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From modern-day pop anthems to earth-shattering metal riffs, 2023 has been an absolutely wonderful year for music! We’ve got a wide variety amongst our workforce as you can see, and we love it!

Check out our Top 5 albums that we each just can’t get enough of this year

Ian

1. Royal Blood – Back To The Water Below
2. Black Honey – A Fistful Of Peaches
3. Tigercub – The Perfume Of Decay
4. Crosses – Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
5. HotWax – Invite me, kindly EP

Ian

1. Royal Blood – Back To The Water Below
2. Black Honey – A Fistful Of Peaches
3. Tigercub – The Perfume Of Decay
4. Crosses – Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.
5. HotWax – Invite me, kindly EP

Liam

1. Raye – My 21st Century Blues
2. Paramore – This Is Why
3. Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS
4. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
5. Blink 182 – One More Time

Honourable mentions –
Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation
Kali Uchis – Red Moon In Venus

Liam

1. Raye – My 21st Century Blues
2. Paramore – This Is Why
3. Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS
4. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
5. Blink 182 – One More Time

Honourable mentions –
Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation
Kali Uchis – Red Moon In Venus

Frazer

1. Sprain – The Lamb as Effigy
2. Nickel Creek – Celebrants
3. Full of Hell & Primitive Man – Suffocating Hallucination
4. Su Yunying – Yuán
5. Duo Antongirolami-Selva – Solos/Duos

Frazer

1. Sprain – The Lamb as Effigy
2. Nickel Creek – Celebrants
3. Full of Hell & Primitive Man – Suffocating Hallucination
4. Su Yunying – Yuán
5. Duo Antongirolami-Selva – Solos/Duos

Marina

1. CMAT – Crazymad, For Me
2. Paramore – This is Why
3. Tigercub – Perfume of Decay
4. Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
5. Grian Chatten – Chaos For the Fly

Marina

1. CMAT – Crazymad, For Me
2. Paramore – This is Why
3. Tigercub – Perfume of Decay
4. Lana Del Rey – Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
5. Grian Chatten – Chaos For the Fly

Beth 

1 – Raye – My 21st Century Blues
2 – Sampha – Lahai
3 – Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love Me
4 – Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
5 – Barbie The Album

Honourable mention – Soft Play, Punk’s Dead

Beth 

1 – Raye – My 21st Century Blues
2 – Sampha – Lahai
3 – Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love Me
4 – Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
5 – Barbie The Album

Honourable mention – Soft Play, Punk’s Dead

Chris

1. Mental Cruelty – Zweilicht
2. The Hirsch Effekt – Urian
3. Wretched Tongues – Torment
4. Crown Magnetar – Everything Bleeds
5. Worm Shepherd – The Sleeping Sun

Chris

1. Mental Cruelty – Zweilicht
2. The Hirsch Effekt – Urian
3. Wretched Tongues – Torment
4. Crown Magnetar – Everything Bleeds
5. Worm Shepherd – The Sleeping Sun

Rose

1. Raye – My 21st Century Blues AND the Heritage Orchestra version
2. Eloise – Drunk on a Flight
3. Joesef – Permanent Damage
4. Bruno Major – Columbo
5. Paramore – This is Why

Rose

1. Raye – My 21st Century Blues AND the Heritage Orchestra version
2. Eloise – Drunk on a Flight
3. Joesef – Permanent Damage
4. Bruno Major – Columbo
5. Paramore – This is Why

Tom

1. Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
2. Paramore – This Is Why
3. Fall Out Boy – So Much (for) Stardust
4. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
5. Gorgon City – Salvation

Tom

1. Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
2. Paramore – This Is Why
3. Fall Out Boy – So Much (for) Stardust
4. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
5. Gorgon City – Salvation

Millicent

1. Paramore – This Is Why
2. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
3. Lana Del Rey – Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Over Ocean Boulevard
4. Blur – Ballad of Darren
5. Jungle – Volcano

Millicent

1. Paramore – This Is Why
2. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
3. Lana Del Rey – Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Over Ocean Boulevard
4. Blur – Ballad of Darren
5. Jungle – Volcano

Rhiane

1. PVRIS – EVERGREEN
2. SZA – SOS (Technically a Dec 22’ release but I’ve listened to it on repeat all year)
3. Paramore – This is Why
4. Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS
5. Zolita – Falling Out / Falling In EP

Rhiane

1. PVRIS – EVERGREEN
2. SZA – SOS (Technically a Dec 22’ release but I’ve listened to it on repeat all year)
3. Paramore – This is Why
4. Olivia Rodrigo – GUTS
5. Zolita – Falling Out / Falling In EP

Ben

1. Queen Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
2. Gaz Coombes – Turn The Car Around
3. Tigercub – The Perfume OF Decay
4. Sigur Ros – ATTA
5. Bombay Bicycle Club – My Big Day

Ben

1. Queen Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
2. Gaz Coombes – Turn The Car Around
3. Tigercub – The Perfume OF Decay
4. Sigur Ros – ATTA
5. Bombay Bicycle Club – My Big Day

Matthew

1. The Royston Club- Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars
2. Milky Chance- Living In A Haze
3. DMA’s – How Many Dreams?
4. Taylor Swift- 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
5. Miles Kane- One Man Band

Matthew

1. The Royston Club- Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars
2. Milky Chance- Living In A Haze
3. DMA’s – How Many Dreams?
4. Taylor Swift- 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
5. Miles Kane- One Man Band

Shannon

1. Bring me the Horizon – AmEN! (Feat, Lil Uzi Vert and Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw)
2. Bring me The Horizon – CODE MISTAKE – CORPSE
3. Pierce The Veil – The Jaws of Life
4. Pendulum – Halo
5. Ghost – Phantomime

Shannon

1. Bring me the Horizon – AmEN! (Feat, Lil Uzi Vert and Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw)
2. Bring me The Horizon – CODE MISTAKE – CORPSE
3. Pierce The Veil – The Jaws of Life
4. Pendulum – Halo
5. Ghost – Phantomime

Dan

1. Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
2. Bombay Bicycle Club – My Big Day
3. Gaz Coombes – Turn The Car Around
4. Paramore – This Is Why
5. Pip Blom – Bobbie

Dan

1. Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
2. Bombay Bicycle Club – My Big Day
3. Gaz Coombes – Turn The Car Around
4. Paramore – This Is Why
5. Pip Blom – Bobbie

Red

1. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
2. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
3. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
4. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
5. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

Red

1. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
2. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
3. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
4. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)
5. Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version)

Joe

1. Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden
2. Terraplana – Olhar pra trás
3. Tinashe – BB/ANG3L
4. Periphery V – Djent Is Not A Genre
5. Skrillex – Quest for fire

Joe

1. Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden
2. Terraplana – Olhar pra trás
3. Tinashe – BB/ANG3L
4. Periphery V – Djent Is Not A Genre
5. Skrillex – Quest for fire

Katie

1. Do Nothing – Snake Sideways
2. Billie Marten – Drop Cherries
3. Ashnikko – WEEDKILLER
4. Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We
5. Pip Blom – Bobbie

Honourable mentions –
The Hives – The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons
Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy

Katie

1. Do Nothing – Snake Sideways
2. Billie Marten – Drop Cherries
3. Ashnikko – WEEDKILLER
4. Mitski – The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We
5. Pip Blom – Bobbie

Honourable mentions –
The Hives – The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons
Young Fathers – Heavy Heavy

Mike

1. Wstr – ‘Til The Wheels Fall Off
2. Pvris – EVERGREEN
3. Graphic Nature – A Mind Waiting To Die
4. Blink-182 – ONE MORE TIME
5. As December Falls – Join The Club

Mike

1. Wstr – ‘Til The Wheels Fall Off
2. Pvris – EVERGREEN
3. Graphic Nature – A Mind Waiting To Die
4. Blink-182 – ONE MORE TIME
5. As December Falls – Join The Club

Matt

1. Enter Shikari – A Kiss for the Whole World
2. Nothing But Thieves – Dead City Club
3. The Japanese House – In the end it always does
4. Polaris – Fatalism
5. Periphery – Djent Is Not A Genre

Matt

1. Enter Shikari – A Kiss for the Whole World
2. Nothing But Thieves – Dead City Club
3. The Japanese House – In the end it always does
4. Polaris – Fatalism
5. Periphery – Djent Is Not A Genre