Following a previous down year, 2018 was the downest of years in music for me. According to my Last.fm statistics, I listened to less music in 2018 than I had in any other year since I joined the service in 2007. These days my commutes are dominated by podcasts (I keep adding new ones, and have a hard time keeping up with the stream of episodes), and I can't really get into listening to music while at work. So my music listening is mostly relegated to a bit of the time spent on my computer at home or on the weekends. I still try to keep up with some of my usual avenues of discovering new music, but I seem destined to be stuck in the past in terms of music appreciation; who knows whether that will change at all this year.
Therefore... In lieu of a meticulously considered ranking of favorite albums from last year, I will instead simply list some that I found noteworthy. With no indication of which I thought were better than others. I simply didn't listen to them enough to really form a decent opinion. My main purpose in making these lists is to be able to look back in the future to get a sense of what I was really into in terms of music; maybe this will still be helpful in that regard. I should note that having quantitative stats from Last.fm is also really good for retrospecting. Anyway, here's the "list":
Mimicking Birds - Layers of Us
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - Dirt
Exitmusic - The Recognitions
Hearts Hearts - Goods/Gods
Beach House - 7
Big Red Machine - Big Red Machine
Low - Double Negative
Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS WAVE
Rubblebucket - Sun Machine
Mirah - Understanding
Mumford & Sons - Delta
Jacob Banks - Village
Foxing - Nearer My God
Saturday, January 19, 2019
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