aoty not on the list but outsold half those im sure

a lot better than last year for sure

I am not saying these are bona fide classics. I am saying these are good releases.

Go on.

The final update, I suppose. All in all, I'd say it was a pretty nice year. I think we were missing the AOTD contenders and it shows.

The Weeknd - DawnFM ✔️
Earl Sweatshirt - Sick! ✔️
FKA Twigs - Caprisongs ✔️
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There ✔️
Animal Collective - Time Skiffs ✔️
Yung Kayo - DFTK ✔️
Saba - Few Good Things ✔️
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You ✔️
Beach House - Once Twice Melody ✔️
Khruangbin - Texas Moon ✔️
Yeat - 2 Alivë ✔️
Johnny Marr - Fever Dreams Pt 1-4 ✔️
Conway - God Don't Make Mistakes ✔️
Kodak Black - Back For Everything ✔️
Band Of Horses - Things Are Great ✔️
Nilüfer Yanya - Painless ✔️
Stromae - Multitude ✔️
Lil Durk - 7220 ✔️
Charli XCX - Crash ✔️
Rosalia - Motomami ✔️
Phife Dawg - Forever ✔️
Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future ✔️
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris ✔️
Kilo Kish - American Gurl ✔️
Placebo - Never Let Me Go ✔️
Destroyer - Labyrinthitis ✔️
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Unlimited Love ✔️
Duster - Together ✔️
PUP - The Unraveling of PUPTheBand ✔️
Billy Woods - Aethiopes ✔️
Father John Misty - Chloë and the Next 20th Century ✔️
Fivio Foreign - B.I.B.L.E. ✔️
Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., Girl Talk - Full Court Press ✔️
Jack White - Fear Of The Dawn ✔️
Wet Leg - Wet Leg ✔️
Vince Staples - Ramona Park Broke My Heart ✔️
Yung Lean - Stardust ✔️
42 Dugg, Est Gee - Last Ones Left ✔️
Kurt Vile - Watch My Moves ✔️
Swedish House Mafia - Paradise Again ✔️
Fontaines DC - Skinty Fia ✔️
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Omnium Gatherum ✔️
Pusha T - It's Almost Dry ✔️
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful ✔️
Future - I Never Liked You ✔️
Kehlani - Blue Water Road ✔️
Let's Eat Grandma - Two Ribbons ✔️
Toro Y Moi - MAHAL ✔️
Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8 ✔️
Melody's Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal ✔️
Action Bronson - Cocodrillo Turbo ✔️
Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries ✔️
Black Star - No Fear Of Time ✔️
Arcade Fire - We ✔️
Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti ✔️
Sharon Van Etten - We've Been Going About This All Wrong ✔️
Warpaint - Radiate Like This ✔️
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Endless Rooms ✔️
Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers ✔️
The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention ✔️
Florence + The Machine - Dance Fever ✔️
Quelle Chris - Deathfame ✔️
Flume - Palaces ✔️
Wilco - Cruel Country ✔️
070 Shake - You Can't Kill Me✔️
Angel Olson - Big Time ✔️
Joyce Manor - 40 Oz. to Fresno ✔️
Drake - Honestly, Nevermind ✔️
Perfume Genius - Ugly Season ✔️
Lupe Fiasco - Drill Music in Zion ✔️
Porcupine Tree - Closure/Continuation ✔️
Soccer Mommy - Sometimes, Forever ✔️
Alexisonfire - Otherness ✔️
Guided By Voices - Tremblers and Goggles by Rank ✔️
Paolo Nutini - Last Night In The Bittersweet ✔️
Brent Faiyaz - Wasteland ✔️
Burna Boy - Love, Damini ✔️
Viagra Boys - Cave World ✔️
Black Midi - Hellfire ✔️
Beabadoobee - Beatopia ✔️
Lloyd Banks - The Course Of The Inevitable 2 ✔️
Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights ✔️
Joey Badass -2000 ✔️
Beyoncé - Renaissance ✔️
DJ Khaled - God Did ✔️
JID - The Forever Story ✔️
Mach Hommy - Dollar Menu 4 ✔️
Julia Jacklin - Pre Pleasure ✔️
Ka - Woeful Studies ✔️
Ka - Languish Arts ✔️
Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows ✔️
Alex G - God Save The Animals ✔️
Nils Frahm - Music For Animals ✔️
Tamino - Sahar ✔️
Björk - Fossora ✔️
Freddie Gibbs - Soul Sold Seperately ✔️
Shygirl - Nymph ✔️
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down ✔️
Alvvays - Blue Rev ✔️
Daphni - Cherry ✔️
Jean Dawson - Chaos Now ✔️
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard -
Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava ✔️
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim ✔️
Open Mike Eagle - A Tape Called Component System with the Auto Reverse✔️
Quavo & Takeoff - Only Built For Infinity Links ✔️
Youngboy NBA - 3800 Degrees ✔️
G Herbo - Survivor's Remorse Side A ✔️
The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language ✔️
MIA - Mata ✔️
Arctic Monkeys - The Car ✔️
Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time ✔️
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork ✔️
Loyle Carner - Hugo ✔️
Jeezy - Snofall ✔️
Fred Again - Actual Life 3 ✔️
Lancey Foux - Life in Hell ✔️
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Changes ✔️
Westside Gunn - 10 ✔️
Smino - Luv 4 Rent ✔️
Boldy James - Mr Ten08 ✔️
Drake & 21 Savage - Her Loss ✔️
Nas - King's Disease 3 ✔️
MGMT - 11-11-11 ✔️
Sault - 11 ✔️
Sault - Earth ✔️
Thaiboy Digital - Back 2 Life ✔️
Röyksopp - Profound Mysteries III ✔️
Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow ✔️
Little Simz - No Thank You ✔️
SZA - SOS ✔️
Ab-Soul - Herbert ✔️
Pinkpantheress - Take Me Home ✔️

2023 will be

2023 is gonna be f***ing ass.

it was ass water

Great year

Earl, FKA twigs, Kanye, Yung Lean, Thaiboy, Gibbs and Lupe let me down

Also Bjork and Black Star to an extent

Definitely a terrible year for music

it really was

@op was right

it was

Pusha T, Weeknd, Beach House, Alvvays and Fred Again carried the year for me at least