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The Best Albums of 2023

It’s that time of year! Once again I’ve asked Emacs which new albums I’ve listened to most this year, and the shocking truth is revealed below. And above, too!

It’s been a really strong year for new music, I think — I’ve been wildly enthusiastic about several of these albums, which makes a change from previous years where I could barely get worked up about anything. Perhaps it’s the two years off everybody had that made people get less depressed or something.

The biggest surprise of the year was, of course, the #1 album — an Orbital album! *gasp* Yes, they made an album that was as good as any of the 90s albums, and I don’t think anybody expected that…

So here’s the list of the 15 best albums, and because a computer collated the list, these are objectively the best albums. So there.

Orbital Optical Delusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVN-l0orYPk
Lost Girls Selvutsletter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Awwkgejs0
Dry Cleaning Swampy EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47kgwm3B3HU
Anohni and the Johnsons My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCs-30HyAlw
Liis Ring Homing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Qv4qWE1CQ
Water From Your Eyes Everyone’s Crushed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tdPKlYTWn4
Aphex Twin Blackbox Life Recorder 21f – in a room7 F760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY3OR2KmAxQ
Arthur Russell Picture of Bunny Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01q2h3mX9Ro
David Allred Mandatory Book Club Vol. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vKUd61uZvE
Everything But The Girl Fuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6QKZJeK-5w
GLYSK Social Intercourse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzW657ZobMM
Peter Broderick & Ensemble 0 Give It to the Sky: Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning Expanded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpfYvRXJhEY
Debby Friday Good Luck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_m8fGziyHo
Ryuichi Sakamoto 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYTWeRhI5U
Snapped Ankles Blurtations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduU5hdI3QA
Still House Plants Fast Edit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxJhPArOuz0

And I also bought a lot of older albums this year. Here’s the ten objectively best ones:

Shopping The Official Body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEgH18jjh7s
Joan as Police Woman Damned Devotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XTSDLn_jLk
Merope Salos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaYKXVapskI
Shearwater Shearwater Plays Lodger (2016 AV Club Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va72-zHg61E
Mourning [A] BLKstar Garner Poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1e79kvHH3A
Movietone Movietone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ScLeWxZEw
Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider The Blue Hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRrCJMuqCEs
Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden I get along without you very well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPLzJYh9COY
Fad Gadget Under the Flag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEYV3ohJu4
Joan as Police Woman Cover (Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8C9NuCG_Jc
Marvin Pontiac Greatest Hits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uR-nDxgi20

So there you go. Objective.

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