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Favourite LPs of 2023, Part 2.
Welcome once again to the annual tradition of Song Bar’s favourite album releases of 2023. This is Part 2, and Part 1 was yesterday. There’s no such thing as a chart rundown or ‘best of’ here, and these come in no particular order …
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Part 1 selection of 2023 favourite albums
Welcome once again to the annual tradition of Song Bar’s favourite album releases of 2023. This is Part 1, and Part 2 is also out here. There’s no such thing as a chart rundown or ‘best of’ here, and these come in no particular order. This is all about quality and innovation …
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Sufjan Stevens: Javelin
New album: After a series of collaborative and more experimental projects, the American artist’s first full singer-songwriter solo LP since 2015’s remarkable Carrie & Lowell is just as exquisite, delicate, tender, and beautifully heartbreaking
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Angelo De Augustine: Toil and Trouble
New album: Beautiful, acoustic otherworldliness aplenty in this fourth album by the California singer-songwriter in a realm of tender songs of gentle fingerpicking ethereal, whispery falsetto, glass xylophone, flutes, mellotron, oddball sound effects and animation
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Sufjan Stevens: Reflections
New album: An entrancing, rippling, nimble-fingered classical score newly recorded by the multi-talented New York singer-songwriter, written for two pianists, notably here Timo Andres and Conor Hanick, and originally commissioned for a 2019 ballet in collaboration with choreographer Justin Peck
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The album cover, one of several paintings by Ghanaian movie poster artist Daniel Anum Jasper
New album: Stevens’ new collaborative album with fellow songwriter brings two complementary voices and talents together with light, melancholy and beautiful numbers that are all inspired by a diverse set of feature films
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Another square of nine great new albums
Album reviews roundup: This selection has a particularly political and topical element with the likes of Sufjan Stevens, IDLES, Bob Mould and Diana Jones tackling issues in different styles, as well as other stylish pop and experimental releases
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Dana Gavanski, from the video for Yesterday is Gone
This week’s huge roundup includes a wide range of the soft and loud, the traditional and the experimental, from beautiful songwriting by Dana Gavanski and Waxahatchee, Aussie punks The Chats, and ambient music from Sufjan Stevens
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