Bohnjaggs
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I thought that the Malibu Ken album was great
Best Music 🎵 of 2023!
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I thought that the Malibu Ken album was great
DownIsTheNewUp
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I enjoyed it but promptly forgot about it where is I still put on Impossible Kid occasionally.
This new one though? It's a rap album of the year contender and truly one of the best things he's ever done in my book.
avecigrec
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Joe Mac
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I don't even know who Lankum is
They’re an Irish trad band that use cinematic soundscapes and the uilleann pipes to create drone backdrops. I don’t know if I’d call them quite folk metal but those drone elements definitely take a cue from black and doom metal.
It’s also an uterlly fantastic album that will be well inside my top 10.
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Hollywood
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I'm about halfway through the album and I agree they do not sound folk metal at all but the drone music is very much present along with tradition Celtic fare. It's not bad if I do say so myself but I don't know that it's quite AOTY material for me
Joe Mac
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I'm about halfway through the album and I agree they do not sound folk metal at all but the drone music is very much present along with tradition Celtic fare. It's not bad if I do say so myself but I don't know that it's quite AOTY material for me
All these things are taste I suppose. They’re a band that have been on a journey and this feels like a peak in that. They’re also at the forefront of what feels like a very exciting point in time for Irish music and art more generally.
It’s a year where I don’t think that anyone huge (maybe blur) or that is a magazine darling (maybe PJ Harvey) has done anything of note so I think it’s open season depending on what your preferences are.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Nice list, Outkast and Aes would be in my hall of fame but wouldn’t quite make it on my personal Hip-hop Mount Rushmore.
Mine would be…
ATCQ
Beastie Boys
MF Doom
The Roots
Kanye used to be on there but…you know.
Nee Lewman
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ATCQ
De La Soul
Beastie Boys
Public Enemy
De La Soul
Beastie Boys
Public Enemy
Hollywood
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MOJO's top 75 albums of 2023
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MOJO's 75 Best Albums of 2023
www.albumoftheyear.org
avecigrec
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Rough Trade is celebrating its favorite albums of 2023 with a bunch of exclusive vinyl LPs.
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Rough Trade is celebrating its favorite albums of 2023 with a bunch of exclusive vinyl LPswww.facebook.com
MOJO's top 75 albums of 2023
MOJO's 75 Best Albums of 2023
How are these lists coming out already and Andre 3000's album hasn't even dropped yet?!
Nee Lewman
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You think Andre’s flute instrumental album is gonna make your top ten?
Joe Mac
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MOJO's top 75 albums of 2023
MOJO's 75 Best Albums of 2023
I like the top end of this list. That top 3 is very close to what mine will be and the Julie Byrne is in the top 10 and that will also be there or there abouts. Also the Lisa O’Neill album that’s been floating around 15-20 in a couple of these lists is one I’ve really enjoyed.
Joe Mac
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Yeah it seems a few of the British magazines/stores have jumped early this year. I have two new release records to pick up on Friday although I think both have been online for a bit already.
Nee Lewman
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Lankum in at 4 here.
I wonder if they’re trying too hard too
#3 at MojoMOJO's top 75 albums of 2023
MOJO's 75 Best Albums of 2023
avecigrec
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Probably not, I was mostly being cheeky, but I'm not gonna write off the possibility by pompously declaring all the best albums of the year have already been released.
Nee Lewman
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Meh… I have a hard time hanging a best title on anything released in December. It has to blow my socks off (re: Beyoncé’s Self Titled and D’Angelo’s most recent). I can understand folks feeling the same about November. If you wait till December/January you get lost in the mix. If you wait till February you are irrelevant.
avecigrec
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Those Run The Jewels Christmas drops would like to disagree.
Joe Mac
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I think the problem with as late as that is that shops and sites in particular, but also the former magazines, want to build a bit of hype around “best of the year” in the run up to the Christmas buying season so doing these lists in early January isn’t ever going to be a likely proposal.