Records I have listened to in 2023 (so far…)

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.

1. Richard Dawson & Circle – Henki
2. Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure
3. Dan Deacon – Mystic Familiar
4. Taylor Swift – Folklore
5. Daniel Avery – Ultra Truth
6. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song
7. Sons of Kemet – Black to the Future
8. Floating Points – Crush
9. Big Joanie – Back Home
10. Field Music – Flat White Moon
11. The Weather Station – Ignorance
12. Colin Stetson – All this I do for glory
13. Colin Stetson – New history warfare volume 3: to see more light
14. Colin Stetson – New history warfare volume 2: judges
15. Caribou – Andorra
16. The Necks – Drive by
17. Yusuf kamaal – black focus
18. Do make say think – you, you’re a history in rust
19. Four tet – new energy
20. Robyn – honey
21. Field works – ultrasonic
22. Beastie boys – Paul’s boutique
23. Bjork – post
24. Owen Pallett – heartland
25. Apparat – walls
26. Talk talk – the colour of spring
27. Ricardo Villalobos – alcochofa
28. Talk talk – spirit of Eden
29. Owen Pallett – in conflict
30. Grimes – visions
31. Nils frahm – all melody
32. Grizzly bear – painted ruins
33. Harmonia – deluxe
34. The beta band – the three EPs
35. The necks – open
36. The necks – unfold
37. The necks – three
38. Television – marquee moon
39. My bloody Valentine – EPs
40. My bloody Valentine – mbv
41. Brian eno – music for airports
42. Stars of the lid – ballasted orchestra
43. Polar Bear – same as you
44. Burt Bacharach et al – The look of love
45. The National – trouble will find me
46. The national- high violet
47. De La soul – 3ft high and rising
48. Owen Pallett – island
49. Taylor swift – 1989
50. Wayne shorter – juju
51. William basinski – disintegration loops 1
52. Deafheaven – infinite granite
53. The necks – hanging gardens
54. Jenny Lewis and the Watson twins – rabbit fur coat
55. Joan as policewoman – real life
56. Orbital – in sides
57. Oren ambarchi – shebang
58. Manitoba – start breaking my heart
59. Air – moon safari
60. Anna Meredith – varmints
61. Caribou – the milk of human kindness
62. Gillian welch – time (the revelator)
63. Jim o rourke – bad timing
64. James Holden and the animal spirits – James Holden and the animal spirits
65. Sebastian rochford and kit downes – a short diary
66. Yo La tengo – I can hear the heart beating as one
67. Orbital – monsters exist
68. Julianna barwick – nepenthe
69. James Holden – the inheritors
70. Matthew Bourne – moogmemory
71. Matthew dear – asa breed
72. Pantha du Prince – black noise
73. Mitski – be the cowboy
74. Minotaur shock – orchard
75. Shabaka and the ancestors – wisdom of the elders
76. The necks – drive by
77. The necks – chemist
78. Arthur Russel – the world of Arthur Russel
79. Floating points – elaenia
80. CAn – future days
81. Helena hauf – qualm
82. Four tet – morning/evening
83. The necks – travel
84. Weezer – blue album
85. Beastie boys – check your head
86. House of blondes – the one trip
87. Katy Gately – loom
88. Grimes – visions
89. Beastie boys – I’ll communication
90. Aphid twin – syro
91. Beastie boys – Paul’s boutique
92. Floating points – crush
93. Taylor swift – 1989
94. Taylor swift – red
95. Taylor swift – lover
96. The sounds of science – beastie boys
97. Destroyer – Labryinthitis
98. Beastie boys – to the five boroughs
99. Beastie boys – hot sauce committee
100. Four tet – sixteen oceans
101. Sarah machlachlan – fumbling towards ecstasy
102. Sons of Kemet – black to the future
103. Make-up – save yourself
104. Micachu and the shapes – jewellery
105. Beaulah – the coast is never clear
106. Orbital – brown
107. Soul jazz records / various artists – kaleidoscope
108. Portico quartet – Isla
109. Swans – leaving meaning
110. Bark psychosis – hex
111. Dawn Richard and Spencer’s zahn – pigments
112. Panda bear – person pitch
113. Gabriel’s – angels and queens part 1
114. Boygenius – the record
115. James Holden – imagine this is a high dimensional space of all possibilities
116. Orbital – optical delusion
117. Katie Gately – fawn/brute
118. Lucy Dacus – home video
119. Kelly Lee Owens – lp 8
120. Yo La tengo – this stupid world
121. The National – first two pages of Frankenstein
122. Grimes – art angels
123. Patrick wolf -the night safari
124. Yo La tengo – electro-pura
125. Disco inferno – the five EPs
126. Floating points and pharaoh sanders – promises
127. Floating points – reflections mojave desert
128. Nadine shah – kitchen sink
129. Sons of Kemet – black to the future
130. Aphex Twin – Syro
131. Big thief – dragon new warm mountain I believe in you
132. Steve Reich – music for 18 musicians
133. A winged victory for the sullen – the u divided five
134. Spoon – lucifer on the sofa
135. Low – the great destroyer
136. Phone Bridgers – punisher
137. Tim Hecker -ravedeath 1972
138. Mitski – laurel hell
139. House of blondes – time trip
140. Grimes – visions
141. Floating points – crush
142. Four tet – sixteen oceans
143. Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
144. The necks – sex
145. Miles Davis – bitches brew
146. Mike’s Davis – in a silent way
147. Joan as police woman – damned devotion
148. Penguin cafe orchestra – a brief history
149. Spoon – memory dust EP
150. Aphex twin – come to daddy EP
151. Boards if Canada – in a beautiful place out in the country EP
152. Sigur Ros – Takk…
153. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun