REVIEWS
1970s
Cold War detente, independence of Bangladesh, deindustrialization of the west, incipience of punk rock, no-wave and post-punk.
1973
1977
1980s
The decade I was born in. Most of the alternative music that I would discover and identify with well into adulthood would be discovered here. We spent the '90s pretending the '80s didn't exist, then spent the 2000s revisiting all the music that came out in the '80s.
1981
1983
1985
1986
1987
1989
1999
1990s
Ten years that were home to some of the best records ever made, assuming you are into shoegaze, alt-rock and big beat techno, as I very much was. If this section seems a tad bare, it's because much of my '90s record reviews are compiled for GLIDER, a shoegaze/noisepop focused zine I write.
1990
1991
1992
1992
1993
1994
1996
1997
1998
2000s
Unlike prior decades, the '00s were the first time I was around and conscious of these records as they were released; even saw some of these bands live! Garage rock revival, electro and witch house were all booming then. I was in college during the late '00s, so this was the era that solidified most of my musical tastes. This would be the last decade for which I could say that I had the pulse of what was cool or not.
2000
2001
2001
2001
2002
2003
2003
2003
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2004
2004
2004
2005
2006
2007
2007
2009
2009
2010s
Real life arrives. I'm in grad school, and later in the workplace. I'm no longer tending to my garden of last.fm listens with the meticulous care and effort that I used to. I'm still listening to records, but finding time to write reviews is hard.
2011
2011
2012
2013
2013
2014
2014
2017
2017
2019
2019
2020s
The worst timeline
2020