Song for Sunday

Mdou Moctar – Imouhar

Band/artist of the week: Sailor Honeymoon

Song of the week: Tired Angels – Sailor Honeymoon

Song for Sunday

Sailor Honeymoon – Tired Angels

Band/artist of the week: The Blue Aeroplanes

Song of the week: Today is the Day – Still Corners

Song for Sunday

Still Corners – Today is the Day

Band/artist of the week: Still Corners

Song of the week: Wings of Desire – You'll Never Walk Alone

Song for Sunday

Wings of Desire – Made of Love

Band/artist of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Greatest Dancer – Nadine Shah

Song for Sunday

Underworld – Louisiana

Band/artist of the week: Gurrumul
Song of the week: Loved – Four Tet

Song for Sunday

Georgia Knight – Hell on Bent Street

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai
Song of the week: Gurrumul – Bayini (feat. Dian)

Song for Sunday

Ghostpoet – X Marks the Spot (feat. Nadine Shah)

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Lagunita – Lizzie No

Song for Sunday

Gurrumul – Bayini (ft. Dian)

Gurrumul – Bayini (ft. Sarah Blasko)

Band/artist of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Gurrumul – Bayini (ft. Dian)

Song for Sunday

King Creosote – It's Sin That's Got Its Hold of Us

Band/artist of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Greatest Dancer – Nadine Shah

Song for Sunday

Mogwai – Dracula Family

Why did no-one tell me about all the Mogwai Japanese bonus tracks before now?

Band/artist  of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Floodlights – Moment of Distraction

Song for Sunday

Whitelands – Born in Understanding

Band/artist of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Dracula Family – Mogwai

Song for Sunday

Yard Act – When the Laughter Stops (feat. Katy J Pearson)

Band/artist of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Loved – Four Tet

Song for Sunday

Nadine Shah – Greatest Dancer

Band/artist of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Mogwai – Dracula Family

Song for Sunday

Lizzie No – Lagunita

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai
Song of the week: Perfect World – Wings of Desire

Song for Sunday

The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters

Band/artist of the week: Georgia Knight

Song of the week: Four Tet – Loved

Song for Sunday

HighSchool – New York, Paris and London

Band/artist of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Wings of Desire – Perfect World

Song for Sunday

Wings of Desire – Perfect World

Band/artist of the week: Wings of Desire

Song of the week: Perfect World – Wings of Desire

Song for Sunday

Four Tet – Loved

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai
Song of the week: Dobby – Walk Away (feat. The Merindas)

Song for Sunday

Jamie xx – It's So Good

Song of the week: Loved – Four Tet

Band/artist of the week: Slowdive

Song for Sunday

DOBBY – Walk Away (feat. The Merindas)

Band/artist of the week: Mogwai

Song of the week: Four Tet – Three Drums

Song for Sunday

Young Fathers – I Saw

Band/artist of the week: The National

Song of the week: This World Couldn't See Us – Nabihah Iqbal

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