Prepping for the Year End Music List 

I’m starting to prep my year end top 10 songs list, and I realized that I’ve been very, very slow about getting to new music this year. I have a queue about a mile long on Spotify of things I might like that I haven’t tried yet, a bunch of albums that I’ve only listened to once, and a bunch more that I’ve only heard when distracted by work.

Needless to say, I’ve got a lot of listening coming up in the next couple of weeks.

That being said, the 2014 list is shaping up to be a list that might have showed up at various points in the past couple of decades. Delta Spirit put out a really good album this year. Weezer had a sort of comeback album that sounds a lot more like The Blue (or Green) Album. The New Pornographers and Spoon both put out albums that hearken back to their best albums.

This is all a long-winded way of saying that this list may not look all that experimental. It just so happens that a lot of well established artists put out really good pop music this year. And who am I to argue with that.