Best music of 2021
Last year I think I overdid it with trying to keep up with new music. “Circa 200 albums, comprising more than 190 hours and 2,535 tracks” I said it was. I wondered whether lock-downs and extensive WFH were a factor. And then overall, both old and new, I listened to over 72 days’ worth of Spotify over the first 11 months of 2020, an average of over 5 hours a day. OK, I said to myself, that was a fun experiment, no doubt with the world going back to normal in 2021 my listening habits will go back to normal too and I’ll be binging on whichever back catalogues I wish to and not checking out the umpteenth release of an artist I’ve never really listened to before but they have a new album out so now’s the time I ought to. So that’ll explain why my “2021” playlist is only c.240 hours and 3,240 tracks long. Oh. Wait. FFS. And I listened to more than 94 days’ worth of Spotify over the first 11 months of 2021, which averages at more than 6 hours a day. So I suppose there were plenty of back ca...