Thursday, June 17, 2021

This Year's Model

One extra year on top of 40, 198 new albums heard:

  • Album of the year is probably Night Shop's The Fountain - every song so full of longing and resignation and pitched right at this moment
  • So much ambient, most of it necessarily unspectacular. 7.5 hours of Moby especially so
  • Darkside's Random Access Memories Memories is the kind of adventurousness every remix project should aspire to
  • New albums from Squid, Spirit of the Beehive, Idles, and The Avalanches were all varying degrees of disappointing, but had a lot to live up to.

Most represented:

  • 4 Jeff the Brotherhood albums, all are pretty good!
  • 4 Kelley Stoltz albums, all are pretty ok!
  • 5 Je Suis France albums, still super underrated!
  • 6 King Gizzard albums as usual!

The whole year didn't have much that really blew me away, but that might be the year talking!

See you next one! Maybe!