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2025 in music: 100 Favourite Tracks

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  So... I still exist. Truth be told: I've gotten so rusty with writing and formatting anything in a blog capacity that - coupled with the fact I'm now using a Chromebook instead of Windows - everything feels completely alien and impossible to use to me. On a personal level, 2025 has been... really difficult. Various health issues with my mum, all of my cats have now passed away, and a growing unease with my own health has all snowballed into a bit of a tough time. I'm persisting and doing everything I can, and one of the many things I've cut out of my life to allow time to unwind where possible was, unfortunately, writing! I've written many times about my insecurities with writing and comparing myself to established music sites and their journalism and whilst a big chunk of that was dissatisfaction with what reporting has become, a lot of it is also just personal uncertainty and a lack of conviction. Some days I will assert that a particular album is gorgeous, into...

2022 in Music: 100 Best Tracks

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  Last year I rather naively thought I'd summon the tenacity to write about one hundred songs individually. I gave up after about forty. So if I do indeed run out of things to say and just hastily copy and paste a ranking for the final half (or more), please forgive me.  2022 was... a lot to take in. Musically? Not so bad, really - I gave those fifty albums an extremely high score after all. I do think pop singles suffered a bit of a dry spell for most of the year, however, and found myself scrimmaging for newcomers as established acts continued to stumble. You really should have done better, Nicki Minaj/ Calvin Harris/ Grimes/ Rihanna/ Harry Styles. No I couldn't go through all of these write-ups without mentioning how shite Harry's House was. It's been bugging me. Sorry. As always, this is all incredibly arbitrary. Some days I will want to listen to number #93 and think that #30 is a COMPLETE waste of time. Music is fickle, and so are my moods. 100 - "Little Both...