Here we go again. Another year’s nearly gone and I’ve pulled together some favourites of the hundreds of brilliant new albums that have passed my ears this year. As usual I’m putting up some mixes up on my Mixcloud account here too.And… drum roll… we’re off. 100) Bruise Blood – You Run Through The World …
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Dave’s Albums of 2024
I 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 without saying that it’s been another great year for music, it always is. A couple of …
Dave’s Albums of 2023
1: 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 The Most Fun Album of the Year award is won hands down by Leeds’s Jellyskin. Their …
Dave’s Albums of 2022
So 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 genres all the time. The sadness of never being able to hear it all is more …
Albums of the Year 2021
1 – 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. This collection of flowing pieces is all about understatement. Sam Shepherd crafts an elaborate, but extremely …
Albums of The Year 2020
What 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 carrying on with the albums of the year tradition too. So here’s the 2020 list. If …
Albums of the Year 2019
Here 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 can revisit it all in future years.But I hope anyone who comes across this finds something …
Albums of the Year 2018
The 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 – there’s some splendid stuff around and hopefully, you’ll dig up some stuff that floats yer boat. …
Albums of the Year 2017
Dave’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 reckon that you can listen to all the music you can, as much as you can, …
Albums of the Year 2016
Albums 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 anything in order is pretty arbitrary (and I got fed up with moving them around) – …