The Best Albums of 2010
Back from the dead. I haven’t used this blog in over two years, and a lot has happened in my life. This is the first time I’ve written about any music that isn’t my own in ages. But here we go: a fresh start, on my old blog. Welcome back, those who’ve been in here for the long run. It’s the time of the decade that every music publication and their nan are releasing their “album of the decade” lists. I started trying to make one of those too. It’s a huge, huge task and I wouldn’t recommend it. So much brilliant music has been released over the decade, and so much have it has soundtracked critical phases of my life, be that finishing school, moving home several times, relationships beginning and ending, and an upheaval of friendships. It’s difficult to compare albums that my 13-year old self loved way back in 2010 to the records I regularly listen to now. So in lieu of an impossibly large list of albums encompassing the 2010s (have we decided on a shorter word for this decade ...