My obsessive-compulsive ADHD brain compels me to let you know that you have two number 5s on your list. Unless that was intentional in which case feel free to ignore me entirely
That McPherson is a hell of a fun record.
I was deeply disappointed with Cartoon Darkness. Very weak, arguably outright bad. A couple good tracks, but all of the singles and tracks getting hyped up are not good. Unimaginative instrumentals, truly poor lyrical flow.
I gave it 10 points…but being honest…it took a few listens to click.
I didn't do a great job at keeping up with new releases this year but I thought by my standard I'd covered a decent amount of what came out compared to previous years. Then I look at these lists and they're full of artist and album names that look like this to me
I have a hard time keeping track of what came out when, time is a blurry circle.
My favorite part of doing the list is discovering everyone else's favorites that I've never heard of. But it can be pretty boring when it's a top heavy year. So for me it's been nice to see more musical diversity in picks and genres so far this year. Even though I imagine as more post their lists it'll start to take shape around a couple big releases.
There are no surprises or surprising genres in my list. I bet a couple of you could have made the list for me. That’s a good idea for next year, send @avecigrec and a couple others a fiver to make my list for me.
That Todd Bonzalez album "Roll The Bonz" just edged out that wild Bob Dugnutt "You Wanna Get Dugnutts?" on my list.
I feel old! Though in reality I think there's just so much music being released all the time that it's impossible to keep up with everything and I'm more concerned with checking out the stuff I can be reasonably sure I'll enjoy over anything else. There were a few neat blind discoveries this year but overall I stuck with what I liked and I think my list will reflect that.
