Best Music šŸŽµ of 2023!

My top 20 of the year. Ryan Davis snuck in at the last month to tie for first, always seems to get even better each time I listen:

Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - Dancing on the Edge
The Tubs - Dead Meat
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loveliest Time
Being Dead - When Horses Would Run
Beach Fossils - Bunny
Jess Williamson - Time Ainā€™t Accidental
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
Hotline TNT - Cartwheel
Blake Mills - Jelly Road
Wilco - Cousin
Kid Fears - Undying Love
Blur - The Ballad of Darren
Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
Gorillaz - Cracker Island
Slow Pulp - Yard
Turnpike Troubadours - A Cat in the Rain
Slowdive - everything is alive
The Church - The Hypnogogue
Fat Spirit - EGG
 
I just noticed that Lankum is some sort of meme that I donā€™t get which is pretty impressive considering how much time I spend here.

I just played the song ā€œgo dig my graveā€ it sounds like A24 horror movies make me feel. Meaning I understand why people would find this appealing but also that itā€™s not for me.
 
TenderLovingKillerĀ® said:
I just noticed that Lankum is some sort of meme that I donā€™t get which is pretty impressive considering how much time I spend here.

I just played the song ā€œgo dig my graveā€ it sounds like A24 horror movies make me feel. Meaning I understand why people would find this appealing but also that itā€™s not for me.
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You're not trying hard enough.


(Am I doing this right?)
 
TenderLovingKillerĀ® said:
I just noticed that Lankum is some sort of meme that I donā€™t get which is pretty impressive considering how much time I spend here.

I just played the song ā€œgo dig my graveā€ it sounds like A24 horror movies make me feel. Meaning I understand why people would find this appealing but also that itā€™s not for me.
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Itā€™s one of the albums over the last few years from here that have begun to transcend just being Irish music and to actually just be good in a wider and more interesting sense. Thereā€™s something going on here right now and itā€™s very interesting.

Whilst it absolutely wonā€™t be everyoneā€™s cup of tea itā€™s done enough, baring the above in mind, to be in this conversation on its own merits.

I kinda bristled a bit at an earlier post saying that a list that had it at 1 was trying too hard and a whole in joke grew from that lol!
 
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After receiving no less that 600 albums in our mail bin and inbox in 2023 and adding songs from over 300 new releases, it's no small task boiling all the outstanding music we heard down to our Best (aka Favorites) of 2023. Like every year, our 'Best of' lists are a balance of individual staff...
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