THREAD TO POST YOUR JDFF YEAR END LISTS IN

quip wrote:What's Paves' Soundcloud?

https://m.soundcloud.com/harshestrealm?fbclid=IwAR1chKQQB1NRn3MnhFu9OMkInNPzq_rk9MJWv_TwdRPdT0Nn7SPiao3Df_s

Don't even remember for sure if this is where he uploaded "summer memories" and "Paves presents one guy playing acoustic guitar in standard tuning" or whatever they were called, but those were also posted about in the 2020 albums thread.
Self titled Harshest Realm record and Shredfest 2015 are all timers imo. He's got some mixes under titles like "timeless booty anthems" floating around somewhere as well that are worth checking out.

LOL
https://m.mixcloud.com/garret-kriston/

This year I was in a mindset where if a new release didn’t grab me after a couple listens I moved on. Which isn’t how I’ve absorbed new music in the past and definitely unfair to the artist. But I’m anxious about wasting anytime I have on shit that doesn’t make me happy. These were 10 albums I listened to a lot this year:

BOB DYLAN | ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS
...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD | X: THE GODLESS VOID AND OTHER STORIES
THE STROKES | THE NEW ABNORMAL
FIONA APPLE | FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS
BILL CALLAHAN | GOLD RECORD
MAGIK MARKERS | 2020
DESTROYER | HAVE WE MET
DEFTONES | OHMS
SALEM | FIRES IN HEAVEN
WAXAHATCHEE | ST CLOUD
OSEES | PROTEAN THREAT

chrondog wrote:It's truly difficult to remember a time where it felt vital to engage with music that I don't find enjoyable just to talk about it. Identity formation is an interesting thing.

Glad I never felt the need to listen to stuff I knew I'd hate but I always feel an anxiety this time of year about whether I'd listened to enough records all year even now.

David Toop - Apparition Paintings
Arca - @@@@@@@@
Sparkle Division - To Feel Embraced
Roméo Poirier - Hotel Nota
Jake Muir - the hum of your veiled voice
Autechre - Sign/Plus
Chicago Underground Quartet - Good Days
Jeff Parker - Suite for Maxine Brown
Exploding Star Orchestra - Dimensional Stardust
Nicholas Jaar - Cenizas
Sonic Boom - All Things Being Equal
The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?

Fiona Apple | Fetch the Boltcutters
Carly Rae Jepsen | Dedicated Side B
Dua Lipa | Future Nostalgia
Roisin Murphy | Roisin Machine
The Paves records from this summer
Charli XCX | How I’m Feeling Now
Moodymann | taken Away
Taylor Swift | Folklore
Haim | Women in Music III
Destroyer | Have We Met?
Lady Gaga | Chromatica
E-40 and Too $hort | Ain't Gone Do It/Terms and Conditions
The Microphones | Microphones in 2020
The Avalanches record I haven’t heard yet is on this list for sure probly
I should also really listen to Cut Copy, Willie Nelson, and Bill Callahan records, and the fact that I haven’t yet is... not a thing I’m proud of.

Kinda wanna put together a songs list too as it probably has more to do with what I liked this year (and every other year) but this is easier so

1 Fiona Apple | Fetch the Bolt Cutters
2 Dua Lipa | Future Nostalgia
3 Beach Bunny | Honeymoon
4 Megan Thee Stallion | Good News
5 Jessie Ware | What's Your Pleasure
6 HAIM | Women in Music Pt. III
7 Lil Baby | My Turn
8 Pop Smoke | Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
9 Bob Dylan | Rough and Rowdy Ways
10 Beabadoobee | Fake It Flowers
11 Day Wave | The Days We Had

Didn't have enough time to sit with Diet Cig, Phoebe Bridgers,

Oh yeah, I should post this:

top ten
(no particular order)

The Harshest Realm | Out for Justice 2
Saba | Few Good Things
Ella Mai | Heart On My Sleeve
Daphni | Cherry
Special Interest | Endure
The Smile | A Light for Attracting Attention
Freddie Gibbs | $oul $old $eperately
Horsegirl | Versions of Modern Performance
Megan Thee Stallion | Traumazine
Beyoncé | Renaissance
Beach Bunny | Emotional Creature
Big Thief | Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Pusha T | It’s Almost Dry
Beach House | Once Twice Melody
Charli XCX | Crash
Nilüfer Yanya | Painless
Destroyer | Labyrinthitis
Sharon Van Etten | We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
Dry Cleaning | Stumpwork
Ravyn Lenae | Hypnos

top twenty
(also in no real order)

Weyes Blood | And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Angel Olsen | Big Time
Momma | Household Name
Beth Orton | Weather Alive
Roc Marciano & Alchemist | The Elephant Man’s Bones
Beabadoobee | Beatopia
Wet Leg | Wet Leg
Kendrick Lamar | Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Warpaint | Radiate Like This
Future | I Never Liked You

There is a whole lot that came out this year that I suspect I'd love but just didn't get around to hearing.  Of the things I did listen to, these were my top 20 or so:

BdPhones | Songs for the Fall
Lana del Rey | Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Janelle Monae | The Age of Pleasure
Caroline Polacheck | Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
Jeff Rosenstock | Hellmode
BigXthaPlug | Amar
100 Gecs | 10,000 Gecs
Olivio Rodrigo | Guts
Jessie Ware | That Feels Good
Carly Rae Jepsen | The Loveliest Time
Fever Ray | Radical Romantics
Andre 3000 | New Blue Sun
John Cale | Mercy
Sparks | The girl is crying in her latte
Róisín Murphy | Hit Parade
Tyler Childers | Rustin’ in the Rain
The Hives | The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
Sexyy Red | Hood Hottest Princess
Animal Collective | Isn't It Now?
PJ Harvey | I Inside the Old Year Dying
Iggy Pop | Every Loser
Nation of Language | Strange Disciple

2023, no order, I’m sure I’m missing some stuff but here’s what I remember:

Colin Stetson - When We We’re What Wept For The Sea
Luke Sanger - Salt Water Motifs
Rob Mazurek and Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers
Natural Information Society - Since Time Is Gravity
Oval - Romantiq
Chris Watson and Philip Jeck - Oxmardyke
jamie branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War3))
Laurel Halo - Atlas
Purelink -Signs
Sparkle Division - Foxy
Andre 3000 - New Blue Sun
Desert Sand Feels Warm At Night and Mindspring Memories - Desert Memories
Simon Scott - Long Drove
MV & EE - Green Ark
Kieth Fullerton Whitman - Reciprocals