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.

Poil Ueda > Squid & Sprain

Fischman wrote: Definitely an other here. I think Look At You Now (Flower Kings) is amazing.

I have enjoyed various recent/ more contemporary The Flower Kings music more than I might have expected with the ratings and earlier TFK music less than I might have expected with the ratings.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Poil Ueda > Squid & Sprain

An excellent trio there per my tastes.

In each of your top 20s at Awesonme prog, we share both PoiL Ueda albums, Squid, and Swans.. And we share a bunch of others in our lists.

mathman0806 wrote: 2023 was a great year. A lot that I like a lot. From the first group, Jack O the Clock was in top 5. None from the second group made my top 10 but liked the Agusa and Steven Wilson My number 1 was (and still is) Swans. Squid and Poil Ueda would be in top 20.

Nice we sill share our top one. We have a fair number of albums in both our Awesome Prog lists, but Swans' The Beggar, Squid's O Monolith, ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT "Darling the Dawn", and Poil Ueda are the albums we both share in our top 20 for 2023.

Edited by Logan - 18 hours 51 minutes ago at 21:22

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Mellotron Storm wrote: A very interesting idea Greg! I have a top five. I gave my vote to Zopp and I feel it's the album of that year. Sonar Lars Fredrick Froislie Jordsjo The Chronicles Of Father Robin The two not mentioned that were in my top seven were... Univers Zero One Shot

Thanks, John. Zopp is the only one of those in the list I know. I know there was a One Shot album, which I though was released in 2022 called 1111 (I have the first three One Shot albums) and Univers Zero's Lueur I never paid close enough attention to, to be honest. It's at number 26 of my Awesome Prog list.

BrufordFreak wrote: Oiapok OisoLün

I like that album a lot too -- was in my top 20 for 2023. Strong year per my tastes. I was tempted to move it up my 2023 Awesome Prog AOTY list for this poll. That said, doesn't matter, I like to see what people like in a poll if applicable as well as what they like that is not in the list. :)

Edited by Logan - 16 hours 47 minutes ago at 23:26

^ Greg, I mentioned my top five from the poll but if I had included one more it would have been that third choice on your big list Poil Ueda. It's in my top ten for that year. Such a unique sounding record.

Swans
Moon Safari
Jordsjø

Seven Impale - Summit

I like 6 albums here, I voted for Rubber Tea - From a Fading World. Great discovery. 

Voted other. ni's Fol Naïs is my top album for 2023. I'm loosely based on a box of commas.