Before Fat Buddha starts jibbing at me.
My listening appetite to discover new music gets less voracious by the year so as ever, a top 10 that is hardly genre hopping or adventurous, just my favourite albums I've bothered to listen to this year.
1. Bonnie Prince Billy - Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
2. Hak Baker - World Ends FM
3. Blur - The Ballad of Darren
4. King Creosote - I Des
5. Lankum - False Lankum
6. The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore
7. Boygenuius - the record
8. James Yorkston and Nina Pearson - The Great White Sea Eagle
9. The Mary Wallpapers - Irish Rock and Roll
10. Hamish Hawk - Angel Numbers.
We doing 2023 releases only or just the best 10 albums we heard this year?
About fecking time. My fingers were poised.
Typically good list, I’ll have a listen to the couple I don’t know.
Feck me if it’s opened out it will all be The Specials, the Pogues and every other silly sod that’s managed to kick the bucket in the last month.
We have enough heritage shite all year.
Sorry if that sounds toxic.
Traditionally 2033 releases but no rules.
If you can get me releases for 2033 and Xmas number 1 for that year then i'm off down the Bookies
10 - Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
9 - Foo Fighters - But Here We Are
8 - QOTSA - In Times New Roman…
7 - Sprain - The Lamb as Effigy
6 - Olivia Rodrigo - Guts
5 - Blur - The Ballad of Darren
4 - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
3 - Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
2 - Paramore - This is Why
1 -JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown - Scaring The Hoes
TarquinTraditionally 2033 releases but no rules.
Okay, with that in mind:
My favourite albums released 2023 (no particular order)
Destroy Boring / Belis - place4us
(3) - AGTHA
Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete - Crosses
Birth of Venus - Banshee
Убийцы Crystal - Убийцы Crystal
BLOOD DEBUG - TORIENA
海の歌 - lor2mg
Punk Tactics - JVB
CODE GE4SS - 4s4ki
A Million Ways to Murder - Kordhell
Best EPs / albums I’ve listened to this year not necessarily released this year (no particular order)
Mildred - Grim Salvo
Улица Мира - Перемотка
Kenopsia - quannnic
Best Days - Een Glish
World is Yours - MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
K-Notes - Kedr Livanskiy
Yesterday, 12 films later - chouchou merged syrups
Shapeless - daine
Debbie downer - LØLØ
Ugly death no redemption angel curse I love you - Ada Rook
I genuinely don’t know which is the band and which is the album title 😁
newblueI genuinely don’t know which is the band and which is the album title 😁
Album titles - artists.
One word has sprung to mind reading this thread - WHO ????? I'm old.
I sort of figured that, but entertaining both ways (quite like the titles I can actually read!).