In many respects, 2023 was a diabolical year. Fortunately, music provided considerable solace and we were spoilt for choice in nominating our favourite albums of the year. We are pleased to announce that BC Camplight’s ‘The Last Rotation of Earth’ is our album of the year. He has been a long-standing favourite at Silent Radio but excelled himself this year with this multi-layered tragicomic masterpiece. Here is our Top 40 voted for by Silent Radio’s writers.
- BC Camplight – The Last Rotation Of Earth
- PJ Harvey – I Inside The Old Year Dying
- JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown – Scaring the Hoes
- The Clientele – I Am Not There Anymore
- Sufjan Stevens – Javelin
- Anna B Savage – in/FLUX
- Blur – The Ballad Of Darren
- Lil Yachty – Let’s Start Here
- H Hawkline – Milk For Flowers
- The Coral – Sea Of Mirrors
- 파란노을 (Parannoul) – After the Magic
- OSees – Intercepted Message
- yeule – Softscars
- Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani – Les Egares
- David Brewis – The Soft Struggles
- Roberto Fonseca – La Gran Diversion
- Sparklehorse – Bird Machine
- Sweeping Promises – Good Living is Coming for You
- Robert Forster – The Candle and the Flame
- The Free Music – The Free Music (Vol. 1)
- Mandy Indiana – I’ve Seen A Way
- Mary Lattimore – Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
- Spearmint – This Candle is For You
- Maya Ongaku – Approach to Anima
- Harp – Albion
- Foo Fighters – But Here We Are
- Smoke Fairies – Carried in Sound
- Leon Keita – Leon Keita
- The David Tattersall Group – The David Tattersall Group
- Queens Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman
- Katie von Schleicher – A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
- The Bug Club – Rare Birds: Hour of Song
- Sparks – The Girl is Crying in her Latte
- Jen Cloher – I Am The River, The River is Me
- Sonic Youth – Live In Brooklyn 2011
- Katie Gately – Fawn / Brute
- Water From Your Eyes – Everyone’s Crushed
- Lloyd Bean – Black Cat, Dark Horse
- Volksempfanger – Attack of Sound
- Super Duty Tough Work – Paradigm Shift
