I was just as surprised as you back when we found out that this prolific Detroit wordsmith’s masterwork isn’t a studio album at all, but a mixtape. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine (2011)ĭeathspell Omega – Paracletus (2010) AND WELCOME TO THE 2020s!

Milo – Things That Happen at Day // Things That Happen at Night (2013) Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning (2011) Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden (2014) Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) (2013) Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers (2012) Insomnium – Shadows of the Dying Sun (2014)ĭead When I Found Her – Rag Doll Blues (2012) William Tyler – Blue Ash Montgomery (2014)

Tangerine Dream, Woody Jackson, The Alchemist, Oh No & DJ Shadow – The Music of Grand Theft Auto V: Volume 2 – The Score (2013) Sandwell District – Sandwell District (2011)Īlex Sipiagin – Destinations Unknown (2011) I spent all my album-listening time, in 2018, listening to stuff from 2010-2015, as well as like the first three/four months of this year. So I channeled ALL of the willpower and determination I’d previously had for hearing all these genre-essentials - over 2,000 of them in the years before that - All of it, into covering the necessary ground for all of this decade’s years before 2016. I realized back then that it was something special, but it’s honestly taken me all this time until today, to realize that it was precisely the motivation I needed. To have an artist whose work you admire, admire your work back. Him answering my message saying how speechless my writeup made him was a bigger form of validation than anything I’ve received from anything I’ve written. At the end of 2017, I was getting such great feedback across the board for my reviews, that I even got encouraged to message Mikko Joensuu (the artist whose album Amen 3 I had as my AOTY in 2017). I don’t know what’s so inviting about making a top 100 albums list of the 2010s, but I noticed at the dawn of 2018, that it transformed from a faraway dream into an active goal. If I had to choose one highlight, one moment that totally changed everything for me and how I came at music-writing, it was the year-end list of 2017.

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