2009: my view of the music

2009

Sick of end of year lists? Well, here’s another one.

Sometime around June 2009 seemed like a really promising year, but now I’ve come to make this list of my personal favourites, it doesn’t look as impressive as I’d expected. Boomkat’s end of years seemed a bit meh and The Wire’s rewind likewise imparted a sense of the lacklustre. It might just be me. Despite that, there

Posted at 12pm on 20/12/09 | 10 comments | Filed Under: music read on

Album of the decade

scott-walker-the-drift

I listen to too much music so I’m sorely tempted to list a slew of records, but I’m going to resist that temptation. Instead I’m going to choose just one record from the last ten years. It didn’t take me long to decide.

Scott Walker’s The Drift was released in 2006, I’ve listened to it a lot though I might wish I hadn’t. For the first year

Posted at 9pm on 19/12/09 | 28 comments | Filed Under: music read on

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I’ve been writing this blog for quite a lot longer than three years and now I’m finally getting round to writing something in the About page. But what to write? Oh well, if you check the category listings you’ll see what I cover. It’s a ragtag assortment of bits and bobs, anything that catches my fancy really. Unsurprisingly, much of that is music. I much appreciate comments, but whether you feel like making them or not, I hope you find something of interest.

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