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Writers' Albums of the Year 2023
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2024
Our writera provide their albums of the year for 2023.
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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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