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BPM's Top 50 Albums, Top 50 Songs and Honourable Mentions from 2023

BPM's Top 50 Albums, Top 50 Songs and Honourable Mentions from 2023

Another year down, another chance to round up all the amazing music we got to enjoy in the last 12 months.

BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2023 are here - I wrote about Anna B Savage’s in|FLUX, Titanic’s Vidrio, Armand Hammer’s We Buy Diabetic Test Strips and Kelela’s Raven

BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2023 are here - I wrote about Jessie Ware’s “Begin Again”, Portrayal of Guilt’s “III (Burning Hand)”, Wednesday’s “Chosen To Deserve”, ANOHNI’s “Can’t” and billy woods & Kenny Segal’s “Year Zero”

BPM’s Honourable Mentions for 2023 are here - My thoughts on Kara Jackson’s Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love?, Lankum’s False Lankum, Mega Bog’s End of Everything, Oliver Coates’ Aftersun OST and Spirit of the Beehive’s i’m so lucky EP

We'll be lucky if I don't bust out crying: The Albini memorial playlist

We'll be lucky if I don't bust out crying: The Albini memorial playlist

Overlooked 2023: The best albums of the year so far we didn't review

Overlooked 2023: The best albums of the year so far we didn't review