Blog: A Northwest Music Blog

So, coming up with this list proved to be a bit more difficult than my Northwest version . I'm not quite sure if it was due to quantity or quality, but I had to ignore or eliminate a handful of records that in another year, I might've included. In the end, though, I sunk into a stack of pretty amazing albums, all with more ambient or electronic tendencies than those heavy with guitar and trad-rock ilk. Plenty of guitar, to be sure, but plenty of non -guitar, too. It was a good year for that. [...]