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.