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Records of the year 2024

Records of the year 2024

Here's our favourite records of the year. Yes, there's loads of them - why not, eh? They're not in any order, because who are we to say that one album is the 14th best of the year, and another the 39th? Art's not a competition etc etc. Hopefully you'll find something in amongst these lists that you missed, but will love as much as we do. There's two lists - new releases up first, followed by our favourite reissues and compilations. No doubt we've forgotten loads.  You can find most of these on this website. Treat yourself, you deserve it And,...

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Albums of the year 2023

Albums of the year 2023

Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World [BUY/INFO] 40 years in and indie rock’s quietest loud band have released one of their leanest and most concise records in years. As noisy and nostalgic, and as timely and timeless, as ever. A future classic. Modern Nature – No Fixed Point In Space [BUY/INFO] No Fixed Point In Space, the third full-length album by Jack Cooper’s Modern Nature, takes the palette of sound and themes that were honed on 2021’s Island Of Noise and launches them into an expansive world of openness and vivid technicolour. Certain moorings - woodwind, percussion, strings and Cooper’s...

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Records of the Year 2022

Records of the Year 2022

As another year of ups and downs stutters to an end I've been trying to wrangle some of the best music that's been released in our (near) 9 years in to a definitive order. Of course, putting an objective art form in to an order of 'best' is a fools errand, so I make no claims that one is better than another, just these are records I love. So, here they are, in an order that currently makes sense to me (but no doubt will change the second it's published). What is definite is that these records, especially those in...

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Records Of The Year 2021

Records Of The Year 2021

As another year of ups and downs stutters to an end I've been trying to wrangle some of the best music that's been released in our (near) 8 years in to a definitive order. Of course, putting an objective art form in to an order of 'best' is a fools errand, so I make no claims that one is better than another, just these are records I love. ​​So, here they are, in an order that currently makes sense to me (but no doubt will change the second it's published). What is definite is that these records, especially those in the top 10, have been on constant rotation 1....

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Records Of The Year 2020

Records Of The Year 2020

You don't need me to tell you about this year, we've all been through it, but I think it's safe to say that this year, more than any other, music has been a salve. With the shop being shut I've spent a lot of time walking the streets of Southend hand delivering records, which gave me time to really pay attention to the records I love. Putting them in any order is something that keeps me awake at night, I don't think any of us consider music in competition terms, and it's fair to say that after the first 10...

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