This is a list of my favorite albums of 2025! It’s my fifth-annual end-of-year list and if you’re a regular reader, you know they’re always late! So let’s get right into it without a long intro! Several of my new and old favorite artists dropped new albums in 2025, including three who’ve been the subjects …
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Continue reading An as-always untimely list of the best albums of 2025
It’s frustrating how long it takes me to get these best-of lists out. My best of 2021 was published in March of last year. I wanted this one up a lot earlier but my epic piece about Andor ended up taking a lot of time and energy at the start of the year (and no …
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Continue reading A (somewhat less) belated list of the best albums of 2022
Early this year, in my write-up of the best albums of 2021, I wrote this about young hyperpop artists like Banoffee and Charli XCX, who are making some of my favorite sounds lately: “I’m a 51-year-old dad and house DJ and this music is not made for me; the target audience is decades younger, not …
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Continue reading Wet Leg’s debut LP is a raunchy, joyous treat and an instant rock & roll classic
Under the Paving Stones 