The Organ Best of the Year – On New year’s Eve from 10.30pm, on your radio, two hours of outstanding earfood selected from some of the best music covered on the pages of Organ magazine during this wildly creative musical year that was 2023. A two hour radio show to see in 2024 via the airwaves of London arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm. A show curated and presented by Sean Worrall. Expect slices of music from somewhere near hardcore punk, busy avant prog, alt rock, art rock, fresh new wave, a touch of bluegrass and a whole lot more.

The show will go out or, depending on when you are reading this, did go out in New Year’s Eve, you can/could have tuned in from anywhere in the world via www.resonancefm.com.  The show will be/or (hopefully) was repeated on Tuesday January 2nd at 1pm and will is now available at any time right here via the magic of Mixcloud…

The playlist… (scroll further down for full links to everything played)

1: MANDY, INDIANA – Pinking Sheers
2: MANDY, INDIANA / CLIPPING – Sheared (Pinking Shears Reworked)
3: EYELESS OWL – Bird Tunnel
4: DEERHOOF – Sit Down
5: EXPORT / IMPORT Live at Gallery 46 (excerpt)
6: GAZELLE TWIN – Unstoppable
7: ME LOST ME – The Oldest Trees
8: LIAPOD – The Keys
9: BONES OF MINERVA – Fuego
10: NOBRO – Where My Girls At
11: FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS – Empire
12: POUND LAND – Six Inch
13: M(H)AOL – No One Ever
14: THE FILIBUSTER SALOON – Sven Svengridsson Uses a Telephone
15: AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE – Bad Attitude
16: GINA BIRCH – I Play My Bass Loud
17: EXPORT / IMPORT – Live at Gallery 46 (excerpt)
18: LYDIA LUNCH /WEASEL WALTER – War Pigs
19: HEY COLOSSUS – Perle
20: PETER HAMMILL – Hemlock (2023)
21: ALICE GERRARD – Sun to Sun
22: DEAD PIONEERS – Bad Indian
23: SISSYFIT – Cherrybomb
24: DEAD PIONEERS – We Were Punk First
25: SISSYFIT – Girls Club
26: THE BUG – Shafted (Laws of Attraction/repulsion)
27: AUNTY RAYZOR – Nina
28: SNõõPER – Bed Bugs
29: HAWKWIND – The Beginning
30: MADMADMAD – Krautjerk
31: HISTORICALLY F**KED – Seven Eggs for Seven Sisters
33: TOMBOUCTOU – End of Rescue
34: EXPORT / IMPORT – Live at Gallery 46 (excerpt)
35: SILVER MOTH – Eternal

More details and links

1: MANDY, INDIANA – Pinking Sheers – a track from the experimental Manchester band’s excellent May 2023 album I’ve Seen A Way… more 

2: MANDY, INDIANA / CLIPPING – Sheared (Pinking Shears Rework) – And then later in the year a Clipping reworking of Pinking Sheers came out…

3: EYELESS OWL – Bird Tunnel – A track from the very English sounding Canterbury flavoured prog band from New York State and their rather fine album Murmurations  that came out on the Mogul Intermissions label this year… more

4: DEERHOOF – Sit Down – From 2023’s delightful album Miracle-Level, the San Francisco band are sounding as experimentally challenging as ever… more

5: EXPORT / IMPORT – Live at Gallery 46 (excerpt) – a first of three slices of the London ten-piece art rock experimentalist’s 43 minute single recorded live earlier this year at East London’s Gallery 46… more

6: GAZELLE TWIN – Unstoppable – I think we’re calling Gazelle Twin’s Black Dog as our album of the year for 2023, it really has been her year with both the albums she released as well as the the Black Dog live performances as well as her Mid Summer show with NYX… more

7: ME LOST ME – The Oldest Trees – From the album RPG, released this year on Upset The Rhythm. Me Lost Me are led by Newcastle-upon-Tyne based artist Jayne Dent… more

8: LIAPOD – The Keys– more from London sound artist/composer Liapod, a rather warm new piece, a simple thing, uncluttered, this time with harp and birdsong and… more

9: BONES OF MINERVA – Fuego – This is actually a track from the Spanish female  alt.rock band’s 2022 album Embers, the girls have been very busy on the road for most of 2023 and we’re looking forward to more in 2024…. more

10: NOBRO – Where My Girls At – And talking of all female rock bands, there are no bros in No Bros, the US band released a proper feel good no messing punk rock album in 2023, did she actually sell the shirt off her back for twenty bucks more though?  More

11: FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS – Empire – From the L.A. New wave/post punk band’s 2023 album Data Doom. The rather engaged rather urgent band played a brilliant show at Hackney’s Oslo back in the heat of the summer… more

12: POUND LAND – Six Inch – Violence was another standout album from 2023, Manchester’s brilliantly named Pound Land… more

13: M(H)AOL – No One Ever – The Dublin (via Bristol or something like that) band have been building  and building things in 2023, their debut album Attachment Styles is a strong set of no messing statements…. more 

14: THE FILIBUSTER SALOON – Sven Svengridsson Uses a Telephone – There’s something going on in New York State at the moment, this track from the self released album Going off Topic sounds like it might have come from the the sunny fields of Southern England… more

15: AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE – Bad Attitude – African Head Charge returned to On-U Sound with their first new album in twelve years in 2023. Titled A Trip To Bolgatanga, the recordings are led by founder member Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, with close friend and co-conspirator Adrian Sherwood once again at the controls… more

16: GINA BIRCH – I Play My Bass Loud – Gina Raincoat’s first ever solo album is everything you’d expect a Gina Birch album to be. She had a great 2023 in terms of both her music and her painting, an excellent solo show at the end of the year at Whitechapel’s Gallery 46 followed the album… more  

17: EXPORT / IMPORT – Live at Gallery 46 (excerpt) – a second slice of that brilliant 43 minute live single from the London art rock collective (see above), really looking forward to seeing where they take in in 2024… more

18: LYDIA LUNCH/WEASEL WALTER – War Pigs – A version on the Black Sabbath classic released on Weasel’s own label this year, it really does speak for itself… More

19: HEY COLOSSUS – Perle – From the London band’s impressive 2023 album In Blood released via Wrong Speed Records… more

20:  PETER HAMMILL – Hemlock (2023) – A nail-on-the-head track that really does sum up a lot of what 2023 has been about, it is actually from the 1980s. The Van Der Graaf Generator frontman re-recorded two of his 80s albums this year… more

21: ALICE GERRARD – Sun to Sun – A track from Alice Gerrard’s latest rather beautiful album OF warm wise Americana. In a career spanning nearly sixty years, the 89 year old musician has known, learned from, and performed with many of the old-time and bluegrass greats… more

22: DEAD PIONEERS – Bad Indian – and what better a way to follow Alice Gerrard than with the Bad Indian called Gregg (and not Walking Eagle). Rooted in the Punk aesthetic, Dead Pioneers are not afraid to tackle hard political and social issues, they’re fuelled with dark irony, a justified rage, spoken word and a good dose of classic US hardcore punk… more 

23: SISSYFIT – Cherrybomb – San Francisco’s Sissyfit are just about the best punk rock band out there at the moment, no, they’re just about the best band out there right now, this version of of the Runaway’s classic is on their 2023 demo…. more

24: DEAD PIONEERS – We Were Punk First – see above… more

25: SISSYFIT – Girls Club – see above, this track is found of a DIY tape album they put out a couple of years back, we need lots more from Sissyfit in 2024, it is their scene, it is their time… more

26: THE BUG – Shafted (Laws of Attraction/repulsion) – The Bug (from Belgium) released four really powerful EPs in 2023… more

27: AUNTY RAYZOR – Nina – Another standout album from 2023, Viral Wreckage released on Hakuna Kulala, a label based in Kampala, Uganda that continued to come up with musical treats this year. The label deals in “Club explorations from the East African and Congolese Electronic Underground and beyond”, we featured several of their releases this year, in particular, new tracks from the then forthcoming Bisola Olungbenga a.k.a Aunty Rayzor album Viral Wreckage that did eventually come out in September of this year… more

28: SNõõPER – Bed Bugs – A short sharp rather frantic track from the Nashville band’s rather urgent 2023 album Super Snõõper…  more

29: HAWKWIND – The Beginning – Did Hawkwind release their best new studio album in years in 2023? Leader Dave Brock might well be in his 80’s now but he shows no sign of slowing down with live dates and more released scheduled for 2024 already….more

30: MADMADMAD – Krautjerk – This one had to be played, the London band really don’t need that much in terms of our words but there is more here…

31: HISTORICALLY F**KED – Seven Eggs for Seven Sisters – Who are Historically F*cked? Someone said something about carrots and a head of broccoli? Not just an art rock avant noisebag of badgers though, there’s lots to hang on to… more

33: TOMBOUCTOU – End of Rescue – From the album Tricky Floors (Cheap Satanism Records), they’re from Lyon, France and sounding rather like a band from Lyon should. Most of the time Tombouctou sound like Siouxsie and the Banshees picking over the bones of a slightly disorientated Blonde Redhead and messing with the notions that are flowing in such a healthy way through the best bits of French experimental avant rock at the moment…. more

34: EXPORT / IMPORT – Live at Gallery 46 (excerpt) – a third slice of that brilliant 43 minute live single from the London art rock collective (see above), really looking forward to seeing where they take in in 2024… more

35: SILVER MOTH – Eternal – Silver Moth released a rather beautiful album called Black Bay in 2023 and this feels like a perfect way to end the two hours of tonight’s show, more about Silver Moth here, thanks for listening. Happy New Year…

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