Hark, a blog post! I don’t write as much as like to. I don’t have a lot of confidence in my writing tone at present, torn between short witticisms on Twitter, and lengthy documentation for technical consumption. That said, I consider the annual indulgence of reviewing the past year’s music as something quite easy to do. This year was quite difficult.
With the years albums documented with some difficulty and consternation, there’s a lot of very good records from this year whose albums were relegated by my fickle editorial to ‘merely good.’ That, or released on EPs that weren’t by Mogwai.
It has been just over 10 years since I built my first website. 16 years old with a copy of Microsoft FrontPage Express installed by Internet Explorer 4. Cut ahead, I was delighting in the elegance of writing HTML; declarative, simple semantics, expressive enough to be inherently accessible; HTML is a most wonderful invention for the distribution of information to all. All accessed through this strange tool: The browser.