![]() ![]() It’s produced by one of the guys from Hammock (who have shown up plenty of times on my year-end lists over the years), and you can definitely hear the similar vibes. if the standard is less ‘Great American Novel’ and more ’13th installment in a page-turning detective series that you enjoy’ then it delivers just fine. But I’m hardly the sort to believe that everything needs to be Great Art in order to count as sucessful. So I suppose that makes it a bit disappointing. There’s nothing here that surprised me, and even after a fair few listens I still can barely distinguish any of the specific tracks in my mind. Midwestern emo punk that delivers exactly what it says on the tin. And that’s fine not everything has to be a game-changer.ġ3. If there’s nothing I truly loved on this record, I still listened to it a lot and got plenty of enjoyment from it. Which might sound like a diss, but it’s really not. But Taylor Swift writes some ACCESSIBLE music. I’m almost certain that some of the honorable mentions below will end up mattering more to me over the next few years. This album makes my list this year almost entirely because of the aforementioned difficulties finding time for music. It didn’t grab me as forcefully as their other records have, but it still perfectly lovely. ![]() There’s more of a 70s FM radio feel to it than anything else they’ve done, which is a nice change–albeit one that I hope doesn’t define their new sound going forward. I don’t think these sisters are capable of making an album I don’t enjoy. Music is so so good, and artists should be compensated for giving it to us. Artists are really hurting these days, after two years of limited or non-existent touring. But Spotify pays artists basically nothing, so I’ll make my annual request: if you like this music, go pay real money for it. So if my listening was a little less comprehensive this year, I certainly didn’t miss out on the joy of music, which is really the important part.Īs usual, I’ve created a Spotify list. And some of it feels especially important to me, since I got to share it with Eric. And even when I put on new stuff, there’s a difference between solitary time when you can really focus on the music, and busy time when music is a nice accompaniment. But we spent a lot of that time with old favorites–at 21 months he’s already intimately familiar with all the Beatles deep cuts, and has heard a lot of New Orleans brass. I love having music on around the house when playing with the kiddo. But it’s not like I didn’t listen to music this year. There are just a finite number of hours in the day, and parenthood takes up many of those hours. It’s the biggest cliche, but it turns out to be true: when you have a kid, it gets a lot harder to listen to new music. ![]()
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