2023 studio album releases

This is how I had planned to do the 2024 poll but then did not. In this I have three sections:

- The first eight are taken are from PA's top album chart for 2023 here: PA TOP Albums for 2023. Since I did not set the numbers of reviews or make changes, or use filters as I usually would, some albums get very high with quite a limited number of ratings.

- The second eight are taken from the Awesome Prog Album of the Year poll list for 2023 where all PA members could suggest albums. See https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-2023/results] That seems way more the list I would expect as top albums from the PA crowd. See notes below on three albums that would have been in that list, but one had appeared in the taken from PA list and the other I have in my list.

- The third list is nine of my favourite albums of 2024 taken from my list at Awesome Prog. Nine because I added two PoiL Ueda albums to one line. if choosing on of those two albums, please specify which one. See userlist here: https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-2023/users Two of those albums are not in PA, the Sufjan Stevens and Kristin Michael Hayter. Sufjan may be added at some time.

I ask people to choose one studio album they like from the list (Prog or not) or vote other to mention another. Feel free to list all your favourites from 2023.


Notes:

- Seven Impale's Summit rank 4th in the Awesome Prog AOTY chart, but since it's in the list from Pa's chart at number 7, I skipped it.

- Swans' The Beggar is at number 8 on the Awesome Prog list, but because it's my number one, I skipped for that section and claimed it for myself. :)

- Likewise, Poil Ueda is at number 9 on the Awesome Prog list but is my number two album and so I liberated it from the clutches of that section to be claimed later for my section in a higher respective position. :) SO that bring the actual tenth ranked album at AP to the seventh position in its section since three of its albums are appearing elsewhere.

Really, I just think it works better having The Beggar and Poil Ueda in my section as then I get some big names from the Awesome Prog AOTY poll rather than my more niche (or at least more niche at PA) choices.

Anyway, happier with this than the 2024 one, and sorry if having a section of my faves based on my AP list seems in bad taste, but I like to talk about and share that which I care about. One might call it narcissistic, but it's hardly like I made the music. Just sharing section of music that has meant something to me and interested to see who else enjoys what.