Rotation

Here are the albums I played the most this year, the ones I kept revisiting because they challenged, delighted, and reassured.

We’re deep into the 21st century, yet I still find myself waiting for the future to begin.

This year, release dates be damned. Here’s the music that delivered an unexpected thrill while motoring through the desert.

The end of another year, and exhaustion hangs heavy like a fog.

But Christ, who wants to remember this year, let alone provide the soundtrack?

Pictures, songs, and paragraphs wash across my screen one minute and disappear the next.

The endless churn of the digital jukebox brings to mind Adorno and Horkheimer’s phrase from 1944: “the freedom to choose what is always the same.”