Top 100 Music Albums of 2023 by DommeDamian

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2023 is now over and the listening journey was vastly vastly different than both 2021 and 2022. During all of 2023, I avoided listening to newly released material (mostly), both because I had my "Scaruffi 8/10-Adjacent"-project and to see if my mindset would alter if I didn't immediately hear something a few days or weeks old. I waited until the year was over, and then I went on RateYourMusic and selected the top albums for each of my favorite genres (principally Indie Folk/Singer-Songwriter, Dream Pop, Punk Rock etc). Therefore, this year has a much higher rating on average, because I didn't have to go through albums within genres I have experienced to not be a fan of (even though not all 2023 records I heard was golden by any means). But if you look at the number of albums I have heard - right now, precisely 300 albums - it's still relatively low compared to 2022's 1050 records and even 2021's 544. Although, I have managed to beat 2020's 175 which is good.
Anyway here's my favorites, the first completion in late february 2024.

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Smartwoods 
Poland Piotr Kurek
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65/100 [First added to this chart: 04/15/2024]
Year of Release:
2023
Appears in:
4 charts
Rank Score:
6
Rank in 2023:
1,371
Rank in 2020s:
7,710
Overall Rank:
70,438
Average Rating:
 72 (3 votes)
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78. (79) Up1
Absent 
Poland Nac/Hut Report
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60/100 [First added to this chart: 04/15/2024]
Year of Release:
2023
Appears in:
1 chart
Rank Score:
1
Rank in 2023:
3,264
Rank in 2020s:
17,307
Average Rating:
 71 (1 vote)
Comments:
0
79. (59) Down20
Nightmarish Paths 
Poland Borderline Issues
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60/100

Nightmarish Paths feels like video game music extended. Even though BI's fundamentals of composition are not on par with video game composing giants, what he does is stretch the vibe and the tunes out to lengths that grant the listener a better understanding of the sound-scenario, unlike most composers. Victims, also being the greatest track here, could easily have been two or three minutes long, but it feels right to have it be six minutes. Or Depths of Hell, basically BI getting the 'we-are-in-trouble-we-need-to-run' part of story mode core, down to a T. Unstabled is an unstable composition as it feels incomplete, both the first faux-noir act, and the other piano piece before lazily trying to tie it together at the end.

Despite being called Nightmarish Paths, I don't think these tracks are "scary", but I do believe that Borderline Issues is a psychologically thinking musician. He taps at different corners of the mind, and after this record, he would go to make crazy, harsh noise. The closest song that gets to be unsettling is It's Time To Sleep, but also because it is the most psychological and hypnotic one. You've heard everything after two minutes, but the way it keeps going for 15 minutes feels oddly satisfying (the listener also won't really notice the stacks as it progresses). If my brain were attached to wires like in the mv for Eminem's Rap God, this track is if somebody tapped those wires. I don't know what the ringing is coming from, but its avant-garde gestures are worthy of the Supreme Dicks. [First added to this chart: 02/26/2024]
Year of Release:
2023
Appears in:
1 chart
Rank Score:
1
Rank in 2023:
3,288
Rank in 2020s:
17,451
Average Rating:
 71 (1 vote)
Comments:
0
99. (=)
Witches Bitches 
Poland Witches Bitches
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60/100 [First added to this chart: 02/26/2024]
Year of Release:
2023
Appears in:
1 chart
Rank Score:
0
Rank in 2023:
3,853
Rank in 2020s:
20,571
Average Rating:
 71 (1 vote)
Comments:
0
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Top 100 Music Albums of 2023 composition

Country Albums %


United States 48 48%
United Kingdom 10 10%
Australia 5 5%
Canada 5 5%
Poland 4 4%
Japan 3 3%
Sweden 3 3%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

Top 100 Music Albums of 2023 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Climber Up 1 from 79th to 78th
Absent
by Nac/Hut Report
Climber Up 1 from 78th to 77th
Smartwoods
by Piotr Kurek
Climber Up 1 from 77th to 76th
Rest Of Life
by Steve Roach
Biggest fallers
Faller Down 20 from 59th to 79th
Nightmarish Paths
by Borderline Issues

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