2020 Is Hindsight
A Wrecked Wroundup
I like year-end lists. I think comparing a movie like Happiest Season to His House is silly and reductive, and I think that ranking something so subjective as taste, even without other factors, is futile and pompous. That said, I always find new shows/movies/books/music to dig into, and I’m reminded of things I liked or wanted to check out but lost track of.
As I look to a new year, I hope for a lot to begin and a lot to end. I’m so grateful for the creators and writers and producers and all those other people who have shared their art and made a scary, claustrophobic year bearable. This year, my listening habits were all over the place, depending on feelings and boredom. I revisited albums I love and listened to them on a loop, at one point waking up with a Nick Drake song already in my head. I surfed around Bandcamp and Spotify, looking for new artists and genres I hadn’t even heard of. I listened to only dance music, to only folk music, to only shoegaze, for days at a time. I sometimes dissected lyrics, and I sometimes stretched myself into a giant X in the middle of the floor and listened to an album with my eyes closed. I think it all helped.
Listception: my favorite year end lists
Ranking 2020’s quarantine Radiohead covers
What your favorite album of 2020 says about you (The Waxahatchee one is spot on)
Bandcamp is rethinking year-end lists
Longreads Best of 2020 - Music Writing
Hanif Abdurraqib’s year end round up [12/30 1 p.m. EST - edited with updated link]
Plus: How Bad Is Your Spotify?
Favorite fiction I read this year:
& Nonfiction:
*I listened to the audiobook version
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Music I leaned on, new and old:
Set My Hear on Fire Immediately
And when nothing else would do, I watched Buffy.
See you in 2021.
What should I check out next? And, as always, let me know how I can do better. Thanks for reading! See you later.