Archive | January, 2024

My Favourite Albums of 2023

1 Jan

1..The Clientele ‘I’m Not There Anymore’

2..Home is Where ‘The Whaler’

3..Wednesday ‘Rat Saw God’

4..The Tubs ‘Dead Meat’

5..Sufjan Stevens ‘Javelin’

6..Olivia Rodrigo ‘Guts’

7..Beach Fossils ‘Bunny’

8..Gia Margaret ‘Romantic Piano’

9..DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ ‘Destiny’

10..Billy Woods and Kenny Segal ‘Maps’

11..Overmono ‘Good Lies’

12..Greg Mendez ‘Greg Mendez’

13..100 Gecs ‘1000 Gecs’

14..ME REX ‘Giant Elk’

15..BoyGenius ‘The Record’

16..Jane Remover ‘Census Designated’

17..Jim Legxacy ‘Homeless Ni**a Pop Music’

18..Brian Eno and Fred Again ‘Secret Life’

19..The National ‘First Two Pages of Frankenstein’

20..Black Country, New Road ‘Live at Bush Hall’

21..Ratboys ‘The Window’

22..Another Michael ‘Wishes to Fulfill’ 

23..Virginia Astley ‘The Singing Places’

24..Indigo De Souza ‘All of This Will End’

25..Parannoul ‘After the Magic’

26..M83 ‘Fantasy’

27..Blink 182 ‘One More Time’

28..Lana Del Rey ‘Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd’

29..Origami Angel ‘Brightest Days’

30..Blur ‘The Ballad of Darren’

31..Hodera ‘Dear Friend’

32..Mitski ‘The Land is Inhospitable’

33..Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit ‘Weathervanes’

34..Hotline TNT ‘Cartwheel’

35..Strange Ranger ‘Pure Music’

36..Mandy Indiana ‘I’ve Seen a Way’

37..Ragana ‘Desolation’s Flower’

38..Squirrel Flower ‘Tomorrow’s Flower’

39..Lemon Twigs ‘Everything Harmony’

40..Model/Actriz ‘Dogsbody’

41..Slowdive ‘Everything is Alive’

42..Bombay Bicycle Club ‘My Big Day’

43..Militarie Gun ‘Life Under the Gun’

44..Disclosure ‘Alchemy’ 

45..Drain ‘Living Proof’

46..Youth Lagoon ‘Heaven is a Junkyard’

47..Nation of Language ‘Strange Disciple’ 

48..Feeble Little Horse ‘Girl with Fish’

49..Deathcrash ‘Less’

50..Sexyy Red ‘Hood Hottest Princess’

(Other albums I enjoyed, presented alphabetically): Andre 3000 ‘New Blue Sun’ / Angelo De Augustin ‘Toil and Trouble’ / Animal Collective ‘Isn’t it Now?’ / Anhoni and the Johnsons ‘My Back was a Bridge for you to Cross’ / Asleepbutstillinbed ‘Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am Still a Passenger’ / Avalon Emerson ‘& The Charm’ / Bully ‘Lucky For You’ / George Clanton ‘Ooh Rap I Ya’ / Ryan Davis ‘Dancing on the Edge’ / Hannah Diamond ‘Perfect Picture’ / Diners ‘Domino’ / Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist – VOIR DIRE / Foo Fighters ‘But Here We Are’ / En Attendant Ana ‘Principia / The Hives ‘The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons’ / Holly Humberstone ‘Paint my Bedroom Black’ / Hot Mullighan ‘Why Would I Watch’ / Initiate ‘Cerebral Circus’ / James Ivy ‘Everything Perfect’ / The Japanese House ‘In the End It Always Does’ / Jorja Smith ‘Falling or Flying’ / Magazine beach ‘Constant Springtime’  / Buck Meek ‘Haunted Mansion’ / Mountain Goats ‘Jenny from Thebes’ / MSPAINT ‘Post-American’ / Noname ‘Sundial’ / Nourished by Time – Erotic probiotics / Caroline Polachek ‘Desire, I Want to Turn Into You’ / Rolling Stones ‘Hackney Diamonds’ / Jeff Rosenstock ‘Hellmode’ / A Savage ‘Several Songs About Fire’ / Shame ‘Food For Worms’ / Slaughter Beach, Dog ‘Crying, Waving, Smiling, Laughing’ / Slow Pulp ‘Yard’ / Joanna Sternberg ‘I’ve Got Me’ / Susanne Sundfor ‘Blomi’ / Superviolet ‘Infinite Spring’ / Westerman ‘An Inbuilt Fault’

My Favourite Tracks of 2023

1 Jan

Here are my favourite songs released this year (restricted to one song per artist).

1..Big Thief ‘Vampire Empire’

2..MJ Lenderman ‘Rudolph’

3..The Tubs ‘Illusion Part 2’

4..PinkPantheress ‘Angel’

5..Ratboys ‘The Window’

6..Olivia Rodrigo ‘Bad Idea Right’

7..Wednesday ‘Chosen to Deserve’

8..Sufjan Stevens ‘Will Anybody Ever Love Me’

9..The Clientelle ‘Fables of the Silverlink’

10..Hannah Diamond ‘Affirmations’

11..Greg Mendez ‘Clearer Picture of You’

12..Dave and Central Cee ‘Sprinter’

13..Blur ‘The Narsacasist’

14..Gia Margaret ‘City Song’

15..Boy Genius ‘Not Strong Enough’

16..Foo Fighters ‘Under You’

17..Brian Eno and Fred Again ‘Secret’

18..Origami Angel ‘Second Best Friend’

19..Another Michael ‘Angel’

20..The National ‘Once Upon a Poolside’

21..The Beatles ‘Now and Then’

22..TDJ ‘Blow Away’

23..Home is Where ‘Everyday is like 9/11’

24..Mannequin Pussy ‘I Don’t Know You’

25..Hotline TNT ‘I Thought You’d Change Your Mind’

26..Adrianne Lenker ‘Ruined’

27..Black Country, New Road ‘Up Song’

28..Jane Remover ‘Cage Girl / Cam Girl’

29..Indigo Desousa ‘Dumber and Younger’

30..The Drums ‘Plastic Envelope’

31..Militarie Gun ‘Do It Faster’

32..Lana Del Rey ‘A&W’

33..Blink 182’ More Than You Know’

34..The Hives ‘Bogus Operandi’

35..Beach Fossils ‘Waterfall’

36..Overmono ‘So U Know’

37..Jason Isbell ‘When We Were Close’

38..1000 Gecs ‘Frog on the Floor’

39..Tom Odell ‘Black Friday’

40..Bombay Bicycle Club ‘Turn the World On’

41..MeRex ‘Summer Brevis’

42..Jeff Rosenstock ‘Liked U Better’

43..Illuminati Hotties ‘Truck’

44..M83 ‘Amnesia’

45..Mandy Indiana ‘Pinking Shears’

46..Billy Woods ‘Year Zero’

47..Mountain Goats ‘Clean Slate’

48..Skrillex, Fred Again, Four Tet ‘Baby Again’

49..Model/Actriz ‘Mosquito’

50..Slowdive ‘Kisses’

51..Susanne Sundfor ‘Alyosha’

52..The Libertines ‘Run Run Run’

53..Lemon Twigs ‘Ghost Run Free’

54..Disclosure ‘Looking for Love’

55..MSPAINT ‘Information’

56..En Attandent Ana ‘To the Crush’

57..Jack Harlow ‘Lovin on Me’

58..Pup ‘How to Live With Yourself’

59..Dua Lipa ‘Dance the Night’

60..Rolling Stones ‘Angry’

61..Fust ‘Genevieve’

62..Slaughter Beach, Dog ‘Engine’

63..Jamie T ‘Hippodrome’

64..Belle and Sebastian ‘When the Cynics Stare Back’

65..The Japanese House ‘Sunshine Baby’

66..Ragana ‘Pain’

67..Bully ‘Days Move Slow’

68..Animal Collective ‘Soul Capturer’

69..The Killers ‘Your Side of Town’

70..Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice ‘Barbie Girl’

71..Daisies ‘Is It Any Wonder’

72..Parranoul ‘Parade’

73..Billie Eilish ‘What Was I Made For’

74..Squirrel Flower ‘I Don’t Use a Trashcan’

75..Nourished by Time ‘Shed That Fear’

76..Strange Ranger ‘Rain So Hard’

77..Sexyy Red ‘Looking for the Hoes’

78..Zach Bryan ‘I Remember Everything’

79..George Clinton ‘I Been Young’

80..Holly Humberstone ‘Cocoon’

81..Ed Sheeran ‘Boat’

82..The Beths ‘Watching the Credits’

83..Jorja Smith ‘Little Things’

84..Nation of Language ‘Weak in Your Light’

85..For Tracy Hyde ‘Undulate’

86..Superviolet ‘Angels on the Ground’

87..Feeble Little Horse ‘Tin Man’

88..Doja Cat ‘Paint the Town Red’

89..MGMT ‘Mother Nature’

90..Buck Meek ‘Lullabies’

91..Joanna Sternberg ‘The Song’

92..Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar ‘The Hillbillies’

93..Diners ‘I Don’t Think About You the Way I Used to’

94..Kenya Grace ‘Strangers’

95..Blossoms ‘To Do List (After the Breakup)

96..Bruce Springsteen ‘Addicted to Romance’

97..Spanish Love Songs ‘Haunted’

98..Kara Jackson ‘Lily’

99..Youth Lagoon ‘Idaho Alien’

100..S Club ‘These are the Days’