Chorus.fm’s Top 30 Albums of 2023 • Page 2

Is the blurb for 100 Gecs missing?

 

I notice only 4 contributors credited on this list. That's a reduction from previous years, right? I'm wondering if that's what I'm noticing here. The longer contributor list allowing for a bit more variety in the top 30. I remember spending a ton of time just looking at the individual lists of half dozen(more?) contributing writers.

 

Yep, working on it.

 

I believe there were MANY contributors to this list including myself, those are just the four that also published their individual lists.

 

Stats are at the bottom:

Our final compiled list was put together using our ranking algorithm. There were 8 contributors and 154 unique albums across all of the lists. In total, 37 albums out of the 154 were on more than one list, with the number one album appearing on 6 of the 8 lists.

 

This is mines!


Wednesday - Rat Saw God

Bedridden - Amateur Heartthrob EP

Hazing Over - Tunnel Vision EP

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

Flooding - Silhouette Machine

Shady Bug - What’s The Use? EP

Jane Remover - Census Designated

Yeule - Softscars

Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

The Callous Daoboys - God Smiles Upon The Callous Daoboys EP

100 Gecs - 10,00 Gecs

Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We

Year Of The Knife - No Love Lost

Strange Ranger - Pure Music

Zulu - A New Tomorrow

Cauldron - Suicide In The City

Feeble Little Horse - Girl With Fish

Glixen - She Only Said EP

Chamber - A Love To Kill For

Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time

Computer Wife - Computer Wife

Chappell Roan - The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess

Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun

Samia - Honey

Packs - Crispy Crunchy Nothing

Midwife/Planning For Burial - Split

Nicole Dollanganger - Married In Mount Airy

Thank You, I’m Sorry - Growing In Strange Places

George Clanton - Ohh Rap I Ya

Korn - Untitled Deluxe

 

Ah, there it is.

 

Great album. It cracked my top 10. I was pretty surprised to see that and the Youth Fountain album absent here.

 

Thanks!

 

Yooooo, Craig this album rules so far! Hooked from track one. I needed this today and can always count on you!

Fun fact: the only reason I miss having a Twitter account is interacting with you on music things. Hahah.

 

Hell yeah ZULU!

 

I adore the Menzingers, and I thought the Young Hearts album was better.

 

Hell yeah, glad you're enjoying it! Feels like the kind of album that should be huge on this site, but they're a little known band and it dropped in December, so it's an easy kind of release to overlook. I hope some people check it out from this thread or my list!

I'm still trudging through the wasteland of Twitter, but man, it's gone way downhill. I don't blame you or anyone else for jumping ship.

I may agree with you, given more time with it. I ended up dropping it at number 30 on my list because I only heard it in the last week of the year, but I'm excited to give it more spins, especially as we get closer to summer.

 

For sure, me too!

 

props to Craig for writing half the blurbs haha

 

Haha, I figured since I already had blurbs for a whole lot of these. Did have to edit a few of them, though, since my writing for my own list almost always skews more personal.

 

What an an amazing year for bands that took 5-10+ years to come back to us. Love to see Crime in Stereo make the list.

 

Here are my top 25 in alphabetical order:

Angel Du$t - Brand New Soul
blink-182 - One More Time . . .
Bully - Lucky For You
Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
Covet - Catharsis
The Dirty Nil - Free Rein to Passions
Empty Country - Empty Country II
Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust
Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us
The Gaslight Anthem - History Books
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Weathervanes
HEALTH - Rat Wars
LIES - Lies
Luminism - Form Without Content
The Maine - The Maine
Me Rex - Giant Elk
Meet Me @ the Altar - Past // Present // Future
The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True
Militarie Gun - Life Under the Gun
Paramore - This Is Why
Ratboys - The Window
Superviolet - Infinite Spring
Svalbard - The Weight of the Mask
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
Year of the Knife - No Love Lost


And here are a bunch more, also in alphabetical order, some mentioned already, some not, and a whole lot of metal and hardcore:

Agriculture - Agriculture
Al Menne - Freak Accident
Alex Lahey - The Answer Is Always Yes
All Get Out - All Get Out
Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness - Tilt At the Wind No More
Another Michael - Wishes to Fulfill
The Armed - Perfect Saviors
awakebutstillinbed - Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am a Passenger
Baroness - Stone
Bethany Cosentino - Natural Disaster
Big Brave - Nature Morte
Blondshell - Blondshell
boygenius - The Record / The Rest
Broken Vow - Anthropocene
Buggin - Concrete Cowboys
Captain Jazz - Captain Jazz
Caspian - On Circles: The Complete Sessions
Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
Chris Cresswell - The Stubbornness of the Young
Chris Farren - Doom Singer
Chris Stapleton - Higher
Citizen - Calling the Dogs
Clockwise On Fire - Take Me With You
Code Orange - The Above
Conservative Military Image - Casual Violence
Creeper - Sanguivore
Crime In Stereo - House & Trance
Crosses - Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete
Dazy - Otherbody
Del Paxton - Auto Locator
Drain - Living Proof
Elephant Gym - World
END - The Sin of Human Frailty
Enforced - War Remains
Explosions In the Sky - End
Flying Raccoon Suit - Moonflower
Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
Frozen Soul - Glacial Domination
Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang
Full of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination
Fuming Mouth - Last Day of Sun
Gel - Only Constant
Heavenward - Pyrophonics
The HIRS Collective - We're Still Here
Home Is Where - The Whaler
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
Incendiary - Change the Way You Think About Pain
Initiate - Cerebral Circus
The Iron Roses - The Iron Roses
Jane Remover - Census Designated
The Japanese House - In the End It Always Does
Jeff Rosenstock - Hellmode
Jesus Piece - . . . So Unknown
Joy Oladokun - Proof of Life
Judiciary - Flesh + Blood
Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
Koyo - Would You Miss It?
Mad Honey - Satellite Aphrodite
Magazine Beach - Constant Springtime
Magnitude - Of Days Renewed . . .
Manchester Orchestra - The Valley of Vision
McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
MS PAINT - Post-American
Mutoid Man - Mutants
Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity
Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
Open City - Hands In the Honey Jar
Origami Angel - The Brightest Days
Parannoul - After the Magic
Petey - USA
Poppy - Zig
Portugal. The Man - Chris Black Changed My Life
PVRIS - Evergreen
Racetraitor - Creation and the Timeless Order of Things
Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy
Sentinel - Age of Decay
Slaughter Beach, Dog - Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling
Strange Ranger - Pure Music
Sunami - Sunami
Thrice - The Artist In the Ambulance Revisited
underscores - Wallsocket
Vagabon - Sorry I Haven't Called
Wednesday - Rat Saw God
Zulu - A New Tomorrow

 

Shout out to @Jason Tate for putting Taylor Acorn on your list. That EP was so great and really surprised me.

Another one I loved that I feel like nobody knew about/listened to is With Honor-Boundless. Such an incredible comeback album, absolutely blew me away!

 

Love seeing Adam mention Silent Planet! Great record!

 

This is my top ten:

Dispirited Spirits - The Redshift Blues
Caroline Rose -The Art of Forgetting
Samia -Honey
Manchester Orchestra -The Valley of Vision
Hot Mulligan -Why Would I Watch
Andy Shauf - Norm
Petey - USA
JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
Wednesday - Rat Saw God
All Get Out - S/T

Lots of other great records, but I don't need to share a list of 50, lots of them have been shared anyway. Also shout out to The Dear Hunter's Migrant Returned, Thrice's The Artist in the Ambulance - Revisited and Bad Books II: Revisited. All great versions of albums I've loved for a long time.

Want to mention again in hopes that anyone sees it, please check out Dispirited Spirits, that album absolutely blew me away this year. Considering that I bought one of the 50 limited cassettes six months ago and they are still in stock, he definitely could use some more people appreciating his music. Written, performed, mixed and mastered by just one guy. It's really good.

 

Loved seeing some familiar names all across this list! I did enjoy both the Fall Out Boy record and Taking Back Sunday a ton (and completely agree that those are some of the best of their respective careers), but they didn’t make my top ton. Mines actually suuuuuper different this year from ya’ll, with Paramore (I think) being the only commonalty.

Check it here if you like: https://kennybloggins.net/2023/12/31/best-music-of-2023/

 

Did people just not listen to " Trophy Eyes - Suicide & Sunshine" for some reason I'm not aware of? From the moment I heard the first few singles leading up to the album drop I felt it would be special and I wasn't disappointed.

"Sean" is perhaps the most heartbreakingly raw song released by anyone in 2023. "Kill" features a baseline that hits hard and sets a vibe from second one of the track and leads into one of the more memorable chorus's I've heard all year. "What Hurts the Most" has a somehow simultaneously calm but energetic and powerful chorus while the track probes deep into a brotherhood type friendship in a nostalgic way that hits the feels if anyone has a former best friend they don't know anymore.

This record is gold. Listen to it. It has to be the most underrated and overlooked release of the year. "Life in Slow Motion" is another incredible single that is driven by powerful vocals and lyrics and "People Like You" is just one of the more unique tracks released this year by a band like this and it slaps. "Sweet Soft Sound" serves as a stray ray of sunshine in a pretty dark album. This is a walk down the aisle worthy love ballad with softly delivered lyrics like "I see the meaning of life in your eyes, it's like swimming in the ocean at night." "Stay Here" would function as a perfect closer on most records with a heart wrenching outpouring of helplessness that ends with the anti-suicide message, "if you go now you'll only pass on your pain, stay here" only to be followed by the actual perfect album closer "epilogue".

I'm going to keep screaming from the rooftops about this album. It's that good.

One side note off the topic of Trophy Eyes...the most memorable line of 2023 will easily go down as "OLAY OLAY OLAY OLAY". I'd bet it all on this being true in 10 years.

 

It’s crazy Caroline Polachek isn’t on the list.

 

yea I was (pleasantly) surprised to see how much of the list was pretty straightforward rock but I was sure polachek would be one of the token transcendent entries!