Four layers aren’t enough to keep you warm and the days are as long as a vole’s fart – it can only mean one thing, that it’s time to unleash tQ’s much-anticipated list of our favourite albums of the year. At one point in 2023, it looked as if there might not actually be an albums of the year list, or even a Quietus to compile it, come December. It was you, our subscribers, who saved us by signing up in droves.
We thank you for this emergency intervention, and for your continuing generosity. It means the world to us to have this direct connection to the people who read our editorial, something I’ve written about in my introduction to the chart, which you can read (along with the full run-down) on tQ here (Opens in a new window).
As you read, tune in to your exclusive subscriber playlists of over nine hours of music based on the records in our chart via Spotify here (Opens in a new window), Apple Music (Opens in a new window) here and Tidal here (Opens in a new window).
We’ll be back in your inboxes with the rest of your Low Culture content in the coming weeks: John and I looking back over the year, JR Moores presenting a seasonal psych special in an Organic Intelligence newsletter, and Eamonn Forde writing about his annual pilgrimage to the Princess Diana shrine that used to grace the basement of Harrods.
Thanks for reading, and …
