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Planning a trip, my way.
Like roughly 40 million other folks this year, my wife and I were lucky enough to travel to Japan this spring. It was a life-changing experience full of stories I could spend ages retelling, but I actually want to talk about the process of planning the trip because I think it was the difference between a good trip and a great one.
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Top 10 2025
This year, I challenged myself to listen to 200 albums released this year. The goal was to force myself to branch out and find music from artists I'd never heard before. I think this was mostly successful, since I did find some absolute gems, including my #1 album of the year. However, I don't think I'd do it again. At least, not with such a large number. I felt like I spent a lot of time listening to new albums because I 'had' to, and didn't get to revisit some albums I really would have liked to because I spent that time trying to pad out my numbers instead.
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Top 10 2024
I managed to listen to a lot of albums this year (144 to be exact), and liked a lot of them. These are my favourites. I spent a lot more time this year digging further into genres and discovered some things I don't think I would have otherwise, which feels great.
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Top 10 2023
This year felt like a really big year for me musically. At the start of the year I set out to try and push myself a little and listen to more albums I'd normally not bother with, which ended up being a pretty great call. While there are definitely some of the big names you'd expect on my list this year, there's also a couple artists I'd never heard of until this year, and some genres I might not have been into before, which is kind of neat to me.
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Top 10 2022
This year was a little strange for me, music-wise...I don't exactly remember what prompted it, but I ended up spending a bunch of time early in the year digging through my listening history. 12 years ago I started tracking all the songs I'd listen to, and it's been fun to occasionally look back and find things I'd forgotten about. This time, I ended up discovering a bunch of old metal albums that I thought I'd grown out of, but decided to give them a go and found myself coming back to them again and again. I still listened to a ton of albums that were released this year (62 to be exact), but I think this experience made me a little more willing to give albums I might have just dismissed in past years some more time to grow on me, and this list is at least a little bit a reflection of that. A little more diverse, a little louder.