Unlike 2024, I didn't plan to go into this year with the goal of listening to as many new releases as possible. The trouble is, there's just so much good stuff out there, and once you know how much of it is coming out all the time, it's very hard not to try your...
Ranking art is stupid, but ranking things is fun, so I ranked every album and EP I tried that was released in 2025. I went a little longer on my top 10 here, but here are takes on the rest of the list (bite-sized at 300 characters or less, as I originally posted these...
This year, I made it a personal project of mine to try to keep up with as many new music releases as I could. I've been hungrily expanding my album collection (mostly digitally) for a few years since returning to home working in 2020 made me realise how much I'd...
Nope, I’m not done for the year yet! While a full album is my favourite way to celebrate musical achievement, there were plenty more highlights of 2023 I didn’t want to let slip away without a mention. Though the album list was roughly in order with best first, here...
Music: love it or hate it, it looks like it’s here to stay. As in every year, there was so much more I didn’t have time to get round to than I could try, hence why this is an ‘albums I loved’ list rather than a ‘best of the year’ list. But there was no shortage of...
A look back at 10 records from 2022 that I loved, including albums from Foals, Spoon and Mitski.
So here's my other favourite album of 2021: Home Video by Lucy Dacus. I am by no means an expert and I'm wary of being hyperbolic about someone whose work I only discovered a few months ago, but Lucy Dacus might be my favourite working lyricist. Lyrics are not usually...
As 'tis the season to rank the Best Things of 2021, I thought I'd talk a little bit about my two favourite albums released this year. So here's the first. Ignorance, by the Weather Station, is an album that finally answers the question: "What if Fleetwood Mac listened...
It's like the albums list, only much easier to cut down to 10! The only rule: more episodes released within the years 2010-19 than not. Before I get complaints: an honourable mention to The Leftovers, which I sense I'm going to end up adoring, but I'm still early in...
Apropos of nothing much - normally, around the end of a year, I'll mention a handful of my favourite albums of the year on Facebook, but there's really only one about which I'd be shouting from the rooftops in 2019. So let's talk about the whole decade instead! The...