The Best Songs of 2023 with Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré
For this final conversation of 2023, Jeremy Bolm and I each pick our three favorite songs of the year and discuss them—with whatever else comes up in the process.
While it’s certainly true that I place a personal focus on hardcore as a community, that doesn’t mean the music doesn’t matter, and in 2023, the music really took us to some incredible places. For my final conversation of the year, I enlisted the help of Touché Amoré’s Jeremy Bolm to revisit some of those places, with each of us choosing and discussing three of our favorite songs of the year—the songs that moved us the most, for any reason.
In addition to his band, Jeremy is also host of The First Ever Podcast, one of the most avid record collectors I know, and the friend I’d reach out to first if I wanted to know more about almost any new band. He’s one of those rare artists who isn’t afraid to be seen as a fan first, which is to say I knew we …