Top Ten Albums of 2024
In a year of fine, fine music, ten records that spun above the rest Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2024
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Top Ten Albums of 2023
Taking one calendar off the wall to replace it with a new stapled-together procession of gridded-off months brings us back to this annual venture. I have no overarching observations about the year in music to tap out in this cursory … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2023
Top Ten Albums of 2022
After sometimes getting lost in the constant stream of new music that comes out, I worked a little harder at really listening to everything that came my way this year. The introduction of the Medium Rotation feature was a way … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2022
Top Ten Albums of 2021
The stack of hyperlinks until the Previously… at the bottom of this post remind me of just how long I’ve maintaining this particular end-o’-the-year tradition. Clicking on any one of those hyperlinks confirms that my summary introduction is almost always … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2021
Top Ten Albums of 2020
There’s no way to address the end of 2020 without acknowledging the exhaustion of it all. In a time of refunded concert tickets and closed movie theaters, it’s too facile to state that the still fairly steady stream of recorded … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2020
Top Ten Albums of 2019
There are years when my yearly exercise in ranking albums is fairly easy. That was decidedly not the case this time around. Maybe I can attribute the added challenge to the high number of releases that spoke directly to me, … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2019
Top Ten Albums of 2018
As a rule, I acknowledge trends in music only grudgingly, believing the creative process is ultimately far more elusive — and operating on chronologies likely quite different from that suggested by the release schedules — than perception bias allows. The … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2018
Top Ten Albums of 2017
I’ve rarely felt so detached from the prevailing music culture as I did in 2017. I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing. It’s not only that my resounding obliviousness of the songs that stormed the pop charts (I wouldn’t … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2017
Top Ten Albums of 2016
As per tradition in this digital space, the close of the calendar year means it’s time to reflect on the best music releases of the year. It’s been a while since I’ve been beholden by writing duties to an outside source, which was the initiating cause of my modern top ten albums lists, but I still do the best I can to keep up. I’ll acknowledge that it was more challenging than ever in 2016 to be comprehensive in my listening, and more than a few of the titles that make this tally have only making glancing appearances in my personal rotation. … Continue reading Top Ten Albums of 2016
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