Here are 10 of my favourite albums released so far this year, with links to listen to them. All ten albums are available on Spotify: if they hadn’t been, I probably wouldn’t have heard half of them and wouldn’t have been able to tell you how good they are! [...more]
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Top 20 Albums of the Decade
Here are my Top 20 favourite albums of the decade, in order of release. These are all records that I love as albums – a collection of songs that work together to create something finer than the songs alone. There were better singles over the decade, and there were albums that had many better s [...more]
Top 20 Albums of the Year
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about my Top 20 Synthpop Albums of the Year. Although synthpop is my favourite genre, it’s by no means the only type of music I listen to. Admittedly I’m still mostly an electro-head, but check my CD collection and you’ll also find rock, indie, punk, m [...more]
December 16th, 2009 - 8:21 pm § in books
My Top 10 Favourite Books of the Year
I’ve read around 30 novels this year, mostly science fiction and fantasy but also some crime novels and a few popular science books too. Here are my 10 favourite books that I’ve read this year. The majority were released this year, although a few are older and one isn’t actually ou [...more]
Top 20 Synthpop Albums of the Year: Part II
If you’d have said to me at the start of the year: “Afront, come December you will be compiling a list of your Top 20 favourite synthpop albums of the year” I would have laughed and said “What, there are going to be 20 new synthpop albums this year?” If you’d then [...more]
Top 20 Synthpop Albums of the Year: Part I
There hasn’t been a year this good for synthpop music since 1981. The 80′s revival started a couple of years ago but it hasn’t been until this year that synthpop has reached a new critical mass. Of course synthpoppers like myself have had some brilliant albums to listen to througho [...more]
