Many people are calling this year one of the best of the decade, but I feel it was second to worst. Like no year before, I heavily disagree with the canon (some of them, like Daughters, Earl Sweatshirt, Beach House and Car Seat Headrest, I found trully awful).
I barely made it to 100 and it was kind of painful, I don't know how some find time and energy to listen to hundreds of releases. This is the year I cut ties with indie-related genres, I just find most of the new stuff boring.
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They aren't groundbreaking by any means, but they are pleasant to listen to.
Zoé are getting blander with each release, this time they tried incorporating Meso-American imaginery to their washed-out sound but it came off as superficial. In contrast, an album who's celebrated for doing it right is:
Moctezuma by Porter
And if you want Latin American indie from this year, this one is getting all the praises:
Lance by Niños Del Cerro
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
After reviewing and updating my charts, I have it as #7 out of the 9 years of the decade. But that's not a bad thing at all as I think it's been a pretty darn good decade, easily better than either of the two that preceded it.
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
After reviewing and updating my charts, I have it as #7 out of the 9 years of the decade. But that's not a bad thing at all as I think it's been a pretty darn good decade, easily better than either of the two that preceded it.
After reviewing and updating my charts, I have it as #7 out of the 9 years of the decade. But that's not a bad thing at all as I think it's been a pretty darn good decade, easily better than either of the two that preceded it.
that's an interesting way of doing it... for me, i think i'd something like:
keep in mind though, the results skew in favor of the latter half of the decade in part because i listened to way more albums from the more recent years (noted in parenthesis). the correlation is not quite one-to-one, but it's pretty significant. also, as you'd expect, this doesn't account for all the obscure albums i listened to that aren't in the database, but even those generally favor 2014-2019. _________________ follow me on the bandcamp.
Here's my 80 albums of 2018 that I think are all great (though I've left off things like the Tyshawn Sorey album because I need to spend more time with it or hip hop because you should be hearing about that from someone who knows what they're talking about)
and here are some charts to tell you about how I listened to music this year
FischmanRockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMasterProfile Land of Enchantment
It's worth noting that my assessment is will have almost nothing in common with either popular or current critical analysis as I have no love for hip hop or modern pop, so the current dominant musical genres are absent from my year by year look at the decade.
1. 2012
I have this at the top just by a squeaker, and then as much for the diversity of great albums as for the actual level of greatness of those albums. There's also some sentimental attachment to this year with old favorites releasing excellent new albums.
2. 2017
This is an absolutely killer year for prog in terms of quantity, quality, and variety. For me, a great, even exciting year, although the relative lack of highly ranked albums from my usual broad array of genres is also a drawback.
3. 2015
This year is to jazz what 2017 is to prog. 8 of my top 10 are jazz, all stellar, and covering the great breadth of the genre. Sadly, not a lot else going on on the upper tier of my chart.
4. 2016
A strong year with a good variety of quality releases including prog, jazz (both new and reissue), straight metal, alt metal, and especially symphonic metal, and some resurgent classic rock.
5. 2014
Another great year in jazz. I assess this year much the same as 2015, just a couple notches lower.
6. 2018
I may be skewing this one a little high because it's the first year in a couple decades thatI've really lived as it's happened rather than going back and getting caught up after the fact. It's been great fun. Good variety, too. First time I've been excited about a new singer/songwriter in a long tome.
7. 2010
A good variety year with blues and solo female artist joining my more oft appreciated genres in the upper echelons. Only my #1 is one for the ages though, so the year still drops relative to the decade.
8. 2011
An odd year for me. The one and only time since the beginning of time I have a country album at the top of my list, although it may still be displaced by one of my favorite symphonic metal albums. After that, things drop off pretty rapidly though.
9. 2013
Plenty of good releases, but no really outstanding ones so the overall result for me is a rather blah feeling year overall. Nothing jumps out and says "what a great year for music!"
I'll keep up my newsfeed going into 2019. Here's a great one from usatoday to start off the new year. An article with absolutely no purpose, no rhyme or reason. I just wanted to read something nice.
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