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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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Depeche Mode: Memento Mori
New album: With one of the best in over 20 years, Basildon’s veteran electro-pop specialists Martin Gore and Dave Gahan return, now sadly without Andy Fletcher who died last year, but with a album about sex, death and mutability that is also a tribute to their lost longtime colleague
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Going back to go forward: Nation of Language
New album: The follow-up to Introduction, Presence (2020), the Brooklyn trio continue in very likeable new wave synth vein, but dipping more into style of the 70s pioneers such as Kraftwerk and Neu! as well as early Human League and OMD
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Chilly Gonzales and Jarvis Cocker
This week we check in a hotel-based work by Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales, and visit other great musical locations via Depeche Mode, Japan's Midori Takada, Conor Oberst, Horsebeach and Spoon
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