Top 10 Albums of 2023
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NEW ALBUM REVIEWS
Peter Gabriel – i/o
Closure in Moscow – Soft Hell
Steven Wilson – The Harmony Codex
Animal Collective – Isn’t It Now?
TesseracT – War of Being
Blur – The Ballad of Darren
Youth Lagoon – Heaven is a Junkyard (art pop)
The 3 Clubmen EP (art rock/pop)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalypse (progressive thrash metal)
Angelo De Augustine – Toil and Trouble (indie folk)
Paul Simon – Seven Psalms (folk)
The Lemon Twigs – Everything Harmony (pop rock; chamber pop)
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RANKINGS & LISTS
Mew Albums Ranked
Top 10 Songs by The Reign of Kindo (w/ Nathan on Shuffle)
Porcupine Tree Albums Ranked
Coheed and Cambria Tier List
Top 10 Psychedelic Pop Albums of the 2010s
Steely Dan Albums Ranked
Tortoise Albums Ranked
Dr. Dog Albums Ranked
The Dear Hunter Albums Ranked (with Notes Reviews)
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NEW MUSIC MONTHLY
October 2023 – https://youtu.be/dmfBFclmBbc?si=nMIod45I9F8OidbM
August 2023 – https://youtu.be/aQrz-SjC_kw?si=k1qZfoPfrNpOoSSZ
July 2023 – https://youtu.be/aQVwOH4eo2A
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2010s ALBUMS THAT MADE ME
William Tyler – Modern Country
The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise
Snarky Puppy – We Like It Here
John Grant – Queen of Denmark
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Thank you so much I just discovered a lot of really interesting music!
Matt I like your list it's all over the place for the variety we have on this list. Peter Gabriel's album is stellar! There's 3 albums that have really caught my ears this year… The first one.. Trevor Rabin – Rio.. simply solid stuff from him… 2nd…Dave Kerzner – Heart land mines Vol.1 personally my favorite of the year..great Lyrics
#1 just came out early Dec. With their second album The Round Window – Everywhere and Nowhere…. If I had to say what type of music… Prog neo pop… Great vocals and Musicianship! These guys are good with great potential!
Watchhouse – try them. Beautiful songs, very contemplative.
Nice video. Got turned onto your channel by Robert F.
did you miss the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets album, or are you not really into them?
Thanks for getting me into the Gum album. Love Tame Impala and on first listen this sounds great too ????
I found a couple of my favorite 2022 albums from your list that I'm still going back to. Excited to dig into a few unfamiliar releases here. Quality as always Matt!
thanks again for introducing me to Caroline Polachek.
I had no idea Paul Simon made another album.
Gum I may need to hear. And rateyourmusic for example agrees with you on the new album is the best.
K'mono is totally Yes/Retro Prog like. I do wonder if they know some of the other local prog bands, or could do a show with them (Bubblemath, The Galactic Cowboy Orchestra).
My favorite this year was Saturnia, I had a streak of listening to it every day from release until Christmas (because I forgot).
That Lemon Twigs album is something special. Everything Harmony and Himlabacken, Vol.2 are my top 2 of this year. Thanks for your videos, Matt. They have helped me in shaping and curating my musical taste.
Great review ! Thanx from The Netherlands.
And while we are here: the songs I had the most dumb fun with in 2023:
Bleachers – Modern Girl
Diners – Someday I'll Go Surfing
100 Gecs – Hollywood Baby
Jeff Rosenstock – Future is Dumb
Girl Ray Everybody Is Saying That
The Murlocs – Undone and Unashamed
The Beaches – Blame Brett
Geese – Cowboy Nudes
Lindstrøm – Syreen
A fantastic list, January is now filled yet again with new music from the prior year to prioritize!
My top 10 for '23:
10 – Caroline Polacheck – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
9 – Grouptherapy – I Was Mature For My Age, But I Was Still a Child
8 – Mandy, Indiana – I've Seen a Way
7 – Fever Ray – Radical Romantics
6 – En Attendant Ana – Principia
5 – Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy
4 – Jesca Hoop – Order of Romance
3 – Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers
2 – Dan Croll – Fools
1 – Jeff Rosenstock – Hellmode
#1 Raising ravens- leaving with the halflight
Jess Finalayson does it all! She writes, plays guitar and sings on this beautifully done album!!
2 Any given sin- war
3 Gideon- more power more pain
4 Motive black- auburn
5 Cold stares- voices
6 Pop evil- skeletons
7 Phil Campbell- kings of the asylum
8 Saul -this is it..the end of everything
9 Buckcherry-10
10 Tyler Bryant- dirty work
11 Red- rated R
12 Lift the curse- suffer and survive
13 Throw the fight- strange world
14 Another day dawns- finding peace through all the noise
15 Blak29
16 Trashy Annie- sticks and stones
17 When rivers meet- aces are high
18 Post profit- self defeaterEP
19 War curse- confession
20 Texas hippie coalition- the name lives on
21 Saliva- revelation
22 Laura cox- head above water
23 Woyote- mother of the universe
24 Screaming eagles- high class rock n roll
25 Jesse James Dupree- breathing fire
26 Vera bloom- it’s meEP
27 King mountain- wrath of the gods
28 Duskwood- the last voyage
29 Fuzzrider- S/T
30 Fortune child- – ST ep
31 Deadly vices- dead insideEP
10. Aton Five-Aton Five
9. Crown Lands – Fearless
8. Organic Pulse Ensemble – A Thousand Hands
7. Spidergawd – VII
6. Seven Impale – Summit
5. Harp – Albion
4. Nat Birchall – Songs of the Ancestors (Afro Trane Chapter II)
3. The Chronicles Of Father Robin – The Songs & Tales Of Airoea Book I
2. Tidal Wave – The Lord Knows
1. Moon Safari – Himlabacken vol.2
I was expecting some other albums in the top 50.
Craterellus Tubaeformis by Skinshape
Eternal Embers by Meltt
The day my father died by SYML
also there was a new Greta Van Fleet album this year (garbage).
I'm curious, did you listen to them and didn't like them or?
Hi! I found your channel after Robert Fithen mentioned it in his new video. ???? I agree with the albums on your top 10 that I have heard and the rest I think I need to hear. The Peter Gabriel really surprised me too. ???? Caroline Polachek and the Lemon Twigs are top notch. I'm off to check out some of your other videos now.????
Great review, I plan on listening to several of these albums right away! So glad you have Peter Gabriel’s i/o in there. I’m obsessed with this album, it’s so beautifully textured. I also just discovered Caroline P a couple weeks ago. That album is amazing too. Very much appreciate your descriptive analysis. Keep up the good work.
Great list! What I like about this list (and your channel) is that it gets me thinking. Like a good movie. The music is eclectic and interesting and not something I hear of every day. Not a copy and paste of many of the other youtube reviewers. I enjoy watching and hearing about music that is mostly new to me. Mondo Drag made my list from one of your reviews.
Our lists aligned on the #1 spot. I didn't think anything could oust Everything Harmony, even way back when it came out. It remained in my #1 spot the whole year, although my #2 has been played much more recently.
I'm working on my top 50 list (enjoyed your list) but here's my top 10:
1. The Lemon Twigs – "Everything Harmony"
2. Darlingside – "Everything is Alive"
3. Charles Wesley Godwin – "Family Ties"
4. Foo Fighters – "But Here We Are"
5. Sufjan Stevens – "Javelin"
6. Slowdive – "everything is alive"
7. Sleep Token – "Take Me Back To Eden"
8. Mondo Drag – "Through the Hourglass"
9. Boygenius – "the record"
10. Chris Stapleton – "Higher"
Honorable Mentions
1. Balance and Composure – "Too Quick to Forgive" (2 song EP)
2. Paul Simon – "Seven Psalms…"
3. Feist – "Multitudes"
4. Wilder Woods – "FEVER / SKY"
5. Lana Del Rey – "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd"
Instrumental Albums and Film Scores
1. Ludwig Goransson – Oppenheimer Soundtrack
2. Cicada – "Seeking the Sources of Streams"
3. Alexis Ffrench – "Peace" (EP)
4. Hans Zimmer – The Creator Soundtrack
5. Joe Hisaishi – The Boy and the Heron Soundtrack
Yessss Caroline, shes my #2 this year
Album of year 2023
1. Paramore This Is Why
2. The National First Two Pages of Frankenstein
3. boygenius the record
4. Sufjan Stevens Javelin
5. Joanna Sternberg – I’ve Got Me
6. Mitski The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
7. laufey bewitched
Emo over 1 & 2