A God-awful Small Affair

  Hopefully a little less writing this time...  I've been keeping a score of everything I listened to this year - the bulk of which was just the once, since - well - things get in the way, don't they? In the end it was a grand total of 119 albums and EPs that I gave a whirl, and whilst I'm sure there're still many more I could embrace once I finally become aware of them I'm not entirely sure that half of the things making publications' lists even exist. Let's just write it all off as AI.  If you're interested in why those other 69 didn't make this list... here they are and what I ended up scoring them. At a 7.6, it seems harsh not to make it; perhaps I was a little generous with some of the scores. Lady Gaga - Mayhem - 7.6 Rose Gray - Louder, Please - 7.6 Sorry - Cosplay - 7.6 Tyler, the Creator - DON’T TAP THE GLASS - 7.5 Hayley Williams - Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party - 7.5 Indigo de Souza - Precipice - 7.5 Saint Etienne - International - 7.5 A...

  Alright, not going to waste more time apologising for the death of this blog, just going to get straight to the point. I listened to 142 albums and EPs this year apparently, and trawled through every New Music Fridays like an addict in search of a rush, so... if I missed anything, there's not really any excuse. I have a top 50 albums and top 100 songs as always, deluding myself as if I'm Pitchfork or something. Here's a list of everything I listened to but wasn't good enough for the list, apparently, with a score attached* Syd - Broken Hearts Club - 8 Taylor Swift - Midnights - 8 Superorganism - World Wide Pop - 8 Angel Olsen - Big Time - 8 Animal Collective - Time Skiffs - 8 Charli XCX - Crash - 8 Empress Of - Save Me EP - 8 Plains - I Walked With You A Ways - 8 Sabrina Carpenter - Emails I Cannot Send - 7.9 Conan Gray - Superache - 7.9 Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch - 7.9 Mura Masa - Demon Time - 7.9 Yaya Bey - Remember Your North Star - 7.8 Fletcher - Girl of My Dr...