NEW:
*You Can Can - You Can Can LP
*Bill Orcutt - The Anxiety of Symmetry LP
*Imelda Marcos - Agita cassette
*Reciprocate - Soul to Burn LP
*Gate - The Numbers LP
*Kukangendai - Tracks LP
*Sam Gendel - blueblue LP
*Facs - Still Life in Decay LP
*Goat (jp) - Joy in Fear LP
*Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium 2xLP
*Ben Vida with Yarn/Wire & Nina Dante - The Beat My Head Hit LP
*Oozing Wound - We Cater to Cowards LP
*Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - The Flower School LP
*Terms - All Becomes Indistinct LP
*Jon Iverson - Meets Prins Emanuel, Golden Ivy & Inre Kretsen Grupp LP
*Atol Atol Atol - Koniec Sosu Tysiąca Wysp LP


ARCHIVAL/REISSUE:
*Abdul Wadud - By Myself LP
*Merzbow - Scene LP
*Dorothy Carter - Waillee Waillee LP
*Lynx - Lynx 2xLP
*Watt - Recorded in Miami 1989-1991 LP
*Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders - Journey in Satchidananda LP
*Kronos Quartet - Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass 2xLP
*Philip Glass / Donald Joyce - Glass Organ Works - Music of Philip Glass 2xLP
*Sonic Youth - Live in Brooklyn 2011 2xLP
*John Fahey - Proofs & Refutations LP
*Basil Kirchin and John Coleman - Mind on the Run LP
*Autechre - Confield 2xLP
*Faust - Momentaufnahme I & II LPs
*The Dead C - Tusk 2xLP
*The Dead C- The White House 2xLP
*Meshuggah - obZen 2xLP
*La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - The Volga Delta [black album] LP
*Cheval De Frise - Fresques Sur Les Parois Secrètes Du Crâne LP
*Swans - Public Castration Is a Good Idea 2xLP
*Tetuzi Akiyama - Don't Forget to Boogie! LP
*Six Finger Satellite - The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird 2xLP

I'll give this another week or so, and then I'll crunch the numbers.

Thanks everybody for sharing!

Okay, the results are in, I was able to tabulate a top-5 list based on how many top-10 votes an album received, and how high it was ranked on the lists. After these, it's a 9-way tie, so I left it at 5. Without further ado:

1. Imelda Marcos - Agita https://imeldamarcos.bandcamp.com/album/agita
2. Upper Wilds - Jupiter https://upperwilds.bandcamp.com/album/jupiter
3. Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World https://yolatengo.bandcamp.com/album/this-stupid-world
4. Blood Quartet - Root 7 https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/blood-quartet-root-7
5. Stuck - Freak Frequency https://stuckchi.bandcamp.com/album/freak-frequency

There also were two re-issues that appeared on multiple lists:
1. Milford Graves, Arthur Doyle, & Hugh Glover - Children of the Forest https://milfordgraves-blackeditionsarch ... the-forest
2. John Fahey - Proofs & Refutations https://thejohnfahey.bandcamp.com/album ... efutations

Also, one more honorable mention: Bill Orcutt. Multiple nominations for different releases. Clearly a forum-favorite on par with the above listed, but no specific 2023 release to put on the list.

I would like to thank everybody for posting, I've got a lot of good stuff to check out I missed out on, and I hope everybody else who posted or lurked also finds some gems, as I have always in past years. Hope this year is even more robust when we get to it!

caga tio wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:45 pm 4. Anna Webber- Shimmer Wince
5. Longings- Dreams In Red
6. Angelika Niescier/Tomeka Reid/Savannah Harris- Beyond Dragons

I'm still making my way through everybody's recommendations, but wow what a stretch of records this was. Very much looking forward to the rest of your list.