Tom Dunne: My six favourite albums of the year so far

Lana del Rey; Radie Peat of Lankum; Willie Nelson - some of Tom Dunne's picks for AOTY 2023 in the first quarter
It’s either already an exceptionally good year for music or my innate optimism is blinding me to reality. Either way, all I know is that, in the first three months of this year many albums have been released that Teenage Tom would have gotten the bus into town for.
Teenage Tom, you’ll be surprised to hear, is alive and well and still available to be summoned forth like one of Linda Blair’s inner demons. He remains opinionated and truculent, moody and untidy. But crucially he is undefeated. He has been proven right, often, and knows it.