memory of the future

It’s getting dark by 4 D:

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From heathensquirrel:

Make a 20-track comp of your all-time fav tracks, each artist can only feature once. Not the ‘best’ songs, the ones that bring instant joy the second you hear the first note, the ones that give other people the best insight into what stirs your soul.

I also made myself include only one song per anime series.

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This year’s list isn’t strictly my top albums (etc). A couple snuck in solely due to the fact I wrote so much about them. And one of my draft top 6 got crossed off because I barely wrote a sentence about it when I listened to it — surely it’s not important enough for the roundup!

Here’s a Spotify playlist of selected songs from these albums, along with some other songs.

I didn’t get the chance to dig deeply into any albums this year. A few singles I was obsessed with, sure, but no whole albums or EPs. So the Spotify playlist that is meant to accompany this post turned into a playlist of songs I liked this year in general. And it happens to also feature some songs from albums that are also on this list.

☞ Spotify: 2021
Roughly: 1. alt rock; 18. pop rock; 26. electropop; 37. alt pop; 46. chill pop

Anyway, onto the albums etc! Links below are to Bandcamp.

Some of my favourite music videos of the 2010s. I’m sure many of these have appeared on previous music video lists of mine.

Stole this questionnaire off chagrined.

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Recently I was listening to Stars’ album Set Yourself On Fire and I remembered: oh, this is why I fell in love with music, listening to the strings and brass of “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” resonate sadness and jubilance. It’s not about living it up at shows, it’s not about finding new bands; it’s about how one song can make you feel like you’re dying and reborn again.