#SoapAlbums2023 - Our Top 50

 

HEY!...Here's Our Favourite 50 Albums from 2023 list...

We checked a grand total of nearly 1400 to compile this list.

Click the covers of these babies and go to stream and shop...but mostly shop these amazing sounds!

(Mainly Bandcamp links, some Spotify, but just copy and paste to your chosen Stream site if you need more proof just how great these records are.)

And now...

01 - Melanie De Biasio - Il Viaggio (PIAS)

02 - The Polyphonic Spree - Salvage Enterprise (Good Records Recordings)

03 - Sigur Rós - ÁTTA (Von Dur Limited)

04 - Susanne Sundfør - Blómi (Bella Union)

05 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12 (Milan Records)

06 - Swans - The Beggar (Young God)

07 - Róisín Murphy - Hit Parade (Róisín Murphy Records)

08 - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies (Sour Mash Records)

09 - Fever Ray - Radical Romantics (Rabid Records)

10 - Hammock - Love In The Void (Hammock Music)

11 - Lost Girls - Selvutsletter (Smalltown Supersound)

12 - Cornelius - Dream In Dream (Like Ltd)

13 - James Ellis Ford - The Hum (Warp)

14 - Vanishing Twin - Afternoon X (Fire Records)

15 - Raf And O - We Are Stars (Telephone Records)

16 - Foo Fighters - But Here We Are (Roswell Records)

17 - Ian Hunter - Defiance Part 1 (Sun Records)

18 - Madness - Theatre Of The Absurd Presents C'est La Vie (BMG)

19 - Gong - Unending Ascending (Snapper Music)

20 - Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (Island Records)

21 - Ultralum - Ultralum (Eclipse Music)

22 - Jah Wobble - A Brief History Of Now (Cleopatra Records)

23 - John Cale - Mercy (Domino Recording Co Ltd)

24 - André 3000 - New Blue Sun (Epic Records)

25 - Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex (Steven Wilson Productions Ltd)

26 - Alice Cooper - Road (earMUSIC)

27 - A Certain Ratio - 1982 (Mute)

28 - Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows (Black Rainbows Music)

29 - Julia Holter & The Spektral Quartet - Behind The Wallpaper (New Amsterdam)

30 - PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying (Partisan Records)

31 - Sleaford Mods- UK GRIM (Rough Trade)

32 - Iggy Pop - Every Loser (Gold Tooth Records)

33 - Salami Rose Joe Louis - Akousmatikous (Brainfeeder)

34 - Squid - O Monolith (Warp)

35 - Gaz Coombes - Turn The Car Around (Gaz Coombes Ltd)

36 - North Atlantic Oscillation - United Wire (Samuel Robert Joseph Healy)

37 - Fucked Up - One Day (Merge Records)

38 - Nabihah Iqbal - Dreamer (Nabihah Iqbal)

39 - Takashi Kokubo & Andrea Esperti - Music For A Cosmic Garden (WRWTFWW Records)

40 - Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You (Heavenly)

41 - Carlos Niño - (I'm Just) Chillin', On Fire (International Anthem)

42 - Osees - Intercepted Message (In The Red Records)

43 - SBTRKT - The Rat Road (AWAL Recordings)

44 - Hawkwind - The Future Never Waits (Cherry Red Records)

45 - Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty)

46 - Algiers - Shook (Matador)

47 - Autre Monde - Sensitive Assignments (Popical Island)

48 - Lewsberg - Out And About (Lewsberg Records)

49 - Raze Regal & White Denim Inc - Raze Regal & White Denim Inc (Bella Union)

50 - Childish Japes & Joanna Teters - Matters Of Life And Death, Pt. 1 (Childish Japes)