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