I always spend the first few weeks of any new year in an intensely nostalgic musical headspace. This particular mix is proof of that. It started with a sudden desire to revisit my favorite Los Campesinos! songs. Then I had a conversation with a friend about some of the other bands that cropped up around the same time as them and seem to carry...

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As is my yearly tradition, here are my immaculately, obsessively tracked listening statistics for 2018. For the first time ever, I exceeded 25,000 plays (largely owing to me switching from CDs to my phone in the car, meaning I can track literally everything) and listened to music all 365 days of the year. I'm not sure if I should consider this impressive or...

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