The Quiet Revolution favourite records of 2023

It seems to have crept up on us this year, and I’ve been fashionably late in getting to posting the record releases that have meant the most to me over the last 12 months. As always they are in no particular order, the numbering is to make the list easier to read and not a rating or chart placing-type indicator.

Here goes…..

  1. Rachel Sermanni – Dreamer Awake (Navigator Records)
  2. Nickel Creek – Celebrants (Repair Records)
  3. Arborist – An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros (Kirkinriola Records)
  4. Lucy Farrell – We Are Only Sound (Hudson Records)
  5. Withered Hand – How To Love (Reveal Records)
  6. Peter James Millson – Faith In Good Fortune (PJM)
  7. Mary Elizabeth Remington – In Embudo (Loose)
  8. Josienne Clarke – Onliness: songs of solitude and singularity (Corduroy Punk)
  9. Jeffrey Martin – Thank God We Left The Garden (Loose)
  10. LYR – The Ultraviolet Age (EMI North)
  11. The Milk Carton Kids – I Only See the Moon (Far Cry Records)
  12. Josh Ritter – Spectral lines (Pytheas Recordings)
  13. Roo Panes – The Summer Isles (Leafy Outlook)
  14. H.C McEntire – Every Acre (Merge)
  15. Sophie Jameson – Choosing (Bella Union)
  16. Rachel Baiman – Common Nation of Sorrow (Signature Sounds)
  17. Dan Whitehouse – Reflections on the Glass Age (Dan Whitehouse)
  18. I’m Kingfisher – Glue (Fading Trails
  19. Lisa O’Neill – All of this is Chance (Rough Trade)
  20. Sunny War – Anarchist Gospel (East West)
  21. Iris DeMent – Workin’ on a World (Flariella Records)
  22. Feist – Multitudes (Polydor)
  23. The Endless Coloured ways: the songs of Nick Drake (Chrysalis Records)
  24. Jana Horn – The Window is the Dream (No Quarter)
  25. Boygenius – The Record (Interscope)
  26. Tiny Ruins – Ceremony (Milk! Records)
  27. The National – First two pages of Frankenstein (4AD)
  28. Jon Wilks – Before I knew What I Had Begun I Had Already Lost (Jon Wilks)
  29. Martha Tilston Luminous (Squiggly Records)
  30. Liz Hanks – Land (Hudson Records)
  31. David Edward Booth – All My Days (David Edward Booth)
  32. Erland Cooper and Scottish Ensemble – Folded Landscapes(Mercury KX)
  33. The Tallest Man On Earth – Henry St (Anti Records)
  34. Ward Knutur Townes – Unanswered (Betty Beetroot Records)
  35. Chris Brain – Steady Away (Big Sun Records)
  36. This Is The Kit – Careful of your keepers (2023 Rough Trade Records)
  37. Buffalo Nichols – The Fatalist (Fat Possum Records)
  38. Zoe Nicol – Truly (Zoe Nicol)
  39. Gilmore Roberts – Documenting Snapshots (GR!Records)
  40. Jenny Sturgeon with Alice Allen and Grant Anderson – Wintergreen EP (Hudson Records)
  41. Jim Moray Beflean: an alternative history 2002-2023 (Managed Decline)
  42. Esther Rose - Safe to Run (New West Records)
  43. Steven Adams - Drops (Fika Recordings)
  44. Show of Hands – Roots 2: the best of Show of Hands (Hands On Music)
  45. Matthew and The Atlas - This Place We Live (Communion Records)
  46. Sufjan Stevens – Javelin (2023 Asthmatic Kitty Record)
  47. King Creosote – Ides (Domino Recordings)
  48. Margo Cilker - Valley of Hearts Delight (Loose)
  49. Thea Gilmore – Thea Gilmore (2023 Mighty Village Records)
  50. Our Man In The Field – Gold On The Horizon (In The Field Recordings)
  51. John Douglas – John Douglas (Reveal Records)
  52. The Self Help Group – Dream of a Ghost (The Self Help Group)
  53. James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Secondhand Orchestra – The Great White Eagle (Domino)
  54. Complete Mountain Almanac – Complete Mountain Almanac (Bella Union)
  55. Darren Black – Empty Halls can feel like crowded rooms (Darren Black)
  56. Salt House – River Woods (Hudson Records)
  57. Hack Poets Guild – Black Letter Island (One Little Independent)
  58. Megson – What are we trying to say (EDJ Records)
  59. Unthank Smith – Nowhere Everydwhere (Billingham Records)
  60. O’Hooley and Tidow – Cloudheads (No Master Co-operative)
  61. Lynne Miles – Tumbleweedy world (True North)
  62. Bennett Wilson Poole – I saw a star behind your eyes, don’t let it fade away ( BWP)
  63. Ian Roland – The Wood Wide Web (Ian Roland)
  64. Natalie Merchant – Keep your courage (Nonesuch)
  65. Elly Lucas – In the quiet of the waiting EP (Elly Lucas)
  66. Kris Drever – The best of (Reveal Records)
  67. The Ciderhouse Rules & Kirsty Merryn – The devils on the mast (Under the Eaves)
  68. Ruth Theodore – Cherry Picker (River Rat Records)
  69. Reg Meuross – Stolen from God (Hatsongs)
  70. Kassi Valazza – Knows Nothing (Loose)
  71. Anna b.Savage – In Flux (City Slang)
  72. Angelica Rockne – The Rose Society (Loose)