This week: we count down our top five albums of the year for 2023. 
Also: WAOTY, the importance of having clear number ones, #HammockSZN, necking cleanskin red and listening to 70s prog, crossover potential, voodoo science, aiming for competence, immaculate vibe-matches, the genre expects, they can’t keep getting away with this, the Scandiwegian-Strayan axis of riffs, peanut empire punk, a long way from 2015, getting absolutely upholstered with Jack White, the Mabo of it all, you pays your money and you takes your choice, lacking an instinct for the dramatic, shoplifting in Queenstown, misinterpreted larceny, joyous nihilism, this just in: dudes are wrong and need to be hit with a stick, the new gold standard, Bomfunk MC’s ain’t die for this, comedy misdirections, instagram DJs, bringing back a favourite hashtag, previously on Bring Out Your Dead, 80s Volvos, shouts to Was Not Was, The Beekeeper, other people’s AOTYs, other people’s picks, the sniper's art, blaming Liberty Media for the ruination of UK big-beat dance and derelict munter poetry.

Next week: we draft 1994 in albums.
Spotify playlists: 2023 review archive | 2023 mixtape | AOTY soundtrack playlist
(all the music drops used in this ep - spoilers though!)
The archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 lists
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