What music did I listen to in 2023?
Live MintSpotify recently sent me its “2023 Wrapped”, the Artificial Intelligence powered bespoke summary of what I have been up to on that streaming platform, which happens to be the main place where I listen to my music, organise my albums, and save my playlists. Seriously though, I did spend a good part of my listening time in 2023, exploring English post-punk bands such as Black Country, New Road, whose band members comprise both rigorously trained classical and jazz musicians and self-taught ones who experiment a lot and have a distinct half-sung, half-spoken vocal style. The American singer, whose birth name is Chan Marshall, sang all the songs that Dylan had sung in 1966, including the controversial switch to electric instruments, at London’s Royal Albert Hall last year and released that live recording in November. That got sorted this year and all of De La Soul’s work got published, enabling many followers of the genre to discover the influential work of one of hip-hop’s pioneering bands. Likewise, I was drawn to the troubled Irish singer, Sinead O’Connor’s albums after her demise in July; and to David Crosby’s songs after he died in January, especially to his early work with The Byrds.
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