Unbest

Maybe it’s just that I’ve spent the past year doing the vast majority of my music-listening in the same place — at the desk in the back room with the view of the grayish alley scene — but a lot of the ten albums I wound up listing feel of-a-piece to me: If there’s a theme, it’s that several seem chilly and shadowy and color-drained.

So how about, in the interest of “fun,” I will now list, alphabetically, twenty-five albums I enjoyed and considered putting on a list this year, and you can use the above as a hint to try and pick out which ten are on the actual list?

Nitsuh Abebe, a grammar

[Honorary Unbest]

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    SEE, NITSUH FEELS ME. Did this last year; expect...from me this year (even though

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32. jrichmanesq said: i was doing a count the other day for my own list. I’ve heard something like 250 albums this year, and I’ve only listened to two that are on your list of 25. niche is king, long live niche!
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