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Top 10 Irish Albums of 2023
It’s been another incredible year for Irish music. Lankum have rightly topped a load of year-end lists with False Lankum. They get my top spot for Irish album of the year. Lisa O’Neill and John Francis Flynn, two other artists currently receiving a lot of justified attention, also make my Top 10. The other seven albums on this list are all worthy of your attention. Songs from all ten of these albums were featured on Songs To Learn And Sing on 103.2 Dublin City FM throughout 2023 and Episode 940 (06 December 2023) features 12 of my favourite songs from these 10 albums.
My #CassetteTape Top 10
In Issue 15 (Aug-Sept 2023) of The Goo I reviewed High Bias - The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters (University of North Carolina Press). As I read High Bias I started listening to some old tapes that I’d stored in my attic years ago.