This is a weird sort of series in that the earlier posts will likely be the more interesting ones, because there's more of a gap between a) what I was listening to in 2010 and what I listen to now, and b) where the critical and commercial winds were blowing in 2010 and where they're blowing now. And now, the arc that took us from Tourist History to whatever I decide is the album of 2020.

The arc between R.E.M signing to a major and Drive Like Jehu somehow doing the same.

Instead, I will change tack completely and go on a long run of posts devoted to tracing the arc of 2010s music through what I was listening to at the time. This, but they're BOTH all that's wrong with the world

I'll write that bitter post in due course, and maybe once I'm allowed in stadiums again I'll remember what makes the sport good. I tried to write the football post, I really did, but suffice to say, in the words of countless players of the game, 'I'm just not enjoying my football at the moment.' The game has reached an astonishingly low ebb both morally and in terms of 'watching Crystal Palace at the moment makes me suicidal even if we win', so trying to write about what fandom means to me was coming out a lot more bitter than I meant it to.

2 door cinema club albums