It builds nearly too much, slamming and sawing well after the apex of David Ralicke's sax solo, but nearly every time it ends I slam my spacebar to set it off again, those drums and those fiddles, Leslie Feist casting a net, a wish, to try to catch up some poor souls' woe.Ī high-pace seduction, nearly breathless, except that Jorja Smith knows how to organize her respiration, she knows every trick: how to measure time, how to skip a beat, how to draw strength from dancehall, from jungle. "Borrow Trouble"'s greatness rests on its 8-bar hook: a hoarse voice, that tambourine, and sawing, sawing, sawing violins. Pummelling and gorgeous, as if Lou Reed's Street Hassle had been transformed into battle-grade munitions. I promise: each of these is a treasure-chest, go get yr spade.Īnd now, without any more throat-clearing, a downtown car-chase of proudly mixed metaphors. Daniel Villarreal - Lados B (more jazz, animated and warm / buy).La Force - XO Skeleton (supple, hot-blooded indie-R&B / buy) and.Philippe Brach - Les gens qu'on aime (a hilarious, audacious Québecois Sgt Pepper / buy).Lankum - False Lankum (more folk from Ireland, heavy as a meteor / buy).Asher Gamedze - Turbulence and Pulse (wild and rustling jazz / buy).John Francis Flynn - Look Over the Wall, See the Sky (daring & prismatic Irish folk / buy).Ben Howard - Is It? (sun-dazed, sea-sick indie pop / buy).Songs and LPs are really different, and this year was a particualrly good year for long-players. My favourite songs of the year do not necessarily speak to my favourite albums of the year. Here are some charts of this and past lists' demographics. This is the way it worked out it certainly ain't perfect. 35 of the frontpeople/bandleaders are men (the lowest ever), 58 identify as women, and there are 7 mixed duos. Papercuts await! You can also follow me on Twitter or read my books.Īmong the artists below, roughly 40 are American, 23 are Canadian, 16 are British, and there are three Spanish artists, three Australians, two each from New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria and Ireland, and one from each of France, South Korea, Mexico, Pakistan and newcomers Togo, Peru and the Netherlands. If this is your first time at Said the Gramophone, please don't hesitate to page through the archives. Don't blame them for my evanescing taste. This list is my work-me, Sean, and not any of Said the Gramophone's other past contributors. Now more than ever, giving money to Spotify or Apple is insufficient. Remember: pay for the music you enjoy, which is to say: buy albums on bandcamp, on vinyl, purchase merch at shows. I have also created a Spotify playlist for these tunes (#43 is unavailable there). If you have problems with pop-up ads I recommend installing uBlock Origin. (mirror: part 1 2 3 / 1 2 3 / please share any others) You can also download the complete 100 songs in three parts: The things you like you can then download by right- or ctrl-clicking with your mouse. The best way to browse the proceeding is to click the little arrow beside each song and then to listen as you read. I follow just one arbitrary rule: that no primary artist may appear twice. What you'll find below is my 19th annual list of the best songs in a given 12-month period. But there's still some value, I think, from hanging-in. Said the Gramophone is an old blog (20 years!). I hope you'll order it, or take it out of the library there's lots more information at my author website. The New York Times called it "timely and lovely," and there were also nice reviews in The Walrus, the Winnipeg Free Press and the Montreal Review of Books. Here are my 100 favourite songs of the year 2023 songs I love much more than doomed submarines (or basketball).Įarlier this year, I published by third novel-a book called Do You Remember Being Born? It follows the story of a fictional 75-year-old poet, Marian Ffarmer, who is hired by a Big Tech company to collaborate with their new poetry AI, Charlotte. This world needs some kindnesses-it wants more peace, liberation, and music shared between strangers. The tick-tock of time trips on and here we are again, old friends. Please note: MP3s are only kept online for a short time, and if this entry is from more than a couple of weeks ago, the music probably won't be available to download any more.
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