We’re now three months into the year, so I thought this might be a good time to look back on what’s really been taking up my listening hours. This is partly in response to my recent post where I went on about needing albums to sing along with; and it’s partly to remind myself what I’ve bought and what I’ve loved when end-of-the-year time comes around.
Since late December I’ve purchased ten albums. Wish I could say I’ve heard more than this but I tend not to look for album leaks and the record labels aren’t hip to this blog so I get no swag. [feel free to email me if you’d like to rectify that situation! prettygoes @ gmail com.] Of these, four were brand new releases, five were released within the last year or two, and one was a musical blind spot. My noble intention was to give full reviews to most of these, but sometimes real life gets in the way. So this week I’m going to give the rundown in a short series of posts: those that nestled themselves into my head, those that just visited, and a look forward to see what’s coming down the pike in the next few months.
Overall, the releases I’ve heard this year are better than most of what I’d heard at this time last year, so at the least 2007 is shaping up to be better than ’06. But how many of these will be on my year-end list come December? Maybe one, if I allow for the technicality (its European version was widely and easily available last year, but the domestic came out in January).
Those that didn’t really take with me are often still worthy records, but they just didn’t have it. Likewise some of the ones that did really make themselves at home might still not be perfectly original. It’s all in the way they hit you and when.
First post—my favorite purchases of the year so far (including mp3s)—will follow later this morning [here]. The other posts will come tomorrow [here] and the next day [here].
Meanwhile, I’d love to hear what’s been taking up your listening hours. Leave comments here or in the next post, or email me, and I’ll check out what you think I’ve been missing.
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