So here we are. Another year gone by.
But this has been an incredible year for music. And not just the music I listen to, but all around, regardless of genre. Maybe even pop. But as I do every year, I will talk about the albums I enjoyed this past year, including some older ones that I listened to repeatedly this year. Since I don’t have the time or the talent to actually write elegant prose for each album in this post, I’m only going to present a long list, broken into sections. The individual sections are in no particular order, and I found it hard to pick a favorite.
The album names are listed below, with the artist name in parentheses.
New Albums
Albums that I loved
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart)
The Hazards of Love (The Decemberists)
Crack the Skye (Mastodon)
Journal for Plague Lovers (Manic Street Preachers)
The Incident (Porcupine Tree)
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Phoenix)
Art Brut Vs Satan (Art Brut)
Travels with Myself and Another (Future of the Left)
Wavering Radiant (Isis)
Seek Magic (Memory Tapes)
Tarot Sport (Fuck Buttons)
Albums that I enjoyed:
Farm (Dinosaur Jr.)
Bitte Orca (Dirty Projectors)
Manners (Passion Pit)
Hospice (The Antlers)
The Century of Self (…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead)
Why There Are Mountains (Cymbals Eat Guitars)
Ayrton Senna EP (Delorean)
Blood (O.S.I.)
Albums I tried but didn’t enjoy:
Backspacer (Pearl Jam)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings (Dream Theater)
21st Century Breakdown (Green Day)
Amor Vincit Omnia (Pure Reason Revolution)
Older albums I listened to a lot:
Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth)
Nevermind, Live at Reading (Nirvana)
Emergency & I, Change (The Dismemberment Plan)
Source Tags & Codes (…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead)
Boxer (The National)
Various Porcupine Tree, The Decemberists, and Manic Street Preachers records.