Top ten albums of 2015
I printed my 2014 “best of” blog for my less computer literate relatives to read. It was 6 pages. 6 pages people! I strongly suspect that many people in my life, old and new, wish I was a little less verbose, at least sometimes. So I’m going to go all Ernest Hemingway and see if I can keep this one short. Don’t say I never give y’all anything. The special characteristic of 2015 (every year seems to have one, mostly because we do love to force labels onto arbitrary calendar year divisions) appears to be a lot of music hanging around the “very good” mark. By this I mean very thin tails on the bell curve – not a huge amount of rubbish (thank goodness, given I acquired some 88 records released in 2015) but not a large number of truly exceptional records either. (Hmm a bit of long sentence that, plus the bit in parenthesis – sorry Ernest I’ve buggered it up already.) Nevertheless I have cobbled together something resembling a top ten. Neither the narrowing down nor the rankin...