Mago Dave
Here’s where I collect my albums of the year lists. Check them all out below. There are links to all the artists, so you can listen for yourselves.
I also made a bunch of mixes that take in some of the year’s best music by genre. You can listen to those below.
I also make deep and immersive genre-hopping mixes in collaboration with my pal Mark Broadbent, as Radio Guesthouse.
- Dave’s Albums of 2024I was surprised to see that this is my 12th year of doing this list. But it’s a good way to sift through the year’s best music and keeps me largely out of trouble, so why not? It goes …
- Dave’s Albums of 20231: James Holden – Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities James Holden’s continuing adventures at the margins of electronic music continue to astound. Here, he reimagines rave from a distance. 2: Jellyskin – In Brine …
- Dave’s Albums of 2022So another year whistles past in what feels like moments. Sometimes the abundance of incredible new music is the only thing that parses time and taps on the brakes a little. Talented artists are making stunning music in all …
- Albums of the Year 20211 – Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra- Promises This is a stunning collaboration between three very different artists, and guess what? not much happens. I know that’s not exactly a hard sell, but it’s true. …
- Albums of The Year 2020What a year for music! I mean it’s been dreadful for most stuff but I’ve never listened to more great music. The Radio Guesthouse project I’ve been doing with old pal Mark Broadbent has helped of course but I’m …
- Albums of the Year 2019Here we go again.Here’s another collection of some of the brilliant new music I’ve discovered during 2019. This collection is mostly for me really since it’s handy to make a record of all the good stuff so that I …
- Albums of the Year 2018The Best Music of 2018 Here we go again with a huge list of the best music I’ve found this year. I’m a bit short on time this year so forgive the brief descriptions and have a delve – …
- Albums of the Year 2017Dave’s Albums of The Year 2017 There’s never going to be enough time to discover and listen to all the wonderful music that already exists. And then people keep making more of it. What can you do? Well I …
- Albums of the Year 2016Albums of the Year 2016 Here we go again – the distillation of a year’s worth of listening to new music. And thankfully another year of excellent music. It’s all listed in number order but to be honest putting …
- Albums of the Year 2015Dave’s Albums of the Year 2015 That time of year again. It’s good fun sifting back through the best of the new stuff that was released in 2015. These are some of the albums that I really enjoyed – …