Warning: This post is purely self-indulgent. Proceed at your own risk. Statistics pump me like few other things in this world manage to do, especially statistics related to how obsessively I consume all things pop culture-related. Last.fm decided to slightly redeem itself from its general decline into mediocrity by putting together an end-of-year feature that's actually pretty cool and useful for stats/music geeks...
2016 was an awful year in many other ways, but it was a great year for music. I reviewed 65 albums and listened to countless more, which is probably a personal best for me. I have to admit that it became somewhat overwhelming and I probably won't be going quite as hard next year, but it was still a largely positive experience. The...
The frequency of albums I was interested in slowed down drastically in the final three months of 2016. I also purposely decreased my rate of consumption because I had finally managed to burn myself out after a whirlwind year of keeping up with new releases. That being said, the small number of albums I did fall in love with prove the truth of...
