I tried this last year (see: https://www.premierrockforum.com/viewto ... 73#p817673) and it didn't take, but I'm going to try again one more time. As I said in last year's attempt to bring this practice back, this was one of my favorite things about the forums, and every year I usually found dozens of new artists and albums to check out. I wasn't able to locate these posts from before everything went down, but trust me, they were magnificent.

To save you a click to the previous post, anybody can post their top ten list, and I will tabulate the results to produce a forums-wide result. The real joy is of course looking over everybody's individual submissions, but it's fun to see what happens if enough people post their picks. Regardless, if at least one person finds something new to enjoy, I'll consider it a success.

And if you want to post more than 10, or your favorite singles or EPs or re-releases only or whatever else, go for it, I'll figure it all out.

To get the ball rolling, here's my top-ten:

1. Bush Tetras - They Live In My Head https://bushtetrasnyc.bandcamp.com/albu ... in-my-head
2. Marnie Stern - The Comeback Kid https://marniestern.bandcamp.com/album/the-comeback-kid
3. God Eaters - American Country Gold https://thegodeaters.bandcamp.com/album ... untry-gold
4. Blood Quartet - Root 7 https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/blood-quartet-root-7
5. Kool Keith - Black Elvis 2 https://mmg-koolkeith.bandcamp.com/album/black-elvis-2
6. Polkadot Cadaver - Echoes Across The Hellscape https://polkadotcadaver.bandcamp.com/al ... -hellscape
7. Imelda Marcos - Agita https://imeldamarcos.bandcamp.com/album/agita
8. Man On Man - Provincetown https://manonman.bandcamp.com/album/provincetown
9. John Zorn - 444 https://archive.org/details/john-zorn-s ... m-2023-444
10. Waclaw Zimpel - Train Spotter https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/train-spotter

Also, I don't know it was me and personal circumstance, but I feel like a lot of these are pretty late in the year and earlier releases didn't quite stick with me as much?

I compiled my list a week or so ago. For as much as I listen to house I'm not aggressively dialed-in to the here-and-now, which speaks to why it's not giving a strong showing in my listicle. Mostly noisepop, shit that's pretty, and shit that moves.

Hayes Noble - Head Cleaner
Subsonic Eye - All Around You
Upper Wilds - Jupiter
Purling Hiss - Drag on Girard
Dina Ögon - Oas
Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya - Orbweaving
Kara Jackson - Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
Cut Worms - s/t
Stuck - Freak Frequency
Water Damage - 2 Songs
Drop Nineteens - Hard Light
Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
Laurel Halo - Atlas
Rogê - Curyman
Slowdive - Everything is Alive
Pia Fraus - Evening Colours

A coupla reissues and a rework

* Pasteboard - Glitter
* Milford Graves, Arthur Doyle, & Hugh Glover - Children of the Forest
* Wild Up featuring the music of Julius Eastman - If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?

i don't know if you use the borda count or instant runoff voting, but i have a method that blows both of them away. i'm working on a ranked choice voting app, and this is a perfect beta test.
it would be super helpful if everyone ranked their choices, but even a letter grade (A, B, C...) is better than nothing.

1. Lana Del Rey, Did you know there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
2. PJ Harvey, I Inside the Old Year Dying
3. Screaming Females, Desire Pathway
4. Deerhoof, Miracle-Level
5. Yo La Tengo, This Stupid World

All highly recommended.

Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture
Kelela - Raven
Tate McRae - Think Later
Britta Persson - Alla är barn
RAYE - 21st Century Blues
Äyanna - In a Perfect World
Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus
Baby Storme - Forever Halloween
covet - catharsis
Tinashe - BB/ANG3L

In no particular order, my top 10 AotY.

kokorodoko wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:02 pm Hannah Diamond - Perfect Picture
Kelela - Raven
Tate McRae - Think Later
Britta Persson - Alla är barn
RAYE - 21st Century Blues
Äyanna - In a Perfect World
Kali Uchis - Red Moon in Venus
Baby Storme - Forever Halloween
covet - catharsis
Tinashe - BB/ANG3L

Let me switch one of these for Elita Harkov - Heaven's Night.

Favorite Albums
1. Kate Gentile- Find Letter X
2. Giuseppe Ielasi- Down On Darkened Meetings
3. Alan Courtis and David Grubbs- Braintrust Of Fiends And Werewolves
4. Anna Webber- Shimmer Wince
5. Longings- Dreams In Red
6. Angelika Niescier/Tomeka Reid/Savannah Harris- Beyond Dragons
7. Mia Dyberg Trio- Timestretch
8. Seek- Kokyou De Shinu Otoko
9. Yfory- S/T
10. Corker- Falser Truths
11. The Drin- Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom
12. Simon Nabatov 3+2- Verbs
13. Cassandra Miller- Traveller Song / Thanksong
14. Madhuvanti Pal- The Holy Mother (Plays The Rudra Veena)
15. Stuck- Freak Frequency
16. Tim Berne (with Hank Roberts and Aurora Nealand)- Oceans and
17. Blood Quartet- Root 7
18. Glittering Insects- S​/​T
19. Paint Fumes- Real Romancer
20. Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet- Hear the Light Singing

Favorite Re-issues/Archive Recordings
Derek Bailey/Paul Motian- Duo in Concert
Tony Conrad/Arnold Dreyblatt/Jim O'Rourke- Tonic 19​-​01​-​2001
Betty Davis- Crashin’ From Passion
John Fahey- Proofs & Refutations
Milford Graves- Babi
Milford Graves/Arthur Doyle/Hugh Glover- Children of the Forest
Milford Graves/Don Pullen- In Concert At Yale University
Milford Graves/Don Pullen- Nommo
Grey Factor- 1979-1980 A.D. - Complete Studio Recordings
High Rise- Dispersion
Inu- Don't Eat Food!
Nervous Gender- Music From Hell
Phew- Our Likeness
Sonny Sharrock- Black Woman
Steel Pole Bath Tub- The Skull Tapes
Surfin' The Great Lakes: Kay Bank Studio Surf Sides of the 1960s

I only bought 4 albums that came out in 2023

1 Nothing - The Great Dismal
2 Spotlights - Alchemy For The Dead
3 Acid King - Beyond Vision
4 Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

I listen to a lot of music that's new to me every year, but not so much that's actually brand new. These two are the main ones I remember from 2003:

Pat Thomas - Burdah Variations



Anna Vis - Como Um Bicho Vê



I worked on these two records that may be to your liking, I'm too involved to judge: