Albums of the Year 2023

[Tin Bird]

Good gosh...if you asked me how long ago I posted the 2022 list, I'd swear it was three months ago. Time is literally flying now. I am a little early this year...thought I'd get things rolling. We can all add to our list later should we need to.
Mine for now:
James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven
Nation of Language - Strange Disciple
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
The Lilac Time - Dance Till All The Stars Come Down
Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket (older album I just discovered this year)
Mark Isham - Vapor Drawings (older album I just discovered this year)
Oingo Boingo - Boi-ngo (CD reissue)
Jon Hopkins - Asleep Versions (older album I just discovered this year)
Slowdive - Everything is Alive
A Flock of Seagulls - A Flock of Seagulls (CD reissue)
Hiroshi Yoshimura - Surround (CD reissue)
Roger Eno - the skies, they shift like chords

[baht habit]

Wolfgang Muthspiel - Dance Of The Elders
Terell Stafford - Between Two Worlds
Billy Childs - Winds Of Change
Johnathan Blake - Passage
Zsofia Boros - El Ultimo Aliento
Brian Blade Fellowship - Kings Highway
Chris Botti - Vol. 1 (shm-cd blue note japan)
Peter Gabriel - I/O
Dhafer Youssef - Street Of Minarets
Dominic Miller - Vagabond
Paul Simon - Seven Psalms
Kenny Barron - The Source
Brian Eno - Forever Voiceless
Joshua Redman - Where Are We
Pat Metheny - Dream Box
Vital Information - Time Flies / A Prayer For The Generation
Jeff Richman - XYZ
Todd Mosby - Land Of Enchantment
Trio Grande 2.0 - Urban Myth
Ralph Towner - At First Light
Shakti - This Moment
John Scofield - Uncle John's Band
Yannick Nézet-Séguin - 'Maestro' soundtrack ... my sister-in-law appears as a member of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir - of course, as a proud brother-in-law, I just have to include this release