Thanks to everyone who posted their albums of the year on the thread I set up - now comes the time to crown the winner with a poll. For those of you who believe that picking any single piece of art ( be it book, film, album etc) as the ‘best’ is ridiculous and pointless - this thread is not for you.
If you recall, the 2022 winner was Jack White’s ‘Entering Heaven Alive’. There are 12 contenders this year which I have selected by counting the number of mentions in the thread. There were 12 albums with 5 or more mentions which is rather convenient. Excessive use or lack of use of the upper case is entirely down to the artistes so please don’t correct me. One vote per member and the winner will be announced on January 1st. So come on pop pickers - get voting!
boygenius - the record
Everything But The Girl - Fuse
Blur - The Ballad of Darren
The Third Mind - The Third Mind 2
Slowdive - everything is alive
Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
Peter Gabriel - i/o
Galen & Paul - Uno Mas
Jamie Branch - Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die
Natalie Merchant - Keep Your Courage
Christine and the Queens - PARANOIA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE
Shouldn’t the Galen & Paul album be, Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day? This was there only album released in 2023. Uno Mas was a 4 track streaming only EP.
Nothing grabbing me on that list as AOTY Mr Duck but a big thank you for all your work in setting up the original album thread and poll - it was all really very interesting - take a bow young man!!
