2023 — Yet Another Year in Music — 20 Years of this Shit

 

There’s no real theme to this year, it’s pretty much all over the place! And there’s a Youtube playlist for a change.

I’ve officially been doing this for 20 years now, which is terrifying…

Enjoy!

• c0ncernn — Grave Robbing
• Dorian Electra — FanFare
• 100 gecs — 10,000 gecs
• 93feetofsmoke — hard2letgo
• HEALTH — RAT WARS
• Forest Swords — Bolted
• Model/Actriz — Dogsbody
• Plastikman — Sheet One (2023 / 30th Anniversary Remaster)
• Xiu Xiu — Ignore Grief
• Young Fathers — Heavy Heavy
• Nihiloxica — Source of Denial
• Yves Tumor — Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
• Scotch Rolex — Death by Tickling
• yeule — softscars

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8nmUR4E97Q&list=PLeVEodo8uiGjj3I1hocDt4C-mBeBTK6Vg

 

2022 — A Coda (My Best Music of the Year…)

 

It’s been a very odd year for me and music. Post pandemic life is still solidifying, and the commute has been sporadic, but more frequent, meaning more time for music. But I seem to have been focused on listening to things from 2020 / 2021, rather than new music. But, with that in mind, here’s my top picks released in 2022…

• Rat Heart Ensemble — A Blues
• Maple — SONGS TO PUT ON YOUR IPOD
• iann dior — on to better things
• Post Malone — Twelve Carat Toothache
• oOo — 2nd life
• umru — comfort noise
• ABADIR — Mutate
• yeule — Glitch Princess
• DRMVRSE — NGTHMRE
• Alice Glass — PREY//IV
• Klein — STAR IN THE HOOD
• The Bug — Absent Riddim
• Perfume Genius — Ugly Season
• Astrophysics — HOPE LEFT ME
• Blackhaine — Armour II

2021 - Another Pandemic Year in Music

 Lack of commute, and becoming a Da' for the second time has meant not much time for music.  But anyway, here it is, just before the death of 2021...

 

μ-Ziq - Secret Garden
The Bug - Fire
Dorian Electra - My Agenda (Deluxe)
BABii - MiiRROR
serpentwithfeet - DEACON
Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark
Pye Corner Audio - The Spectral Corridor
Sega Bodega - Romeo
Mogwai - As The Love Continues
Koreless - Agor
Smerz - Believer
HEALTH - DISCO4+
Xiu Xiu - Oh No 

2020? Fucking hell. Here's a music list...

 What a year, eh!  In amongst the madness, I somehow found time to listen to a bunch of new music, my favourites of which are, in no particular order:

Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never
Charli XCX - how i'm feeling now
Rian Treanor - File Under UK Metaplasm
SPARKLE DIVISION - To Feel Embraced
Elroy - Demonslayer
John Frusciante - Maya
HEALTH - DISCO4 :: PART I
Special Request - Zero Fucks
Nordvest - Grondval
Arca - KiCk I
Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die ***RIP Juice WRLD***
Autechre - SIGN
Com Truise - In Decay, Too
DJ Python - Mas Amable
The Bug featuring Dis Fig - In Blue
Christoph De Babalon - Recurring Horrors
J Hus - Big Conspiracy
SALEM - Fires in Heaven

Best Music of 2019

Just squeaking in before the bells - my Top Albums of 2019:

Juice WRLD - Death Race For Love ***RIP Juice WRLD***
Gesaffelstein - Hyperion
Special Request - Vortex
Com Truise - Persuasion System
Lafawndah - Ancestor Boy
Shlohmo - The End
Quinn XCII and Elohim - From Michigan With Love
Modeselektor - Who Else
Lana Del Ray - Norman Fucking Rockwell
Czarface - Czarface Meets Ghostface
Skepta - Ignorance Is Bliss
Marshmello - Joytime III

Best Music of 2018!

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

2018 - Best Music

(in vague order)

 

 

Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of
The Glitch Mob - See Without Eyes
Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys
How To Dress Well - The Anteroom
Aphex Twin - Collapse EP
JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
Nathan Fake - Providence
serpentwithfeet - soil
Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar
KIDS SEE GHOSTS - KIDS SEE GHOSTS
Mc Paul Barman - (((Echo Chamber)))
The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,
Yves Tumor - Safe In The Hands of Love
Spark Master Tape - Seven Sekkonds Of Silence


Youtube Highlights Playlist:




Spotify Full Albums Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/38OqfpT6fBXaUN7OmCT3zQ  


Previous years:

2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010
2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 

Best Music of 2017

It's that time of year again!

2017 - Best Music

(in vague order)

Clark - Death Peak
Clark - Rellik
Cashmere Cat - 9
Young Fathers - Lord (single)
Young Fathers featuring the Leith Congregrational Choir - Only God Knows (single)
Xiu Xiu - Forget
Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
Clams Casino - Instrumentals 4
Charli XCX - Number 1 Angel
Forest Swords - Compassion
Arca - Arca
Run The Jewels - RTJ3
Mura Masa - Mura Masa
ODESZA - A Moment Apart
Vic Mensa - The Autobiography
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Don't Get Lost
Kurupt FM - The Lost Tape
Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives


Previous years:

2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010
2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003