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Jan 28

Favorite Albums of 2022

The years really do start coming and they don’t stop coming. And as painful as that is, new music abounds. As always, a ton of music came out, and I did my best to wade through as much of it as I could. …

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Favorite Albums of 2022
Favorite Albums of 2022

20 min read


Jan 1, 2022

Favorite Albums of 2021

One of life’s most precious gifts is that in spite of it all, and perhaps in credit to it all, artists will create art. …

Music

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Favorite Albums of 2021
Favorite Albums of 2021
Music

31 min read


Jan 2, 2021

Favorite Albums Of 2020

2020 took a lot from us. Experiences, time, peace, loved ones, sanity. It took and took, uncaring of how little we had left to give. That’s the cruelty of the passing of time, I suppose, but we know 2020 hit harder than ever. One area that gives in spite of…

Album Review

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Favorite Albums Of 2020
Favorite Albums Of 2020
Album Review

26 min read


Jan 1, 2020

Favorite Albums Of 2019

It is always my goal to listen to as much music as I can every year. And while it’s irrelevant and unimportant, since I have the data, I always challenge myself to listen to more music than I did the previous year. I came up short this year in almost…

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Favorite Albums Of 2019
Favorite Albums Of 2019

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Jan 1, 2019

Favorite Albums Of 2018

2018 celebrates ten years of compiling lists of my favorite albums at the end of year and writing about them. Wow. It started on Facebook, moved to my own blog, and 2 years ago, I finally migrated everything here to Medium. Creating this every year is an arduous task that…

Music

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Favorite Albums Of 2018
Favorite Albums Of 2018
Music

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Jan 5, 2018

Favorite Albums Of 2017

With no claim of singularity, I tend to look to music to make sense of things and provide some necessary order to life. Music surrounds us, moves us, and lights our lives with background and foreground sounds. It is a constant when nothing else is certain. …

2017

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Favorite Albums Of 2017
Favorite Albums Of 2017
2017

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Jan 3, 2017

Favorite Albums Of 2016

An all-time bad year with an all-time great outpouring of music. — 2016 was…bad. Globally, the world felt uneasy. At times, completely broken. Too many killings, too many wars, too many leaders put in place who have no business being there, too many Brexits. Culturally, we saw some of the greatest taken from us—and right until the end, it never seemed to…

Music

32 min read

Favorite Albums Of 2016
Favorite Albums Of 2016
Music

32 min read


Dec 14, 2016

Favorite Albums Of 2015

10. Grimes — Art Angels — “Why does anyone like Grimes?” “I…don’t know.” This was a brief but actual exchange I had with a co-worker the day this album came out. Visions and earlier had always come off as a try-hard attempt at weirdness and it never sat right with me. Maybe it was the haircuts…

Music

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Favorite Albums Of 2015
Favorite Albums Of 2015
Music

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Dec 14, 2016

Favorite Albums Of 2014

10. Steve Gunn — Way Out Weather — Steve Gunn is just so charmingly guitary. It’s like he’s barely tickling the instrument — effortlessly bending notes and creating little hums to form the most beautiful thing you’ve ever heard. Hyperbolic? Maybe. But it’s probably the most beautiful thing I’ve heard this year. When it came out in October…

Music

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Favorite Albums Of 2014
Favorite Albums Of 2014
Music

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Dec 14, 2016

Favorite Albums of 2013

10. Baths — Obsidian This album achieves success in my book for a few reasons that seem to draw me to “these types” of albums time and time again. For one, it’s an album from an artist I had little interest in before this album. I had heard some things from Baths, didn’t really…

Music

14 min read

Favorite Albums of 2013
Favorite Albums of 2013
Music

14 min read

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