Inspired by Rob (from Devon Record Club) (who was in turn inspired by Stewart Lee’s annual rund-up of his cultural consumption) I have been keeping a little list, on my phone, of every record I’ve listened to this year. I don’t use Spotify etc, so there’s no way for me to automate this process – I’ve literally just got a list in my Notes app that I update every time I put a CD on, or stream something from our own server. Which is to say that this list is as fallible as I am – sometimes I forget at the time, and then try to remember things later, or pile up recent physical choices and then add them all at once when it gets too big. I’ve also – through lack of foresight or interest, I’m not sure – not noted down how many times I’ve listened to something. I’ve just noted it the first time I listened to it. And maybe a second time if I forgot I’d already listened to it and written down. And then maybe a third if I forgot etc etc etc.
So this list is a rough record of what I’ve chosen to listen to, in full, as an album (lol 40-year-old-man) between 1 January 2023 and now, 5 July 2023. It should be noted that the single record I have listened to WAY more than any other is the new James Holden album, which I’ve basically had on repeat for the last two and a half months.
- Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki
- Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure
- Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
- Taylor Swift – Folklore
- Daniel Avery – Ultra Truth
- Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song
- Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future
- Floating Points – Crush
- Big Joanie – Back Home
- Field Music – Flat White Moon
- The Weather Station – Ignorance
- Colin Stetson – All this I do for glory
- Colin Stetson – New history warfare volume 3: to see more light
- Colin Stetson – New history warfare volume 2: judges
- Caribou – Andorra
- The Necks – Drive by
- Yusuf kamaal – black focus
- Do make say think – you, you’re a history in rust
- Four tet – new energy
- Robyn – honey
- Field works – ultrasonic
- Beastie boys – Paul’s boutique
- Bjork – post
- Owen Pallett – heartland
- Apparat – walls
- Talk talk – the colour of spring
- Ricardo Villalobos – alcochofa
- Talk talk – spirit of Eden
- Owen Pallett – in conflict
- Grimes – visions
- Nils frahm – all melody
- Grizzly bear – painted ruins
- Harmonia – deluxe
- The beta band – the three EPs
- The necks – open
- The necks – unfold
- The necks – three
- Television – marquee moon
- My bloody Valentine – EPs
- My bloody Valentine – mbv
- Brian eno – music for airports
- Stars of the lid – ballasted orchestra
- Polar Bear – same as you
- Burt Bacharach et al – The look of love
- The National – trouble will find me
- The national- high violet
- De La soul – 3ft high and rising
- Owen Pallett – island
- Taylor swift – 1989
- Wayne shorter – juju
- William basinski – disintegration loops 1
- Deafheaven – infinite granite
- The necks – hanging gardens
- Jenny Lewis and the Watson twins – rabbit fur coat
- Joan as policewoman – real life
- Orbital – in sides
- Oren ambarchi – shebang
- Manitoba – start breaking my heart
- Air – moon safari
- Anna Meredith – varmints
- Caribou – the milk of human kindness
- Gillian welch – time (the revelator)
- Jim o rourke – bad timing
- James Holden and the animal spirits – James Holden and the animal spirits
- Sebastian rochford and kit downes – a short diary
- Yo La tengo – I can hear the heart beating as one
- Orbital – monsters exist
- Julianna barwick – nepenthe
- James Holden – the inheritors
- Matthew Bourne – moogmemory
- Matthew dear – asa breed
- Pantha du Prince – black noise
- Mitski – be the cowboy
- Minotaur shock – orchard
- Shabaka and the ancestors – wisdom of the elders
- The necks – drive by
- The necks – chemist
- Arthur Russel – the world of Arthur Russel
- Floating points – elaenia
- CAn – future days
- Helena hauf – qualm
- Four tet – morning/evening
- The necks – travel
- Weezer – blue album
- Beastie boys – check your head
- House of blondes – the one trip
- Katy Gately – loom
- Grimes – visions
- Beastie boys – I’ll communication
- Aphid twin – syro
- Beastie boys – Paul’s boutique
- Floating points – crush
- Taylor swift – 1989
- Taylor swift – red
- Taylor swift – lover
- The sounds of science – beastie boys
- Destroyer – Labryinthitis
- Beastie boys – to the five boroughs
- Beastie boys – hot sauce committee
- Four tet – sixteen oceans
- Sarah machlachlan – fumbling towards ecstasy
- Sons of Kemet – black to the future
- Make-up – save yourself
- Micachu and the shapes – jewellery
- Beaulah – the coast is never clear
- Orbital – brown
- Soul jazz records / various artists – kaleidoscope
- Portico quartet – Isla
- Swans – leaving meaning
- Bark psychosis – hex
- Dawn Richard and Spencer’s zahn – pigments
- Panda bear – person pitch
- Gabriel’s – angels and queens part 1
- Boygenius – the record
- James Holden – imagine this is a high dimensional space of all possibilities
- Orbital – optical delusion
- Katie Gately – fawn/brute
- Lucy Dacus – home video
- Kelly Lee Owens – lp 8
- Yo La tengo – this stupid world
- The National – first two pages of Frankenstein
- Grimes – art angels
- Patrick wolf -the night safari
- Yo La tengo – electro-pura
- Disco inferno – the five EPs
- Floating points and pharaoh sanders – promises
- Floating points – reflections mojave desert
- Nadine shah – kitchen sink
- Sons of Kemet – black to the future
- Aphex Twin – Syro
- Big thief – dragon new warm mountain I believe in you
- Steve Reich – music for 18 musicians
- A winged victory for the sullen – the u divided five
- Spoon – lucifer on the sofa
- Low – the great destroyer
- Phone Bridgers – punisher
- Tim Hecker -ravedeath 1972
- Mitski – laurel hell
- House of blondes – time trip
- Grimes – visions
- Floating points – crush
- Four tet – sixteen oceans
- Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
- The necks – sex
- Miles Davis – bitches brew
- Mike’s Davis – in a silent way
- Joan as police woman – damned devotion
- Penguin cafe orchestra – a brief history
- Spoon – memory dust EP
- Aphex twin – come to daddy EP
- Boards if Canada – in a beautiful place out in the country EP
- Sigur Ros – Takk…
- Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun