Favourite Songs of 2023

1 Midnight Sun – RVG

2 King Creosote – Blue Marbled Elm Trees

3 Slowdive – kisses

4 Floodlights – Moment of Distraction

5 Nabihah Iqbal – This World Couldn't See Us

6 Gretel Hänlyn – War With America

7 Sumner – Stranded

8 Chosen to Deserve – Wednesday

9 Yo La Tengo – Aselestine

10 Cable Ties – Mum's Caravan

Honourable mentions

The Blue Aeroplanes – Building an Ark for the Anthropocene
Cloth – Never Know
Descartes a Kant – After Destruction
Elisabeth Elektra – Broken Promises
Four Tet – Three Drums
Julia Jacklin – Shivers
London Grammar and SebastiAn – Dancing By Night
The National – Tropic Morning News

Favourite albums of 2023

1 RVG – Brain Worms

2 Slowdive – everything is alive

3 King Creosote – I DES

4 Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World

5 Floodlights – Paintings of My Time

6 Cloth – Secret Measure

7 Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy

8 Emma Anderson – Pearlies

9 bdrmm – I Don't Know

10 Blue Aeroplanes – Culture Gun 

Honourable mentions

Blondshell – Blondshell

Blur – The Ballad of Darren

Body Type – Expired Candy

boygenius – the record

Cable Ties – All Her Plans

Descartes a Kant – After Destruction

Nabihah Iqbal – Dreamer

Pia Fraus – Evening Colours

Riel – Percipio del Fin

Dan Sultan – Dan Sultan

Wednesday – Rat Saw God

Favourite books of 2023

1 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin

2 A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M Miller Jr

3 The Wolf Border – Sarah Hall

4 Finding the Heart of the Nation – Thomas Mayor

5 Too Much Lip – Melissa Lucashenko

6 In Ascension – Martin MacInnes

7 Telling Tennant's Story – Dean Ashenden

8 Ducks – Kate Beaton

9 Factfulness – Hans Rosling

10 Spaceships Over Glasgow – Stuart Braithwaite

Full list of 2023 reading here.

Song for Sunday

Slowdive – prayer remembered

Band/artist of the week: Sharon Van Etten

Song of the week: Midnight Sun – RVG

Favourite books of 2022

1 Islands of Abandonment – Cal Flyn

2 Free – Lea Ypi

3 The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson

4 The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki

5 Apeirogon – Colum McCann

6 Luckenbooth – Jenni Fagan

7 Light Perpetual – Francis Spufford

8 A Shock – Keith Ridgway

9 Sea of Tranquility – Emily St John Mandel

10 Twenty-one Nights in July – Ianto Ware

Full list of 2022 reading here.

Favourite albums of 2022

1 Nilüfer Yanya – Painless

2 Adalita – Inland

3 Gretel Hänlyn – Slugeye

4 Sharon Van Etten – We've Been Going About This All Wrong

5 The Big Pink – The Love That's Ours

6 Pale Blue Eyes – Souvenirs

7 Yard Act – The Overload

8 Fontaines D. C. – Skinty Fia

9 Alvvays – Blue Rev

10 caroline – caroline

Honourable mentions

Elisabeth Elektra – Mercurial

Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure

Suede – Autofiction

Favourite Songs of 2022

1 Nilüfer Yanya – midnight sun

2 Gretel Hänlyn – Motorbike

3 Ethel Cain – American Teenager

4 Fontaines D.C. – Roman Holiday

5 Yard Act and Elton John – 100% Endurance

6 Young Fathers – Geronimo

7 Sharon Van Etten – Darkness Fades

8 Adalita – Savage Heart

9 Burial – New Love

10 The Big Pink – Lucky One

Honourable mentions

Alvvays – Belinda Says
Dolores Forever – Conversations With Strangers
Elisabeth Elektra – I Am the Love
Fleeting Joys – Something in Your Melody
Mogwai – Boltfor
Carla Morrison – Diamantes
Ruth Radelet – Stranger
Riel – TKM
Talmont – IDATMT
Triple One – Come Over

Song for Sunday

Wednesday – Chosen to Deserve

Band/artist of the week: Cloth

Song of the week: Moment of Distraction – Floodlights

Song for Sunday

Feist – Borrow Trouble

Band/artist of the week: Descartes A Kant

Song of the week: Darkness, Darkness – Keiran Hebden and William Tyler

Song for Sunday

Nabihah Iqbal – Dreamer

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Underworld – Louisiana

Song for Sunday

Descartes a Kant – After Destruction

Band/artist of the week: King Creosote
Song of the week: Blue Marbled Elm Trees – King Creosote

Song for Sunday

Stuart A. Staples – Goodbye to Old Friends

Band/artist of the week: King Creosote

Song of the week: Elisabeth Elektra – Broken Promises (feat. Mogwai)

Song for Sunday

Elisabeth Elektra (feat. Mogwai) – Broken Promises

Song of the week: Blue Marbled Elm Trees – King Creosote
Band/artist of the week: King Creosote

Song for Sunday

King Creosote – Blue Marbled Elm Trees

Band/artist of the week: Yo La Tengo

Song of the week: Midnight Sun – RVG

Song for Sunday

Emma Anderson – Clusters

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: It's Just a Bit of Blood – BDRMM

Song for Sunday

The Breeders – Divine Mascis (ft. J. Mascis)

Band/artist of the week: Billy Bragg

Song of the week: Emma Anderson – The Presence

Song for Sunday

Blondshell – Street Rat

Band/artist of the week: Pale Blue Eyes

Song of the week: Yes – A.B. Original, DJ Total Eclipse and Marlon

Song for Sunday

A.B. Original - YES feat. DJ Total Eclipse & Marlon

Band/artist of the week: RVG

Song of the week: Slowdive – skin in the game

Song for Sunday

Hydroplane – Stars (Twilight Mix)

Band/artist of the week: The National

Song of the week: the slab – Slowdive

Song for Sunday

Gretel Hänlyn – War With America

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: skin in the game – Slowdive

Song for Sunday

London Grammar, SebastiAn – Dancing by Night

Band/artist of the week: Slowdive

Song of the week: the slab – Slowdive

Song for Sunday

Pale Blue Eyes – Takes Me Over

Band/artist of the week: Slowdive

Song of the week: skin in the game – Slowdive

Song for Sunday

Slowdive – kisses

Band/artist of the week: Pale Blue Eyes
Song of the week: Late at Night – Buffalo Tom

Song for Sunday

Cable Ties – Mum's Caravan

Band/artist of the week: Saint Etienne

Song of the week: A Candle Which Will Not Be Put Out (Live) – Public Service Broadcasting

Song for Sunday

Quinn Christopherson – Evelene

Band/artist of the week: Saint Etienne

Song of the week: Brain Worms – RVG

Song for Sunday

RVG – Common Ground

Band/artist of the week: RVG
Song of the week: Malcolm Middleton – Choir

Song for Sunday

Dan Sultan – Old Fitzroy

Band/artist of the week: RVG
Song of the week: The Jesus and Mary Chain (feat. Isobel Campbell) – Sometimes Always (Live at the Hollywood Palladium)

Song for Sunday

Public Service Broadcasting, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jules Buckley – Broadcasting House

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Someone (In the Arms of No One) – The Blue Aeroplanes

Song for Sunday

Blur – St. Charles Square

Band/artist of the week: Blur

Song of the week: Belinda Says – Alvvays

Song for Sunday

Chvrches – Over

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Moment of Distraction – Floodlights

Song for Sunday

Julia Jacklin – Shivers

Band/artist of the week: bdrmm

Song of the week: It's Just a Bit of Blood – bdrmm

Song for Sunday

bdrmm – It's Just a Bit of Blood

Band/artist of the week: bdrmm

Song of the week: Party in the Dark – Mogwai

Song for Sunday

Adalita – Rooms For the Memory

Band/artist of the week: Cable Ties

Song of the week: Julia Jacklin – Shivers

Song for Sunday

Sigur Rós - Blóðberg

Band/artist of the week: Christine and the Queens

Song of the week: Southeast Desert Metal – Don't Walk Away

Song for Sunday

John Grant – It Doesn't Matter to Him

Band/artist of the week: Cloth

Song of the week: Cloth – Never Know

Song for Sunday

Floodlights – Things You Do 

Band/artist of the week: RVG
Song of the week: Midnight Sun – RVG

Song for Sunday

The Big Pink – Lucky One

Band/artist of the week: RVG

Song of the week: RVG – Midnight Sun

Song for Sunday

RVG – Midnight Sun

Band/artist of the week: Cloth

Song of the week: RVG – Midnight Sun

Song for Sunday

Cloth – Never Know

Band/artist of the week: The Blue Aeroplanes

Song of the week: Cloth – Never Know

Song for Sunday

Sea Power – Doppelgänger

Band/artist of the week: The National
Song of the week: The National – This Isn't Helping (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)

Song for Sunday

The Album Leaf ft. Kimbra – Afterglow

Band/artist of the week: boygenius

Song of the week: Mogwai – Blues Hour

Song for Sunday

Cable Ties – Time for You

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Yo La Tengo – Miles Away

Song for Sunday

The National – Eucalyptus

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Painting of My Time – Floodlights

Song for Sunday

Chvrches – Over

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Painting of My Time – Floodlights

Song for Sunday

Gorillaz – Silent Running ft. Adeleye Omotayo

Band/artist of the week: Lichen Slow

Song of the week: Lichen Slow – Tense

Song for Sunday

Blue Aeroplanes – Building an Ark for the Anthropocene

Band/artist of the week: Sharon Van Etten

Song of the week: Miles Away – Yo La Tengo

Song for Sunday

Sumner – Stranded

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: The Blue Aeroplanes – Building an Ark for the Anthropocene

Song for Sunday

Body Type – Miss the World

Band/artist of the week: Yo La Tengo

Song of the week: Yo La Tengo – Miles Away

Song for Sunday

The Waeve – Kill Me Again

Band/artist of the week: Yo La Tengo
Song of the week: Yo La Tengo – Miles Away

Song for Sunday

Yo La Tengo – Fallout

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Savage Heart – Adalita

Song for Sunday

Floodlights – Lessons Learnt

Band/artist of the week: Young Fathers

Song of the week: Lucky One – The Big Pink

Song for Sunday

Nilüfer Yanya - midnight sun

Band/artist of the week: Nilüfer Yanya

Song of the week: The National – Tropic Morning News

Song for Sunday

The National – Tropical Morning News

Band/artist of the week: Nilüfer Yanya

Song of the week: Nilüfer Yanya – midnight sun

Song for Sunday

Carla Morrison – Diamantes

Band/artist of the week: Nilüfer Yanya
Song of the week: midnight sun – Nilüfer Yanya

Song for Sunday

Elisabeth Elektra – I Am the Love

Band/artist of the week: Adalita

Song of the week: American Teenager – Ethel Cain