One of my favorite things on the forum every year was everybody posting their top tens for the year, and finding so many exciting new gems. Also fun is to see what gets tabulated to be the most popular picks overall, an unofficial top ten for the forum. I don't think anybody did it this past year, so I'm volunteering to tabulate everyone's results if there's interest. At the very least, I'm going to post my top picks for consideration, alphabetically my top ten:
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Dead Cross - Dead Cross II
Dog Fashion Disco - Cult Classic
Guerilla Toss - Famously Alive
In The Blind - Evolve & Escape
Meat Wave - Malign Hex
Multicult - Child Bite split
Psychic Graveyard - USA Nails split
Various - Jersey Interchange

How long do we need? Let's say I'll start tabulating May 1st unless anybody thinks we need longer.

Maybe you had something different in mind, but there was another thread for 2022 albums.

kokorodoko wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 2:54 am Maybe you had something different in mind, but there was another thread for 2022 albums.

Yeah, from at least 2015 through 2019 the forum had an annual thread where a user tallied up everybody's top-tens and produced a synthesized list, so not just recommendations throughout the year but a kind of forum-wide retrospective to make a forum top rankings. I guess it dropped off while the forum was down or maybe was forgotten about for whatever reason, but it really was probably the single greatest treasure trove of new findings for me (and I assume others) every year, and it was a lot of fun to see what everybody else liked best at the end of the year.

10 albums from 2022 that I really enjoyed-

1. Billy Woods Aethiopes
2. Sexual Jeremy The Real Sexual Jeremy
3. Horse Lords Comradely Objects
4. Hammered Hulls Careening
5. Eunoia Psyop of the Year
6. Patti The Toothpick 3
7. Imelda Marcos Albularyo
8. Oren Ambarchi, et al Ghosted
9. Wombo Fairy Rust
10. BEAK> Kosmik Music

According to the streaming site, I listened to Billy Woods the most.

Dave N. wrote: Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:43 pm 10 albums from 2022 that I really enjoyed-

1. Billy Woods Aethiopes
2. Sexual Jeremy The Real Sexual Jeremy
3. Horse Lords Comradely Objects
4. Hammered Hulls Careening
5. Eunoia Psyop of the Year
6. Patti The Toothpick 3
7. Imelda Marcos Albularyo
8. Oren Ambarchi, et al Ghosted
9. Wombo Fairy Rust
10. BEAK> Kosmik Music

According to the streaming site, I listened to Billy Woods the most.

Thanks for the picks! Definitely was already enjoying Imelda Marcos's record, but that Hammered Hulls one was new to me.

There was a few additions over the last month.

Grumpster - Fever Dream
Destroy Boys - Open Mouth, Open Heart
Warpaint - Radiate Like This
Willow Smith - Coping Mechanism
Amber Mark - Three Dimensions Deep
SZA - SOS
Kehlani - Blue Water Road
Ari Lennox - age/sex/location
Kanot - Textile Fantasies
Nebulosa Extensions - Tryptica