As we prepare to see out 2022, it’s time to look back on the last 12 – very eventful – months, and pick our favourite records and beers.
These aren’t in any particular order, that would be too difficult to chose!
Again, it’s been another great year in vinyl and ale. There were a lot of tough omissions, so here you go.
And finally, thanks for all your support over the last year, and here’s to 2023.
Rose
Ale
Transient Artisan Ales – Canuckley BA Imerpial Stout
Beak Brewery – Purrr
Brass Castle Brewery – Christmas Kitty
Pinta Barrel Brewing – Patience
Cloudwater Brew Co. x Vocation Brewery – Beewitched
Vinyl
Bonobo – Fragments
Yard Act – The Overload
Animal Collective – Time Skiffs
The Mysterines – Reeling
Orville Peck – Bronco
Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia
The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention
Harry Styles – Harry’s House
Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes
Suede – Autofiction
Bjork – Fossora
Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
Arctic Monkeys – The Car
Rival Consoles – Now Is
Working Men’s Club – Fear Fear
Seth Lakeman – Make Your Mark
Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity
Pixies – Doggerel
Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
Enjoyable Listens – Dead Frozen EP
Keith
Ale
Weldwerks Brewing Co – Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake Berliner Weisse
Elmeleven – Titan Express
Little Rain Brewing Company – Paranoid Android
Pinta Barrel Brewing – Patience
Nerd Brewing x Emperors Brewing – Yoda Condition
Vinyl
Bonobo – Fragments
Cat Power – Covers
Orlando Weeks – Hop Up
The Wombats – Fix Yourself, Not the World
Yard Act – The Overload
Sturgill Simpson – The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
Nilifer Yanya – Painless
Midlake – For the Sake of Bethel Woods
Wet Leg – Wet Leg
Orville Peck – Bronco
Kurt Vile – (watch my moves)
Blossoms – Ribbon Around the Bomb
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Dear Scott
Destroyer – Labyrinthitis
Tess Parks – And Those Who Were Seen Dancing
Paolo Nutini – Last Night in the Bittersweet
Katy J Pearson – Sound of the Morning
Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Cheat Codes
Suede – Autofiction
Arctic Monkeys – The Car
Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork
First Aid Kit – Palomino
