Pennyblackmusic - Writers' Albums of the Year 2023
by Admin
published: 8 / 3 / 2024
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Our writera provide their albums of the year for 2023.
KIMBERLY BRIGHT 1. Roisin Murphy -- Hit Parade 2. boygenius -- The Record 4. Louise Distras -- Beauty After Bruises 5. Graham Parker -- Last Chance to Do the Twist 6. XTC -- The Big Express (reissue) 7. John Cale -- Mercy 8. Barbie The Album 9. Lana Del Rey -- Did You Know There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. 10. The Ballet -- Daddy Issues Gig of the Year: Squeeze and The Psychedelic Furs, Brown Country Music Center, Nashville, 22/9/2023 JOHN CLARKSON} 1. The Transmissionary Six - Often Sometimes Rarely Never 2. The Bathers - Sirenesque 3. THe Delines - The NIght Alwaya Comes 4. the black watch - Future Strangers 5. Pale Blue Eyes - This House 6. Vinny Peculiar - Love Freaks 7. The Band of Holy Joy - Fated Beautiful Mistakes 8. The Bluebells - In the 21st Century 9. The Kingfishers - Reflections in a Silver Sound 10. Brenda - Brenda Gig of the Year - The Who, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, 9/7/2023 NICKY CREWE 1, JIm GHedi and Toby Hay - Jim Ghedi and Toby HAy JULIE CRUICKSHANK 1. Peach and Quiet - Beautiful Thing 2. Rupert Wates - Elegies 3. Elli de Mon - Pagan Blues 4. Yes - The Yes Album (reissue) 5. Elise Boeur and Adam Iredale-Gray - Fiddle Tunes 6. The Burner Band - Age of the Liar 7. The Blue Highways - Out on the Line 8. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock - (reissue) 9. Stevie Nicks - Complete Studio Albums and Rarities 10. 10cc - Deceptive Bends (reissue) NICK DENT-ROBINSON 1. Joni Mitchell - At Newport 2. Corinne Bailey Rae - Black Rainbows 3. Durand Jones - Wait Till I Get Over 4. Doris Brendel - Pigs Might Fly 5. Chris Stapleton - Higher 6. Sam Brown - number 8 DIXIE ERNILL 1 Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans - Mystic Science 2. John Douglas - John Douglas 3. Robert Forster - The Candle And The Flame 4. The Grain Hoppers - Fireflies Trapped In A Jar 5). Spearmint - This Candle Is For You 6. The Vaxtones - Never Ending Story 7. The Hannah Barberas - Fantastic Tales Of The Sea 8. The Murder Capital - Gigi's Recovery 9. The Lathums - From Nothing To A Little Bit More 10) The Charlie Tipper Experiment - The Riviera Sessions Gig of the Year: Athens Pop Underground Fest - May 2023 DAVID GOODWIN 1. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy 2. James – Be Opened by the Wonderful 3. The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds 4. Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love Me - 5. Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project – The Task has Overwhelmed Us 6. Depeche Mode – Momento Mori 7. Tricky and Marta – When It's Going Wrong 8. Lanterns on the lake – Versions of Us. S 9. Shame – Food for worms – Dead Oceans 10. Gorrillaz – Cracker Island - Parlophone BEN HOWARTH 1. The Young’Uns – Tiny Notes 2/ Jarrod Dickinson – Big Talk 3. Almost Nothing (Roddy Woomble) – Almost Nothing 4. Anna B Savage – In׀FLUX 5. Papernut Cambridge – Channel Suite 6. Corinne Bailey Rae – Black Rainbows 7/ Robert Rotifer – Holding Hands In Petrópolis 8. Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy 9. Dominique Fils-Aime – Our Roots Run Deep 10. Angie McMahon – Light, Dark, Light Again Gig of the Year: Anna B Savage, Village Underground, 28/3/2023 FIONA HUTCHINGS 1. Reverend and the Makers - Heatwave In The Cold North 2. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori 3. Madness - Theatre of the Absurd Presents C'est la Vie 4. Antony Szmierek - Seasoning Gig of the Year: Pulp, Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, 14/7/2023 ADRIAN JANES 1. Public Service Broadcasting - The New Noise 2. The Declining Winter - Really Early, Really Late 3. Anton Barbeau - Stranger 4. Neverland Ranch Davidians - Neverland Ranch Davidians 5. Last Dreamer - Alix STEVE MILES 1. GIna Burch - I Play My Bass Loud Gig of the Year: Undertones/Rezillos, O2 Academy, Bristol, 29/9/2023 NIGE NUDDS 1. The Church – Hypnogogue 2,. Explosions In The Sky – End 3. The National – Laugh Track Gig of the Year; House of Love, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich, 23/7/2023 MAARTEN SCHIETHART 1. Titi Bakorta - Molende .2. Chouk Bwa & the Ångströmers - Somanti .3. Faizal Mostrixx - Mutations .4. Nihiloxica - Source of Denial .5. El Michels Affair & Black Thought – Glorious Game (Big Crown) .6. Melenas - Ahora. 7. BAu - Indifferentemente (Aagoo) .8. Saint Abdullah and Eomac - Chasing Stateless .9., Onyon - Last Days on Earth 10 . Elvin Brandhi and Lord Spikeheart - Drunken Love LISA TOREM 1. Ann Margret - Born to Be Wild 2. Lana Del Ray - Boygenius 3. Billy Valentine - The Universal Truth 4. Billy Childs, - The Winds of "Change 5. Sufjan Stevens - Rat Saw God Music Gig of the Year: Tori Amos, Beacon Theater, New York, 29/6/2023 CILA WARNCKE 1 Slowdive - Everything Is Alive 2. Depeche Mode - Memento Mori 3. Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy 4. Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman 5. Lucero - Should've Learned by Now 6.. The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore 7/ Pet Shop Boys - Smash: The Singles 1985-2020 8/ Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (10th Anniversary edition) 9. Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version) Gig of the Year; Bruce Springsteen, Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, Barcelona, 28/4/2023
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