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