It’s the end of the year, time to reflect.
We’ve given up judging “the best” music of the year, that’s apparently too subjective a task, or too hard to do these days with any art; especially in our divisive social media bubble world, where influencers getting paid to hawk products they get for free is fine, but critics and writers expressing different opinions is outrageous.
To be fair, nobody hears everything anymore (there’s simply too much of it) and people may trust algorithms now more than other people. Below, some regular Style music contributors – and our general manager Macaulay Hammond, who has booked music festivals – weigh in on their own favorite albums, concerts, musical moments, really whatever they want to highlight. We got quite a bit of writing in response, which seems to indicate that it was a good year, indeed. At least for some things…