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Welcome to instalment number 29 of my 2021 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. That means that I’m about to reveal the runner-up in this year’s list, the silver medallist. Thank you all once again for sticking with me and supporting me over the past month. Without all the comments and banter, I don’t  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Day 28 of my 2021 Top 30 countdown of my favourite albums released this year. Some will write a simple list, others will offer a list with some explanation, and then there’s me. The idiot, the masochist. Every day, I put together a post that shines the spotlight one last time on one  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Day 27 of my Album Of The Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown series. No long intro today, but before I do reveal my choice at Number 4, just the usual reminder to anyone new to this series, to check out the links at the bottom of the post to find out who made  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Day 26 of my Album Of The Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown series. So, here we are. After more than three weeks, I have arrived at the final five – the five best albums of 2021 as far as I’m concerned. Trends and peer pressure be damned, these are the five records that  Continue Reading »

Welcome to instalment number twenty-five of my 2020 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. The last pick before I enter the final five for the year. Are you getting excited? I know that I certainly am, and I know the final five placings. For those of you who don’t know, the excitement must be  Continue Reading »

Welcome to instalment number twenty-three of my 2020 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. As time gets ever tighter leading up to Christmas, and I realise that I’m nowhere near finished with my present buying, I’m ditching the big intro today again – not that anyone reads them anyway I suspect! That is, apart  Continue Reading »

Welcome to instalment number twenty-one of my 2020 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. And with it, I enter the top ten. This is where it gets very serious, as I reveal my ten favourite albums of what has been a surprisingly strong year. Thank goodness for music, because without it, the outlook for  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Day 19 of my Album Of The Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown. No big intro today, other than to remind new visitors that links to all my previous picks from 30-13 can be found below, as well as links to my series’ from previous years. If you check them out, I hope you  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Day 18 of my ‘Album of the Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown’ series. And with Day 18, comes the inevitable ‘number 13’ spot. As I discussed on Day 13 of this series, I have no fear of what’s often considered to be the most unlucky of numbers. In fact, for many reasons, it  Continue Reading »

Welcome to Day 17 of my ‘Album Of The Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown’ series. That means that I’m about to reveal the album that sits at Number 14 in the list. And it’s a belter, I can promise you that…well, as ever, it depends on your personal tastes, but for me, it is definitely  Continue Reading »