For the Love of Music
As 2023 comes to a close, Atwood Magazine celebrates the music that had the greatest impact on our lives. These are our favorites – the tracks that influenced and inspired us the most. Here are the best songs of the year!
As 2023 comes to a close, Atwood Magazine recognizes the music that had the greatest impact on our lives. From d4vd and Kelsea Ballerini to Jo Hill, Matilda Mann, Palace, Victoria Bigelow, YONAKA, and Zach Bryan, here are the 36 best EPs of the year!
Squirrel Flower’s Ella Williams takes us track-by-track through the heated passion and raw fervor of her third album ‘Tomorrow’s Fire,’ a spirited, smoldering indie rock record reflecting on what it means to be alive and pursuing something meaningful in a seemingly meaningless world.
Atwood’s staff share the music they’ve been listening to in the moment. This week’s roundup includes The Staves, Dua Lipa, Brimheim, eee gee, Earthquake Lights, SPELLES, THE MEZZ, Middle Part, Dea Doyle, Israel Nash, Casii Stephan, & Orson Wilds!
Born out of the endless push-and-pull between fragility and inner strength, Winten’s ‘Waving to My Girl’ is a visceral and vulnerable masterpiece. The Melbourne artist takes us deep inside her breathtakingly bold, brutally honest debut album, shedding light on its unfiltered reflections and real-time reckonings.
New Zealand indie rocker Sofia Machray dives into her breathtakingly beautiful debut EP ‘Language of Flowers,’ a tender tempest full of dreamy, radiant sound and raw vulnerability.
Beautifully raw and brutally honest, Katelyn Tarver reminds us to face our demons with her addictive and smooth song, “Starting to Scare Me.”
Leo’s “Rough Hands” is a raw inner reckoning of the highest order, finding the Melbourne/Naarm-based singer/songwriter dwelling in an intimate space of vulnerability and volatility.
Atwood’s staff share the music they’ve been listening to in the moment. This week’s roundup includes Vallis Alps, Michael Baker, The Japanese House, (G)I-DLE, Janelle Monáe, Sam Cullen, Myles Lloyd, PinkPantheress, PÆRISH, SMILEZ, Kovacs & Till Lindemann, & Joey Mac!
New Zealand singer/songwriter Sofia Machray navigates coming-of-age stumbling blocks on her intimate and ethereal new single “Petals in the Rain,” a dreamy indie pop song of inner reckoning, self-discovery, and liberation taken off her forthcoming debut EP, ‘Language of Flowers.’
Atwood’s staff share the music they’ve been listening to in the moment. This week’s roundup includes Lana Del Rey, Felly, Ellen Soffe & Aodhan, The War and Treaty, Lizzy McAlpine, Oddisee, Gyasi Ross, AlienBlaze, Lou Roy, Alone at Parties, Rutherford Royal, Levina, Social Drag, Creeper, & Sunday Lendis!
There’s a burning fire in the depths of “Back Home”: An intimate flame lit by a visceral aching. Dark, distorted, and uncompromising, KEZRA’s new single dwells in a space of reckoning as she rises with raw strength and unfiltered passion.
Tender and driving, loving and emotionally charged, Ainsley Farrell’s “The Way Back” is an intimate outpouring of empathy and support for all who need it.
Atwood’s staff share the music they’ve been listening to in the moment. This week’s roundup includes Ogi, Haru Nemuri, Beharie, Taylor Swift, POESY, Alysia Kraft, R. Flex, Milk Jennings, Lisa Wright, and Jet City Sports Club!
Toronto’s Deanna Petcoff opens up about her beautifully intense and intimately expressive debut album ‘To Hell With You, I Love You’, a soaring, sweeping indie rock soundtrack to the acts of falling in and out of love.
