Album of the year up next! And then done ...

Previous winners:

2023: Utopia - Travis Scott
2022: Being Funny In A Foreign Language - The 1975
2021: Below - Beartooth
2020: Evermore - Taylor Swift
2019: Dedicated - Carly Rae Jepsen
2018: Art Of Doubt - Metric
2017: Need To Feel Your Love - Sheer Mag
2016: In Our Bones - Against The Current
2015: Chasing Yesterday - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
2014: 1989 - Taylor Swift
2013: Modern Vampires Of The City - Vampire Weekend
2012: Be The Void - Dr. Dog
2011: Something To Die For - The Sounds
2010: This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
2009: It's Blitz! - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
2008: Death Magnetic - Metallica
2007: Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
2006: The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
2005: Plans - Death Cab For Cutie
2004: To The 5 Boroughs - Beastie Boys
2003: Meteora - Linkin Park

1. Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To
2. Charly Bliss - Forever
3. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
4. Poppy - Negative Spaces
5. Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department
6. Kendrick Lamar - GNX
7. Jack White - No Name
8. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft
9. Thrown - Excessive Guilt
10. Kanye West and Ty Dollar Sign - Vultures 1

-As I mentioned before, Knocked Loose is an acquired taste. Even I only gave this album an 8.8 on first listen. It just stuck with me all year though, while alot of the others shifted in and out of the rotation. The entire album feels like an experience, one that is more consistently explosive than any other this year or possibly ever. Tortured Poets Department was my most played album, but I did cut seven songs off it so couldn't give it the big award. I played Charly Bliss album an absurd amount during August and September, sometimes up to 3 times a day. Really love what they did there. Vamp delivered after a long wait as they tend to do, loved the shift in Poppys sound and Kendrick had a wonderful victory lap after already winning the year with his diss songs. Probably should post more since there was a ton of excellent albums this year, but am just gonna stick to ten and wrap it up .