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2021: Jan-Jun After clocking well over 700 albums in 2020, I'm hoping 2021 will be a bit busier IRL and thus slightly less comprehensively covered in these lists, but let's see - with all the new strains emerging, who TF knows when we might return to a semblance of normality. Until then, I'll be trying to make sure that nothing noteworthy passes my radar.
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Created by musclassia
on 24.01.2021
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Top 30 Of 2020: A Non-exhaustive Summary Of Some Of The Highlights Of The Lowlight Year I don't think these are necessarily the best 30 albums of this year, but they're the ones that have I guess endured in my psyche and inspiried revisits more than most others. I was tempted to do a top 50, but after around #26 or so, I found myself confronted with about 50 albums that could've conceivably made it in, most of which I hadn't relistened to enough to rank above the others with confidence.
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Created by musclassia
on 29.12.2020
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2020: Jul-Dec Just about finished the first half of the year without losing too much to the character limit; I have learnt to make these list descriptions increasingly pithy
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Created by musclassia
on 01.07.2020
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2020: Jan-Jun If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I'm not broke yet.
Character limit maxed in mid-May (lockdown increased my music intake too much), so needed to cut down some entries. I also gave up listing all the potential MSA candidates I ploughed through in late December
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Created by musclassia
on 16.01.2020
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150 Albums To Become An Adult To: 2010-2019 I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters degree and one PhD later, I'm now a tax-paying Londonian, and have ploughed through what must be comfortably over 2000 new releases during the previous ten years. To commemorate the end of a turbulent decade, I've put together a list of the albums that have stuck with me throughout this decade - I wouldn't consider this to be a 'best albums' list, as there have been some truly ingenious works released in more avant-garde territories, but ultimately these are the albums that have ended up dominating my listening habits, or otherwise making a sufficient impression to make this list.
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Created by musclassia
on 27.12.2019
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2019: The Curtain Call (Jul-Dec) I've just turned 27, I guess if I'm lucky I'll live long enough to finish this list.
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Created by musclassia
on 12.07.2019
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2019: The Curtain Call (Jan-Jun) Cos Radu won't leave me alone
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Created by musclassia
on 09.01.2019
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2018: Let's Get It On! (Jul-Dec) I'll be spending 2 months in the US so probably won't manage to beat the 130-odd albums I heard in the first half of the year, but I'll do my best.
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Created by musclassia
on 09.07.2018
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2018: Let's Get It On! (Jan-Jun) Actually getting onto this year relatively early, let's see what it's got in store for us all.
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Created by musclassia
on 12.01.2018
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2017, Part 2: But I Haven't Finished The First Half Yet! Still got plenty of stuff to catch up from Q1 and Q2 from this year, but will probably end up checking out some stuff from second half of 2017 before I'm done with all of that, so here's this list.
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Created by musclassia
on 05.07.2017
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2017, Part 1: It's February Already?!? Getting started on this later than usual
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Created by musclassia
on 21.02.2017
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2016: Keeping Up With The Joneses (Jul-Dec) Very late starting on this one, been rather unable to keep up with releases over the summer so will try to catch up on as many cool releases as possible in the last couple of months of the year. Be prepared for pithy reviews
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Created by musclassia
on 06.10.2016
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Current Top 100, 5 Years On Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing bands I once listened to daily vanish from my playlists, new bands emerge as favourites, and bands even come and go in my reckonings during that time period (Iced Earth, Alcest, even Pain Of Salvation and more certainly peaked in my listening habits around 2011-12 to slowly vanish into obscurity). Now that it's just gone 5 years since I did that list, I thought I might do an updated list just to see how much my tastes have shifted. Whilst compiling the list, I pretty much worked on gut instinct, which was weird as I found myself almost disregarding albums I know I like whilst promoting albums I'm honestly undecided on - it almost seemed to veer away from album quality at times to embracing a subconscious effect the albums have had. Anyway, here it is, plus some honorable mentions that I was surprised missed out.
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Created by musclassia
on 23.03.2016
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2016: Keeping Up With The Joneses (Jan-Jun) For me more than you, as the sheer amount of music in the world has turned me into a goldfish as far as remembering what I've listened to and what I thought of it. However, if you find something cool from here, more power you my friend!
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Created by musclassia
on 05.02.2016
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2015: One O' Dem Best Of Lists (Jul-Dec) Been a bit slow checking releases around the halfway point of the year, but should get back into it soon and hopefully flesh out this list.
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Created by musclassia
on 14.08.2015
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