Best music of 2019
Greetings folks. While I’ve been moving backwards in time, revisiting years prior to my first one of these end-of-year-best-of-round-up blog thingies back in 2009, you’ll be pleased to read I have no intention to do any ‘best of the decade’ meanderings. No, just the usual drill, like so: Disappointments It’s not like any artist did anything bad, per se, it’s more like too much hype killing any chance of something meeting expectations let alone exceeding them. Or the bands give an inch but the punters wanted the whole hand. Or subjectivity. Something like that. Except for 65daysofstatic with “replicr, 2019”. Goodness knows what that’s supposed to be. There is better ambient and better post-rock out there, so this was sadly a waste of time for all involved. Oh, and Raised Fist with “Anthems”. It’s like the band outsourced the writing of the music and lyrics, and their social media post, to a bunch of 12 year olds. Fans and critics seem to like it though; goodness knows what pla...