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These are the albums of 2023 that have meant the most to us, alongside our compilations & archives of the year
These are the fifty albums of 2022 that have meant the most to us, alongside our compilations & archives of the year
The reblooming Keiron Phelan accounts for the emotional and melodic synthesis behind the third album in his scholarly pop craftsman guise
Nancy Sinatra is getting the carefully curated archive treatment by Light in the Attic and Start Walkin’ is a primer worth writing home about
Nightmares of a ruined dreamland inspire Brighton’s psychic popster Dog in the Snow on her second album, Vanishing Lands
Patience’s inspired synth pop debut LP depicts gleaming surfaces, yet delivers depth on the dancefloor as it digs at memory and melancholy underneath
Tracey Thorn traces her past as a teenager in suburbia with a book that beautifully combines memoir, music and psychogeography
Robert Sotelo’s DIY pop comes off like Robert Rental remaking Paul Simon’s Graceland in a Glasgow basement