listen over the next few weeks, but very open to other recommendations for stuff I've missed and should love. That White Poppy album is very solid dreampop.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I'm sure I'll have a better idea what my albums of 2023 are in a few years' time, mentioned this over on the new albums thread but there's not been much that really grabbed me so far - new Xiu Xiu is a bit too unlistenable, new Fucked Up is competent but not amazing, even the Protomartyr is good but I don't feel wildly in love with it. Had missed that there was a new Algiers out until just now. Will be giving Bruise Control, Wednesday, New Pornographers, Boygenius and a few others (probably Swansea Sound and so on) a bit more of a listen over the next few weeks, but very open to other recommendations for stuff I've missed and should love. That White Poppy album is very solid dreampop.

New indie to me this year that I keep going back to were Black Honey and Flyying Colours.

 

[braindancer]

I'm sure I'll have a better idea what my albums of 2023 are in a few years' time, mentioned this over on the new albums thread but there's not been much that really grabbed me so far - new Xiu Xiu is a bit too unlistenable, new Fucked Up is competent but not amazing, even the Protomartyr is good but I don't feel wildly in love with it. Had missed that there was a new Algiers out until just now. Will be giving Bruise Control, Wednesday, New Pornographers, Boygenius and a few others (probably Swansea Sound and so on) a bit more of a listen over the next few weeks, but very open to other recommendations for stuff I've missed and should love. That White Poppy album is very solid dreampop.

The Wednesday album is superb imo - only listened to it for the first time last week but it's really grabbed me. Kids are well into it too... rapidly became a family fave.

 

[belboid]

The Wednesday album is superb imo - only listened to it for the first time last week but it's really grabbed me. Kids are well into it too... rapidly became a family fave.

It's a bit patchy, imo. But when it's great it really is fucking awesome.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Gorilla vs Bear top 55 Gorilla vs. Bear's Albums of 2023

 

[braindancer]

its a cracker, top stuff

It's good - I was really vibing with it till the last track about small dogs - that one was a no for me - and snapped me out of my reverie with a bang.... I'd have dropped that one!

 

[Eric Jarvis]

I haven't been following the other thread. Need a big catch up.

Has anybody mentioned Ren - Sick Boi?



I only know it if they're on tiktok.

Sick Boi is likely to be my number two when I get time to do this. I doubt anything is going to top Chaos County Line, and currently I'm expecting the new Jasmine Minks album to at least make the top 5. However usually when I look for the best stuffover Christmas I find something amazing I hadn't noticed until I went looking, usually from West or South Africa.

 

[stavros]

The Wednesday album is superb imo - only listened to it for the first time last week but it's really grabbed me. Kids are well into it too... rapidly became a family fave.

It's a bit patchy, imo. But when it's great it really is fucking awesome.

I'm with belboid on this: I was quite looking forward to it, but it's never grabbed me too much and I don't return to it too often.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2023 (In Association With Norman Records) | The Quietus

Driven by our shameful national rent crisis and housing shortage, this has been in train for some time now, as my tQ co-pilot John Doran discussed in his New Weird Britain series on BBC Radio 4 back in 2019. COVID-19 undoubtedly put the brakes on for a while, but this year it feels as if […]

thequietus.com

The Quietus list out now - I always pick up a few of the (many) I've missed through this one.

 

[hitmouse]

Listening to Flyying Colours now, it is indeed very pretty. Think the Wednesday has grown on me with repeated listens as well.

 

[braindancer]

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2023 (In Association With Norman Records) | The Quietus

Driven by our shameful national rent crisis and housing shortage, this has been in train for some time now, as my tQ co-pilot John Doran discussed in his New Weird Britain series on BBC Radio 4 back in 2019. COVID-19 undoubtedly put the brakes on for a while, but this year it feels as if […]

thequietus.com

The Quietus list out now - I always pick up a few of the (many) I've missed through this one.

Wow has the Quietus gone mainstream - I reckon I've listened to or at least know of more than half of their list this year.... Lankum at no. 1 seems a popular choice for the music sites.... and will definitely feature on my list

 

[ska invita]

Wow has the Quietus gone mainstream - I reckon I've listened to or at least know of more than half of their list this year.... Lankum at no. 1 seems a popular choice for the music sites.... and will definitely feature on my list

i expect its that youve gone quietus! i recognise 5 names from that list and 4 out of 5 are from the 90s or earlier and Id imagine mainstream people wouldnt even know those necessarily - three of the five i know ive heard of because of urban!

 

[Dr. Furface]

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2023 (In Association With Norman Records) | The Quietus

Driven by our shameful national rent crisis and housing shortage, this has been in train for some time now, as my tQ co-pilot John Doran discussed in his New Weird Britain series on BBC Radio 4 back in 2019. COVID-19 undoubtedly put the brakes on for a while, but this year it feels as if […]

thequietus.com

The Quietus list out now - I always pick up a few of the (many) I've missed through this one.

The Babybaby_explores lp at #20 is fab - it's only 28 mins long so you can hear it all in the time it takes to endure two Lankum tracks, and actually have a fun listen instead. Impressed to see they've picked it, haven't seen it in any other list so far.

 

[hitmouse]

Yeah, depends how we're measuring it - if it's just at the level of "I definitely know who Nicky Wire, PJ Harvey and Sparks are", then I reckon I could maybe score like 10-20 on the Quietus list, if we're talking about "I have actually listened to the album they released this year", then I think it's just Algiers for me. I should probably actually listen to that Lankum album.