Albums of the year
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Music of 2024
My favourite albums and tracks of 2024. Check out the playlist links to listen to them all Read more
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Best of 2023
My 2023 albums and tracks of the year featuring Slowdive, Health, PJ Harvey, Fever Ray, Brutus, bar italia, Sigur Ros, Morena Leraba, Daughter, Boygenius, OXN, Mitski, Rev. Kristin Michael Hayter, Bonnie Prince Billy, Dengue Fever, Lankum, Lucy Kruger, Chelsea Wolfe, Crow Baby, and others Read more
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Best of 2022
My personal musical loves of 2022. These lists are not for everyone, but if you know me and have some crossover in taste, you’re sure to find something interesting. There’s a lot of music out there, and it’s getting harder to find the good stuff. Easy to navigate playlists on Spotify and Deezer links below.… Read more
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Best of 2021
My annual roundup of new music discovered throughout the year in the all familiar two-list fashion: one uptempo, and the other one leaning more to…well…let’s just call it ‘sad bastard’ music. I managed to whittle them down to 40 tracks each. These are my personal choices and I have no allegiance to any band, artist,… Read more
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Best of 2019
Another year and another few hundred albums and a few thousand songs listened to and filtered into this concise list of brilliance. 2019 was the first year in a long time that dancefloor suitability wasn’t a factor. In its place, more soundtrack, classical, and incidental type music mostly due to the increase in writing and… Read more
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Music of 2016
These were the albums that lived with me this year in no particular order: PJ Harvey – Community of hope Trentmoller – Fixion Make-Overs – Try me Savages – Adore life Minor Victories – Minor victories Daughter – Not to disappear Medicine Boy – Kinda like electricity DJ Shadow – The mountain Hante. – No… Read more
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Top albums of 2015
Another year, another whack of newly discovered tunes and new music from old favourites. As usual, this is not a definitive list but just what I really liked out of the few hundred bits and pieces I came across over the year. This year was an easy Top 20 and a fine mixture of folk,… Read more
A place to bury strangers, Albums of the year, Alex G, Best Coast, Big Grams, Branko, Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee, Chelsea Wolfe, Django Django, Emika, Foals, Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Julien Baker, Karen Dalton, Lower Dens, Nite Fields, Rachel Grimes, Sam Phillips, Sexwitch, Sharon Van Etten, Sleater-Kinney, Soley, Susanne Sundfor, Tamaryn, Tess Parks, The Go! Team, The Weeknd, True Detective, Ultimate Painting, Viet Cong, Wolf Alice, Zefur Wolves -
Best of 2014
As usual, I’ve not even scratched the surface of all the releases this year (I never do). This is what I’ve loved these last 12 months through my over-complicated music discovery regime. Here are two mixes that cover selected tracks from both best albums and tracks lists: Stream Winter Daydreaming or download Stream Summer Dancing… Read more
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My Top albums of 2012
The XX – Coexist Hands down my favourite and most listened to album of last year. Here are the rest of the albums in no particular order. I’m not in the habit of writing about music I like. Best to just check the records out…I’ve included links to get previews and/or purchase. Godspeed You! Black… Read more
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