The Best of 2023… a digestible list.

In no particular order, these were the records that I couldn’t get enough of in 2023. New artists and some old discoveries reissued this year - these make the same list in my book.

Bowes Road Band

JIM – Love Makes Magic (Vicious Charm)

The Tubs – Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)

The Lemon Twigs – Harmony Everywhere (Captured Tracks)

Everything Has A Life – J Mahon (Taxi Gauche)

Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre (Soft Abuse)

Just A Touch – Various (Athens Of The North)

McNeal and Wilbur Niles – THRUST (We Are Busy Bodies)

Mad Anthony – The Lost Tapes (Earth Libraries)

Bowes Road Band – Back in the HCA (Jakarta)

Randy & The Ghosts – On The Lam (Riding Easy)

Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)

Albert – Time Well Spent (Tejas Music)

The honourable mention list is really good too! These albums just came out in the past month or so and haven’t sunk in yet, they were played a lot and enjoyed, but didn’t quite grip the speakers in the obsessive way the list above did. Saying that, these were great and more than worth checking out…

African Head Charge – Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)

Jonathan Rado – For Who the Bell Tolls For (Western Vinyl)

Girl Ray – Prestige (Moshi Moshi)

Yasmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own)

James Howard – Peek-a-Boo (Faith and Industry)

Smokey Angle Shades - Let Go Of The Past (Europa Sun)