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Essential Listening: The Best Releases Of 2025

Posted on 21/12/2025 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

I’m not sure what’s more concerning, that, without checking, I can’t remember all the albums which made my Best Releases Of 2024 list, or that it seems only yesterday that I was writing that column. From now on, instead of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 2025, 808 State, Akira, Alex James cosplaying a country Tory, Avocados costing £2.50 each, Björk, Blade Runner, Blur, Boards Of Canada, Boomkat, Brainwashing, Brexit, Canadian Loon, Christmas, Colombian, David Rawlings, Decius, DJ Sprinkles, Do You Radio, Ducktails, Duval Timothy, Erasure, Essential Listening, Factory Floor, Fat White Family, Gillian Welch, GlenGarry GlenRoss, Goldie, Hugh B, I Care Because I Do, Iceland, Japanese, KiF Productions, Lias Saoudi, Live From 71, Los Pirañas, Múm, New Year, Nostalgia, Oasis, Pigs, Queerification & Ruins; Collected Remixes (Expanded Edition), Reissue, Richard D. James, Richard D. James Album, Robert Wyatt, Shrinking Twix, Simon Fisher Turner, Sochi Terada, Soft Cell, Stereolab, Still Out, Terre Thaemlitz, The Modern Pop Ensemble, Timeless, Tiny Desk Concert, TV Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993, Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida, Vinyl snobs, Vol II (Splendour & Obedience), Warm Leatherette, Will Long, Wishful Thinking, Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK, You Go To The Middle Of Nothing | Leave a comment

Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2018

Posted on 30/12/2018 by Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard

We survived. Well, most of us. As with my best songs of the year list, this list is restricted to ten and is in alphabetical order. However, the title of this post is somewhat disingenuous as I haven’t restricted this … Continue reading →

Posted in Essential Listening | Tagged 1/3, 2/3, 2018, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Blood Orange, Boards Of Canada, Bon Dylan, Bootlegs, Brexit, Brian Eno, Compilation, Compro, Dance Hall Style, Deadline Paranoia, Essential Listening, Gabe Gurnsey, Horace Andy, Jeremy Corbyn is a cowardly twat, Kate Bush, Keith Richards, King Of Cowards, Leaving via a Gatwick drone, Machinedrum, Negro Swan, New Year, NTS Sessions 1-4, Oil Of Every Pearl's Un-insides, Oregon, Pet Shop Boys, Physical, Piano & A Microphone, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Prince, Reeperbahn, Reissue, Scott Walker, Skee Mask, SOPHIE, Soya milk drinking welly wearing yoghurt producing vegan types, Switched on Eugene, The Purple One, Too lazy and tired to do a bigger list, Various, Voices Of Freedom | Leave a comment