Albums of the Year

David Pratt shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023, including Dengue Fever, Eliza Carthy Trio, Gilmore & Roberts, Les Abranis, Moonlight Benjamin, Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman, Merry Hell and more.

Mike Davies shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023 including, The Lilac Time, Dan Whitehouse, Bella Gaffney, A Winter Union, Ian David Green, Reg Meuross, Viv and Riley, Rod Picott and more.

Glenn Kimpton shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023 including Daniel Bachman, Salt House, Juni Habel, Bill Orcutt, Liam Grant, Xylouris White, Steve Gunn & David Moore, John Fahey and more.

Thomas Blake shares his Top 10 Albums of 2023. As he states in his introduction, it was no easy task to whittle down from hundreds to just ten, but here they are…including Bex Burch, John Francis Flynn, ØXN, Maxine Funke, Brìghde Chaimbeul and more.

Here are our favourite Top 100 folk and alternative albums of the last 12 months, as voted for by our core writers.

David Morrison shares his Top 10 albums of 2022 including Mali Obomsawin, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Blue Moon Marquee, Pharis & Jason Romero, Of The Sun, Jeb Loy Nichols, Gina Davis and more.

Bob Fish shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Unthanks, Bonny Light Horseman, Joan Shelley, Su-a Lee, Big Thief, Kevin Morby and more.

Mike Davies shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 featuring Alison O’Donnell, Mary Gauthier, Janis Ian, Julian Taylor, Emma Guzman, Angeline Morrison, Garrett Heath, Luke James Williams, Michael Weston King and Memorial.

Thomas Blake shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 featuring Maxine Funke, Big Thief, Richard Dawson, Dana Gavanski, Burd Ellen, The Shovel Dance Collective, Bill Callahan, Jacken Elswyth, One Leg One Eye & Angeline Morrison.

Danny Neill selects his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Wave Pictures, Big Thief, Leyla McCalla, Molly Tuttle, Sharron Kraus, Kevin Morby, Kathryn Williams, Andrew Bird and more.

David Pratt selects his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Movers, The Hanging Stars, Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl, Angeline Morrison, Ranagri, Robb Johnson, Madalitso Band, Àfrica Negra and Perú Selvático and The Watersons.

Billy Rough selects his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including Jake Blount, Angeline Morrison, Breabach, Sam Sweeney, Trials of Cato, Peter Knight and John Spiers, Emily Portman and Rob Harbron, Tarren and more.