Category Archive: Compilations & Releases

Best of 2023

My 2023 albums and tracks of the year featuring Slowdive, Health, PJ Harvey, Fever Ray, Brutus, bar italia, Sigur Ros, Morena Leraba, Daughter, Boygenius, OXN, Mitski, Rev. Kristin Michael Hayter, Bonnie Prince Billy, Dengue Fever, Lankum, Lucy Kruger, Chelsea Wolfe, Crow Baby, and others

Best of 2022

My personal musical loves of 2022. These lists are not for everyone, but if you know me and have some crossover in taste, you’re sure to find something interesting. There’s a lot of… Continue reading

Best of 2020

My annual round-up of music that did it for me. This year was a decent split between heavy post-punk, shoegaze, and imaginary soundtrack music. Neubauten made a stylish comeback this year. A. A.… Continue reading

My 20 albums of the Decade 2010-2018

Decade lists have never been my thing, but since I have around 9 concurrent years’ worth of BEST OF lists, it was relatively simple going back and picking the 20 albums from 2010-2018… Continue reading

Best of 2019

Another year and another few hundred albums and a few thousand songs listened to and filtered into this concise list of brilliance. 2019 was the first year in a long time that dancefloor… Continue reading

Music of 2018

2018 was a great year for new music. Picking 20 was a struggle. Even trying to limit the playlists to a reasonable length was harder than I anticipated. My top 3 from the… Continue reading

Music of 2017

My annual favourite music list is ready to go, albeit a little late by my standards. It was a great year for new music, and I found myself checking out other year end… Continue reading

The Junction

The Junction, originally on the corner of Bree and Claim Street, was owned by Shayne Leith who previously owned Decodance in Market Street (which eventually became Le Club). It opened in 1988 and… Continue reading

Music of 2016

These were the albums that lived with me this year in no particular order: PJ Harvey – Community of hope Trentmoller – Fixion Make-Overs – Try me Savages – Adore life Minor Victories… Continue reading

Top albums and songs of 2015

Another year, another whack of newly discovered tunes and new music from old favourites. As usual, this is not a definitive list but just what I really liked out of the few hundred… Continue reading