Blog Posts

  • Unburied Treasures – 2021

    Building from (or stealing) a concept from the guys at Sound Opinions, this is the first installment in a (maybe recurring) new part of my end-of-year review where I touch on an album or two I missed before. These are albums I didn’t discover (or give sufficient time to) until after I’d posted my previous Read more

  • Best Music of 2022 – Albums

    Like so many other things I’ve tried to do recently, it’s taken me longer than I hoped to get my year-end list put together. But it has been nice to take a step back and review all the new music that’s fallen into my life in 2022. While I haven’t been doing a formal gratitude Read more

  • Best Music of 2021 – Songs

    And here are my top 10 favorite songs of the year. There’s maybe not quite as much variety here as I’ve had in some years, but it still ranges from jazz, to country-western, to various forms of indie-pop. And for those who want to go further, I’ll leave a link to a much larger playlist Read more

  • Best Music of 2021 – Albums

    I typically have a long list of potential favorite albums that I curate throughout the year and the largest challenge becomes figuring out which one will be first and how to narrow it down to just ten once year-end rolls around. In fact for 2020 I had so many favorites I gave up and made Read more

  • Best Music of 2020 – Songs

    It’s time for part two of my end-of-year music review – my favorite songs. Nothing too complex here. It can be hard to rank songs from one to ten because of how much mood and context affect our reception of an individual piece of music. But each year there is generally one song that stands Read more

  • Best Music of 2020 – Albums

    Let me start by acknowledging that this is my first post to the blog in 12 months. While I’d like to blame that entirely on COVID (it seems like an easy escape clause) the truth is more likely a mix of pandemic induced apathy and a previously existing slip in blogging related motivation. But here Read more