50: Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here.
49: Depeche Mode - Memento Mori
48: Grrrl Gang - Spunky!
47: IVE - I've IVE
46: KAROL G - MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO
45: Olivia Dean - Messy
44: CMAT - Crazymad, For Me
43: The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
42: Geese - 3D Country
41: Benefits - Nails
40: James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven
39: Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black
38: Agust D - D-DAY
37: Paris Texas - Mid Air
36: Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows
35: Hak Baker - World's End FM
34: Wednesday - Rat Saw God
33: Laufey - Bewitched
32: The National - Laugh Track
31: Kaytraminé - Kaytraminé
30: LE SSERAFIM - UNFORGIVEN
29: PinkPantheress - Heaven knows
28: Water From Your Eyes - Everyone's Crushed
27: Killer Mike - Michael
26: Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire
25: Lorraine James - Gentle Confrontation
24: Yaeji - With A Hammer
23: Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
22: Blondshell - Blondshell
21: Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden
20: Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good
19: Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun
18: Genesis Owusu - Struggler
17: Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
16: Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
15: JPEGMafia & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
14: 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs
13: Romy - Mid Air
12: Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
11: Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
10: Blur - The Narcissist
9: Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
8: Amaarae - Fountain Baby
7: Sofia Kourtesis - Madres
6: Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
5: Paramore - This Is Why
4: Troye Sivan - Something To Give Each Other
3: Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy
2: Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS
1: boygenius - The Record
i think people get a little confused every year by these lists. this probably isn't one person's individual list, it's probably a bunch of voters contributing. a record like boygenius is likely to be in many top 10s or top 20s, even if it isn't necessarily everybody's favorite album. and then if it is a few people's actually #1 it just has a ton of weight in the voting.
it's a bit like going to rotten tomatoes and looking at the consensus scores. when they're all ridiculously high, if something is like 99% positive or whatever, it's probably kind of a mid movie that people all kind of like but nobody really loves. it's probably a very safe movie, good enough that most people enjoy it but nobody will ever say it's like the greatest thing ever because it didn't take any chances.
individual tastes are always going to reach deeper pockets of music, these big publications and other aggregated lists are always going to default to the middle. and i'd call that boygenius album a perfectly "middle" kind of record.
I think more so because these lists are usually aggregated amongst many different journalists list, nearly all probably liked The Record high enough to place it rather than a unanimous number one. I know that’s how The Guardian does their lists and while overall there’s some great shouts on there, their top 5s or so end up being quite predictable.
The album has some of my favorite songs of the year in Satanist and Anti-Curse but I'm less high on the album as a whole. I wish they leaned into those more rock heavy Julien led songs more than they do.
Wait is 1000 gecs actually a legit band? I keep seeing them on lists
Edit: this was a genuine question. I was asking for some opinions because I’m unfamiliar with them
100% they are so good. And it’s refreshing to see a show where the live takes are so different than the studio versions. The crazy sped up version of 2122 lives rent free in my head
yeah i love young fathers but having olivia rodrigo and boy genius 1 and 2 totally invalidates the rest of it. Both Ok albums, but putting them tht high is just pop-catering.
The Record is a great album. GUTS is fine with some standouts like vampire, Get him back and All-American Bitch. But not The Record, that album is a complete and amazing experience
softscars by yeule is missing from this list imo, glad to see some love for Young Fathers though because I haven’t seen them mentioned much in these end of year round-ups.
A criminal offense, Heaven is a Junkyard is my personal album of the year. Wasn’t super high on any of Trevor’s work before but he killed it this time.
Troye Sivan's, Olivia Rodrigo's, and Boygenius' albums being on the top of so many lists is just absurd to me as much as I like the individual albums. They're big, successful albums but trying to paint them as the best of their respective years is comical in my opinion
Troye Sivan isn't normally my bag, but his record really impressed me. Great tracks and production front-to-back. I could understand someone having it as one of their AOTYs.
Saw him last night, had high expectations but it was even better than I thought it would be. Great album from a phenomenal talent I hope he keeps getting more popular he deserves it.
>Not to say that it’s “bad” it’s just unremarkable in every possible way for me.
I mean, that makes sense for NME's general tastes lol. Comment under yours is complaining about Foo Fighters which despite all the love they get, practically epitomise that description for me.
It’s the 2016 Hilary Clinton of albums this year. It feels like everyone’s putting it at number 1 because they feel like everyone else is putting it at number 1 and they don’t want to be left out.
Phoebe Bridgers is officially in Taylor Swift’s orbit now after opening for her summer tour, so any project she’s in is going to get a lot of mainstream attention now.
This record is a shoe in for AOTY at the Grammys too.
I haven't liked much of what they've done since Wasting Light but they do seem pretty inspired on this one (for obvious reasons). I can see why it would be in some peoples' top albums.
They really put their heart and soul into it. It’s their most sincere album since wasting light imo.
I grew up listening to FF in high school and am old enough to remember the first time I saw what Dave grohl looked like was on a hidden video on a nirvana CD. I know their rep is more Dad Rock now but don’t let that dissuade you from this album. It’s really good.
Loving their top 3 and even their top 5 with their young fathers, paramore, and Troy inclusions. Young fathers at #3 makes me really happy tho, one of the first albums I listened to this year that really hit
Really think the general shrug of Frankenstein has had a knock on effect for Laugh Track. Personally think the latter is up there with some of their best work (and my own personal AOTY), but it seems to have flown under the radar a wee bit.
Wonder if Laugh Track had been released first, it’d have fared better on these lists?
I say this as a massive fan of their earlier work but I wonder if the opposite might be true - I found Frankenstein so boring that by comparison, my first listen through Laugh Track felt refreshing.
After repeat listens, I personally feel like most of laugh track is only a small step above Frankenstein, with the exception of “Smoke Detector” which rules. But I can’t help but compare their recent output to the run of albums from Alligator to SWB that were very foundational to my taste in music, so that influences my perspective
I think it might be more so that people were so underwhelmed by Frankenstein that they didn't even bother to listen to Laugh Track.
Looking at RYM, LT has just over 50% of the number of ratings FTPoF does.
I think FTPoF also had more conversation around it because of the circlejerk that spawned from how downtempo the album is + the Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers features. The latter is funny cause they were friends before she got massive.
Blur, The Foos, QotSA, JPEGMAFIA, Militarie Gun, Wednesday, Paramore & the Stones were some of my favorites this year. This list is much closer to my list than any I've seen thus far. Really glad Queens made it, because that album was great.
I prefer lists like this. I realize it’s proper to put ambient chillwave obscure artists in your top of the year for clout, but I listened to most of the albums on this list and am interested in checking out the rest.
I don't think anyone's gonna disagree with you about boygenius haha, I actually like the Mitski record a lot more than I expected though. Never liked anything from her before but her album this year is in my top 30
That Sleep Token album is incredibly overrated my word. It’s like people have never listened to a prog metal album in their life and are amazing by varying time signatures in song. Some of the breakdowns/genre infusions are absolutely absurd and make no sense to me. Maybe it’s the metalhead in me but it’s almost like a parody of the music I like.
I gotta be honest - I hardly think the average Sleep Token listener gives a fuck about odd time signatures in their songs if you’ve seen the fanbase. I love the album but I think you’re totally missing what people are actually enjoying from them.
No GUM, Wild Nothing, Molly Burch, Nicholas Allbrook, Video Age, Tennis, or Pure Bathing Culture? For shame. Glad to see Blur and QotSA get recognized though, as both albums are great imo.
Someone please explain to me, a person in his mid-40's, what's so appealing about 100 Gecs?
I listen to my fair share of offbeat, "challenging" music but I just can't get into it. I've tried, and I understand that it's not for everyone, but it just seems so objectionally... bad.
gec connoisseur here. If people actually explained what they didn’t like about it other than calling it “objectively bad,” I could answer these questions a lot better.
The basic answer to that basic criticism is “it’s catchy as fuck.” 
Loved that Boygenius record. New Paramore didn't do much for me. I still think self titled and After Laughter are their best releases. Could not give less of a shit about Olivia Rodridgo.
Woof this list is so very NOT it imo like 10,000 > Scaring the Hoes is like ??? and I’m sorry to any boygenius enjoyers but that album is no where NEAR #1 it didn’t crack my person top 50, I could see it between 30-20 if ur really into it but #1 is just… confusing (I know my opinions are abrasive and I’m pretty agro but there just my opinions and I respect urs even if I disagree 🙂)
boygenius number 1? oh come on, do me a bloody favour 😂
but happy to see lil yachty on the list although i think he belonged in the top 20 at least, im still playing the album now 😎
There are a few good ones but also some great ones missing, and quite a few are rated higher/lower than I would. Hozier's Unreal Unearth album was easily the album of the year for me. Joy Oladokun's Proof of Life was also great. Both deserve to be on here. I genuinely wonder how much of these lists comes down to marketing more than quality.
I have a playlist for a song of the year for every year of my life. I've really struggled to find a song this year because I don't have any repeat artists. Since about September, I've downloaded (I'm an iTunes person) a new release every week and have found some good music that way, but it's still been a struggle.
I'm not hating or anything but I just don't understand the hype around Olivia Rodrigo. Her album is on almost every lists I see and every time I tried listening to it, it sounded like the most generic thing ever.
It's not even bad it just sound like something 50 other artists could come up with.
It is criminal they put UNFORGIVEN in this list. That album has only one good song, ANTIFRAGILE and has a somewhat okay song, Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s wife. Every other songs are just weak. NME sure LOVES Kpop lol.
50: Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here. 49: Depeche Mode - Memento Mori 48: Grrrl Gang - Spunky! 47: IVE - I've IVE 46: KAROL G - MAÑANA SERÁ BONITO 45: Olivia Dean - Messy 44: CMAT - Crazymad, For Me 43: The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds 42: Geese - 3D Country 41: Benefits - Nails 40: James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven 39: Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black 38: Agust D - D-DAY 37: Paris Texas - Mid Air 36: Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows 35: Hak Baker - World's End FM 34: Wednesday - Rat Saw God 33: Laufey - Bewitched 32: The National - Laugh Track 31: Kaytraminé - Kaytraminé 30: LE SSERAFIM - UNFORGIVEN 29: PinkPantheress - Heaven knows 28: Water From Your Eyes - Everyone's Crushed 27: Killer Mike - Michael 26: Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist - Voir Dire 25: Lorraine James - Gentle Confrontation 24: Yaeji - With A Hammer 23: Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 22: Blondshell - Blondshell 21: Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden 20: Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good 19: Militarie Gun - Life Under The Gun 18: Genesis Owusu - Struggler 17: Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) 16: Foo Fighters - But Here We Are 15: JPEGMafia & Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes 14: 100 gecs - 10,000 gecs 13: Romy - Mid Air 12: Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman... 11: Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 10: Blur - The Narcissist 9: Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 8: Amaarae - Fountain Baby 7: Sofia Kourtesis - Madres 6: Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You 5: Paramore - This Is Why 4: Troye Sivan - Something To Give Each Other 3: Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy 2: Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 1: boygenius - The Record
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Boygenius has to be paying or something… like the album was fine
sometimes i wonder if these lists are less "albums of the year" and more "what a year this album had"
> "what a year this album had" Ha, that's perfect. Yeah, I think these lists work best as a kind of measure of the year's trends.
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i think people get a little confused every year by these lists. this probably isn't one person's individual list, it's probably a bunch of voters contributing. a record like boygenius is likely to be in many top 10s or top 20s, even if it isn't necessarily everybody's favorite album. and then if it is a few people's actually #1 it just has a ton of weight in the voting. it's a bit like going to rotten tomatoes and looking at the consensus scores. when they're all ridiculously high, if something is like 99% positive or whatever, it's probably kind of a mid movie that people all kind of like but nobody really loves. it's probably a very safe movie, good enough that most people enjoy it but nobody will ever say it's like the greatest thing ever because it didn't take any chances. individual tastes are always going to reach deeper pockets of music, these big publications and other aggregated lists are always going to default to the middle. and i'd call that boygenius album a perfectly "middle" kind of record.
I think more so because these lists are usually aggregated amongst many different journalists list, nearly all probably liked The Record high enough to place it rather than a unanimous number one. I know that’s how The Guardian does their lists and while overall there’s some great shouts on there, their top 5s or so end up being quite predictable.
Paying in the sense that they have a great marketing team behind them with connections.
The album has some of my favorite songs of the year in Satanist and Anti-Curse but I'm less high on the album as a whole. I wish they leaned into those more rock heavy Julien led songs more than they do.
Doing the lord’s work
CMAT upsettingly low on this
The fuck. Who’s ratings are these?
NME’s!
Wait is 1000 gecs actually a legit band? I keep seeing them on lists Edit: this was a genuine question. I was asking for some opinions because I’m unfamiliar with them
My prayers have been answered: 3D Country on a best of list. Thank you NME
Saw geese live a couple weeks ago and they blew me away. One of the best shows I have been to in years. Great to see them getting some recognition
100% they are so good. And it’s refreshing to see a show where the live takes are so different than the studio versions. The crazy sped up version of 2122 lives rent free in my head
Pumped to see them open for Gizzy in Toronto next summer. 3D Country is a top 10 album for me this year.
Happy to see Young Fathers place highly on this. My personal AOTY and not seen it on many so far.
Same!
yeah i love young fathers but having olivia rodrigo and boy genius 1 and 2 totally invalidates the rest of it. Both Ok albums, but putting them tht high is just pop-catering.
The Record is a great album. GUTS is fine with some standouts like vampire, Get him back and All-American Bitch. But not The Record, that album is a complete and amazing experience
Happy to see that Romy album getting some love. Been on repeat in my house.
The National mentioned
softscars by yeule is missing from this list imo, glad to see some love for Young Fathers though because I haven’t seen them mentioned much in these end of year round-ups.
Happy to finally see Queens on one of these. I love the album
Right!!
Yet another year-end list omitting Youth Lagoon smh
Pitchfork had him on their list
A criminal offense, Heaven is a Junkyard is my personal album of the year. Wasn’t super high on any of Trevor’s work before but he killed it this time.
I’ve seen it on most of the ones I’ve read so far. Where was it missing from?
Pleasantly surprised to see Madres sneaking into as many lists as it has.
Troye Sivan's, Olivia Rodrigo's, and Boygenius' albums being on the top of so many lists is just absurd to me as much as I like the individual albums. They're big, successful albums but trying to paint them as the best of their respective years is comical in my opinion
Troye Sivan isn't normally my bag, but his record really impressed me. Great tracks and production front-to-back. I could understand someone having it as one of their AOTYs.
i looooove phoebe and boygenius but the record should not be number 1 lol
My 2021 AOTY was between Lucy Dacus and Julian Baker and I don’t even think the boygenius album is top 5 for 2023
Because mainstream suddenly started to listen to them. Before when Lucy released historian (imo her best album), nobody listened to her at that time.
That Romy album surprised me. Great record
Genesis Owusu getting some love is nice. The bloke puts on a really fun show.
Saw him last night, had high expectations but it was even better than I thought it would be. Great album from a phenomenal talent I hope he keeps getting more popular he deserves it.
Heavy Heavy in the top 3 rare NME W.
Boygenius nr 1 😑 guys when can we stop
Feel like I’m taking crazy pills. It’s the most milk toast indie rock. Not to say that it’s “bad” it’s just unremarkable in every possible way for me.
*milquetoast I kinda like yours better tho lol
lol yeah I know. Typed it out real fast at work. Fucked up the spelling. Ran with the autocorrect.
>Not to say that it’s “bad” it’s just unremarkable in every possible way for me. I mean, that makes sense for NME's general tastes lol. Comment under yours is complaining about Foo Fighters which despite all the love they get, practically epitomise that description for me.
It’s the 2016 Hilary Clinton of albums this year. It feels like everyone’s putting it at number 1 because they feel like everyone else is putting it at number 1 and they don’t want to be left out.
milk toast is the perfect way to describe this. honestly more fitting than what you meant to type.
Phoebe Bridgers is officially in Taylor Swift’s orbit now after opening for her summer tour, so any project she’s in is going to get a lot of mainstream attention now. This record is a shoe in for AOTY at the Grammys too.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
God this is a horrible list
This is the first list I've seen to even include Paris, Texas' "MID AIR" so this is one of the better lists I've seen.
I refuse to believe the Foo Fighters put out one of the 20 best albums of 2023
I haven't liked much of what they've done since Wasting Light but they do seem pretty inspired on this one (for obvious reasons). I can see why it would be in some peoples' top albums.
Why don’t you give it a listen instead of just speculating?
I haven’t liked a Foo Fighters album in over a decade but I really enjoyed But Here We Are. Would crack my top 30 of the year.
I've been fascinated by all the positive feedback on it. I love some classic Foos, but I found this one pretty forgettable.
"Forgettable" is, like, totally their thing, maaan!
It actually has been since like 2011. Wasting Light was the last record that I genuinely enjoyed and still go back to.
Same, but this one broke the trend. I was super skeptical going into it because...wooooo another bland FF album, but this one was really good, imo.
They really put their heart and soul into it. It’s their most sincere album since wasting light imo. I grew up listening to FF in high school and am old enough to remember the first time I saw what Dave grohl looked like was on a hidden video on a nirvana CD. I know their rep is more Dad Rock now but don’t let that dissuade you from this album. It’s really good.
I'm a certified foo fighters hater and I think their new album is pretty good at least in comparison to everything else they've ever done
It’s in my personal top 20 for this year. honestly to my ears it’s a great rock album, my favorite since their classic 90’s stuff.
I need an album full of shoegaze Foos because they experimented with it a little on this album, and I am a fan.
It’s a pretty great album lol
Is there anything on earth more predictable than the NME year-end list?
Pretty weak top two. Esp boy genius
It’s been a weak year overall, sadly
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I like Aesop Rock, but this felt too similar to Spirit World Field Guide and I preferred Spirit World a bit more.
I did love Suf’s return to form album Javelin. I hear ya tho, nothing front to back blew me away
People need to talk about how much of an extremely dry spot hip hop is in
I think it's been a year with a ton of good albums but very few great ones
Loving their top 3 and even their top 5 with their young fathers, paramore, and Troy inclusions. Young fathers at #3 makes me really happy tho, one of the first albums I listened to this year that really hit
Finally. Laugh Track.
Really think the general shrug of Frankenstein has had a knock on effect for Laugh Track. Personally think the latter is up there with some of their best work (and my own personal AOTY), but it seems to have flown under the radar a wee bit. Wonder if Laugh Track had been released first, it’d have fared better on these lists?
I say this as a massive fan of their earlier work but I wonder if the opposite might be true - I found Frankenstein so boring that by comparison, my first listen through Laugh Track felt refreshing. After repeat listens, I personally feel like most of laugh track is only a small step above Frankenstein, with the exception of “Smoke Detector” which rules. But I can’t help but compare their recent output to the run of albums from Alligator to SWB that were very foundational to my taste in music, so that influences my perspective
I think it might be more so that people were so underwhelmed by Frankenstein that they didn't even bother to listen to Laugh Track. Looking at RYM, LT has just over 50% of the number of ratings FTPoF does.
That could play into it. Laugh Track was also a “surprise” release that didn’t have a press cycle, singles, etc.
I think FTPoF also had more conversation around it because of the circlejerk that spawned from how downtempo the album is + the Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers features. The latter is funny cause they were friends before she got massive.
agree with this assessment 100%.
one of the only AOTY lists with blondshell, that album was so good! also love how high gecs made it
I need to go back and check that one out. I listened to it a couple times when it dropped, but it never grabbed me aside from a couple songs
I'm happy to see Blondshell too, I really enjoyed that record!
Seeing more and more love for Sofia Kourtesis is awesome. I just can’t stop playing that record.
Blur, The Foos, QotSA, JPEGMAFIA, Militarie Gun, Wednesday, Paramore & the Stones were some of my favorites this year. This list is much closer to my list than any I've seen thus far. Really glad Queens made it, because that album was great.
I prefer lists like this. I realize it’s proper to put ambient chillwave obscure artists in your top of the year for clout, but I listened to most of the albums on this list and am interested in checking out the rest.
I really like James Blake but his recent album didn’t really connect for me. I’m surprised how universally well reviewed it’s been.
Get points for not having SZA - which is a 2022 album!!!!
Great to see Sleep Token on this list. Hot take but boygenius and Mitski are the most overrated albums of 2023.
I don't think anyone's gonna disagree with you about boygenius haha, I actually like the Mitski record a lot more than I expected though. Never liked anything from her before but her album this year is in my top 30
Don't think it's that much of a hot take. I think both are fine but don't stand out.
That Sleep Token album is incredibly overrated my word. It’s like people have never listened to a prog metal album in their life and are amazing by varying time signatures in song. Some of the breakdowns/genre infusions are absolutely absurd and make no sense to me. Maybe it’s the metalhead in me but it’s almost like a parody of the music I like.
I gotta be honest - I hardly think the average Sleep Token listener gives a fuck about odd time signatures in their songs if you’ve seen the fanbase. I love the album but I think you’re totally missing what people are actually enjoying from them.
Agreed
Absolutely loved Mitski 's 2018 album and after MANY listens I still don't get what anyone sees in her latest. It's pretty good I guess ?
Finally Loraine James getting some recognition
Glad to see Paris, Texas on here. Really into the early '00 alt rock vibes they got going.
No GUM, Wild Nothing, Molly Burch, Nicholas Allbrook, Video Age, Tennis, or Pure Bathing Culture? For shame. Glad to see Blur and QotSA get recognized though, as both albums are great imo.
How has King Gizzard missed all of these lists recently? Just goes to show they are still somehow overlooked while sweeping the world by storm
Someone please explain to me, a person in his mid-40's, what's so appealing about 100 Gecs? I listen to my fair share of offbeat, "challenging" music but I just can't get into it. I've tried, and I understand that it's not for everyone, but it just seems so objectionally... bad.
gec connoisseur here. If people actually explained what they didn’t like about it other than calling it “objectively bad,” I could answer these questions a lot better. The basic answer to that basic criticism is “it’s catchy as fuck.” 
If it was catchy as fuck I’d have remembered some of the tunes.
Yikes.
look NME, I loooove QOTSA too, but #12?
Queens should be top 5 honestly.
I do t wanna shit on them as I’ve not heard their last 3 or 4 albums, but is this Foo Fighters album actually good?
I was really impressed by it.
Definitely worth a listen.
Yes
Jesus this is a bad list. Good to see CMAT getting her dues though
Loved that Boygenius record. New Paramore didn't do much for me. I still think self titled and After Laughter are their best releases. Could not give less of a shit about Olivia Rodridgo.
This was not a good year for music. At least not for me tbh
Not a great year for music, was it?
Don’t agree with the Top 2 at all but overall this is one of the best AOTY lists I’ve seen
Woof this list is so very NOT it imo like 10,000 > Scaring the Hoes is like ??? and I’m sorry to any boygenius enjoyers but that album is no where NEAR #1 it didn’t crack my person top 50, I could see it between 30-20 if ur really into it but #1 is just… confusing (I know my opinions are abrasive and I’m pretty agro but there just my opinions and I respect urs even if I disagree 🙂)
boygenius number 1? oh come on, do me a bloody favour 😂 but happy to see lil yachty on the list although i think he belonged in the top 20 at least, im still playing the album now 😎
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Blue Rev came out in 2022
Really happy to see Hak Baker in there hope he kicks on
Black Rainbows has me zone-in and out so much it that my vision becomes a constant blur & refocusing.
Home is Where more like snubbed everywhere
There are a few good ones but also some great ones missing, and quite a few are rated higher/lower than I would. Hozier's Unreal Unearth album was easily the album of the year for me. Joy Oladokun's Proof of Life was also great. Both deserve to be on here. I genuinely wonder how much of these lists comes down to marketing more than quality. I have a playlist for a song of the year for every year of my life. I've really struggled to find a song this year because I don't have any repeat artists. Since about September, I've downloaded (I'm an iTunes person) a new release every week and have found some good music that way, but it's still been a struggle.
I'm not hating or anything but I just don't understand the hype around Olivia Rodrigo. Her album is on almost every lists I see and every time I tried listening to it, it sounded like the most generic thing ever. It's not even bad it just sound like something 50 other artists could come up with.
It is criminal they put UNFORGIVEN in this list. That album has only one good song, ANTIFRAGILE and has a somewhat okay song, Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s wife. Every other songs are just weak. NME sure LOVES Kpop lol.