Efestivals Albums of the year 2023

[EssexIndie]

Here’s my top 10.
 

1. The Royston Club - Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars

2. Andrew Cushin - Waiting For the Rain

3. The Lottery Winners - A.R.T.

4. The Lathums - From Nothing to a Little Bit More

5. Creeper - Sanguivore

6. QOTSA - In Times New Roman

7. Blur - The Ballad of Darren

8. NGHFB - Council Skies

9. The Coral - Sea of Mirrors

10. The Murder Capital - Gigi’s Recovery

[Twiggy553]

Radical romantics by Fever Ray got a lot of plays in our household

[Giraffe Man]

In no particular order 

BOYGENEIUS-ALBUM 
THE NATIONAL-LAUGH TRACK 
LANA DEL RAY-THERES A TUNNEL 
KILLER MIKE-MICHAEL 
CVC- GET REAL 
EZRA COLLECTIVE- WHERE IM MEANT TO BE 
YOUNG FATHERS- HEAVY HEAVY
MCKINLEY DIXON-BELOVED PARADISE JAZZ 
QUANTIC-DANCING WHILE FALLING 
MITSKI- THE LAND IS INHOSPITABLE & SO ARE WE

Honourable mentions go to
Goat 
Holly Walker
Foos
Romy 
Sofia Kourtesis 
Greta Van Fleet 

[Badlands]

In no particular order, albums by:

CMAT

The National

Steve Mason

Jungle

Grillaz

Teenage Fanclub 

Quiet year for me

[TiZuff]

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS

JPEGMAFIA & Danny  Brown - Scaringthehoes

Sufjan Stevens - Javelins

Lana - Ocean Blvd

Caroline Polachek - Desire

Boygenius - Record

Rat Saw God - Wednesday

Mitski - the land is inhospitable

yeule - Softscars

Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2

Pange - Changing Channels

[Punksnotdead]

On 12/29/2023 at 12:51 AM, Watergirl said:

Nice to see Lisa O'Neill getting all this recognition. Here is my top ten:

1. All Of This Is Chance - Lisa O'Neill

2. Sweet Ahnedonia - Ben de la Cour

3. Strays - Margo Price

4. Look Over The Wall, See The Sky - John Francis Flynn

5. Cyrm - ØXN

6. Rush! (Are U Coming?) - Måneskin

7. False Lankum - Lankum

8. Stories Of Stonia - Mari Kalkun

9. The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere - Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté

10. 12 - Ryuichi Sakamoto

 

 

 

 

I've been listening to the Lisa O'Neill album almost constantly since Boxing Day and have come to the conclusion that I should have placed it much higher in my top ten - I'm sticking it at number 3 in my list now. 

[Watergirl]

9 hours ago, Punksnotdead said:

I've been listening to the Lisa O'Neill album almost constantly since Boxing Day and have come to the conclusion that I should have placed it much higher in my top ten - I'm sticking it at number 3 in my list now. 

I spent quite a bit of time on getting the order right. Thought Ben de la Cour was my album of the year, but listening track by track Lisa's album has more 10-out-of-10 songs for me.

[zahidf]

Top fifteen albums 

 

1. Young fathers 

2. Blur 

3.Lankum 

4 Pj Harvey 

5. Boygenius 

6. Sufjan Stevens 

7. National 

8. Coral 

9. BC Camplight 

10. Anohni 

11. Grian Chittens 

12. Depeche Mode 

13. Mitski 

14. HIves

15. Wedensday 

[Dark Star]

On 12/29/2023 at 2:29 PM, majormajormajor said:

1. Replacements - Tim remix

That one is definitely reissue of the year! The new mix is stunning. It's great to have two very different sounding versions of this album. 

The other reissue I bought this year was the Drive-by Truckers remixed version of The Dirty South, which added 3 tracks cut from the original list and a couple of different vocal takes where they weren't happy with the originals. 

Also, today, I heard Ratboys' album The Window for the first time. That is magnificent. Going to check out Wednesday at some point this evening too as keep seeing them mentioned.

Edited December 31, 2023 by Dark Star

[Ben7amin_]

No order its these 11 unable to work out one to knock out to make it 10

Boygenious 

Blur

Dreamwife

Chemical Brothers

Elka

Lana Del Rey

Margo Price

Barry Cant Swim

Young Fathers

Gorillaz 

Overmono 

 

[Bennykill]

Top 20 albums 2023

Philip D Kick - Off World Tales

CasIsDead - Famous Last Words

J Hus - Beautiful & Brutal Yard

Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

Pearl & The Oysters - Coast 2 Coast

Belle & Sebastian - Late Developers

Benny Sings - Young Hearts

Dragon Inn 3 - Trade Secrets

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

OMD - Bauhaus Staircase, 

Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me

Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling

Henge - Alpha Test 4

Sigur Rós - Átta

Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention 

Janelle Monáe - The Age of Pleasure

Slow Thai - Ugly

Orbital - Optical Delusion 

Gorrilaz - Cracker Island

[Monty Pythagoras]

Olivia Dean - Messy

[internetjef]

Plenty of albums I enjoyed , some that were excellent in patches 

the one that really stands out for me that I thought was great right through was young fathers - heavy heavy 

 

[Gejonimo]

Listened to 400 albums this year, and will happily post the entire ranking here once done if anyone's fussed. 

Top 3

1) Creeper - Sanguivore
2) HMLTD - The Worm
3) Gabriels - Angels & Queens

[Padjeq]

1. This is Why - Paramore

2. Life Under the Gun - Militarie Gun

3. Did You Know The Tunnel - Lana Del Rey

4. The Record - Boygenius

5. Why Would I Watch - Hot Mulligan

6. Guts - Olivia Rodrigo

7. How Do You Sleep at Night? - Teezo Touchdown

8. Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete - †††

9. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan

10. You Are Who You Hang Out With - The Front Bottoms

 

[Gejonimo]

F**k it, have my top 30. Enjoy the emoji for number 8

1)      Creeper – Sanguivore

2)      HMLTD – The Worm

3)      Gabriels – Angels & Queens

4)      Slow Readers Club – Knowledge Freedom power

5)      Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden

6)      Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy

7)      Fireworks – Higher Lonely Power

😎     Polaris – Fatalism

9)      The Lottery Winners – Anxiety Replacement Therapy

10)   Romy – Mid-Air

11)   Beach Fossils – Bunny

12)   Chappell Roan – The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess

13)   Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS

14)   BABYMETAL – THE OTHER ONE

15)   Iggy Pop – Every Loser

16)   100 gecs – 10,000 gecs

17)   Gunship – Unicorn

18)   Teleman - Good Time/Hard Time

19)   Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!

20)   Skindred – Smile

21)   Overmono – Good Lies

22)   Lil Yachty – Let’s Start Here

23)   DRAIN – LIVING PROOF

24)   Beartooth – The Surface

25)   The Chemical Brothers – For That Beautiful Feeling

26)   Wednesday – Rat Saw God

27)   Avenged Sevenfold – Life Is But A Dream…

28)   Militarie Gun – Life Under The Gun

29)   Spanish Love Songs – No Joy

30)   Green Lung – This Heathen Land

Edited January 3, 2024 by Gejonimo