Chorus.fm Members EOTY Lists 2023 • Page 3

awakebutstillinbed - chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger
Parannoul - After The Magic
Pale Lungs - S/T
Ratboys - The Window
LIES - Lies
All Get Out - S/T
Indigo De Souza - All of this Will End
Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power
Wednesday - Rat Saw God
Home Is Where - The Whaler
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
Lowland Hum - From Self, With Love
Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE
The Armed - Perfect Saviors
Bully - Lucky for You
Vagabon - Sorry I Haven’t Called
boygenius - the record
Daughter - Stereo Mind Game


EPs

Manchester Orchestra - The Valley of Vision
Origami Angel - The Brightest Days
The Republic Of Wolves - Why Would Anyone Want To Live This Long?
Balance & Composure - Too Quick To Forgive
Mantles - S/T
Flycatcher - Stunt
Adjy - June Songs Vol. 1

These are in a rough ranking of how much I liked them. There were a lot of other new albums this year that I listened to like 2 or 3 times and really liked but didn’t have the sticking power as the ones listed above.

Some honorable mentions are Short Fictions, Sigur Rós, There Will Be Fireworks, The National, Taking Meds, Hotline TNT, Captain Jazz, Paramore, Loma Prieta, Olivia Rodrigo, Al Menne, Joe Vann, 100 gecs, Broken Record, Spanish Love Songs, delerium., Lakes, Koyo, BC,NR, feeble little horse, Militarie Gun, The Acid Flashback at Nightmare Beach

Some EP honorable mentions include Pool Kids/POOL, Downward/Trauma Ray, Big Loser, Kevin Klein, Pinkshift, Alex Field, Sweetmess, Charmer, One Step Closer

 

What's your favs looking like so far

 

pretty much those!

 

You da best

 

Haven't given this as much thought as usual but here goes:
1. DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ: Destiny
2. The Menzingers: Some of it Was True
3. Blink-182: One More Time
4. Gaslight Anthem: History Books
5. Origami Angel: The Brightest Days

Also enjoyed a lot:
Fireworks
Wednesday
Hot Mulligan
Home Is Where
M83
Skrillex
100 Gecs
The Mountain Goats
Olivia Rodrigo
Jason Isbell

And others I'm probably forgetting.

Overall a deep year, but no one true standout album (or song) imo.

 

Great year for music IMHO.

1. Hotel Etiquette – Ouch
2. Orson Wilds – This Burning House We All Fell Asleep In)
3. memorydrip – memorydrip
4. Home is Where – The Whaler
5. Olivia Rodrigo – Guts
6. Free Throw – Lessons That We Swear to Keep
7. Balance and Composure – Too Quick to Forgive
8. Manchester Orchestra – The Valley of Vision
9. Blink-182 – One More Time…
10. Origami Angel – The Brightest Days

 

I decided to go alphabetical this year with a top 30, but funnily enough my overall AOTY was first in that list.

Algiers - Shook
Baroness - STONE
Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day
Brand New Friend - Grandstand
Crime in Stereo - House & Trance
The Dirty Nil - Free Rein to Passions
Elliot Green - Everything I Lack
Enter Shikari - A Kiss For the Whole World
Former Hero - Means to an End
Full Blown Meltdown - Mollify
G Jones - Paths
The Gaslight Anthem - History Books
Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black
The Japanese House - In the End It Always Does
Lakes - Elysian Skies
Locate S,1 - Wicked Jaw
Ruston Kelly - The Weakness
The Maine - The Maine
The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery
The National - Laugh Track
Palette Knife - New Game+
Paramore - This is Why
Petey - USA
Spanish Love Songs - No Joy
Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask
There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon
Tigercub - The Perfume of Decay
Tripsun - Kill the Dream
We Are Scientists - Lobes
Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard

 

Fuck forgot Palette Knife too. This is why you don’t go first lol

 

Palette Knife and Saturdays at your Place are my two fav emo releases of the year hands down

 

1. There Will Be Fireworks - Summer Moon
2. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
3. Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
4. Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power
5. Origami Angel - The Brightest Days
6. Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
7. Jessie Ware - That! Feels! Good!
8. Fucked Up - One Day
9. Zulu - A New Tomorrow
10. The Gaslight Anthem - History Books

 

If anyone hasn't checked out There Will Be Fireworks yet, now's the time.

 

1. Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust
2. RAYE - My 21st Century Blues
3. Taking Back Sunday - 152
4. Meet Me @ The Altar - Past // Present // Future
5. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn into You
6. The Dirty Nil - Free Rein to Passions
7. Petey - USA
8. Citizen - Calling the Dogs
9. Blink-182 - ONE MORE TIME
10. The Gaslight Anthem - History Books
11. The Maine - The Maine
12. The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
13. 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs
14. Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
15. Marvelous 3 - IV

 

1. Hot Mulligan
2. Jeff Rosenstock
3. Origami Angel
4. MS Paint
5. Memory Drip
6. Blink 182
7. '68
8. Manchester Orchestra
9. Callous Daoboys
10. Paramore
11. Home is Where
12. Pool Kids // POOL

 

Only two songs, but you got Balance and Composure on your list. Must love it a lot. : )

 

Oh fuck there’s a new Svalbard album??

 

Yep and it’s great

 

https://www.sonicawareness.net/phils-top-albums-of-2023

TOP 10:
10) CARLY RAE JEPSEN - The Loveliest Time
09) BLINK-182 - One More Time
08) ROMY - Mid Air
07) BOYGENIUS - The Record / The Rest
06) CAROLINE POLACHEK - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
05) THE NATIONAL - First Two Pages Of Frankenstein / Laugh Track
04) GIRL RAY - Prestige
03) PORTUGAL THE MAN - Chris Black Changed My Life
02) RIPE - Bright Blues
01) FALL OUT BOY - So Much (For) Stardust

 

Girl Ray and Romy albums both rule

 

Caught Girl Ray on their headlining tour here last fall, were awesome. Hopefully they get to open for someone bigger to increase their profile.

 

Completely forgot this came out, need to check out.

 

I guess I need to check out this Wednesday album.

 

Pretty great year. After waiting so long for Gaslight Anthem, Closure In Moscow, Yellowcard, Taking Back Sunday, Fireworks, Balance & Composure and Crime In Stereo having them all hit the same year (many of them the same day) was wild.


Closure In Moscow - Soft Hell
The Gaslight Anthem - History Books
Taking Back Sunday - 152
Yellowcard - Childhood Eyes EP
Charmer - Seney Stretch EP
Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
Hotel Etiquette - OUCH!
Knuckle Puck - Losing What We Love
Spanish Love Songs - No Joy
Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust
Crime in Stereo - House & Trance
Fireworks - Higher Lonely Power

 

Alphabetical but I'm fairly confident that 3D Country is my AOTY.

Andre 3000 - New Blue Sun
Animal Collective - Isn't It Now?
Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
boygenius - the record
Buck Meek - Haunted Mountain
Geese - 3D Country
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Petrodragonic Apocalypse
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Silver Cord (Extended)
Meagre Martin - Gut Punch
The Murlocs - Calm Ya Farm
Nation of Language - Strange Disciple
Parannoul - After the Magic
slowdive - everything is alive
Wednesday - Rat Saw God

 

Got into it with this guy on Twitter, re: ranking 2022 albums on 2023 lists. @Jason Tate, I think you’d get a kick out of this part of the exchange.