Top 40 Albums of 2025 Looking back on my favorite albums of 2025, I’m delighted by the sheer variety of sounds and genres that permeate music culture. It’s one of those “gift and a curse” things though because it feels like music streaming services have helped silo listeners a bit, to the point where we’re…

Top 20 Albums of 2024 Another year of phenomenal music down. What a great year for pop, too. I’ve been thrilled with the quality of pop music hitting the zeitgeist and the charts; I feel most of it has moved beyond the emptiness that has plagued it in the past, even when the songs are…

Top 30 Albums of 2023 The biggest thing that stuck out to me in the world of music for 2023 wasn’t necessarily the recorded music itself, but the ravenous appetite for live music from the fans. When I went to Bonnaroo (a giant music festival) in 2022, it was the least attended I had ever…

Top 30 Albums of 2022 Last year was such a weird, interesting one. It was the first full calendar year after the big COVID lockdown when vaccines were fully available. Society is, by large, closer to where it was before 2020. And yet, we’re still in a pandemic. People everywhere are still getting very sick,…

So I’m going to be honest: I thought I’d be able to look back at 2021 very differently than how I am now. On one hand, some great things happened – yay, vaccines! – but this pandemic has stretched further than I ever thought it would. I naively thought vaccines would pretty much eradicate COVID,…

Alright so first off, I’ll acknowledge that yes, I understand it’s June of 2021 and I’m just now putting out my list of favorite albums of 2020. But 1.) better late than never and 2.) uhhhhh what a year it’s been. I feel like this second point is a bit of an understatement. I mean,…