Blog: HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

This year, like every other one for the past four or five, I sat down in mid December and began to compile a force-ranked list of my favorite of the many albums that I purchased over the preceding 12 months. The ranking is influenced heavily by my mood and by the integrity of my memory. Given brain cell attrition that can be materially accelerated by holiday season drinking…..well, you get the picture. Some make the list that probably shouldn't and are sampled only sporadically thereafter. One album, however, that continues to resonate with me, and more profoundly with [...]

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